Curriculum Vitae Karène SANCHEZ SUMMERER
Leiden University March 2021 Faculty of Humanities, LUCL P O Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands
[email protected] +31 71 5272175 +31 71 5232040 Office: Reuven 1.28 https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/karene-sanchez#tab-1 https://crossroadsproject.net
Born: March 22, 1975 (Perpignan, France); French Married, 2 children
______Current Position
June 2018 - Associate Professor (UhD), Leiden University, The Netherlands
______Previous Positions
Sept 09- May 18 Assistant Professor (UD), Leiden University, The Netherlands Sept. 05- Sept 09 Assistant Professor, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Nov. 06- Sept 08 Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Feb. 03 – June 06 Lecturer and Faculty Mentor, Academic cooperation, Consulat Général de France à Jérusalem
______Research projects and Grants
Research projects Dec. 2017- Dec. 2022: PI VIDI project, NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), ‘European cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history during the formative years of the Middle East (1918-1948)’
2020-2021: partner of the Digital Humanities project 2020-2021, Archives of French as a Foreign Language, CollEX-Persée CLIODIFLE 1919-1985, Des institutions des enseignants, des étudiants. Une contribution à l’histoire de la francophonie ; consortium between the universities of Paris 3 Sorbonne, Tours, Rouen, Athens Capodistrian University, Leiden University (LUCL),
1 Kings’ College London (School of Education, Communication and Society), Università del Sacro Cuore Milan, University of Geneva (Maison des langues), SIHFLES and FIPF.
2018: PI Stichting Van Moorsel en Rijnierse project, NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), ‘Between the Holy Land and the World. A connected history of Christian communities in the Near East via the unpublished Franciscan and Dominican photographic collections (1900-1948)’
2017-2021: Co-PI, international project MisSMO ‘Christian missions and societies in the Middle East: organizations, identities, heritagization; XIXth-XXIth centuries’ (in cooperation with EFR Rome Ecole française, IFEA Istanbul Institut français d’Etudes anatoliennes, IFAO Cairo Institut français d’archéologie orientale, IFPO Amman Institut français du Proche-Orient, FSCIRE Bologna Fondazione per le Science Religiose Giovanni XXIII)
2015-2018: PI NWO Internationalization in the Humanities project (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), ‘Engaging Europe in the Arab World: European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970)’ (in cooperation with IEG Mainz Leibniz Institute of European History and IISMM Paris Institute for the Studies of Islam et Muslim Societies)
2012-2017: Co-applicant and Post-doc, NWO Open Competition project ‘Arabic and its alternatives. Religion and Language Change in the Formative Years of the Modern Middle East (1920-1950)’ (with Prof. dr. H. Murre-van den Berg)
2012-2014: Participant in the Research project and network (UK, AHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council) ‘Towards a History of Modern Language Teaching and Learning’, specialization: European missionaries in the Levant
2008-2011: Participant in the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche) International project ‘Archiver: les pratiques historiographiques dans le Moyen-Orient contemporain. Faiseurs d’histoire, faiseurs d’archives’ (LAU-IIAC, UMR 8177, CNRS-EHESS-Culture)
2009: Participant in the project Fonds d’Alembert (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) ‘Etudes palestiniennes en France’
2006-2008: Main applicant of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs archival project, (Archivistes sans frontières- section France), ‘Archives de l’enseignement du français en Palestine’
2003-2006: Project of academic cooperation of FFL (French as Foreign Language) and history of French in the Levant ‘New archives and preservation of francophone heritage of the Ottoman and British Palestine’, French Ministry of Education and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Awards & Grants Digital Humanities Grant Leiden University (dr. S. Zananiri), ‘Mapping the Mandate’ (February 2020)
Conference Grant NINO (The Netherlands Institute for Near East studies, December 2019)
Aspasia Grant, NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, June 2018)
EFR Scholar in residence at the EFR (Ecole française de Rome); senior researcher fellowship (April- July 2019)
2 Research Fellow/ Associate at the IFPO (Institut français du Proche Orient) Jerusalem/ Beyrouth and at the Kenyon Institute (2018-2022)
LUCIS (Leiden University Centre for Islamic Studies), Visiting Fellow Grant (May 2016)
Fellowship ‘Senior Researcher’, IEG (Leibniz Institute of European History), Universität Mainz (February 2015)
NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) Aspasia Grant (Intern LUCL/ LIAS Leiden Institute for Areas Studies call; September 2015)
Huizinga Institute for Cultural History conference grant (June 2015)
LUF (Leiden University Fund) conference grants (2009 and 2015)
LUCL conference grants (2009, 2011, 2015)
LUCL (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) field trips grants (2010, 2011, 2012), Jerusalem, Rome, London
RFN (Réseau franco-néerlandais; FR-NL Research institutes cooperation) conference grant (June 2015)
Department of Academic cooperation, French Embassy in the Netherlands, conference grants (November 2012 and June 2015)
SIHFLES (Société internationale pour l’histoire du français langue étrangère et seconde) conference grants (December 2009 and June 2015)
Honours & Awards, Teaching Course Development Grant- Program in Francophone history in the Arab world, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, 2016-2017 Leiden Top Teachers, 2015 Nominee for the University Teaching price (3 nominees), Leiden University, February 2014 Nominee for the Faculty of Humanities Teaching price (2 nominees), Leiden University, September 2014 Gratification Reward (best employee), Gerard Tuning Institute, Leiden University, February 2006
PhDs and Post docs supervision
Post docs supervision K. Papastathis (September 2018- August 2022), ‘Between Athens and Constantinople, the Greek Orthodox community in Palestine (1920-1950)’
S. Zananiri (September 2018- April 2022), ‘Between the Holy Land and the Mediterranean: the Arab Orthodox community of Palestine’
3 C. Nassif (September 2018- August 2019), ‘Between the Holy Land and the World: the Melkite community of Palestine (1920-1950)’
S. Irving (Oct-Dec. 2019), ‘Linguistic and cultural policies in Ottoman/ British Mandate Palestine (1900-1948): the non-elites’ sources’
C. Rubio (Feb-April 2020), ‘Arabic, French and the national dilemma in Mandate Palestine and the first years of the Israel State’
S. Agsous-Bienstein (January-May 2021), ‚Pre-1948 archives, Palestinian cultural agents and Khalil Sakakini educational projects’
PhD supervision
PhD co-supervisor with Prof. dr. M. Kossmann (Sept. 2019- Sept. 2023), CSC-Leiden University scholarship, Kefan Bao, ‘The Construction of Identity by Linguistic References in the Arab World: A Comparative Study of Language Ideology and Practice between Berbers in Maghreb and Maronites in Levant’
PhD co-supervisor with Prof. dr. Jörg Seiler (January 2017- January 2022), Bernhard Kronegger, ‚The Catholic Church in Palestine. International Politics, Interreligious Relations and Internal Struggles in the Interwar Period (1918-1939)’, Universität Erfurt, Germany
PhD co-supervisor with Prof. dr. H Murre van den Berg, Tijmen Baarda, ‘Arabic and Aramaic in Iraq. Language and Christian Commitment to the Arab Nationalist Project (1910-1950)’, defended 8 January 2020 (Leiden University)
PhD co-supervisor with Prof. dr. H Murre van den Berg, Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, ‘Baghdadi Jewish Networks in Hashemite Irak: Jewish Transnationalism in the Age of Nationalism’, supervisor: Prof. dr. H. Murre-van den Berg and Prof. dr. Daniel Schroeter (Michigan University), defended 10th January 2019 (Leiden University)
PhD Approval committees
PhD External advisor and Approval committee (member of the Comité de suivi) (April 2018- June 2022) for Julien Blanc, University of Marne La Vallée, ‘L’Oeuvre Notre Dame de Sion à Jérusalem. Histoire et développement d’une congrégation religieuse catholique française en terre d’islam dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle’, Supervisor: dr. V. Lemire (CRFJ/ CNRS and Marne la Vallée University
PhD Approval Committee and Defense Committee for Marcella Probert, ‘From healing and protective remedies to the Tawfiq Canaan Collection of Palestinian Amulets. Exploring the life and agency of amulets in 20th-century Palestine’, supervisors: Prof. dr. P. Sijpesteijn (Leiden University) and Prof. dr. Salim Tamari (Georgetown University)
PhD Approval Committee and Defense Committee for Anais Massot, ‘Socio-Political Changes, Confessionalization, and Inter-Confessional Relations in Ottoman Damascus from 1760-1860’, supervisors: Prof. dr. E.J. Zürcher, dr. Tsolin Nalbatian (Leiden University) and Prof. B. Heyberger (EHESS/ EPHE), Defense: 26 January 2021 (Leiden University) and 9 February 2021 (EPHE Sorbonne)
PhD Approval Committee and Defense Committee for Özge Calafato, ‘Posing for the Republic: Identity and Modernity in Turkish Vernacular Photographs from the 1920s and 1930s’, supervisors: Prof. dr. Prof. dr. Esther Peeren and Prof. dr. Luiza Bialasiewicz (UvA Amsterdam University), 25 November 2020 (UvA)
4 PhD Approval Committee and Defense Committee for Stylianos Irakleous, ‘Atalialu Serapheim and the Turkophone Orthodox Christians of Anatolia: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Turkish Texts in the Greek Alphabet (Karamanlidika)’, supervised by Prof. dr. H. Murre-van den Berg (Radboud University Nijmegen, h.t. Leiden) and dr. M. Kappler (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy), defended 6th February 2020 (Leiden University)
PhD Approval Committee and Defense Committee for Gulnaz Sibgatulllina, Leiden University, LUCL, ‘Languages of Islam and Christianity in post-Soviet Russia. Institutional discourses, community strategies and missionary rhetoric’ (2014-2019), supervised by Prof. dr. J. Schaeken (Leiden University) and Prof. dr. M. Kemper (University of Amsterdam) defended 20th February 2019 (Leiden university)
PhD Approval and Defense Committee (‘Rapporteur’) for Clementine Rubio, University of Tours, Supervisor: Prof. dr. D. de Robillard ‘Une langue en mission Histoire des politiques linguistiques et didactiques françaises en Palestine’ (2014-2018), defended 12th June 2018 (Tours University)
PhD Defense Committee for Cai Xiang-yu, University of Leiden, ‘Christianity and Gender in South-East China: The Chaozhou missions (1849-1949)’, Supervisors: Prof. dr. H.L. Murre-van den Berg and Prof. dr. J.L. Blussé van Oud-Albas (Leiden University)
Doctoral seminars/ schools
PhD school co-organizer, MisSMO consortium project ‘Christian missions and societies in the Middle East: organizations, identities, heritagization (XIXth-XXIth centuries)’, Renouveaux des sources et méthodes pour l’étude du phénomène missionnaire, 15 Phds students, 3-6 June 2019, ‘Écrire l’histoire des missions orientales à partir des archives romaines. Centralisation, classification, conservation ?’, École française de Rome
PhD school co-organizer, MisSMO consortium project ‘Christian missions and societies in the Middle East: organizations, identities, heritagization (XIXth-XXIth centuries)’, Renouveaux des sources et méthodes pour l’étude du phénomène missionnaire, 15 Phds students, 3-6 September 2019, ‘Ethnographies, reportage scientifique et études des sources missionnaires : vers une pluralité des méthodes’, IFAO, Cairo
PhD seminar INALCO School of Oriental languages and cultures (June 2014)
PhD seminar Warwick University (June 2013)
______University Management Functions
- Advisory Board LUCL Research Institute Advisory Board, member (June 2017 – June 2021)
- Master Linguistics LUCL Board of the Master Program, member (September 2017- December 2019)
- Opleiding Commissie Department Council, president (November 2020- ) Department Council, member (May 2014 - June 2021)
- NIMAR (The Netherlands Institute in Morocco, Rabat) Coordinator for the French language and culture Department, the Honours classes seminars of the Faculty of Humanities (of Leiden University, ‘A Francophone Maghreb?’) and the study trips at the NIMAR (2017-2022)
5 - ERASMUS + program, with Rabat University Mohamed V (2017-2020), spokesperson
- ERASMUS program, spokesperson with International Office, Leiden University, for partnerships with French Universities since 2012
- Excellence Scholarship ‘Bourses Descartes’, Selection Committee member Ambassade de France aux Pays-Bas, May 2018
- Ecole française de Rome, Board of Examiners for candidates to Assistant Professorships (May 2019)
- Dutch Humanities Faculties Dutch Humanities Faculties’ committee ‘Perspectives on Humanities in the Netherlands’ (June 2014), member of the Leiden University board
- Academic Francophony Agency (Agence Universitaire pour la Francophonie) ‘Academic Francophony perspectives’ (5-6 September 2019), Paris, AUP
______Knowledge diffusion and Digital Humanities
- Kenniscentrum Frankrijk-Nederland September 2016, Annual conference ‘Francofonie : kansen voor onderwijs en onderzoek’ Paper: 'Francophonie et monde arabe: butin de guerre, alterlangue, dialogue difficile'
- House of Wisdom October 2016, Paper: ‘To serve God and love France or the Palestinian Nation? Catholics of the Holy Land, Muslim and Jewish communities (1918-1948)’
- Spui 25 Academisch-cultureel centrum Amsterdam 12 January 2017 ‘European cultural foreign policy: past, present and future’, book launch, series Languages and Culture in History, Amsterdam University Press, vol. 3 ‘The Foreign linguistic and cultural policies of the European States (XVIIIth-XXth centuries)’
- Holland Media Combinatie- Leidsch Dagblad 30 June 2017 ‘Flaneurism- Like a Dandy in Jerusalem’ (Flaneren als een dandy in Jeruzalem), https://www.leidschdagblad.nl/cnt/dmf20180926_36241065/flaneren-als-een-dandy-in- jeruzalem?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic
- The Nederlands Fotogenootschap 10 December 2018, Together with Leiden University Libraries (UBL), the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO), ‘Holy Land’ and Modernity: the Frank Scholten Collection in Context’
- RMO Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden (Museum of Antiquities) 28 March 2019, ‘Cultural diplomacy and archaeology in Palestine, 1918-1948’
- LUCIS ‘Global Aesthetics in the MENA region’ 16 October 2019, Salim Tamari, ‘Flanneurism, Spectacle and Modernity in the Photographic albums of Wassif Jawhariyyeh’ 16 October 2019 Sarah Irving (Linnaeus U., Sweden and Leiden U.), ‘Orienting the Tour.’ Writing back’ in Palestinian travel guides’ 17 October 2019, Round table ‘This transnational paradise- Revisiting Photography and transnational circulation in British Mandate Palestine’, with Özge Calafato (NYU), Stephen Sheehi (Queen Mary College), Mark Westmoreland (Leiden University), Yazan Qupty (National Geographic), Sary Zananiri (Leiden University)
6 - Middle East Culture market (RMO - Museum of Antiquities) and LUCIS (Leiden University Centre for the study of Islam), 30 November-1st December 2019
- Exhibition RMO (Museum of Antiquities), April – November 2020 ‘Photography and Archaeology in British Mandate Palestine. Franck Scholten, a Dutch Vision of the Holy Land’
- Documentary ‘Franck Scholten, Photographing Palestine’ (10 mn), realisation: Maartje Alders; web link: https://vimeo.com/453255694; presented at RMO (Museum of Antiquities); NINO (the Netherlands Institute for the Near East); Dutch Institute in Cairo (November 2021).
- Public Round table RMO (Museum of Antiquities) 4 June 2020 (postponed due to COVID 19 to 3 June 2022), ‘The Multilingual Holy land’, Franck Scholten multiple editions La Palestine illustrée (Sary Zananiri), and Arabic texbooks from the interwar period, with Rachel Mairs (Reading UK), Sarah Irving (Edge Hill, UK), Micaela Sahar (AU)
- Public Round table RMO (Museum of Antiquities) 5 June 2020 (postponed due to COVID 19 to 2 June 2022), ‘New industries in Ancient Lands: Archaeology and Tourism at the crossroads’, with Sary Zananiri (Leiden), Jasmin Daam. The Holy Land Museum Foundation history ‘Holland and the Holy Land, the Holy Land in Holland’, with Willy Jansen (Nijmegen)
- Leiden University Library, book presentation and debate (with Cyrus Schayegh, Graduate Institute Geneva) Yair Wallach, ‘Graffiti, street names and visiting cards: the fractured history of Arabic and Hebrew urban textuality in modern Jerusalem’, 4 June 2020.
- Digital Humanities project 2020 (Leiden University), Mapping the Mandate (PI S. Zananiri)
- Digital Humanities project 2020-2021, Archives of French as a Foreign Language, CollEX- Persée CLIODIFLE 1919-1985, Des institutions des enseignants, des étudiants. Une contribution à l’histoire de la francophonie ; consortium between the universities of Paris 3 Sorbonne, Tours, Rouen, Athens Capodistrian University, Leiden University (LUCL), Kings’ College London (School of Education, Communication and Society), Università del Sacro Cuore Milan, University of Geneva (Maison des langues), SIHFLES and FIPF.
- LUCIS blog (Leiden Islam blog), ‘Christian missions and Humanitarianism, Ideologies, Rhetoric and Practices (1850-1950)’, www.leidenislamblog https://leidenislamblog.nl/articles/christian- missions-and-humanitarianism-in-the-middle-east-from-1850-to-1950
- Podcast, RCF Radio, February 2021, ‘Catholiques de Terre sainte 1918-1948’, https://rcf.fr/actualite/societe/presence-chretienne-en-terre-sainte-dans-l-entre-deux-guerres
- Interview Terre sainte magazine, January- February 2021, ‘Ce que les Français savaient de la Terre sainte’, https://www.terresainte.net/2020/12/terre-sainte-n-1-2021-sommaire/
- Book presentation, Bethlehem University, Europeans’ Cultural diplomacy and Arab Christianity in Mandate Palestine. Between Contention and Connection (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), 11/03/2021, https://www.bethlehem.edu/news/2021/03/european-cultural-diplomacy- book/
- Book presentation, Bologna University, Europeans’ Cultural diplomacy and Arab Christianity in Mandate Palestine. Between Contention and Connection (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), 10/05/2021,
- Special issue presentation and discussion, CRLV Council for British Research in the Levant, 19/05/2021, Contemporary Levant, special issue, ‘Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine
7 and European cultural diplomacy (1860-1948). A connected history’, vol.6, issue 1, March 2021.
______International Professional affiliations
General Secretary (2009-2018) of the SIHFLES (Société internationale pour l’histoire de français langue étrangère et seconde), Vice-President (2018-2021; European partners) CME (Christians of the Middle East) GRIEM (Groupe interdisciplinaire sur les écrits missionnaires) HoLLT (History of Language Learning and Teaching) LUCIS (Leiden University Centre for Islamic Studies) MESA (Middle East Studies Association) MISSMO (Christian Missions and Societies in the Middle East) NISIS (Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies) SIHFLES (Société internationale pour l’histoire de français langue étrangère et seconde)
______Scientific and Steering Committees
History of language teaching research and theorization:1945-2015 26-28 May 2021, International conference inert associations of the history of language learning and teaching, APHELLE, CIRSIL, HSS, SEHL and SIHFLES
MisSMO consortium project (Christian missions and societies in the Middle East XIX-XXth centuries), ‘Faire mission’. Implantations, prosélytisme et identités confessionnelles au Moyen- Orient (XXe siècle), EFR Rome, 1-2 October 2020 (scientific and organizing committee)
Paris-Sorbonne/ DILTEC and SIHFLES, ‘Centenaire de l’École de préparation des professeurs de français à l’étranger (EPPFE): 1920-2020. Une histoire parisienne et globale des institutions du français langue étrangère’, 15-16 October 2020 (scientific committee)
Leiden University, ‘Vocabularies of Tourism. Language, Photography and Tourism in Palestine (1898-1948)’, 4-5 June 2020, VIDI NWO and Aspasia projects European cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history during the formative years of the Middle East (1918-1948), (organizer)
Thessaloniki University, ‘European cultural diplomacy and Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine. A connected history in Late Ottoman times and the British Mandate’, 14-15 May 2020, VIDI NWO project European cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history during the formative years of the Middle East (1918-1948), (organizer)
Leiden University, ‘Imaging and Imagining Palestine- Photography and social history of Palestine during the British Mandate (1918-1948)’, 16-18 October 2019, VIDI NWO project European cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history during the formative years of the Middle East (1918-1948), (organizer)
8 Joint conference of APHELLE, CIRSIL, Henry Sweet Society and SIHFLES, University of Granada (Spain), The Direct Method in Language Teaching, an historical approach, 16–17 May 2019 (scientific committee)
Leiden University, ‘European cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history during the formative years of the Middle East (1918-1948)’, 27-29 March 2019, VIDI NWO project (organizer)
Leiden University, ‘Cultural diplomacy revisited’, 13-14 September 2018, VIDI NWO project European cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history during the formative years of the Middle East (1918-1948), (organizer)
University of Galatasary and Institut Francais d’Etudes anatoliennes (Istanbul), October 2018, MisSMO consortium project (Christian missions and societies in the Middle East XIX-XXth centuries), ‘Missionnaires en qualité d’experts : réseaux religieux, connaissance de terrain et action publique au Moyen-Orient (19e-21e siècle)’ (member of the scientific committee)
University of Mons (Belgium), 17-18 May 2018, ‘The exercise in the history of language teaching’ SIHFLES (member of the scientific committee)
NIMAR and University of Mohamed V Rabat, 26-27 April 2018, Migrations: Contexts and Representations here and elsewhere, panel ‘Languages and culture’ (organisation committee and co-organizer of the panel)
Ecole française de Rome, December 2017, MisSMO consortium project (Christian missions and societies in the Middle East XIX-XXth centuries), ‘In partibus fidelium. Missions in the Levant and knowledge about the Christian Orient, XIX-XXth c.’, (member of the scientific committee; co-organizer)
University of Athens (Greece), 11-13 May 2017, ‘La culture dans l’enseignement du français langue étrangère : conceptions théoriques, programmes et manuels aux XIX et XXe siècles’ (member of the scientific committee)
University of Algarve (Portugal), 2-3 July 2016, ‘Pedagogic innovations in foreign language teaching/ Innovations pédagogiques dans l’enseignement des langues étrangères’ (member of the scientific committee)
Leiden University, 15-17 June 2016, ‘Arabic and its Alternatives: Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging Nation states of the Middle East (1920-1950)’ (NWO Open Competition project 2012-2017)
Leiden University, 14-15 April 2016, ‘Missionaries and their apostolate, towards a humanitarisation?’ (organizer), first workshop of the NWO internationalisation project (2015- 2018), ‘Engaging Europe in the Arab World: European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970)’
Leiden University, 25-27 June 2015, ‘The Foreign linguistic and cultural policies of the European States (XVIIIth-XXth centuries)/ Les politiques linguistiques et culturelles extérieures des Etats européens (XVIIIe-XXe siècles)’ (member of the scientific and steering committees)
Leiden University, April 2015, ‘Arabic and its alternatives’ workshop, Prof. Peter Sluglett (co- organizer)
SIHFLES (Société internationale pour l’histoire du français langue étrangère et seconde) and INRP, November 2014 (Paris), Se former à enseigner à l’étranger dans les espaces francophones- réseaux religieux, réseaux laiques (member of the scientific committee)
9 SOAS (School of Oriental studies)/ INALCO (Institut national des Langues et cultures orientales), 12-15 June 2014 (Paris), Language and ideology in language teaching and learning (member of the scientific committee)
Leiden University, April 2014, ‘Arabic and its alternatives’ workshop, Prof. Yasir Suleiman, ‘Language, religion and identity in Palestine/ Israel’ (co-organizer)
Leiden University, September 2013, ‘Common Ground, Jews and Christians in the modern Middle East’, NWO and LUCIS (Leiden University Centre for the study of Islam en Society) (co- organizer)
IEG (Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany), July 2013, Workshop ‘Humanitarism and missions in the Middle East’ (co-organizer)
SIHFLES/ Institut français des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, November 2012, ‘Histoire de l’enseignement du français aux Pays-Bas : diffusion, didactique, enjeux culturels’ (co-organizer and member of the scientific committee)
GMF (Gesamtverband Moderne Fremdsprachen), Essen (Germany), September 2012, ‘Français, allemand et anglais, trois langues rivales entre 1850 et 1945’ (member of the scientific committee)
Leiden University, December 2009, ‘La langue française et les catholiques du Levant: une langue des minorités devenue minoritaire (1870- 1960)? (member of the scientific and steering committee)
______Edition, Evaluations and Reviews
AUP (Amsterdam University Press), Languages and Culture in History, co-editor with Prof. Willem Frijhoff
DHFLES Documents pour l’histoire du français langue étrangère et seconde (Scientific Board)
ESF European Science Foundation (2018-2021), College of Expert reviewers; ERC European Research Council, St Grants
IEG Leibniz Institute of European History, Post doc applications
Ecole française de Rome (Spring 2019), Member of the Committee for the oral interviews for Assistant Professorships applications
Peer reviewer: Annales islamologiques, Les Cahiers d’EMAM (Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et la Méditerranée), DHFLES Documents pour l’histoire du français langue étrangère et seconde, Handbook on Language contact (De Gruyter), Language and History, RELIEF (Revue électronique de littérature française)
Brill, Leiden, Theology and World Christianity, ICT Missionary archives digitalization project, consultant
10 ______Language proficiency
French native speaker English Advanced Catalan Intermediate Dutch Intermediate German Advanced Italian Advanced Spanish Intermediate Arabic Colloquial: advanced level (Syrian Lebanese Palestinian) Classical: intermediate level (D. École Biblique et Archéologique, Jerusalem) and DULCO 2 (Diplôme Universitaire de Langue et civilisation orientales), INALCO, Paris Hebrew Advanced level Modern Hebrew (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002-2004) Latin University, BA History- minor Classical Languages and cultures
______Publications
Books Forthcoming
12. Neveu N., Sanchez Summerer K.,Turiano, A., Missions and Preaching: Comparing and de-compartmentalizing the study of the missionary phenomenon (Middle East – North Africa- 19th-20th centuries) (Brill, LSIS series, 2021).
11. Girard, A. & Kontouma, V. & Sanchez Summerer, K. & Santus C., Middle Eastern Christianity and Catholic Europe. Connected Histories (16th-20th c.), (Edinburg University Press, 2021).
10. Irving S., Nassif C. and Sanchez Summerer, K., ‘The House of the Priest’: a Palestinian life (1885-1954) (Brill, Christian and Jews in Muslim Societies, 2021)
9. Bourmaud, P., Gabry S., Levant M., Neveu N., Sanchez Summerer K., In Partibus Fidelium. Missions in the Levant and understanding the Christian East, XIX-XXth c., EFR, 2021.
8. Sanchez Summerer, K., French in the Holy Land. Language, Education and Diplomacy in Palestine (1918-1948), Amsterdam University Press (LCH series, 2021).
Published
7. Sanchez Summerer, K. and S. Zananiri, Imaging and Imagining Palestine- Photography, Modernity and the Biblical Lens (1918-1948) (Brill OJ series), ISBN 978-90-04-43793- 7 (print) 978-90-04-43794-4 (ebook), 2021, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437944
11 6. Sanchez Summerer, K. and S. Zananiri, Europeans’ Cultural diplomacy and Arab Christianity in Mandate Palestine. Between Contention and Connection (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), ISBN 978-3-030-55539-9 (print), 978-3-030-55540-5 (ebook), DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-55540-5; https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030- 55540-5
5. Sanchez Summerer, K. & Okkenhaug, I. M. (eds), Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1970: Ideologies, Rhetoric, and ‘Praxis’ (Brill LSIS series, 2020), 275p, ISBN 978-90-04-39466-7, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004434530
4. Sanchez Summerer K., Murre-van den Berg H. and Baarda T. (eds), Arabic and its alternatives: Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging nation states of the Middle East (1920-1950) (Brill, Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies, 2020), 319p, ISBN 978-90-04-38269-5, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004423220
3. Sanchez Summerer, K. and Frijhoff, W. (eds); Linguistic and cultural foreign policies of the European States 18th-20th centuries), Amsterdam University Press, series Languages and Culture in History, 2017, 204p. ISBN 978-94-6298-0600.
2. Sanchez Summerer, K., Frijhoff, W, Kok Escalle M.C.; Multilingualism, Nationhood & Cultural identity; Northern Europe 16th-19th Centuries, Amsterdam University Press, series Languages and Culture in History, 2017, 193p. ISBN 978-94-6298-061-7. 1. Sanchez, K.; Politiques, éducation et identités linguistiques; le Collège des Frères des écoles chrétiennes de Jérusalem (1922-1939), LOT 207, 2009, 405p. ISBN 978-90- 78328-84-1.
In preparation
Sanchez Summerer, K., Language and religion in the Holy Land- Catholics, Nationalism and Language challenges in Palestine (1918-1948) (IB Tauris, 2022).
Sanchez Summerer, K., A multilingual Holy Land, Amsterdam University Press, series Languages and Culture in History (2022).
Books chapters Forthcoming 12. Sanchez, K., ‘‘Between the Holy Land and the World'? The Catholic women missionaries in Palestine in a comparative perspective (1908-1948)’ in Les congrégations féminines missionnaires catholiques. Education care et humanitaire, une histoire transnationale (XIX-XX° siècles), edited by B. Dumons, Editions Viella, Rome (forthcoming).
11. Bourmaud, P., Gabry S., Levant M., Neveu N., Sanchez Summerer K., Introduction, In partibus fidelium. Missions in the Levant and understanding the Christian East, XIX-XXth c., EFR, 2021.
10. Sanchez Summerer, K. and Irving S.; ‘Orthodoxy and solidarity: Niqula Khoury’s journey to the League of Nations’ in Erik Freas (ed.) Christians of Palestine, an Anthology, Palgrave MacMillan (forthcoming).
Published
12 9. Sanchez Summerer, K. and Neveu N., “The Dominican Photographic Library in Jerusalem: Beyond a Catholic perception of the Holy Land?”, in Sanchez Summerer, K. and S. Zananiri, Imaging and Imagining Palestine- Photography, Modernity and the Biblical Lens (1918-1948) (Brill OJ series 3), 2021, p. 98-158, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437944
8. Sanchez Summerer, K.; ‘Missionnaires britanniques en Palestine, experts/ contre-experts du Mandat?’ in C. Verdeil, P. Bourmaud, N. Neveu (eds), Experts and Expertise in the League of Nations- Mandates: Figures, Fields, Tools (Presses de l’INALCO, 2020), p. 263-290, https://books.openedition.org/pressesinalco/38582
7. Sanchez, K.; ‘Entre négligence et secret. Entreprises archivistiques en Palestine’, in C. Jungen and J. Sfeir (eds), Archiver au Moyen-Orient, Paris, Karthala, collections de l’IISMM, 2019, p. 79-102.
6. Sanchez Summerer, K., Frijhoff, W, M.C. Kok Escalle.; ‘Multilingualism, Nationhood & Cultural identity; Northern Europe 16th-19th Centuries’, introduction ‘Languages and Culture in History- A New Series’, Amsterdam University Press, series Languages and Culture in History, 2017, p. 7-14.
5. Sanchez, K., ‘L’Archiconfrérie du Très Saint Enfant de Palestine ottomane et mandataire. Soutiens spirituels internationaux et locaux à la ‘croisade pour l’éducation religieuse de l’enfance et la jeunesse’, in C. Marin (ed.), Les soutiens spirituels aux missionnaires et à la mission XVIIe-XXe s, Karthala, Paris, Histoires des mondes chrétiens, 2016, p. 173- 196.
4. Sanchez, K.; ‘Preserving Catholics of the Holy Land or integrating them into the Palestine nation? Catholic communities, language, identity and public space in Jerusalem (1920- 1950)’, in Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East, H. Murre-van den Berg & S. Goldstein-Sabbah (eds), Brill, Leiden, 2016, p 121- 151. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004323285_006
3. Sanchez, K.; ‘Education, civilisation et religion pour la ‘régénération de la femme orientale’- L’enseignement du français pour jeunes chrétiennes, musulmanes et juives en Palestine ottomane et mandataire (1870-1939)’, in A.C. Santos (ed.), Mélanges en l’honneur de M.J. Saléma, APEF/ Le Manuscrit (forthcoming).
2. Sanchez, K.; Action sanitaire et éducative en Palestine ottomane et mandataire : missionnaires catholiques et anglicans, Missionnaires en Terre d’Islam Missionnaires en Terre d’Islam- Moyen-Orient Afrique du Nord (XVIIe-XXe siècles). Anthologie de textes missionnaires, C. Verdeil (ed.), Brepols, 2013, p. 231-282.
1. Sanchez, K.; Ouvrir les trésors de la charité aux enfants dévoyés d’Abraham - L’action éducative des sœurs de Sion en Palestine ottomane et mandataire (1860-1948), in J. Bocquet (ed.), L’enseignement français en Méditerranée- Les missionnaires et l’Alliance israélite universelle, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010, p. 207-238.
In preparation
Sanchez, K.; ‘To ‘strengthen Mediterranean resistance’? Albert Antebi and the porous boundaries of cultural identification in Ottoman Jerusalem (1896-1919)’, in S. Irving, Festschrift for S. Tamari, Edinburgh University Press, spring 2021.
13 International (refereed) journals Forthcoming
17. Sanchez Summerer, K. & Okkenhaug, IM, The Role of Protestant missionaries during the Great Arab Revolt in Jerusalem and South Palestine (1936-1939)- towards humanity?, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies BJMES special issue coordinated by J. Paulmann and E. Moeller, ‘Crisis in the Middle East. Humanitarianism, Religion, Diplomacy- 1860-1950’, (forthcoming).
Published
16. Sanchez Summerer, K. & Turiano, A, Les archives de l’ANSMI (Associazione nazionale per soccorrere i Missionari italiani all’Estero: (Re) découverte d’un fonds, projet de préservation et perspectives de recherche, Mefrim (Mélanges de l’Ecole française), 132- 2, 2020, https://journals.openedition.org/mefrim/9429
15. Sanchez Summerer, K. & Papastathis, K., Contemporary Levant, special issue, ‘Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine and European cultural diplomacy (1860-1948). A connected history’, vol.6, issue 1, March 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/20581831.2021.1898122
14. Sanchez Summerer, K. & Rubio C., ‘Pour une histoire connectée du français langue étrangère. Le cas de la Palestine ottomane et mandataire’, Langue Française, in Special issue Valérie Spaeth (ed.) Didactique du français langue étrangère et seconde : histoire et historicités, 4/2020, 109-123. https://www.revues.armand-colin.com/lettres-langues/langue-francaise/langue- francaise-no208-42020/histoire-connectee-du-francais-langue-etrangere-au-proche- orient-cas-palestine-1860-1948
13 Sanchez Summerer, K. & Bourmaud P. (eds), Missions, Powers and Arabization, special issue Social Sciences and Missions series, vol 32, issues 3-4, Brill, https://brill.com/view/journals/ssm/32/3-4/ssm.32.issue-3-4.xml
12 Sanchez, K.; Linguistic diversity and ideologies among the Catholic minority in Mandate Palestine. Fear of confusion or powerful tool?, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies BJMES special issue coordinated by J. Tejel and B. White, ‘The Fragments imagine the Nation’, vol 43, issue 2, 2016, 191-205, https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2016.1138642
11. Sanchez, K.; Education, Linguistic Policies and Identity building process under pressure- The impacts of the French Catholic Schools in Palestine (1908-1968), ARAM Periodical, vol 25, Peeters, 2016, 191-210.
10. Sanchez, K.; Pour Dieu et la Patrie. Formation des missionnaires français envoyés au Levant (1880-1940)- le cas des Frères des écoles chrétiennes, DHFLES, n°55, 2015, 83- 99.
9. Sanchez, K.; Réception et impacts de l’action éducative et sanitaire des sœurs de Saint Joseph (Naplouse) et des sœurs de Sion (Jérusalem) par les populations musulmanes rurales et urbaines (1870-1940), in Beligand N., Bourmaud, P. (Eds.) Histoire et Missions chrétiennes, vol. 22, 2013, Paris, Karthala, p. 163-195.
8. Sanchez, K.; Kok, MC ; Le facteur religieux dans la diffusion du français, Recherches et Applications, FDM, n°51, CLE International, 2011, p 49-61.
14 7. Sanchez, K.; Le triptyque Langue/ Education/ Religion en Palestine ottomane et mandataire, Sociolinguistica n°25, De Gruyter, 2011, p 66-80.
6. Sanchez, K.; La langue française et les catholiques palestiniens: une langue des minorités devenue minoritaire (1870- 1960)?, DHFLES, n°45, n° coordinated by K. Sanchez Summerer and G. Kahn, February 2011, p 17-42.
5. Sanchez, K.; L’enseignement du français au sein des écoles catholiques françaises pour filles en Palestine ottomane et mandataire (1870-1939), ICHOLS XI proceedings (International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences), Nodus Publikationen, 2011, p 152-160.
4. Sanchez, K.; Les langues entre elles dans la Jérusalem ottomane (1880-1914), DHFLES, n°42, 2010, p. 119-143.
3. Sanchez, K.; Les élites francophones du collège des frères de la Salle de Jérusalem, entre instrumentalisation politique, usages religieux et construction identitaire (1922-39); DHFLES, n°38-39, 2007, p. 107- 129.
2. Sanchez, K.; Langue(s) et religion(s) en Palestine mandataire au sein des institutions éducatives catholiques (1922-1940); Etablissements des frères des écoles chrétiennes et des sœurs de Saint Joseph de l’Apparition; DHFLES, n°37, 2006, edit. March 2008, p. 93- 132.
1. Sanchez, K.; Elites francophones du collège des frères de la Salle de Jérusalem (1890- 1939), entre instrumentalisation politique et usages religieux; Revue d’études balkaniques, n°2, 2007, p. 63- 79.
In preparation
Sanchez Summerer, K. & Moeller, E., Girls’ education, religion and French cultural policy. The Alliance Israélite Universelle in Mandate Lebanon and Palestine, Paedagogica Historica (in preparation).
Sanchez Summerer, K.; ‘French, German and English: three rival languages and pedagogies towards language teaching in the Holy Land (1905-1925)’, Porta linguarum, (in preparation).
______Conference Papers
2020 73. Online seminar, with U. Ca’ Foscari, CRFJ, Open Jerusalem and Archival city (REL- NET: Entangled Interfaith Identities and Relations from the Mediterranean to the United States), 15 December 2020, ‘Reframing Jerusalem’s history Through New Archives’, with A. Dalachanis, L. Kamel, R. Mazza, V. Lemire and M.C. Rioli
72. Ecole française de Rome, MisSMO, 1-2 October 2020, Conference ‘Missions and Preaching: Comparing and de-compartmentalizing the study of the missionary phenomenon (Middle East – North Africa- 19th-20th centuries)/’Faire mission’. Implantations, prosélytisme et identités confessionnelles au Moyen-Orient (XXe siècle)’ introduction and co-organiser
71. INALCO, Paris, 6-11 July 2020, XIIIth congress of Syriac studies and XIth Christian Arabic studies, Panel organizer ‘The Arab Christians between nationalism, religious emancipation and cultural imperialism in British Mandate Palestine: the influential figure
15 of Nichola Khoury (1918-1948)’; individual paper ‘Ego document and Arab Christians in Palestine: The Uniqueness of Nichola Khoury’s memoirs’ (COVID-19- postponed to July 2021)
70 Leiden University, ‘Vocabularies of Tourism. Language, Photography and Tourism in Palestine (1898-1948)’, 4-5 June 2020, VIDI NWO and Aspasia projects CrossRoads ‘European cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history during the formative years of the Middle East (1918-1948); paper: ‘French Interpreters, Archaeologists and Tourism in Mandate Palestine (COVID-19- postponed to June 2021)
69. Thessaloniki University, 15-17 May 2020, VIDI NWO Project CrossRoads, ‘European cultural diplomacy and Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine. A connected History in Late Ottoman Times and the British Mandate’, introduction (COVID-19- cancelled)
68. Paris Sorbonne University, 31 January 2020, CNRS – Centre Émile Durkheim ; CRBC (Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique) ; École française de Rome ; Institut catholique de Paris ; LabEx EHNE (Écrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe) ; LARHRA – Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes, ‘Le pontificat de Pie XII (1939-58) à la veille de l’ouverture des archives vaticanes : bilans historiographiques et perspectives de recherche’, invited panellist.
2019
67. Milan University, IEG Leibniz Institute for European History Mainz, in cooperation with Villa Vigoni German Italian Centre for European Excellence and German Historical Institute in Rome, 3-4 December 2019, Milan, ‘The Aftermath of the WWI: Humanitarianism in the Mediterranean’, concluding remarks.
66. NIMAR (Dutch Institute in Morocco), Rabat, Cleveringa lecture, 19 November 2019, Rabat, ‘Le rêve des origines par le médium de la modernité? Photographie et histoire sociale de la Palestine (1880-1950)’
65. Leiden University, Imaging Palestine- Photography and social history of Palestine during the British Mandate (1918-1948), 17-18 October 2019, VIDI NWO project (Organizer; introduction); paper with Norig Neveu, ‘The Dominican Photographic Library of Jerusalem: Beyond a Catholic perception of the Holy Land?’
64. Volda University College, IEG-IISMM-NWO IG network, 28-30 August 2019, Refugees, Diasporas and Humanitarian Actors in the Eastern Mediterranean Regions, 1860-2020, Paper, with E. Moeller ‘Europeans and Arabs facing migration in the Middle East and beyond: Archives, questions, perspectives from Palestine and Egypt’
63. Sorbonne Nouvelle University, CLIODIL /DILTEC (Didactiques des langues et des cultures), 26 June 2019, Pourquoi et comment enseigner l’histoire des méthodologies en didactique des langues et des cultures?, ‘Dans quelle mesure intégrer la recherche dans l’enseignement de l’histoire en didactique des langues ?’, invited panellist
62. Ecole française de Rome, Italy, MisSMO consortium project (Christian missions and societies in the Middle East XIX-XXth centuries), 03-06 June 2019, ‘Renouveaux des sources et méthodes pour l’étude du phénomène missionnaire’ (co-organizer; introduction)
61. German Historical Institute Rome and Ecole française de Rome, Italy, DFG network The Modern Mediterranean: Dynamics of a World Region, 1800-2000, 18-21 March 2019,
16 ‘Mediterranean Empires of the Interwar Period: Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Chronopolitics’, paper: ‘French and British missionaries in interwar Palestine’
60. Leiden University, European Cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history during the formative years of the Middle East (1918-1948), 27-29 March 2019, VIDI NWO project (Organizer; introduction)
2018 59. IFEA (Institut français d’Etudes anatoliennes), MisSMO (Christian missions and societies in the Middle East XIX-XXth centuries), 26-27 October 2018, Missionnaires en qualité d’experts : réseaux religieux, connaissance de terrain et action publique au Moyen- Orient (19e-21e siècle)
58. University of Venise Ca’Foscari, ERC project Open Jerusalem ‘Tracing Historical Paths through the Jerusalem Archives Digital Platform’, 6-8 October 2018, invited panellist
57. Leiden University, ‘Cultural diplomacy revisited’, 13-14 September 2018, Leiden University, VIDI NWO project European cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history during the formative years of the Middle East (1918-1948)
56. WOCMES (World Congress of Middle East Studies) V, Sevilla, 16-22 July 2018, Chair of MisSMO panel Cultural Diplomacy and missions in the Middle East, XIXth-XXth c., Paper: ‘Crossroads- Cultural diplomacy and Arab Christianity in interwar Palestine’
55. Sorbonne University, 13 June 2018, LabEX EHNE/ TEMOS/ NWO Workshop, ‘L’humanitaire, nouveau champ de recherche pour l’histoire de l’Europe’ (invited panelist)
54. Leiden University, 17-18 June 2018, Panel discussion ‘The Making of (Trans)National Jewish and Christian Identities: Language, Religion, and Community in and out of the Middle East (1850-1950)’, NWO project Arabic and its alternatives: Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging Nation States of the Middle East (1920-1950)
53. Sorbonne Nouvelle University, CLIODIL /DILTEC (Didactiques des langues et des cultures), 21 March 2018, Une fabrique de l’histoire pour la didactique des langues et des cultures, ‘Diplomatie culturelle et Arabes chrétiens en Palestine, pour une histoire connectée’
2017 52. Ecole française de Rome, 27-29 November 2017, Rome, Italy, MisSMO consortium project (Christian missions and societies in the Middle East XIX-XXth centuries), ‘In partibus fidelium. Missions in the Levant and knowledge about the Christian Orient, XIX- XXth c.’, (co-organizer); Discutant, panel ‘Missions and linguistic knowledge’
51. Austrian Historical Institute in Rome, 28-30 September 2017, Conference Jerusalem and Palestine in the midst of conflicting confessional and political interests. History of relations between East and West in the XIXth century; Paper: ‘Catholic Arab Christians of Palestine and European cultural diplomacy, for a connected history (1880–1920)’
50. European Academy of Religion, Research on the religious fields, 18-22 June 2017, Bologna, Italy, Panel European projects on Eastern Christianity (Modern Times), presentation of the MisSMO ‘Christian missions and societies in the Middle East: organizations, identities, heritagization; XIXth-XXIth centuries’ and ‘Engaging Europe
17 in the Arab World: European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850- 1970)’ projects
49. University of Athens (Greece), 11-13 May 2017, ‘La culture dans l’enseignement du français langue étrangère: conceptions théoriques, programmes et manuels aux XIX et XXe siècles’, Paper: ‘Culture et soft power au Levant: la culture dans l’enseignement du français et de l’italien à Jérusalem dans les années 1930’ (with C. Rubbio)
48. IISMM (Institut d’études de l’Islam et des mondes musulmans), Paris, 26-28 January 2017, ‘Missions as 'best practices' for governmental approaches and non- religious networks?’, international project (NWO) ‘Engaging Europe in the Arab World: European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970)’ (introduction and moderator)
2016 47. IEG, Leibniz Institute of European History, Conference Menschen – Bilder – Eine Welt. Menschenbilder in Missionszeitschriften aus der Zeit des Kaiserreichs, Mainz, 6-8 October 2016, Paper: ‘For God and the Kaiser? German missionaries, images and European concurrence in the Holy Land (1880-1920)’
46. Leiden University, Conference Arabic and its alternatives: Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging Nation States of the Middle East (1920-1950), Leiden, 15-17 June 2016, introduction: ‘The imagined Catholic oecumene? Catholics of the Holy Land and Arabic (1918-1948)’
45. Leiden University, NWO project Engaging Europe in the Arab World: European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970), Leiden, 14-15 April 2016, introduction: ‘Missionaries and their apostolate, towards a humanitarisation?’
44. ESSHC (European Social Science History Conference), Panel Comparing Educational Reform in the Middle East and East Asia during the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century, Valencia, 1-2th April 2016, Paper: ‘Education, Languages and Power in Missionary schools in Palestine (1905-1925)
43. ZECO (Zentrum zur Erforschung des Christlichen Ostens- Center for the Study of Eastern Christianity), Middle Eastern Christians and Europe: Diasporas - Relations - Entangled Histories, Salzburg, 18-19 February 2016, Paper: ‘Engaging Europe in the Arab World: European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970)’
42. EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), séminaire Chrétiens d’Orient (B.Heyberger), Paris, 27 January 2016, Paper: ‘Les enjeux de la présence missionnaire britannique à Hébron: de la ville des Patriarches aux portes du sud de la Palestine musulmane (1900-1950)’
2015 41. Leiden University, Introduction, ‘The Foreign linguistic and cultural policies of the European States (XVIIIth-XXth centuries)/ Les politiques linguistiques et culturelles extérieures des Etats européens (XVIIIe-XXe siècles)’, Leiden, 25-27 June 2015
40. INALCO/ Institut universitaire de France/ IFPO (Institut francais du Proche-Orient), Paris, 25-27 March 2015, Experts and Expertise in the League of Nations- Mandates: Figures, Fields, Tools, Paper: ‘Missionnaires britanniques en Palestine, experts/ contre- experts du Mandat?’
18 39. IEG, Leibniz Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Forschungsbereichs Bewältigung von Differenz: Vorstellung von Humanität und humanitäre Praktiken, 10th February 2015, Paper: ‘A humanitarian mission in the Holy Land? The challenges of the sanitary action of the Jerusalem East mission Fund in Palestine (1918–1938)’
2014 38. CNRS/ INRP (Institut national de la recherche pédagogique), Paris, 27-29 November 2014, Se former à enseigner à l’étranger dans les espaces francophones- réseaux religieux, réseaux laiques, Paper: ‘Pour Dieu et la patrie. Formation des missionnaires français envoyés au Proche-Orient (1880-1940)’
37. MESA (Middle Eastern Studies Association), Washington DC, 21-25 November 2014, Panel Minorities and formation of Modern Arab States, Paper: ‘The Catholic minority and the political mobilization in Palestine 1918-1960’
36. WOCMES (World Congress of Middle East Studies) IV, Ankara, August 2014, Chair of Christians of the Middle East panel; Paper: ‘Language, identity and the Catholics of the Holy Land: the case of the Melkite community (1920-1950)’
35. AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) UK, 2-5 July 2014, Nottingham, Connecting Cultures? An international conference on the history of teaching and learning foreign/second languages, Paper: ‘Official/ heritage language policies, transnational communities and European language teaching in Palestine (1900-1950)’
34. SOAS/ INALCO (School of Oriental studies), Paris, 12-15 June 2014, Language and ideology in language teaching and learning, Paper: ‘Modernization and ideologies in Language teaching in British Palestine (1918-1948)’
2013 33. Université de Paris Sorbonne, Enfance, jeunesse, éducation et société, XIXe-XXIe siècles (Prof. Jean-Noël Luc), Paper: ‘Langue, religion(s) et systèmes éducatifs en Palestine ottomane et mandataire- considérations interdisciplinaires’
32. The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (Switzerland), November 2013, The fragments imagine the Nation? Minorities in the colonial and postcolonial Middle East, Poster: ‘Arabic and its alternatives during the formative years of The Middle East (1920-1950)’
31. LUCIS and NWO research network Arabic and its alternatives, Leiden, September 2013, Paper: ‘Bringing the inhabitants of Palestine together or preserving Catholics of the Holy Land? Catholic communities, language, identity and public space in Jerusalem (1920- 1950)’
30. Research network Towards a History of Modern Language Teaching and Learning (UK Arts and Humanities Research Council), Warwick (UK), June 2013, ‘French and British educational influences in the Middle East (XIXth century- 1960)’
29. INALCO/ SOAS, Paris, April 2013, Trajectoires professionnelles et pratiques plurilingues des enseignants de langues: paramètres historiques, Paper: ‘Missionnaires religieux et laiques de la République: relecture et revision de profils et trajectoires des ‘possibles’ au Proche-Orient’
2012 28. GMF, Essen (Germany), September 2012, ‘Anglais, français, allemand: trois langues
19 rivales en Terre sainte (1905-1925)’
27. CIEF (Conseil International d’Etudes francophones), Thessalonique (Greece), June 2012, ‘Entre vocations universelle et nationale: l’éducation ‘régénératrice’ francophone pour filles de l’AIU de Jérusalem (1906-1948)’
26. GRIEM (Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les écrits missionnaires), Soutiens spirituels aux missions, March 2012, Paper: ‘L’Archiconfrérie du Très Saint Enfant, entre soutiens spirituels locaux et internationaux’
2011 25. University of Oxford, The Oriental Institut, Western Missions in the Levant, Oxford (United Kingdom), July 2011, Paper: ‘Education, Linguistic Policies and Identity building process under pressure- The impacts of the French Catholic Schools in Palestine (1908- 1968)’
24. Universität Trier, Contact Zones – Conflict Zones. Räume kultureller Verflechtung, Workshop des hkfz (Historisch-Kultuwissenschaftlichen Forschungszentrums), Trier (Germany), July 2011, Paper: ‘The missionaries’ establishments in British Palestine- Spaces of conflicts, space of coexistence’
23. CIEF (Conseil International des Etudes francophones), Aix en Provence (France), June 2010, ‘Education en français pour la ‘régénération’ de la femme orientale en Palestine ottomane et mandataire (1870-1939)’
22. Research Network on the History of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Europe, Female voices: women and foreign languages in modern Europe, Gargnano del Garda (Italy), June 2010, Paper: ‘Education, civilisation et religion pour la ‘régénération’ de la femme orientale- Les impacts de l’enseignement du français pour filles des missionnaires catholiques en Palestine ottomane et mandataire’
2010 21. NSMES (Nordic Society of Middle Eastern Studies), Middle Eastern Connectivities, Bergen (Norway), September 2010, Paper: ‘The impacts of the French Catholic Schools in the Middle East (1908-1950): The Palestinian case’
20. WOCMES III (World Congress on Middle East Studies), Barcelona (Spain), July 2010, Christians of the Middle East panel, Paper: ‘The Sisters of Saint Joseph’s schools in Palestine (1908-1967)- The Impacts of Catholic Missionary Education on Language, Religion and Identity in Palestine’
19. CIEF (Conseil International des Etudes francophones), Montréal (Canada), June 2010, ‘Construction identitaire et éducation francophone en Palestine ottomane et mandataire (1878- 1968)’
18. EPHE (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes), Université de la Sorbonne, séminaire Chrétiens d’Orient (B.Heyberger), Paris, March 2010, Paper: ‘Les collèges des frères des écoles chrétiennes de Palestine ottomane et mandataire’
17. CME (Christians of the Middle East), Church State and Society, St Andrew University, February 2010, Paper: ‘From Jewish to Muslim conversion? Protestant missionaries in Hebron, 1922-1938’
20 2009 16. SIHFLES (Société Internationale pour l’Histoire du Français Langue étrangère et seconde), International workshop, Leiden (the Netherlands), December 2009, Langue française, identité(s) et école: le cas de la minorité catholique au Levant (milieu du XIXe- XXe siècles), Introduction: ‘Historigraphies et épistemologies en question’ and Paper: ‘La langue française et les catholiques palestiniens: une langue des minorités devenue minoritaire (1870- 1940)?’
15. MAE (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Fonds d’Alembert ‘Actualités des études palestiniennes en France’, CNRS Ecole biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem and University of Birzeit; Paper: ‘Langue(s), identité(s) et politiques linguistiques- Les collèges des Frères des écoles chrétiennes de Palestine (1900-1948)’
14. CNRS, EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales, CEIFR group UMR 8034, Centre d’études interdisciplinaires des faits religieux), Fondation lieux de culte (S. Andezian, C. Décobert) seminar, Paris, May 2009, Paper: ‘Le tombeau des patriarches d’Hébron, lieu de culte musulman et juif- Enjeux antérieurs et postérieurs à la refondation de ce lieu saint (1920-2000)’
13. GRIEM (Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les écrits missionnaires), International conference Visages de femmes missionnaires en terre de mission, Paris, March 2009, Paper: ‘Réception et impacts de l’action éducative et sanitaire des sœurs de Saint Joseph (Naplouse) et des Sœurs de Sion (Jérusalem) par les populations musulmanes rurales et urbaines (1870-1940)’
12. CNRS, EMAM (Equipes Monde arabe et méditerranée, UMR 6173) International conference Judaïsme, école et mission en Méditerranée à l’heure coloniale, Paper: ‘Ouvrir les trésors de la charité aux enfants dévoyés d’Abraham - L’action éducative des Sœurs de Sion en Palestine ottomane et mandataire (1860-1948)’, Tours, March 2009
11. CNRS, EHESS, Patrimoine et construction nationale palestiniennes (S. Andezian) seminar, Paris, March 2009, Paper: ‘Patrimoine et politique, le cas de la ville d’Hébron (1920- 2000)’
2008 10. Research Network on the History of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Europe, International Congress, Languages relations in Educative contexts (XVIth-XXth c.), Granada (Spain), November 2008, Paper: ‘Les langues entre elles dans la Jérusalem ottomane (1880- 1914)’
9. CNRS, Research project Les fabriques de l’archive. ‘Faiseurs’ d’histoire et ‘faiseurs’ d’archives dans le Moyen-Orient contemporain, Les filtres de montages ou le travail d’historiographisation de l’archive, Paris, October 2008, Paper: ‘Tentatives d’entreprises historiographiques sur la Palestine mandataire’
8. ICHOLS XI (International conference of the history of Language Sciences), Potsdam (Germany), August 2008, Paper: ‘L’enseignement du français au sein des écoles catholiques françaises pour filles en Palestine ottomane et mandataire (1870-1939)’
Second Paper ‘L’enseignement de la grammaire chez les Frères des écoles chrétiennes de Palestine ottomane et mandataire (1878-1939): entre pragmatisme, religion et identités, une pédagogie confessionnelle du français avancée ?’
21 7. CNRS, EPHE (Ecoles Pratique des Hautes Etudes) Missions chrétiennes en terres d’Islam, (B.Heyberger) seminar, Paris, June 2008, Paper: ‘Les ‘vierges de la montagne’ et la plume: l’action éducative des Sœurs de Saint Joseph à Naplouse (1904-1939)’
2007 6. SIHFLES, International workshop, Langue(s) and religion(s): une relation complexe dans l’enseignement du français hors de France XVIe-XXe siècles, Utrecht (The Netherlands), May 2007, Paper: ‘Langue(s) et religion(s) en Palestine mandataire au sein des institutions éducatives catholiques (1922-1940)’
5. IFPO (Institut français du Proche-Orient), EHESS, Identités autour de la méditerranée XIXe- XXe workshop, Paris, September 2007, Paper: ‘Identités des villes intérieures de la Palestine mandataire, le cas hébronite’
4. CNRS, EHESS, Palestine contemporaine, nouveaux champs de recherche français (S. Andézian) seminar, Paris, June 2007, Paper: ‘Sources mandataires et locales, espaces et sociétés, 1918-1948’
2006 3. SIHFLES, International congress, Le français des élites, Istanbul (Turkey), November 2006, Paper: ‘Les élites francophones du collège des Frères de la Salle (1922-39)’
2. WOCMES II (World Congress on Middle East Studies), Amman (Jordan), June 2006, Paper: ‘Hebron, Nablus (1922-1939): Transformations of spaces and societies’
1. WOCMES II, Amman (Jordan), June 2006, Paper: ‘The francophone elites of the Collège des frères de la Salle of Jerusalem (1922-39)’
______Education
Diploma
June 2011 BKO (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs), University Teaching Qualification, Leiden University
Dec. 05 – May 09 PhD ‘Politiques, éducation et identités linguistiques; le collège des Frères des écoles chrétiennes de Jérusalem (1922-1939)’, Leiden University, The Netherlands, LOT 207, ISBN 978-90-78328-84-1; under the supervision of Prof. dr. Johan Rooryck (Leiden U.) and Prof. dr. Nadine Picaudou (Paris I- Sorbonne U.)
Oct. 06 – Dec. 14 2d PhD, cum laude, EPHE (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes), under the supervision of Prof. dr. Bernard Heyberger (EPHE Sorbonne and EHESS Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), ‘Servir dans le district le plus fascinant de Palestine’- Les enjeux de la présence missionnaire dans le district d’Hébron (1918-1938)’
Sept. 98 – June 02 Preparation and tenure internship of CAPES and Agrégation externe, History, University Paris IV Sorbonne (didactic and pedagogic qualifications)
22 Oct. 97 – Oct. 98 Research Master in History (DEA Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies), University Paul Valéry, Montpellier III (summa cum laude, research grant) Master in French as Foreign Language, University VD, Perpignan (cum laude)
Sept. 96 – June 97 Master in History, University VD, Perpignan, (summa cum laude)
D.U. (Univ. Diploma) of Art and History, University VD, Perpignan (cum laude)
June 96 BA of History University Via Domitia VD, Perpignan (cum laude) minor: Classical languages and civilisations 2d minor: Geography; 3d minor: French as a Foreign Language
Higher Education trainings and certificates
Adviser/ supervisor for BKO (Higher Education Qualification Diploma; 2017, 2018, 2019)
Trainer for Secondary education Teachers (Lerarenopleidingen, Nacholing for Leraren; 2014)
Trainings and certificates: • ‘Personal Leadership for Academics, Situational leadership’ (Leiden University, HRM 2019) • ‘Middle Eastern Studies in the Digital Age’ (NISIS Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies Autumn School, Utrecht University, October 2019) • ‘Added value of online education’ (Expertise Centrum Online Leren ECOLe; 2015- 2018) • ‘How to write the Impact of a H2020 Proposal’ (dr. Sean McCarthy; HRM Training and Development Leiden University, 2015 • ‘Inclusive education’ (ICLON Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching; 2017) • ‘EHumanities; open access and Digital preservation’ (Royal Netherlands Aacdemy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam 2017) • Training for the Departmental Teaching Committees (Basis Cursus Opleidingscommissie; Leiden University 2016) • ‘Knowledge exchange and impact’ (HRM Training and Development Leiden University, 2015) • ‘Writing an excellent research grant proposal’ (HRM Training and Development Leiden University, 2015) • ‘Designing Courses for more Significant Learning’(HRM Training and Development Leiden University, 2014)
______Teaching and Curriculum Development
Program development Master Language MA (2020), creation of the seminar ‘Moroccans and the French language, an alterlanguage?’
MA International Relations (2018-2019), Culture and Politics track (2018-2019), ‘Talking to the Levant. Europeans’ Cultural and Linguistic policies in the Middle East (1900-1970)’
23 Honours classes BA (2016-2021), Leiden University Faculty of Humanities, Program implementations on ‘Language, Culture and identity- French Worldwide’, ‘Colonisation, Decolonisation and Francophony in the Arab world’, ‘A Francophone Maghreb?’, ‘History, diplomacy and identity- the Francophone case’ (with field trips in Morocco), ‘French and the Arab World- language, identification and diplomacy’
Master Language MA (2016), creation of the seminar ‘Intercultural francophone education in colonial/ postcolonial French contexts, a revised history’
International Studies BA (2013), Leiden University Faculty of Humanities, Program implementations on Culture and Languages / areas (Europe; Middle East)
French language and culture BA (2013-2017), Leiden University Faculty of Humanities, Program implementations on Francophony and the Arab world
Responsible for the renewal of the BA exams according to the European framework (2009-2012), Leiden University Faculty of Humanities
Graduate courses MA thesis supervision, Leiden University (French Linguistic and Cultural policies in the Maghreb/ Machrek; mid XIXth-mid XXth c.; French missionaries in the Arab world during the colonial period; Maghreb and Levantine populations in France during the colonial period), from 2012 onwards
MA seminars Type Level ‘Talking to the Levant. Europeans’ Cultural and Linguistic Seminar 500 policies in the Middle East (1900-1970)’ International Relations Education interculturelle et francophone et construction identitaire- seminar 500 jalons historiques Master Language Education and societies XIXth-XXth centuries seminar, Paris- 500 Sorbonne Global christianities - Middle Eastern Christianities’ (with Prof. dr. seminar 500 H. Murre-van den Berg) Langue arabe et islam dans la pensée française (1860-1960) seminar 500 Politiques linguistique et culturelle de la France dans le monde seminar 500 arabe (1920-1970) MA French as a Foreign Language MA internship 500 (Multilingualism in International Organizations) supervision
Undergraduate Courses Honours classes, Excellence Program Type Level French and the Arab World. Language, identity, diplomacy seminar 300 Language, Culture and identity- French Worldwide seminar 300 A Francophone Maghreb ? seminar 300 History, diplomacy and identity- the Francophone case seminar 300 Fieldtrip to the NIMAR (Dutch Research Institute in Morocco) seminar 300
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Internship supervision Type Level BA International studies (Middle East) supervision 300 (ME) BA French Language and Culture supervision 300 (Paris)
BA International studies Type Level History of minorities in the Middle East; European linguistic and cultural policies (colonial and post colonial settings) European linguistic imperialism and linguistic postcolonial lecture 200 settings Language and minorities; Language and religion lecture 200 Nationalism, religion, language and identity - Orient/Occident Scriptie 400 XXth century seminar Languages and Culture/ Middle East lecture 100
BA Middle East studies Type Level Language ideologies, policies, identities in the Middle East Invited lect. 100-200
BA French language and culture Type Level French cultural, linguistic and religious policies and interaction with the Arab world ‘Le français, une alterlangue ? Histoire des usages et de seminar 300 l’enseignement du français au Liban et au Maroc, 1900-1950’ Islam et monde arabe dans la pensée française (1860-1960) seminar 300 Maghreb francophone- jalons historiques’ (with internship at seminar 300 NIMAR) field trip Politique culturelle et diplomatie de la langue. La France en Orient seminar 300 et les identités confessionnelles Politiques linguistique et culturelle de la France dans le monde seminar 300 arabe (1900-1960) L’empire immatériel de la langue française en méditerranée seminar 300 orientale (milieu du XIXe-milieu du XXe siècles) La France au miroir du Maghreb et du Levant seminar 300
BA Cultural and Colonial/ Post colonial History of France Type Level Des 30 Glorieuses aux 20 Piteuses- jalons d’histoire de la France Lecture 200 contemporaine exercices Lieux de mémoire français, l’exception française? Lecture 300 exercices Société française, perspectives historiques et européennes- Cas Lecture 300 d’étude: les immigrés exercices
BA French Language acquisition Type Level Oral comprehension and expressions B1, B2 FTC 100-200 Oral comprehension and expressions C1 FTC 300
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Academic cooperation project, Consulat Général de France à Jérusalem (Feb. 03 - Aug. 06) Sept. 05- Aug. 06 Invited lecturer (History and FFL French as a Foreign Language), Consulat Général de France à Jérusalem BA and MA seminars: History of the FFL in Palestine/ Levant, British Palestine Feb. 04 – June 04 Lecturer (History), Academic cooperation in Humanities, Consulat Général de France à Jérusalem Comparative history (France-England, mid XIX-XXth c.), The Age of Modernity (BA3) Feb. 03 – June 05 Implementation and coordination of the BA and the minor programs French Language, Culture and History, in cooperation with the Linguistic and Academic Attachés, Consulat Général de France à Jérusalem
______Archival research projects and experience
Projects of Preservation and Catalog
- Leiden University and NINO (The Netherlands Institute for the Near East), Franck Scholten photographic collection (Mandate Palestine), Sary Zananiri (NINO) resp., 2018-2020
- EBAF Ecole biblique et archéologique francaise de Jérusalem, NWO Van Morsel project, photographic collections, 2018-2019
- Associazione Nazionale per Soccorrere i Missionari Italiani, Archival and photographic support, Rome, Spring 2019, NWO Van Morsel project, photographic collections and EFR Ecole française de Rome (with Archivists without borders and ArchiLogica)
- CNRS ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche) International project ‘Archiver: les pratiques historiographiques dans le Moyen-Orient contemporain. Faiseurs d’histoire, faiseurs d’archives’ (LAU-IIAC, UMR 8177, CNRS-EHESS-Culture), 2009-2011
- Digitalization project of the French Catholic Educative missionaries Archives (Ottoman and British Palestine), with the MG of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, Via Aurelia, Rome, Italy, 2007-2010
- Endangered Archives Project, British Library, contact for Hebron Archives, 2004-2005
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archival Project (Archivistes sans frontières- section France), ‘Archives de l’enseignement du français en Palestine’, 2006-2007
Archival Research Experience
France Alliance Israélite Universelle- Paris
26 Archives nationales- Paris CADN Centre des archives diplomatiques - Nantes CAD MAE Centre des archives Diplomatiques du ministère des Affaires étrangères - Paris Mission Laïque française - Paris Oeuvres missionaires de la Propagation de la Foi – Lyon Oeuvres d’Orient - Paris
Italy Archives of the Society of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) Archivio del Pontificio Instituto Orientale Archivio della Congregazione per le Chiese Orientali, Vatican Archivio della Congregazione per l’Evangelizzazione dei Popoli o di Propaganda Fide, Vatican Archivio della Segretaria di Stato, Vatican Archivio Segreto del Vaticano Archivio storico della Società Dante Alighieri - Rome Associazione Nazionale per Soccorrere i Missionari Italiani Brothers of the Christian schools - Maison Généralice via Aurelia, Rome Sisters of Sion, Central archives, Trastevere Communal House – Rome
Jerusalem American Colony of Jerusalem archives Assumptionnist Archives Brothers of the Christian Schools Archives Central Zionist Archives Christ Church Archives (Conrad Schick Library) Custodia di Terra Santa Archives Dominican Archives (Ecole bibliblique et archéologique) German Catholic Association of the Holy Land Archives (Paulus House dispensary & Schmidt School) Israel State Archives Jerusalem Municipal Archives Latin Patriarchate Archives Melkites Archives (Sainte Anne Convent) Rosary Sisters Archives Saint Joseph Sisters Archives Sisters of Sion Ecce Homo Convent and Ein Kerem Archives YMCA Jerusalem Archives (Young Men Christian Association)
Lebanon American University of Beyrouth, Photographic archives CERPOC, CEDRAC, St Joseph University, Beyrouth Melkite Patriarchate Raboueh National Archives of Lebanon Oriental Library of Beyrouth
Palestinian Territories Brothers of the Christian schools, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Haifa, Jaffa Archives Hebron Municipal Archives, Hebron Awqaf archives Mu’assassat ihya’ al-turath wa al-bunuth al-Islamiyya, Institute for Islamic Research and Heritage Revival (Awqaf Archives) Abu Dis Nablus municipal Archives Saint Joseph Sisters Archives, Bethlehem, Nablus
United Kingdom Church Missionary Society Archives - Birmingham Jerusalem East Mission Fund Archives, Saint Lambeth Palace - London
27 Imperial War Museum Military Archives - London King’s College, Liddell Hart Centre Military Archives - London National Library of Scotland, Scottish missionaries’ manuscripts- Edinburgh Palestine Exploration Fund - London Pembroke College - Oxford PRO Public Record Office, National Archives - Kew London Rhodes House, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African studies - Oxford Saint Anthony’s College Middle East Centre Archives – Oxford
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