One month after the cancellation of the convention on Palestine, unity stays fragile on the Collège de France | EUROtoday

After weeks of stress, the environment “calms down” on the Collège de France. The professor who expresses this impression prefers to precise herself anonymously and he or she isn’t the one one: on the entire, the folks interviewed chorus from commenting too brazenly on the unprecedented upheaval attributable to the cancellation of a convention on Palestine, scheduled for November 13 and 14. As if it have been a query of sustaining a unity, even fragile and crossed by disagreements, throughout the restricted circle of chair holders.

47 in quantity, these lecturers elected by their friends to show “knowledge in the process of being constituted” know that the affect of a five-century-old institution rests on their shoulders. Thomas Römer, its administrator, for his half, withdrew from a gathering agreed with The World, preferring to postpone it till a time when “Things will have calmed down a little”. “Things”, in different phrases the indignation raised by the convention, then by its deprogramming.

Entitled “Palestine and Europe: weight of the past and contemporary dynamics”, this set of conferences was co-organized by Henry Laurens, holder of the chair of Contemporary History of the Arab World, on the Collège de France, and by the Arab Center for Research and Political Studies (Carep), which finally hosted the symposium in its Parisian premises. On the menu, specialists within the historical past of the Middle East, French and overseas, but in addition public figures resembling former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin (2005-2007) and Francesca Albanese, United Nations particular rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.

Lack of collegiality

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