Middle East

France

Dr.

IREMAM, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France

iris.seri-hersch@univ-amu.fr

Sudan
Palestine
Israel
British Empire

Modern History of the Middle East & Africa
Imperial & Colonial Studies
History of Education
Textbook Research, History Didactics
Migrations
Spatial & Environmental History
Sovereignty, Rights, Citizenship
Oral History & Social Memory

With Didier Guignard (eds.), Spatial Appropriations in Modern Empires, 1820-1960: Beyond Dispossession. New Castle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, 361 p.

With Didier Guignard, “Introduction: Relocating Histories of Empires, 19th-20th Centuries”, in Guignard Didier and Seri-Hersch Iris (eds.), Spatial Appropriations in Modern Empires, 1820-1960: Beyond Dispossession. New Castle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, p. 1-22.

“Arabes des vallées (ʿarab al-ghawārneh)”, in Cerutti Simona et al. (eds.), L’abécédaire augmenté des citoyennetés en Méditerranée (XVIe-XXIe s.). Aix-en-Provence: Hypotheses / Editions de la MMSH, 2019.

“Civilising Teachers, Modernising the Sudanese: Colonial Education and 'Character Training' in Postwar Sudan, 1945-1953”, in Mayeur-Jaouen Catherine (ed.), Adab and Modernity: A “Civilising Process ? (16th-21st Century). Leiden: Brill (forthcoming, December 2019).

Enseigner l’histoire à l’heure de l’ébranlement colonial. Soudan, Egypte, empire britannique (1943-1960). Paris: Karthala-IISMM, 2018, 382 p.

“Jean-Pierre Filiu, Histoire de Gaza. Paris, Fayard, 2012, 436 p. (compte-rendu)”, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 2017/4, p. 1246-1248.

“Et si la rupture didactique précédait l’indépendance politique ? Revisiter la chronologie du Soudan contemporain au prisme de l’histoire enseignée à ses écoliers (1900-1970)”, Histoire de l’éducation, Vol. 148, 2017, p. 119-142.

“Collaborating on Unequal Terms: Cross-Cultural Cooperation and Educational Work in Colonial Sudan, 1934-1956”, in Bührer Tanja et al. (eds.), Cooperation and Empire: Local Realities of Global Processes. Oxford: Berghahn, 2017, p. 292-322.

“Migrations, mémoire sociale et temporalités à Jisr al-Zarqāʾ : enquête sur l’histoire d’un village arabe israélien assiégé”, in Baby-Collin Virginie et al. (eds.), Migrations et temporalités en Méditerranée. Les migrations à l’épreuve du temps (XIXe-XXIe siècle). Paris: Karthala & Aix-en-Provence: MMSH, 2017, p. 355-371.

“Palestine/Israël : une démographie bouleversée, une terre disputée”, in Chiffoleau Sylvia et al., Le Moyen-Orient, 1876-1980. Paris: Atlande, Clefs concours – Histoire contemporaine, 2017, p. 434-437.

“Education in Colonial Sudan, 1900-1957”, in Spear Thomas (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of African History, February 2017. http://africanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-12

“Gonzalez Gonzalez Irene, Spanish Education in Morocco, 1912-1956: Cultural Interactions in a Colonial Context. Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2015 (compte-rendu)”, Histoire de l’éducation, no. 144, 2015, p. 136-140. https://histoire-education.revues.org/3106

With Heather J. Sharkey and Elena Vezzadini. “Rethinking Sudan Studies: A Post-2011 Manifesto”, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 49(1), 2015, p. 1-18.

“Que sont les ‘études soudanaises’ après l’éclatement du cadre national soudanais ? Repenser les rapports entre bouleversements politiques et pratiques académiques”, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 49(1), 2015, p. 19-37.

“Between Ideological Security and Intellectual Plurality: Colonialism and Globalization in Northern Sudanese Educational Discourses”, in Casciarri Barbarba, Munzoul Assal and François Ireton (eds.), Multidimensional Change in the Republic of Sudan (1989-2011): Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts, and Identities. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, p. 302-319.

“Sudan and the British Empire in the Era of Colonial Dismantlement (1946-1956): History Teaching in Comparative Perspective”, in Ali Souad T. et al. (eds.), The Road to the Two Sudans. New Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, p. 177-219.

“Ben-Ze'ev Efrat, Remembering Palestine in 1948: Beyond National Narratives. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, xiv + 243 p. (review)”, Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, no. 134, 2013. http://remmm.revues.org/7949

“Vers une (re)dynamisation des études soudanaises en France”, Afrique contemporaine, Vol. 246, 2013, p. 114-115.

““Modernity in the Historiography of Sudan: Conventional Uses of a Nebulous Concept?”, Cahiers d'Études africaines, Vol. 208, 2012, p. 905-935.
http://www.cairn-int.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=E_CEA_208_0905

“Towards Social Progress and Post-Imperial Modernity? Colonial Politics of Literacy in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1946-1956”, History of Education, Vol. 40(3), 2011, p. 333-356.

“The Mahdiyya Movement in Sudan”, in Andrea Alfred J. (ed.), World History Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara (Calif.): ABC-CLIO, 2011, vol. 16, p. 882-883.

“Did Friends and Enemies Change Upon Decolonization? A Sudanese History Handbook for Elementary Schools, 1949-1958”, in Djurovic Arsen and Eva Matthes (eds.), Freund- und Feindbilder in Schulbüchern / Concepts of Friends and Enemies in Schoolbooks. Beiträge zur historischen und systematischen Schulbuchforschung. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt Verlag, 2010, p. 217-229.

“ʻTransborder’ Exchanges of People, Things and Representations: Revisiting the Conflict between Mahdist Sudan and Christian Ethiopia, 1885-1889”, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 43(1), 2010, p. 1-26.

“Nationalisme, impérialisme et pratiques patrimoniales : le cas de la Mahdiyya dans le Soudan post-mahdiste”, Egypte / Monde arabe: Pratiques du patrimoine en Egypte et au Soudan (Cairo, CEDEJ) n° 5-6, 3e série, 2009, p. 329-354. http://ema.revues.org/index2906.html

“Confronting a Christian Neighbor: Sudanese Representations of Ethiopia in the Early Mahdist Period, 1885-89”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 41(2), 2009, p. 247-267.