On Tuesday, January 7th next, ARENAS Partner UDUS in Dusseldorf will host an afternoon of talks to commemorate the Charlie Hebdo shootings that took place 10 years ago. The speakers are:
Rolf Kailuweit, a professor at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, specialising in Romance Linguistics and a member of the ARENAS consortium. He holds a W3 Professorship in romance Linguistics (Spanish and French) at the university’s Institute for Romance Studies. His research interests include linguistics, media studies and the cultural aspects of Romance languages.
Wanignon AIDJINOU, a PhD student in the field of Information and Communication Sciences. He has worked on topics such as the media representation of collective tragedies, specifically focusing on the November 2015 terrorist attacks in France. Aidjinou has been involved in academic projects at institutions including the Université Grenoble Alpes and the Université du Québec à Montréal
Gérôme Truc, a sociologist and a research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), which is also a Partner organisation of the ARENAS project. He is associated with the Institute of Social Sciences of Politics (ISP) and the Centre for Research on Social Links (CERLIS). His work primarily focuses on the social reactions to terrorist attacks and the processes of memorialization in Western societies.
The event programme is available below, it will be conducted in French, and you are invited to join via this online link.
Programme
14:30 Welcome and Introduction
14:45-15:15 Rolf Kailuweit: After the Charlie Hebdo shootings – demonstration on 11 January 2015.
15:15-16:00 Wanignon Auidjinou: Commemorating Charlie Hebdo in the media coverage of the January 2015 terrorist attacks in France: a question of care for the victims and the construction of tutelary figures of resilience?
16:00-16:15 Coffee break / Pause café
16:15-17:00 Gérôme Truc: Solidarity too? A look back at the French working-class neighbourhoods put to the test by the attacks of January 2015.
