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Date & Time: Friday, October 7; 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM Location: East Gallery, Buell Hall at Columbia University (main campus entrance at Broadway and 116th St.)

Over the past two centuries, North Africa has been transformed by momentous economic and political change as well as mass migrations. This one-day interdisciplinary conference will address how these developments have shaped conceptions of population and territory and, in turn, personal and collective identities in the 19th and 20th centuries. It will also reflect on the importance historians have recently accorded to processes of categorization and classification as essential to colonial domination.

Participants: Madeleine Dobie, Columbia University; Sarah Ghabrial, Columbia University; Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University; Gregory Mann, Columbia University; M’hamed Oualdi, Princeton University; Emmanuelle Saada, Columbia University; Joshua Schreier, Vassar College; Jennifer Sessions, University of Iowa; Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University; Judith Surkis, Rutgers University; Sylvie Thénault, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; and Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale University.

Co-sponsors: Columbia University Maison Française; Department of History; Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies; Middle East Institute; Institute of African Studies; Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality; and Institute for the Study of Social Difference.