Conférencier plénierLeigh RAIFORD is Associate Professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also serves as affiliate faculty in the Program in American Studies, and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. She received her PhD from Yale University’s joint program in African American Studies and American Studies in 2003. Before arriving at UC-Berkeley in 2004, she was the Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson foundation, and the Hellman Family Foundation and has also been a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Raiford is the author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle (University of North Carolina Press, 2011), which was a finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Best Book Prize. She is co-editor with Heike Raphael-Hernandez of Migrating the Black Body: Visual Culture and the African Diaspora (University of Washington Press, forthcoming 2017) and with Renee Romano of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (University of Georgia Press, 2006). Her work has appeared in numerous academic journals, including American Quarterly, Small Axe, Qui Parle, History and Theory, English Language Notes and NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art; as well as popular venues including Aperture, Ms. Magazine, Atlantic.com and Al- Jazeera.com. Raiford’s essays have also been included in the collections Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, (Harry N. Abrams Press, 2003), a history of race and photography in the United States edited by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis; and Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity, (Duke, 2012), edited by Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith
Marie-Claire LAVABRE, titulaire d’un doctorat d’Etat en science politique (IEP de Paris, 1992), est directrice de recherche au CNRS. Depuis « Le fil rouge, sociologie de la mémoire communiste », paru en 1994 aux Presses de Sciences Po, ses recherches portent conjointement ou séparément sur la sociologie ou l’histoire du communisme d’une part, et sur le phénomène mémoriel, les usages politiques de l’histoire et les approches de la mémoire en sciences sociales, d’autre part. Elle a enseigné la sociologie de la mémoire à l’IEP de Paris, à l’EHESS et à l’étranger, notamment à la F-U de Berlin (en collaboration avec la Pr. Gesine Schwan), à Oxford (en collaboration avec le Pr. Robert Gildea), à Buenos-Aires et contribué aux écoles doctorales des universités de Varsovie, Sofia, Bucarest, Budapest, Belgrade et Sarajevo, Athènes. Elle anime depuis plusieurs années un groupe de travail sur la sociologie de la mémoire et un séminaire d’enseignement et de recherche commun à Sciences Po et à l’EHESS. Elle est directrice de l’ISP depuis 2010 et a été responsable scientifique du Labex « Les Passés dans le Présent » entre 2014 et 2016. |