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The Center for Critical Democracy Studies at The American University of Paris and Professor Miranda Spieler invite you to the fifth symposium of a 7-part series on " Race, Law and Justice."

Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders And The Politics Of French Algeria, Cornell 2019 (Joshua Cole)

Part murder mystery, part social history of political violence, Lethal Provocation revisits the deadliest peacetime episode of anti-Jewish violence in modern French history. Cole reconstructs the 1934 riots in Constantine, Algeria, in which tensions between Muslims and Jews were aggravated by right-wing extremists, resulting in the deaths of twenty-eight people. Animating the unrest was Mohamed El Maadi, a soldier in the French army, who later rallied to France鈥檚 Vichy regime during the Second World War; he finished his career in the Waffen SS. Lethal Provocation lays bare El Maadi鈥檚 motives as a provocateur and exposes official efforts to cover up his role as an instigator of this massacre. Cole鈥檚 bracing expos茅 of the Constantine murders reveals the government鈥檚 role in shaping ethno-religious antagonisms in Algeria during the years preceding anti-colonial war and independence.

The Corporealization Of 鈥淢uslim Law鈥�: Legal Embodiments Of Religion, Race, And Sex In French Algeria (Judith Surkis)

In Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830鈥�1930 (Cornell, 2019), Judith Surkis traces how colonial authorities constructed Muslim legal difference and used it to deny Algerian Muslims full citizenship. Her book provides a sweeping legal genealogy of French Algeria, and elucidates how "the Muslim question" in France became鈥攁nd remains鈥攁 question of sex. Drawing on her book, Surkis鈥檚 talk will explore longstanding French听legal fantasies of Muslim law鈥� born out, most recently, by Emmanuel Macron鈥檚 bill targeting 鈥淢uslim鈥� separatism. The colonial genealogy of a particularized conception of Muslim sex and the family as instituted in and by law illuminates enduring ideas of the embodied difference between secular French people and Muslims. Her paper will explore how the very legal technologies deployed by the state to eliminate so-called Muslim separatism in fact听reproduce difference, thus sustaining and legitimating discriminatory practices

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