Le Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, chirurgien plasticien et reconstructeur britanno-palestinien a exercé comme chirurgien de guerre au Yémen, en Irak, en Syrie, dans le sud du Liban, ainsi qu'à Gaza.
4 CONFÉRENCES en ANGLAIS, en 3 LIEUX DIFFÉRENTS :
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• 16 janvier, 2025
, 17:00 – 19h00,
Salle 50, Building EHESS (Condorcet), 2 Cr des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers
Invité par: Stéphanie Latte Abdallah (CNRS/CéSor-EHESS) and Juliette Duclos-Valois (CéSor-EHESS), Seminar Vivant et écologies dans les crises et dans les guerres - Sociétés arabes et mondes musulmans contemporains ---
The Biosphere of Genocide
(La biosphère du génocide) Achille Mbembe defined a biosphere as "not only a physical, organic, geological or atmospheric reality…it is also interwoven with noumenal realities that lie at the source of existential meaning." In this lecture I argue that Israel has created a biosphere of genocide in Gaza, with the aim of perpetuating genocidal erasure well beyond any cessation of military action. I will explore the difference between war and genocide as a doctor who has experienced both and unpack the social, physical and biological components of this biosphere of genocide as seen in Gaza. I will show this biosphere contains within a web of conduits for injury and its implication for wars in the 21st Century.
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• 17 janvier 2025
, 14h30-16h30
salle J 536, bâtiment Jacob, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris.
Invité par Claire Beaudevin et Choukri Hmed, Séminaire au Centre de recherche médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société (Cermes3 et Philépol)
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Liberation Medicine and the Cure from Humanitarianism
(La médecine de la libération et l'alternative à l'humanitarisme). The year 2024 ended with the iconic photograph of Dr Hussam Abu-Safiyeh walking in his white coat amidst the rubble of Jabalya camp towards an Israeli tank. In this talk I chart the evolution of the role the medical profession played in anticolonial and anti-imperialist struggles. From Che Guevara's famous 'Revolutionary Doctor ' speech through the work of Franz Fanon in the Algerian liberation struggle and the role that the provision of healthcare played in the Palestinian liberation struggle from the 1960s to the first and second Intifadas and onto this genocidal war. I will try to show how Humanitarian medicine constituted an abandonment of the ideals of Liberation Medicine and became a tool of imperialist soft-power. I will explore the central role Liberation Medicine has played in Palestinian resistance to genoncidal necropolitics during the Gaza Genocide and the implications for Liberation Medicine as an idea.
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• 22 janvier 2025
de 14h à 17h
salle Paul-Albert Février, Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme (MMSH) 5 Rue Château de l'Horloge, 13090 Aix-en-Provence.
Invité par Tal Dor (IREMAM/AMU), Institut de recherches et d'études sur les mondes arabes et musulmans (CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université)
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Colonial Violence: A Reconstructive Surgery Perspective
(Violence coloniale : une perspective de la chirurgie reconstructive). As a Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon with over 25 years of experience of war surgery I will explore how colonial violence manifested itself differently from other forms of political violence in the wars that I have worked in from Palestine to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. I will try to show that settler colonial violence is fundamentally different from other forms of violence and thus has different characteristics. Using examples from the Israeli wars on Gaza, including this genocide; from the Marches of Return (Gaza 2018-2020) and the Pager attack in Lebanon (2024) I will explore the aims and characteristics of this violence as it manifested itself on the bodies of my patients and their wounds.
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• 24 janvier 2025
, de 14h30 à 16h30
Salle 50, Building EHESS (Condorcet), 2 Cr des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers
Invité par : Sadia Agsous-Bienstein & Véronique Bontemps, Séminaire "Penser l'expérience palestinienne à partir de Gaza : histoires, cultures, sociétés" (IISMM).
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Where Next: Zionism and Palestinian Liberation After the Genocide
(prochaine étape : le sionisme et la libération palestinienne après le génocide). Patrick Wolfe described the relationship between colonial settler projects and the indigenous population as that governed by the 'logic of elimination.' I will explore the future implications for Zionism as a settler colonial project of the genocide as the mode of 'elimination' of the indigenous Palestinian population and for the evolution of Palestinian liberation trying to chart a path after the war on Gaza.
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