Committee member Alexandre Gefen is co-organising (with Caroline D. Laurent, Denis Peschanski and Anne-Marie Picard) the colloquium on fictions of terrorism. The even will consider the way in which French society has been able to recapture, through narratives (testimonies or works of fiction), the terrorist attacks of 2015 and how this narrative engagement with the attacks compare to the post-9/11 United States.

The colloquium will take place on November 15-17, 2023 at the American University of Paris and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Deadline for proposing papers: 1 March 2023. Further details can be found here.