MECAM SPECTRUM Event week: Voices and Encounters: From the Margins Inwards

The Merian Center for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) is pleased to invite you to its event week, themed “Voices and Encounters: From the Margins Inwards”, taking place from 15 to 17 April 2025 in Tunis. This week-long series of events, organized collaboratively by MECAM fellows, aligns with MECAM’s guiding theme: “Dealing with Disparities, Imagining Futures.”

The Event Week will bring together talks and workshops to explore key issues such as food, economics, literature, and the arts in the Maghreb. By addressing these themes, the events aim to foster a dialogue that examines the socio-political and cultural dimensions of the region, emphasizing the responsibilities and positionalities of researchers in engaging with inequalities and imagining futures.

Discussions will delve into the intellectual and historical contexts of Arab Renaissance and modernization, offering a framework to rethink how North African and Arab experiences are analyzed. Further conversations will examine cultural productions through the lens of haunting and horror, exploring literature and film to highlight how collective visions of freedom and independence continue to evolve in the postcolonial, post-Arab Spring Maghreb. The voices of marginalized groups, including women and Jewish communities, will provide additional perspectives to deepen the analysis.

The Event Week will also address material realities such as food, land, and economics, exploring socio-economic dynamics and potential tools for development in the region. A critical reflection on academic methodologies and publishing will close the discussions, emphasizing the roles and responsibilities of researchers in addressing these complex issues.

MECAM’s Event Week seeks to empower marginalized voices and foster authentic encounters that bridge divides, contributing to a vision of a more inclusive and equitable society and research landscape.

Venues:

• MECAM – Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (https://mecam.tn)
• Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis (https://www.fshst.rnu.tn)

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Venues

MECAM – Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (https://mecam.tn/)

  Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis (https://www.fshst.rnu.tn/)

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