SUMMER FELLOWSHIP

PROGRAM BOOKLET PARIS 2014 MAY 31-JUNE 29

TABLE OF CONTENTS About Humanity in Action

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Outline of the HIA Paris Summer Fellowship

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Expectations

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Program Schedule

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Reading List

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Group Discussions

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Speaker Biographies

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Program Locations

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Contact List

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Notes

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ABOUT HUMANITY IN ACTION Humanity in Action is an educational organization dedicated to enhancing democratic values and promoting human rights. Building from a number of summer fellowship programs in Europe and the U.S., Humanity in Action seeks to create an enduring community among future leaders. Since its founding in 1998, Humanity in Action has engaged more than 1,300 outstanding students from the U.S. and Europe. In June, a group of 20 university students and recent graduates from France, Greece and the United States explores historic and contemporary human rights issues linked to diversity in Paris. The program concludes with the Humanity in Action International Conference in Sønderborg/Denmark “Borders: Sources of Conflict and Sites of Peace”, bringing together more than 150 participants from Europe and the United States. Humanity in Action FRANCE is part of the transatlantic Humanity in Action network with partners in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, and the United States.  The Fellowship Program in Paris is supported by:

The participation of Greek students is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation:

Humanity in Action France would also like to thank its partners: Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Mémorial de la Shoah, Musée de l’Immigration, Maison de l’Afrique, Studio Praxis, Institut Montaigne, Yes We Can Production, as well as host families and friends of Humanity in Action. Thank you!

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OUTLINE OF THE HIA SUMMER FELLOWSHIP ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP The HIA France fellowship brings together twenty students from the US, France and Greece willing to deepen their knowledge and act on questions related to minority issues, equal opportunities and diversity in their societies. This unique fellowship specifically addresses these issues through a historical, comparative, and action-oriented perspective. The program is highly interdisciplinary, and features daily lectures and discussions with renowned academics, journalists, politicians, and activists, as well as site visits to non-profit, think-tank and community organizations, museums, and memorials. The program seeks to highlight different models of action to remedy injustice.

VISION The objective of the Humanity in Action Fellowship is to facilitate a collective exploration of the social and political roots of discrimination, as well as to create a forum where potential solutions can be considered and discussed. The program is also intended to instill a responsibility among Humanity in Action Fellows to recognize and address the need to protect minorities and promote human rights—in their own communities and around the world. Humanity in Action uses the same methodology in all its educational programs: looking at the past to understand the present and act on the future.

APPROACH During the month, Fellows will explore the practices and theories underlying the concept of French Republicanism, and how it can accommodate cultural, ethnic and religious difference within its view of the state, the nation, law and politics. Although France is the focus of the Paris program, the scope of topics discussed is much broader and applicable to other national contexts. Topics include diversity in politics and the business world, the rise of populism in Europe, racism and xenophobia, hostility towards Roma groups, homophobia, and Anti-Muslim sentiments. The French program also addresses the history of slavery, colonialism, the Holocaust and this heritage on common representations, public discourse and policies. During the program, the fellows offer perspectives from their own countries and discuss them in a comparative setting with their international peers.

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OUTLINE OF THE HIA SUMMER FELLOWSHIP As a requirement for participation, Fellows commit themselves to implementing an “Action Project” in their home communities after they completed the Fellowship Program. In order to provide the fellows with the necessary skills, the French program offers skills training workshops such as media training, debate training, an introduction to project development, fundraising and networking. After 3 weeks of sessions and workshops, Fellows will have a full week to do research, conduct interviews and come up with an innovative strategy for the project they will be implementing afterwards.

HUMANITY IN ACTION Humanity in Action is an international organization that educates, inspires and connects a global network of established and emerging leaders committed to promoting human rights, diversity and active citizenship—in their own communities and around the world. Humanity in Action France is a registered loi 1901 association and organizes educational and professional programs for students and professionals in France and in Europe. Humanity in Action’s offices are located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and the United States.

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EXPECTATIONS Please use the space below to write out your expectations for the program.

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE Please note that the schedule is subject to change. Staff will let you know about any changes as early ahead as possible. You should always make sure that you are up to date.

INTRODUCTION FRIDAY, MAY 30 International Fellows arrive and meet with host families. Free time to explore Paris.

SATURDAY, MAY 31 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris) 9.45

Meet at ICI Leon

10.00-11.15

Introduction Game Laurène Bounaud

11.15-11.30

Coffee break

11.30-12.45

Meeting the Fellows + Skype call with Héctor Pascual

12.45-14.15

Brunch and Welcome Lecture Majid El Jarroudi

14.30-15.30

Introduction to the Paris Program and Logistics Laurène Bounaud

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Location: Cinema Louxor (170 Boulevard de Magenta, 75010 Paris) 15.45-17.45

Guided tour of the Goutte d’Or neighborhood Jacky Libaud

Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Stephenson (56 rue Stephenson, 75018 Paris) MAP 1 18.00-20.00 ! !

Welcome Reception with HIA Board Members, Senior Fellows and Host Families

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE SUNDAY, JUNE 1 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Stephenson (56 rue Stephenson, 75018 Paris) MAP 1 10.45

Meet at ICI Stephenson

11.00-12.30

France, the United States, and their Revolutionary Heritage Anne-Lorraine Bujon

12.45-14.15

Lunch at ICI

14.30-16.00

Intercultural Matters: Creating a Safe Space Laurène Bounaud and Martine Alonso

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Location: Port de la Coference-Pont de l’Alma, Right Bank, 75008 Paris 17.30-18.40

Paris from the Seine: Boat Tour of the City ! Bateaux Mouches Tours

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE WEEK 1: DIVERSITY IN THE HISTORY OF THE INDIVISIBLE REPUBLIC We will start the program exploring the historical, political and cultural forces shaping the vision of diversity issues in France. Rooted in theoretical conceptions of the Social Contract and the General Will, French constitutional texts guarantee equal treatment to all citizens without distinction on the basis of race, origin or religion. What are the political philosophies and ideals underlying this approach? How does this affect majority - minority dynamics ? We will then build off of explorations of France's historical legacies with colonialism and slavery in order to clarify our understandings of today's discourses regarding identity, memory, and national narrative. How do we learn from past mistakes, and what are the appropriate reparations?

MONDAY, JUNE 2 Dress code: Please wear business attire and bring your passport/ID

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Location: French National Assembly (3 rue Aristide-Briand, 75007 Paris) 9.00

Meet at the French National Assembly. Don’t forget your passport/ID!

9.30-10.30

Being French: the Four Pillars of Nationality Patrick Weil

10.30-10.45

Break - no food and drinks allowed in the room !

10.45-12.00

The principle of Laïcité Patrick Weil

12.30-14.00

Lunch at the Club des Poètes

14.00-15.00 ! !

The French “Melting Pot”! ! Eros Sana

15.00-15.15

Break

15.15-16.30

Group Discussion

16.45-17.45

Guided Visit (Audioguide) of the National Assembly

19.00-21.00

Dinner at traditional French crêperie (optional)

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE TUESDAY, JUNE 3 Dress code: Please wear business attire

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Location: Mairie du 4ème (2 Place Baudoyer, 4th floor 75004 Paris) 8.45

Meet at the Mairie du 4ème (Town Hall of the 4th District)

9.00-10.30

The Concept of Minority Pap Ndiaye

10.30-10.45

Break

10.45-11.45

Movie Screening: Identity at the Heart of the Black Question ! Dir. Arnaud Ngatcha

12.00-13.15

Lunch at the best fallafel place in Paris !

13.30-14.30

Guided Tour of the Marais (Jewish) Neighborhood (if weather allows) and discussion on antisemitism in France!! Elie Petit

Location: Mémorial de la Shoah (17 rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier 75004 Paris) 15.00-16.15

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Pre-World War II Jewish History Annette Wieviorka

Location: Maison des Ingénieurs (15 rue Cortambert 750116 Paris) 18.30-20.00 !

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Guided Visit to the Mémorial de la Shoah

Location: Mairie du 4ème (2 Place Baudoyer, 4th floor 75004 Paris) 16.30-17.45

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Learning from the Past: The Legacy of the US Civil Rights Movement William A. Bell

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4 Location: Museum of Immigration (293 Avenue Daumesnil, 75012 )

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9.00

Meet at the Museum of Immigration. “Welcome & Coffee Session”

9.30-11.00

Liberation as Conquest: Ending Slavery and Building Empire in Algeria Gillian Weiss

11.00-11.15

Break

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE 11.15-12.15

Guided Visit of the Museum of Immigration

12.30-13.15

Lunch at the Museum

13.30-15.00

Algeria’s Colonial History Benjamin Stora

15.00-15.15

Break

15.15-17.15

Growing up in France after the Algerian War: What Challenges? Louisia Zanoun and Souad Belhaddad

20.30-21.30

Epic Monumental 10K Run by the Seine (optional and weather permitting; 5K and walk options also available)

THURSDAY, JUNE 5 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris)

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9.15

Meet at ICI Leon

9.30-10.00

Screening of “The Slave Route Project” supported by UNESCO

10.00-12.00

Presentation of “D’ailleurs et d’ici”: Pulling Minority Voices into French History Marc Cheb Sun and François Vergès

12.15-13.30

Lunch at ICI

13.45-15.15

The Symbolic Reparation of Slavery Michel Giraud

15.15-15.30

Coffee break

15.30-17.00

Group Discussion

FRIDAY, JUNE 6 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris)

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8.45

Meet at ICI Leon

9.00-12.00

Workshop: Judging Crimes Against Humanity, Historical and Legal Aspects Fabrice Teicher

12.15-13.00

Lunch on your own (See MAP 1.a for lunch options)

13.15-16.15

Debate Training! Romain Decharne

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE 16.15-16.30

Coffee break

16.30-18.30

Media Training! Ladji Real

18.45-20.45

Relaxing in the ICI’s Hammam: Men’s Session (optional)

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SATURDAY, JUNE 7 Location: Institut du Monde Arabe [NOT the Institut des Cultures d’Islam!!!!] (1 rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75006 Paris) MAP 8 9.45

Meet at the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA)

10.00-11.30

Multicultural Heritage of the Arab World – Guided Visit of the IMA

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Location: Irea-La Maison de l'Afrique (7 Rue des Carmes, 75005 Paris) 11.45-13.15

Overview of the Practices of Islam in France Moussa Khedimellah

13.15-14.15

Lunch on your own (See MAP 9.a for lunch options)

14.30-16.00

Intellectual and Ideological Debates on Islamophobia in France Marwan Mohammed

16.00-16.15

Break

16.15-16.45

Mid-Program Evaluation

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Location: Grande Mosquée (2bis Place du Puits de l'Ermite, 75005 Paris) 17.00-18.00

Guided Visit of the Paris Mosque ! ! Christian Lochon

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Aux Ecuries du Roy (8 Rue Bachaumont, 75002 Paris)

19.30-2.00

Peacock Palace: Modern French Arts Salon (optional)

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SUNDAY, JUNE 8 No program. Enjoy!

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE WEEK 2: FIGHTING DISCRIMINATION IN A “COLORBLIND STATE” In a country that does not legally recognize cultural, racial or religious minorities as “groups,” how have the legally designated categories shaped contemporary debates around diversity issues, racism and discrimination? Building off of anti-racist movements that emerged in the banlieues in the 1980s, we will analyze France's more recent policies that aim to fight discrimination. How do the French measure and quantify discrimination? How do we fight racism in a "color-blind" state?

MONDAY, JUNE 9 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris)

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8.45

Meet at ICI Leon

9.00-10.30

Urban Policy and the Crisis of the French Integration Model Thomas Kirszbaum

10.30-10.45

Coffee break

10.45-12.15

Jeunes de Quartier: A Political Identity? Tara Dickman

12.15-13.15

Lunch at ICI

13.30-15.30

The Media Representation of the Suburbs Ladji Real and Florence Morice

15.30-16.00

Coffee break + Interviews with Ladji Real

16.00-17.30

Group Discussion + Evaluation Debriefing

Location:

Champ-de-Mars (75007, Paris)

19.00-21.00

Picnic with the Fellows of HIA’s Diplomacy and Diversity Program

TUESDAY, JUNE 10 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris)

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9.00

Meet at ICI

9.15-10.15

Thirty Years On: Meeting with the Leader of the 1983 Anti-Racist March Toumi Djaïdja

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE 10.15-10.30

Coffee break

10.30-12.00

The History of Anti-Racist Movements from the 80s until Today Rokhaya Diallo

12.30-14.00

Lunch on the way to Clichy (sandwich provided)

Location: Collectif ACLEFEU (103 Allée de la Chapelle, 93930 Clichy) 14.00-14.15

Welcome at the Clichy Social Center Agnès Faulcon (Director of the Social Centrer)

14.15-16.15

Round Table: Representing “les Quartiers” in Politics Christophe Adji-Ahoudian, Fatou Meïte, Yassin Lamaoui and Mehdi Bigaderne

16.15-16.30

Coffee break

16.30-18.10

Screening of La Cité Rose, Dir. Julien Abraham

18.10-18.40

Exchange about the film with Laetitia Nonone

18.40-19.10

Walking tour towards dinner location

19.10-19.30

Welcome address by the mayor of Clichy and the president of ACLEFEU

19.30-21.30

Dinner (couscous) and discussion with members of ACLEFEU

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris)

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8.45

Meet at ICI

9.00-10.30

Keynote: On Using the Word “Communautarisme” Stéphane Dufoix

10.30-10.45

Coffee break

10.45-12.15

Religious Education in France Marine Quenin and Samuel Grzybowski

12.15-13.15

Lunch at ICI

13.30-15.00

Dancing, Gender, Culture and Identity: the Art and Politics of Bodies Sylvie Chalaye and Bintou Dembélé

15.15-15.30

Coffee break

15.30-17.00

Group Discussion

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE THURSDAY, JUNE 12 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris)

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8.45

Meet at ICI

9.00-10.30

Taking Action Against Structural Discrimination: Higher Education — A Case Study Daniel Sabbagh

10.30-10.45

Coffee break

10.45-12.15

Promoting Equal Opportunities: The Example of Passeport Avenir Benjamin Blavier

12.30-14.00 ! !

Lunch with Fellows from Passeport Avenir at ICI ! + A Few Tips on Networking with Amy Hong

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14.00-15.30

Free Time to Discuss/Share Expertise by the Fellows

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FRIDAY, JUNE 13 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris) 8.45

Meet at ICI

9.00-10.30

The Debates and Controversies of Ethnic Statistics Patrick Simon

10.30-10.45

Coffee break

10.45-12.15

Proving Racial Profiling in France Siham Assbague

12.30-13.45

Lunch on your own (See MAP 1.a for lunch options)

14.00-15.30

Free Time to Discuss/Share Expertise by the Fellows

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE SATURDAY, JUNE 14 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris)

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9.45

Meet at ICI

10.00-11.30

Legislative Framework on Anti-Discrimination Karima Saïd

11.30-11.45

Coffee break

11.45-13.15

How on Earth Can You Be Heterosexual? ! Louis-Georges Tin

13.15-14.15

Lunch at ICI

14.30-17.00

Taking Action against Discrimination: Theater Forum Workshop Héctor Pascual Álvarez

17.15-19.15

Relaxing in the ICI’s Hammam: Lady’s Session (optional)

SUNDAY, JUNE 15 No program. Enjoy!

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE WEEK 3: GETTING READY FOR ACTION Diversity Issues vs. Moral Issues Basic human rights are not distant concerns of authoritarian states and poverty stricken countries. In our own societies, the basic human rights of many groups and individuals are also infringed upon. Why don't certain groups and individuals receive the same rights and considerations as others? When and how does discrimination lead to severe human rights violations right in front of us?

MONDAY, JUNE 16 Location: Institut Montaigne (38 rue Jean Mermoz 75008 Paris)

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9.45

Meet at Institut Montaigne

10.00-10.15

Presentation by the Think Tank Institut Montaigne Laurent Bigorgne

10.15-11.00

Economic Crisis in Europe: What’s at Stake? Philippe Manière

11.00-11.10

Coffee break

11.10-12.15

Diversity and Populism in France Hugo Micheron

12.30-13.30

Lunch TBD

14.00-15.30

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How is Europe Treating Refugees? Hélène Soupios-David and Louise Carr

15.30-15.45

Coffee break

15.45-17.15

The Situation in Greece from the inside (+ Group Discussion) Antonia Asimakopolou, Maria Ntetsika, Vasiliki Katsomaliari

TUESDAY, JUNE 17 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris) 8.45

Meet at ICI

9.00-10.30

Who Are the Roma in France? Samuel Delépine

10.30-10.45

Coffee break

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE 10.45-12.45

Decolonizing the Mind and Empowering Romas in Theory and in Practice Sarah Carmona, Saimir Mile and Nara Ritz

13.00-14.00

Lunch TBD

Getting Ready for Action Humanity in Action believes everyone can make a change, at a micro or macro level, on their own campus, neighborhood, city, country – or even internationally. The Action Project Development Workshop is designed to help Fellows identify precisely what issue they want to address, and explore a methodology to achieve their goals, step by step.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris)

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9.15

Meet at ICI

9.30-10.30

Action Projects (AP) Development Workshop: Owning your Story Tara Dickman

10.30-10.45

Coffee Break! !

10.45-11.30

AP Workshop: Problem vs Issue: What’s the Difference? ! Tara Dickman

11.30-12.30

AP Workshop: One on Ones - Discovering Your Self Interest

12.30-14.00

Lunch and One on Ones

14.00-15.00

AP Workshop: Sharing Your Self Interest with the Other Fellows

16.00-17.30

Conversation with Diane Humetewa : getting inspired !

18.00-20.00

Senior Fellows Present their Action Projects

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THURSDAY, JUNE 19 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris)

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9.15

Meet at ICI

9.30-11.00

AP Workshop (Part II): Steps for Defining a Project: Issue Definition, Goal, Research, Action Tara Dickman

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE 11.00-11.15

Coffee Break

11.15-12.00

AP Workshop (Part II): Feedback in Small Groups

12.00-13.00

AP Workshop (Part II): Pitching Your Projects ! ! Tara Dickman

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FRIDAY, JUNE 20 - MONDAY, JUNE 23 Fellows work on their Action Projects. As explained in the AP Development Workshop, the Action Project must entail a strategy for an intervention that addresses a human rights or minority issue and that engages at least 25 people. This group should be diverse and reach individuals outside the organizer's own social and economic group. Fellows are expected to elaborate a 3-5 page document (The Action Project Strategy Plan). HIA will publish this document on the website. The Strategy Plan must address and answer the following questions:   Why is this action project important?  What kind of action does the problem area requires/asks for?  Who are the primary and (if any) secondary target group(s)?  What is/are the goal(s) of the project?  What are the needs to implement the project? Which methods will be used to accomplish the action projects goal(s)?  What is the timeline for implementation of the project?  What organizations or individuals can be potential partners? What is the budget for the project? What challenges does the project face in its implementation process (i.e. how will the project most likely fail and how to ensure it doesn’t)?  After receiving two full days of training (June 18-19), and having attended several workshops throughout the program (Debate, Media, Forum Theatre, Networking), FeIlows being the “Incubator Phase” in which they design their Strategy Plan. Fellows will research the issue they want to tackle and the target group(s) they want to work with. They will also identify and interview organizations, community leaders and individuals involved in  their chosen issue to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and needs associated with their action project.   HIA will assist Fellows throughout this process and partner them up with Senior Fellows as part of a Mentorship Scheme. HIA staff and Senior Fellow Mentors will work individually with Fellows and provide advice and guidance on their Action Project and Strategy Plan.  Finally, Fellows present their Action Projects and receive detailed feedback and tips for implementation. 2014 PROGRAM BOOKLET

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE TUESDAY, JUNE 24 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris) 16.00-17.00

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Greek Fellows Present their Action Projects

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 Location: Institut des Cultures d’Islam (ICI) Leon (19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris) 10.00-12.00

American Fellows Present their Action Projects

12.15-13.15

Lunch TBD

13.30-17.30

French Fellows Present their Action Projects

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THURSDAY, JUNE 26 - SUNDAY 29 Humanity in Action International Conference: “Borders: Sources of Conflict and Sites of Peace” Location: Sønderborg Castle. Sønderbro 1 (6400 Sønderborg, Denmark) The 2014 International Conference, "Borders: Sources of Conflict and Sites of Peace," will feature keynotes, workshops and discussions led by experts, activists and Humanity in Action Senior Fellows who will provide Danish, German and international perspectives on the theme of borders and minorities in a modern world. This year's program will have a special focus on how different minorities and majorities in Europe’s history have overcome conflict to live in peaceful coexistence. It will engage participants in considering how lessons from history can inform strategies to promote inclusion and resist the marginalization of minorities in Europe today. Additionally, the conference will examine the crisis in Ukraine and the role of supranational institutions such as the European Union, OSCE and NATO in protecting minorities and fostering democratic change. Thursday June 26 6.45 Meet in front of Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle Airport 8.55 German Wings Flight 4U 7403 (if you don’t make it to the airport on time, you will need to find alternative arrangements to get to the International Conference) 10.20 Scheduled Arrival in Hamburg. We will take a bus from there with the HIA German Team. Sunday June 29 Fellows will take off at 17.50 from Hamburg and land in Paris CDG at 19.20

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READING LIST Note: Fellows are required to have read all introductory articles/essays as well as the readings for the first four days by the beginning of the program. The rest of readings can be done during the program. American and Greek fellows are strongly encouraged to read the “Optional Readings on Current French Issues” to get a better grasp of contemporary concerns regarding minorities and democracy in France.

OBLIGATORY READINGS Introductory Readings Understanding the Context May 31st Justin Smith; “Does immigration mean France is over?” June 1st Introduction to the French Constitution. Declaration of Human and Civic Rights Alexis de Tocqueville; “The Origin of the Anglo-Americans, and Importance of this Origin in Relation to their Future Condition” (excerpts) from Democracy in America, Volume 1, Chapter 2. Jean-François Berdah; "Citizenship and National Identity in France from the French Revolution to the Present" Laying the Groundwork for Group Discussion Ngoc Loan Tran; “Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable” Peggy McIntosh; “White Privilege and Male Privilege”

Week 1 Readings June 2nd Ernest Renan; “What is a Nation?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau; “Social Compact”, Chapter 6 in The Social Contract Erik Bleich; “Antiracism without Races: Politics and Policies in a ‘Color-Blind’ State” June 3rd Adam Gopnik; “The Trial of the Century: Revisiting the Dreyfuss Affair” June 4th Benjamin Stora; “Pieds-noirs in France, an untold story” José Manuel Barreto; “Can We Decolonise Human Rights?” June 5th Michel Giraud; “The ‘Question of Blackness’ and the Memory of Slavery: Invisibility and Forgetting as Voluntary Fire and some Pyromaniac Firefighters” June 7th Mayanthi Fernando; “The Republic’s “Second Religion”: Recognizing Islam in France” At Home in Europe Project; “Unveiling the Truth: Why 32 Muslim Women Wear the Full-face Veil in France” Patrick Weil; "Lifting the Veil"

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READING LIST Week 2 Readings June 9th Jocelyne Cesari; “Ethnicity, Islam, and les Banlieues: Confusing the Issues” Matthew Moran, "Understanding the UK Riots" June 10th Beth Epstein; “When Opportunity Moves Off-Shore: Multiculturalism and the French Banlieue” June 11th Laure Bereni; “Accounting for French Feminism’s Blindness to Difference: The Inescapable Legacy of Universalism” June 12th Daniel Sabbagh; “Measuring Diversity: Interview with François Heran” Aryeh Neier; “Can We Learn from the US Context? On Positive Action” June 13th Liz Fekete; “Reverse Racism and the Manipulation of White Victimhood” Anissa Djabi; “The French Diversity Label: A Lever to Prevent and Combat Discrimination”

Week 3 Readings June 16th Marley Morris; “Understanding Reluctant Radicals in France and the Netherlands” Anna Triandafyllidou; “Greece: How a State in Crisis Manages its Migration Crisis?” Aristos Doixadis and Manos Matsaganis; “National Populism and Xenophobia in Greece” June 17th Amnesty International; “We ask for justice: Europe’s failure to protect Roma from racist violence” Adam Gopnik; “The people who pass”

FURTHER (OPTIONAL) READINGS Tom Reiss; “Laugh Riots: The French star who became a demagogue” Alexander Stille; “The Justice Minister and the Banana- How Racist is France?” Judith Thurman; “Dominique Venner's Final Solution” Jane Kramer; “Difference” Alexander Stille: “Leonarda and the School Bus” L. Zahed; "Homosexuality is not a sin by nature according to Islam, neither a crime, nor a perversion, nor a pathology"

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GROUP DISCUSSIONS The Group Discussions in the Program mostly take place at the end of the day, after the sessions with the speakers are over. They follow a highly participant-centered, rather than teacher-centered approach in which every Fellow will be expected to contribute actively. Lack of participation is taken seriously by the staff and will be addressed. We will be primarily contextualizing the contributions from the speakers—clarifying the concepts they have introduced, questioning them, and thinking imaginatively about the issues they’ve presented. It is important to bear in mind that one idea or concept might not mean quite the same in France that it does in the US or in Greece. Thus, we ask you to approach the discussions with an open mind, aware of the “cultural lenses” with which we approach reality, trying not to jump to assumptions. For the American and Greek fellows, this is an exciting opportunity to gain an understanding of the French socio-political context and compare it with the models in their home countries. To assist them, we hope the French fellows will become “cultural translators” who can contextualize things and provide the necessary background to grasp the issues we will be exploring ( same for the American and Greek fellows when talking about their own countries). For the French fellows, the discussions offer an opportunity to deepen their own knowledge about France and question the “received wisdom” with which they have grown up, as well as hearing about different approaches from the international fellows. Another important goal of the discussions will be integrating the readings assigned for that day, so please make sure that you have read the articles the day before the sessions. The discussions should be active, dynamic, intellectually challenging and rigorous, as well as a safe space to explore difficult/controversial questions. In order to achieve this, we ask that all participants: respect some basic rules of etiquette: • Read the assigned articles in an active and critical manner and ensure that they are fresh in your mind on the day in which we’ll discuss them. •

Remain active during the morning and afternoon sessions; thinking critically and taking notes/questions that can be used during the discussion.

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Finally, never be afraid to say you don’t understand something or ask for clarification. The only stupid question is the one that remains unasked.

We hope the group discussions will be inspiring and empowering; it is here that a lot of the actual learning and growth will happen. Héctor and Laurène will be facilitating these sessions but it is you, the fellows, who are responsible to make sure they are a success.

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GROUP DISCUSSIONS OUR RULES FOR DEBATE Please use the space below to write out the rules that you think should structure the group discussions.

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES MARTINE ALONSO MARQUIS Martine Alonso Marquis was born in 1981 in Montreal, Canada. Raised in a multicultural and multilingual environment, Martine moved to Germany in 1998 and lived in a small East-German town called Riesa. Martine studied Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin and Conflict Resolution at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. She participated in the German HIA program in 2004 and did the Senior Fellow internship at the International Criminal Court in 2005. Throughout the last seven years, Martine has worked with the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade and Pristina and taught international relations at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques. She also is the co-founder of a non-profit social entreprise called "crossborder factory", which seeks to enhance intercultural competences and political participation of European citizens. Currently, she works in the European Parliament as an assistant to Ivo Vajgl, member of the liberal democrats from Slovenia. Next to this, she is writing her PhD on state recognition.

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CHRISTOPHE ADJI-AHOUDIAN Above all, Cristophe Adji-Ahoudian is a man of the field. He founded BGA (Bold Boys of Africa), a grassroots organization that engages young people from the 19th district in arts and culture. Inspired by his work with these youth and encouraged through a US Embassy-sponsored trip to the US to attend a conference with Afro-American activists, AdjiAhoudian started to get directly engaged with city politics in 2007. In 2008, he was elected deputy mayor of the 19th district of Paris, and since then, he has been in charge of youth policies in the city (?). AdjiAhoudian is dedicated to supporting the professional integration of young people. He has spearheaded initiatives for professional training and in 2009, he developed a local talent festival supervised by Mayor Roger Madec. As of the most recent 2014 local elections, Adji-Ahoudian has served as the deputy mayor in charge of “politique de la ville.” SIHAME ASSBAGUE Sihame Assbague is spokespersons for "Stop le Contrôle au faciès", which brings together organizations and members of civil society who fight against racial profiling and harassment. Prior, she worked as an associate for a boruough mayor, as a teacher and as a strategy consultant. She has written for the French edition of The Huffington Post. Assbague holds degrees in Modern Literature and Political Science.

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES SOUÂD BELHADDAD Souâd Belhaddad is a journalist, writer and actress of Algerian origin who lives in France. She has contributed to numerous magazines including Elle, Le Monde, La Vie and Repubblica. Passionate about women’s rights, as well as the struggle against fundamentalism, she won an award from the Association of Women Journalists for her reportage "SOS femmes algériennes». As a writer Belhaddad is particularly interested in the nature of Franco-Algerian identities, discrimination, racism and antisemitism. Her humorous play “Beaucoup de choses à vous djire”, which she performs all over France, Belgium and Algeria, voices all her struggles through a one-women show of ageing Algerian women living in France, puzzled at the state of the world and how people relate to themselves, others, history and identity. She works particularly on issues of post-conflict and reconciliation (Ex Yugoslavia, Algeria, Rwanda) and her plays about Rwanda with Esther Mujawayo (a survivor of the Tutsi genocide) have received several awards. As a playwright, she has just produced a theatrical adaptation of Rwanda mais avant? Et puis après. Belhaddad has also been involved in a number of hands-on activities. She created the organization “C(itoyenneté) possible”, (a play on words on the theme of active citizenship), with a leading educational project «Bien dit!» (Well said!), designed to create a bridge between high school students from underprivileged backgrounds and the professional world by focusing on the value of common citizenship, and demystifying social codes. She also developed a project to support female victims of violence in Rwanda, sits on the board of the Mediterranean Women’s Fund, and is involved in many international organizations promoting women’s empowerment and agency. WILLIAM A. BELL William A. Bell, Sr. is the Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama. He took office in 2010. In 1985, he became the first African-American to serve as President of the Birmingham City Council, having been elected to that position by the members of the Council. Mayor Bell is also an active member of the European Coalition of Cities against Racism, launched in Nuremberg (Germany) in December 2004. Approximately 100 municipalities from 20 countries of Europe have joined this initiative since its inception. Its objective has been to establish a network of cities committed to sharing experiences in order to improve their policies to fight racism and all forms of discrimination.

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES MEHDI BIGADERNE Mehdi Bigaderne is a civil servant and activist. He is the co-founder of a Franco-Brazilian exchange project called “When the French Banlieues Meet the Brazilian Favelas.” The idea is to allow youth from Clichy and Sao Paolo to speak to one another online about their lives around the themes of civic engagement, sports, and urban culture. In 2011, Bigaderne created Passport Citoyen, an organization which allows 20 young Clichois to visit institutions Bigaderne is a member of the National Association of Elected Local Officials for Diversity. He graduated with a degree in broadcasting. LAURENT BIGORGNE Laurent Bigorgne is director of the Institut Montaigne. He has been Science Po’s director of the 1st cycles from 2001 to 2003, director of studies and education from 2003 to 2008 and deputy director from 2007 to 2009. He oversaw the creation of the regional 1st cycles and the comprehensive reform of study programs and the creation of schools of journalism and communication. He led the reform of tuition fees at Sciences Po and the implementation of the welfare system that allowed this institution to achieve 20% equity in 2008. In the academic year 2008-2009 he left to become director of the London School of Economics, and  helped build strong links between the two institutions. He also conducted a study on international politics of the top 20 UK universities. A professor of history, he is also a graduate of Sciences Po. BENJAMIN BLAVIER Benjamin Blavier is the creator and leader of various organizations implementing public/private partnerships in CSR, development and innovation HR, diversity and non-discrimination, education and equality of opportunity. He launched and directs “Passeport Avenir,” a network that engages companies such as Accenture, Nokia, Orange, and Crédit Mutuel to support programs for youth from underprivileged backgrounds. Programs include tutoring, group support, and financial support with an overarching aim to open doors for these youth to business and engineering schools. ANNE-LORRAINE BUJON Anne-Lorraine Bujon is the editorial director for the "Conventions" program on law and globalization at the Institute for Advanced Justice Studies (IHEJ) and an associate research fellow of the US program at IFRI. After she graduated in American literature at the École Normale Superieure, Anne-Lorraine Bujon taught at university and in school before turning to non-profit management and editorial projects. In 2005, she be

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES came the first director of Humanity in Action France; in 2007, she became director of the Humanity in Action Center in Europe, designed to build and support plans for the strategic development of HIA across the EU. She joined the HIA France board and the International Committee on Planning in 2009, as she joined IHEJ. SARA CARMONA Sarah Carmona holds an M.A and a PhD in Art History and Archeology granted by the University of Aix-Marseille, France and the University Hispalense of Sevilla. She teaches history, archeology and art history in several universities, and is a regular contributor to the newspapers “Nevipens Romani” and “I Tchachipen”. Her articles focus on the forgotten history and cultures of the Roma in France and Spain in particular, their impact on Roma identity development, on epistemology and decolonizing knowledge processes. She is actually lecturing in the Manouba University (Tunisia) She is an extremely involved activist. LOUISE CARR Louise Carr is Membership Officer at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. She is responsible for developing relations with and between ECRE’s members and coordinating joint advocacy activities of the ECRE network. As part of the ECRE Media Team, Louise assists with ECRE’s social media and communications activities. Louise is currently coordinating ECRE’s Europe Act Now #HelpSyriasRefugees campaign calling for increased access to protection for refugees fleeing Syria. Louise has a Master degree in International Relations from Dublin City University and previously worked as a Trainee in the Directorate of External Relations in the European Commission and in the Brussels Office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. MARC CHEB SUN Marc Cheb Sun is a self-taught journalist. He has contributed to various media outlets including Arab World Institute Magazines, Europe 2 Radio, and La Tribune Magazine. In 2002, he co-created Respect, a magazine that aims to “decolonize” the imagination and improve understandings between the various cultures cohabitating in France. After leaving Respect in 2013, he became a member of the commission “Memory and History of Working-Class Neighborhoods” and wrote a novel titled This is Not a Love Song. Currently, he is editor of “D’ailleurs et d’ici” (http://differentnews.org), an alternative media platform.He is a Knight of the French Legion of Honour.

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES ROMAIN DECHARNE Romain Decharne is a researcher and lecturer at SciencesPo Paris, where he also teaches debate and rhetoric. He studied European litigation at the Panthéon Assas-Sorbonne University, where he regularly participated in BP debates. He has won several debate tournaments, and founded the “Fédération Francophone de debate” in order to promote debating in French. He currently serves as the CEO of the Fédération. SAMUEL DELÉPINE Samuel Delépine is Lecturer in Social Geography at the University of Angers (France). He’s also head of department of Social Careers of the Technology Institute from the University of Angers and president of the Center of Romanian Studies for the Loire region.  He’s member of the laboratory «Space and Societies Angers».  He specializes in urban dynamics, socio-spatial segregations, habitat and housing policies, EastWest migrations, Roma and travelers (Gens du Voyage) populations. He hold a PhD in social geography from the University of Angers on the subject: Roma spaces and Romanian towns, for a new geographical and social interpretation.  BINTOU DEMBÉLÉ Bintou Dembélé is one of the most famous hip-hop dancers in France. She has collaborated with artists, thinkers, photographers and novelists to create exciting works that “reinvent” the art of dance and unite the hiphop world. ROKHAYA DIALLO Rokhaya Diallo is the founder and former president of Les Indivisibles, a French organization that uses humor and irony to fight racism and stereotypes. Les Indivisibles organizes the “Y’a Bon Awards,” a humoristic parody of the Academy Awards that “honors” public personalities who make the most racist remarks with a banana skin in the guise of a trophy. Diallo has also worked as a journalist through various media outlets. She is the presenter and co-author of the French television program “Egaux mais pas trop” [“Equal but not too equal”], a seris of reports about equality and diversity issues in France. She has been a guest speaker at several conferences in the U.S. and Europe. In March 2010, she was invited by the U.S. Department of State to take part in the International Visitor Leadership Program to explore strategies for “managing ethnic diversity in the US.” Diallo is a member of the 40under40 program in Europe, and she was #36 in Slate Magazine’s Top 100 French Most Influential Women. PowerList by PowerfulMedia named Diallo one of the 30 most influential Black people in Europe. In 2012, Rokhaya won the COJEP International

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Award for her work against racism and discrimination. Diallo is also an author of several books and serves as board member of the European Network Against Racism (ENAR). TARA DICKMAN Tara worked for Humanity in Action France from October 2007 to November 2012. A senior fellow herself, she joined HIA after receiving an M.A in comparative politics from New York University, where she focused on the impact of the monopoly of cultural approaches to minority rights in international law on the understanding of the 2005 riots in the French suburbs. Tara grew up in between Paris and the suburbs where she has been and remains involved in social, artistic, and civil rights issues. Prior to attending NYU, she received a B.A in Information and Communication followed by a graduate program at the Institute for European Studies of Paris 8 University before doing some comparative research on race and urban politics at Brown University. She is currently running a campaign against racial profiling in France, as well as consulting on civil rights issues in France, media, fundraising, and community organizing. TOUMI DJAÏDJA Toumi Djaïdja was born in Algeria. The experiences of Djaïdja’s parents prompted him on a quest to promote justice and equality. His father was imprisoned while his mother was pregnant, and Djaïdja did not meet his father until he was 5 years old. After the Red Cross repatriated Djaïdja to France, he and his family were held at the camp Saint-Maurice-Slate, ironically, the same camp that was used for the German occupiers during World War II to trap the French resistance. Toumi became an active leader of the 1983 riots between the urban youth and the police in Vénissieux, and organized a peaceful sit-in outside of the town hall. A student of non-violent techniques, he initiated a hunger strike and lead the “March for Equality,” leading supporters from Marseille (in the south of France) all the way to Paris in order to spread messages of peace, justice and equality. STÉPHANE DUFOIX Stéphane Dufoix is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, and the director of the Sophiapol (Political Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology) research unit. His research themes include globalization theory, historical sociology of social science, sociological and historical semantics of concepts, political sociology of national identity discourses. Among his publications are: Les Diasporas (Paris, PUF, 2003), Les mots de l’immigration (with Sylvie Aprile, Paris, Belin, 2009) and Loin des yeux près du cœur. Les Etats et leurs expatriés (co-edited with Carine Guerasimoff and Anne de Tinguy, Paris, Presses

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES de Sciences-Po, 20110). He has recently published La Dispersion. Une histoire des usages du mot diaspora (Paris, Editions Amsterdam, 2012) and co-edited with Alain Caillé, Le Tournant global des sciences sociales (Paris, La Découverte, 2013). He is currently working on a social history of the rise of globalization theory, as well as the evolution of French discourses on national identity from the 1970s onwards. MICHEL GIRAUD Michel Giraud is a sociologist. He was researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) – France, affiliated to the Centre de Recherche sur les Pouvoirs Locaux dans la Caraïbe (CRPLC) of the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG).  Now he is retired. He is the author of Races et classes à la Martinique (Paris, Editions Anthropos, 1979) and the co-author of L'école aux Antilles. Langues et échec scolaire en Guadeloupe et en Martinique (Paris, Editions Karthala, 1992), and of many other publication on race, culture, gender and politics in the French West Indies and their diaspora in continental France. His current research focuses on how the French Caribbean identities have been, and still are, negotiated since the abolition of slavery in Guadeloupe and Martinique in 1848 what are the role and place of identity affirmations (in terms of ‘race’, culture or nation) in the strategies structuring the political field and how in the postcolonial globalization era new meanings of citizenship are emerging in the French West Indies and their diaspora. SAMUEL GRZYBOWSKI Samuel Grzybowski is President and Founder of Coexist, an interfaith youth movement. For one year, he travelled to more than 50 countries promoting interfaith initiative via the pilot program InterFaith. He holds a double Bachelor of Science and History from Sciences Po.

AMY HONG Amy Hong holds an MSc in human rights from the London School of Economics, where she was awarded the Hobhouse Memorial Prize for the best overall performance in the Department of Sociology and the Stan Cohen Prize for the best human rights dissertation. She also earned a BA with highest honors (summa cum laude) in Spanish and Latin-American Literatures and Cultures from New York University. Her primary areas of interest include human rights, migration and gender. Currently, she is working as a Junior Policy Analyst in the Migration and Skills Unit at the OECD Development Centre. She has also worked as a consultant for the United Nations Population Fund, as a trainee for the European Parliament, and with NGOs in Argentina, Brazil, France and Kenya. 2014 PROGRAM BOOKLET !

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES DIANE HUMETEWA Diane Humetewa is a member of the Hopi Tribe of north eastern Arizona. In January 2014, she was nominated by President Obama to be a federal district court judge for the District of Arizona and is currently awaiting U.S. Senate confirmation. Ms. Humetewa is the Special Advisor on American Indian Initiatives to ASU President Michael M. Crow, Special Counsel in the ASU Office of general Counsel and a Professor of Practice in the ASU Sandra Day O’Connor Law College. Ms. Humetewa is a former Arizona United States Attorney (2007 to 2009). She was the first Native American female in U.S. History to be Presidentially appointed to that position where she presided over one of the largest U.S. Attorney Offices with one of the highest caseloads in the nation. She served on the U.S. Attorney General’s Southwest Border Crimes Advisory Group and the Native American Issues Advisory Group. MAJID EL JARROUDI Majid El Jarroudi is a French social entrepreneur. Since 2003, he has founded several consulting and cultural organizations, all focused on providing business opportunities to minorities and promoting corporate diversity. In 2009, Majid started the French Agency for Diversity in Entrepreneurship (Adive), which encourages large corporations to develop business relationships with entrepreneurs from disadvantaged communities and diverse heritages. He is also the Chair of the Board of HIA France, which develops diversity courses for students and professionals. MOUSSA KHEDIMELLAH Moussa Khedimellah is adviser for Sustainable Development at Bouygues Construction ETDE. He holds a postgraduate degree from the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences and has been a Fullbright scholar as well as researcher at the Center for Analysis and Sociological Intervention, founded by Alain Touraine. He is affiliated to the Sociology Group on Religion and Secularism and is engaged in various causes related to the promotion of peace, social justice and the fight against the racism. His research has focused on social mediation and resolution conflicts in Europe (1998), religion in prisons (2001), and racism and anti-Semitism in France (2004). He is currently interested in the topics of contemporary Islam, equal opportunities, urban segregation, and new forms of collective mobilization.

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES THOMAS KIRSZBAUM Thomas Kirszbaum is a sociologist and an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Political Social Sciences (ISP-ENS Cachan-CNRS). He is an Institute of Political Studies graduate, and holds graduate degrees both in Sociology and Political Science. Mr. Kirszbaum specialises in the study of urban and race policies in France and the United States. He is currently scientific coordinator of a seminar entitled "Urban policy here and abroad: origin and changes". He also works closely with urban policy practitioners. He was for several years national expert on discrimination in France in the framework of a network working for the European Commission. YASSIN LAMAOUI Yassin Lamaoui created an independent political party in 2008 and has been a candidate in 5 elections (local 2008, regional 2010, “cantonale” 2011, national legislative 2012, and municipal 2014). In the past several years, Lamaoui’s party has gained traction in surrounding suburbs of Grigny. He currently works as a consultant for mayors on local economic development. CHRISTIAN LOCHON Christian Lochon is the Former Director of Studies at CHEAAM, Centre for Advanced Studies on Modern Africa and Asia. He worked abroad in Baghdad (1964-66) and Tehran (1966-68) as the director of the French Cultural Centre in Baghdad, for the cultural mission with several universities in Cairo, for the Embassy of France in Khartoum, for the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, for the Embassy of France in Damascus and finally as the Director of Studies and Research in the Near East and Middle East Centre for Advanced Studies on Modern Africa and Asia. He currently provides some training to Imams at the Great Mosque’s institute in Paris. PHILIPPE MANIÈRE Philippe Manière is a political and economic affairs correspondent. He was the editor-in-chief of “La Lettre du l’Expansion” following 11 years as a journalist at several magazines including Le Point. He has worked for Le Quotidien de Paris and Le Nouvel Economiste. In 2004, Manière became chief executive officer of the Montaigne Institute and is now director of Footprint Consultant. He has published several works: L’aveuglement français, and Ils vont tuer le capitalisme, co-written with Claude Bébéar, the founder of the Montaigne Institute. Manière graduated from ESSEC, Paris Business School Paris, and holds a master’s degree in corporate law from the University of Paris II. He is one of the founders of, and a member of the Board of Directors of HIA-France. 2014 PROGRAM BOOKLET !

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES FATOU MEITE ! ! ! ! ! ! Fatou Meite is an elected city council official, first with the PS and then with the Mouvement Emergence. In March of 2014, she ran for mayor of Bondy with the political party “Nous sommes Bondy,” achieving 4.67% of the vote. She is a member of the Anti Negrophobia Brigade. HUGO MICHERON Hugo Micheron joined the Institut Montaigne as researcher in 2012 where he leads a survey of the renewal of French political life in connection with Professor Gilles Kepel (IUF, Sciences Po). He is also in charge of several monitoring groups on international themes.

SAIMIR MILE Saimir Mile is a Roma activist, and the Chair of the minority rights group “The Voice of Roma”. He works closely with Marcel Courthiade,  head of the Department of Rromani Philology at the INALCO.  FLORENCE MORICE Florence Morice is a freelance journalist, working for international media, both radio and TV (RFI and France 24) and previously the FrancoGerman channel Arte. She recently started writing and filming a series of documentaries focusing on globalization issues. India: High Tech Mirage, was first broadcast on Public Sénat (2013), followed by Al Jazeera (2014). She has just finished a new project about human trafficking in the Thai fishing industry broadcasted on French television (April 2014). She also works regularly as a international consultant in journalism training for l’Institut Panos Europe (IPE) and CFI (Canal France International). From 2005 to 2007, she lived and worked in Egypt as a foreign correspondent and as a coordinator and training Manager in Journalism at Cairo University. In 2013, she coordinated, under the supervision of Virginie Sassoon, the publication of a collective book tackling the French media (mis)representation of ethnic or social groups, and their inability to convey the social and cultural diversity without referring to stereotypes.

MARWAN MUHAMMAD Marwan Muhammad is a French-Egyptian author, engineer in financial mathematics and statistics, and spokesperson of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France. The Collective is an association founded in 2003 to provide legal support to victims of discrimination and violence. In 2009, he published his first book, FoulExpress: Petit traité de déconstruction du système  (FoulExpress : Small Treaty for the Deconstruction of the

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES System), a very critical look of the financial system and North-South relations. He has participated in numerous conferences in France and abroad, mainly on the objectification of forms of racism in Europe and ways of multiplying approaches against Islamophobia. He is also the author of a shadow report on racism in France, published by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR). He also led the response to the controversy of pains au chocolat launched by politician Jean-Francois Cope (he accused Muslim children of stealing the pains au chocolate of non-Muslim children during Ramadan), organizing the free distribution of pain au chocolat  to citizens. This served as a prelude to the campaign  "We (also) are the Nation". PAP NDIAYE Pap Ndiaye is a French historian specialized in North American Studies. Currently he is a lecturer at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and member of the editorial board of the Journal l’Histoire. Pioneer of Black Studies in France with his book La Condition Noire, his current work focuses on the discourses and practices of racial discrimination in life insurance companies in American 20th century. LAËTITIA NONONE Laëtitia Nonone founded Zonzon 93 in March 2008 partially in response to the imprisonment of her brother, which occurred 10 years after the imprisonment of her father. The association aims to prevent crime and keep young people out of prison. She engages prisoners to help educate young people and prevent crime. grew up between Villepinte and Aulnay-sous-Bois. Two years ago, she created the Kiwitas Festival, which gathered more than 100 organizations working with populations in the suburbs to build partnerships. She was also a spokesperson for the film “La Cité Rose.” ELIE PETIT Elie Petit was the vice-president of the European Union of Jewish Students (UEJS) and the  Union des étudiants juifs de France  ("Union of French Jewish students", UEJF). The UEJF aims to assist French Jewish students. It was founded in 1944 to assist young Jews who came back from  concentration camps  or, more generally, who had escaped the Holocaust. The organization is best known to the public for a number of high-profile lawsuits it has brought against people or organizations for anti-Semitism. M.Petit is still involved in the UEJF, currently does a master degree in political communication and works for the european grassroots antiracist movement (EGAM). 

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES MARINE QUENIN Marine Quenin is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and holds an MA in International Relations from Sussex University. After a year in charge of running the business foundation just created at Arthur Andersen, she participated in the development of Samusocial International, where she provided leadership for 8 years. In 2008 she joined ESSEC  Business School  Social Entrepreneurship  department, to lead "Antropia", the organization's social incubator. There, she has also led and supervised a pedagogical program to prepare students from modest backgrounds for  competitive exams of ESSEC.  She found  ENQUÊTE in october 2010 and now dedicates herself to its development. LADJI REAL Producer, screenwriter, film director and actor, Ladji Real is always between art and activism.  He works at promoting a consciously engaged cinema through his production company “Biloba Cinem’art”. He works at integrating youth by culture through his association “Yes We Can Production” and promotes new talents through the FEDCAT (Federation for the Democratization of Innovation and Employment in the Film Industry and the Theater). He provides a platform for emerging talents and the new elite through the recently born Web TV channel ITTA.TV. His recent work involves “La Cité du Mal, ou la banlieue fabriquée par les medias”, a response to a controversial documentary whose official purpose was to raise awareness about sexism in the suburbs; and the series “Mon 1er contrôle d’identité” (My 1st ID check), involving hip hop artists and civil society members telling their profiling stories for the “Stop le contrôle au faciès” (Stop Profiling) campaign. NARA RITZ Nara is a sinto, a traveler and an activist. He is a consultant to many NGOs (France Liberté Voyage, Regards...) on discrimination against "Voyageurs" (travelers) and fights for the official recognition of the caravan as an official residence. Mr Ritz is director of the European Training Center on Diversity (C.E.F.D) and his areas of expertise are the fight against discrimination, methods of intercultural communication, pedagogy concerning ethnic minorities and minorities from disadvantaged backgrounds. He has many years of experience in mediation with isolated population and is one of the few traveler community organizers in France. 

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES DANIEL SABBAGH Formerly a Visiting Assistant in Research at Yale and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Chicago and New York University’s Remarque Institute, Dr. Daniel Sabbagh is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS). His current research interests focus on antidiscrimination and affirmative action policies, considered from a comparative and pluridisciplinary perspective. He is the author of L'Égalité par le droit: les paradoxes de la discrimination positive aux États-Unis (Paris, Économica, 2003), which received the François Furet Book Award and was partly published in English under the title Equality and Transparency: A Strategic Perspective on Affirmative Action in American Law (New York, Palgrave) in 2007. His other publications include articles in World Politics, Daedalus, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and the Political Science Quarterly. Along with sociologists Devah Pager and Agnès van Zanten, he chaired the academic board of the French American Foundation’s “Equality of Opportunity” program from 2006 to 2011. Along with legal scholar Gwénaële Calvès, he is the cofounder of the “Antidiscrimination Policies” seminar at Sciences Po, where he has been teaching since 1998. He is the former co-editor of Critique internationale, a peer-reviewed journal in comparative politics and international relations. KARIMA SAÏD Karima Saïd passed the Paris Bar on November 12th, 2008. After working as an Associate in major international law firms during almost 4 years in the Labour and Employment Law Department, she decided to work on her own since December, 2012.  Karima Saïd graduated in Labour and Employment Law in 2006 at Paris-Ouest la Défense University. Karima's research lead her to study discrimination in the workplace and focus her theses on this topic. She also wrote two legal articles in a Labour Law review ("Revue de Droit du Travail") in 2008 and 2012. These articles also focused on discrimination law issues.  Karima Saïd often gives talks on promoting diversity and fighting discrimination in the workplace. EROS SANA Eros Sana is a parliamentary assistant in the French Senate, a photographer, journalist, and community activist. Of Congolese origin, he spent his early years in Garges. He is very interested in "popular" ecology, an "anti-bobo" ecology (in French, "bobo" stands for bohemian-bourgeois), an ecology that is beneficial to people in poverty.

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES PATRICK SIMON Patrick Simon is a social demographer at the National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) (Paris, France ), where he heads the research unit "International migration and minorities". He is also associate researcher at the Center for European Studies at Sciences Po. He is currently engaged in a comparative European survey on the integration of "second-generation" individuals. He also co-directs the INED's "Trajectories and Origins" investigation on the diversity of populations in France. Expert for the Council of Europe, he developed a study on the legal, policy and procedural framework for the collection of so-called "ethnic" data in the Council's member countries. Member of the Scientific Board of the Fundamental Rights Agency (European Commission) in Vienna, he sits on the executive board and the Board of Directors of the European Network of Excellence IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe). HÉLÈNE SOUPIOS-DAVID Hélène Soupios-David is Project Officer at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, a pan-European alliance of refugee assisting organizations. She joined ECRE in 2007 and she is currently coordinating the Asylum Information database project, which maps asylum procedures, reception and detention in 16 EU Member states. She is also leading ECRE’s work on unaccompanied children and returns. She lived in Brussels from 2006 to 2013 and now lives in Paris. Hélène holds a Master degree in Political and European studies. Hélène is a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow (2006). She co-founded the French Humanity in Action Senior Fellow Network, interned with the 2008 Humanity in Action American program and was active in the organization’s Brussels network. BENJAMIN STORA Benjamin Stora is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family which left Algeria following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora currently teaches at the University of Paris 13 and the Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO). He founded and led the Institut Maghreb-Europe since its inception in 1991. As a member of the French School of the Far East he lived for two years in Hanoi, Vietnam, where he pursued his research on the imaginary of the Algerian and Vietnamese wars. He has published almost thirty books, including a biography Messali Hadj, a Biographical Dictionary of Algerian Militants, Gangrene and Oblivion: Memory of the Algerian War, and more recently,  The Three Exiles: Jews of Algeria (selected for the Renaudot Essay Prize, 2006).

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES FABRICE TEICHER Since 2005, Fabrice Teicher has been the president and founder of Passeurs de Mémoires, an association focused around the education and memory of 20th century genocides. The association has held events in France and abroad (including Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique, Taiwan, and Thailand). He is also the author of a book on the Arab-Jewish dialogue in France, Si loin, si proches, published in 2006. Teicher studied history at the Sorbonne.

LOUIS-GEORGES TIN Louis-Georges Tin is a French activist involved in the fight against homophobia and racism. He is a graduate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Currently, and is a lecturer at the IUFM Orleans, also teaching at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. On November 2006 the CRAN (Reprensentative Council of Black Associations in France) was launched at the National Assembly. Mr. Tin is the president of CRAN since 2011. The movement fights against racial discrimination by boosting the use of ethnic statistics and revising the debate on this issue in France. In the field of homophobia, he was the promoter of the International Day against Homophobia, and wrote The Dictionary Of Homophobia. He specializes in heteronormativity in France. FRANÇOISE VERGÈS Françoise Vergès grew up in Reunion Island, then lived in Algeria, Mexico and the USA before coming back to Europe and the Indian Ocean. After years of work as a feminist and human rights activist, she got her Ph.D. at Berkeley University (1995). She has published extensively on postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, slavery and the economy of predation and has collaborated on catalogs on Isaac Julien and Yinka Shonibare. In her theoretical and empirical work, she has explored the processes and practices of creolization, particularly in the Indian Ocean. Vergès taught at the University of Sussex and is a member of the Political Science Department at the Center for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, London. In 2009 she was appointed as a special advisor to the Ministry of Overseas Department. Most recently, she was on the scientific board of the Memorial of the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes, which opened in 2011.

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES PATRICK WEIL Patrick Weil is a French historian and political scientist. He is a research fellow at CNRS, and at the Centre for the Social History of the 20th century  at the  University of Paris 1. Weil is a  Visiting Professor of Law and Robina Foundation International Fellow at Yale Law School and Director of the Center for the Study of Immigration, Integration and Citizenship Policies at the University of Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne. Professor Weil's work focuses on comparative immigration, citizenship, secularization and integration law and policy. In 1992 he received the research prize of the  National Assembly of France  for his work  "La France et ses étrangers”. Dr. Weil has worked extensively with the French government including participation in a 2003 French Presidential Commission on secularism, established by Jacques Chirac, and preparation of a report on immigration and nationality policy reform for Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in 1997 which led to the implementation of new immigration laws adopted the following year. Professor Weil worked as Chief of Staff of the Secretariat of State for Immigrants in 1981 and 1982, and was a member of the Stasi Commission, and a member of the board of the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration (Museum of the History of Immigration) - a position which, with seven others, he resigned on 18 May 2007, in protest against the creation of a ministry of immigration and national identity by Nicolas Sarkozy. He is the founder and Honorary Chair of Humanity in Action France. Today, he is also President of the NGO Libraries Without Borders. Weil teaches between Paris, Yale and NYU. GILLIAN WEISS Gillian Weiss is an associate professor of history at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Her scholarship focuses on early modern Mediterranean slavery and maritime France. She is the author of Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Stanford, 2011), just out in French translation as Captifs et corsaires: identité française et l’esclavage en Méditerranée (Toulouse, 2014). Examining French efforts to free its subjects and citizens from North Africa between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the book shows how, along with the racialization of slavery, liberation evolved from an expression of Christian charity to a method of state building and, eventually, a pretext for imperial conquest. Now she is researching the French as perpetrators rather than victims. Her new book project, entitled Slavery and the Sun King, looks at the history and representation of subjugated “Turks” (esclaves turcs) during the reign of Louis XIV. Before earning a PhD from Stanford University (2002), she received an AB from Princeton (1993).

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES ANNETTE WIEVIORKA Annette Wieviorka is the best-known of French historians of the Holocaust born after World War II. She is the author of a significant number of scholarly books and articles; and is often quoted in and has contributed to the Parisian dailies Le Monde and Libération as well as the weekly L’Express. Annette Wieviorka’s institutional affiliations have included teaching history at lycées in Paris, appointments as a research fellow and research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; membership on the Conseil scientifique (scholarly council) of the Mémorial de Caen (a World War II museum in Normandy) and on the Prime Minister’s Study Group on the Spoliation of Jewish Property. The latter appointment led her to publish two detailed studies of the seizing of Jewish belongings under the German occupation: Les Biens des internés des camps de Drancy, Pithiviers et Beaune-la-Rolande and Le Pillage des appartements et son indemnisation (in collaboration with Florence Azoulay). LOUISA ZANOUN Louisa Zanoun is a historian and head of research and cultural affairs at Génériques. She has a PhD in International History from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2009). After a short career in academia in London and Montreal, she returned to Paris to work for Génériques in early 2012. There, she leads a team of 4 professionals (3 archivists and 1 historian) who work on the history and memory of immigration in France. She si also the editor of the history journal Migrance.

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ICI Stephenson: 56 rue Stephenson, 75018 Paris

ICI Leon: 19 rue Leon, 75018 Paris

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F- Restaurant Sidi Rached – 64 rue Myrha, Couscous or grills for 7€

E- Restaurant l’Etoile – 51 rue Myrha, Algerian food – menu from 7 to 10€

D- Yokoso – 1 rue Ramey, Japanese food – menu from 10 to 15 €

C- Navel – 4 rue de Suez, Indian restaurant – menu at 9 and 11€

B- Nsumbo Luyéyé – 3à rue de Laghouat, African restaurant – menu from 10 to 15€

A- Les 3 frères, 14 rue Léon, bar restaurant – french food and couscous for 7€

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D. Le Pré Verre, 8 Rue Thénard, Menu starting at 14,50€

C. Le Coupe Chou, 11 Rue de Lanneau, Menu starting at 14 €

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CONTACT LIST HOME FELLOWS

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