Event Host: Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Rouen, Raphaëlle Branche has been extensively working on colonial violence, focusing on French Algeria.
In her work, she examines the issues of illegal violence such as rape, torture, summary executions mainly from the point of view of the perpetrators. She has also addressed more specifically the issue of prisoners during the French-Algerian war (1954-1962) and acts of violence committed by the Algerian civilians and combatants during the war of independence as well as during the 1871 uprising.
Her current research is studying the French soldiers’ narratives on their war experience and the impact of these narratives on their families.
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This event is part of the Mershon Center Speaker Series.