Introduction
G. Barlovatz-Meimon
P. Selek
J.-F. Bayart
G. Geréby
B. Lacroix
L. Larqué
K. Postel-Vinay
G. Noiriel
D. Gaxie
A. Garrigou
A. Brahic
Conclusion
C. A. Dini - F. Neyrat
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Many of the group have long connections to France and to ENS, an institution they admire for its historical role in the critical and intellectual life of the country. Their letter accuses the Director of betraying the historical role of the ENS, as it is described on the school’s website: “For decades, the ENS has been the most prestigious site of French intellectual and scientific life. It participated in all the great intellectual debates of modern France, from the Dreyfus Affair to the movements of the 1930's, and from the foundation of the human sciences to the avant-garde movements of the 1970's.” One of the organizers of the letter campaign, Institute for Advanced Study professor of social science Joan Scott, commented that the group was “dismayed by the clear violation of freedom of speech and assembly that occurred.”
The Director of the ENS, Monique Canto-Sperber refused permission to the Colléctif Palestine ENS for several meetings, one of which was to have included Stéphane Hessel, most recently the author of the best-selling Indignez-vous!/Time for Outrage, in which he (among other things) criticizes Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. Hessel is 93, a former ENS student, member of the Resistance, survivor of Buchenwald, one of the authors of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. “It is profoundly ironic,” remarks mathematician Michael Harris, another of the organizers, “that this graduate of the ENS who embodies what the school has long stood for, was banned from speaking there because the Director disagrees with his politics.”
Defending her actions, Canto-Sperber argued that the school had no obligation to permit such meetings to be held and that they might endanger public order. Her decision was upheld last week by the Conseil d'Etat (France's highest administrative court). Canto-Sperber also commented that she did not want to endanger the good relations between ENS and Israeli academic institutions.
The letter of protest refuses the reasoning of Canto-Sperber, arguing that freedom of speech and assembly should not be restricted in this way.
The Guardian carried the story on March 21, 2011.
U.S. Contact persons:
Joan W. Scott: 609-734-8280
Michael Harris: 646-233-8446
Arrêté le 8 octobre 2009 et mis en examen au terme de 96 heures de garde à vue pour « association de malfaiteurs en relation avec une entreprise terroriste », Adlène Hicheur, un jeune chercheur franco-algérien en physique des particules, qui travaillait sur l'immense accélérateur de particules du Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire près de Genève, se trouve depuis plus de 17 mois en détention provisoire à la maison d'arrêt de Fresnes.
Et ce, « sans aucun élément nouveau dans l'enquête depuis de nombreux moi s», dénonce un comité international de soutien monté par ses anciens collègues du CERN.
Lire la suite de l'article paru dans Mediapart le 24 mars 2011.
Physicist’s Jailing Is Veiled in Mystery, By DENNIS OVERBYE, March 14, 2011
When Adlène Hicheur, a French-Algerian physicist working on antimatter at CERN’s enormous particle collider outside Geneva, was arrested on Oct. 8, 2009, on suspicion of conspiring with an Algerian branch of Al Qaeda, fears of doomsday plots rippled through the tabloid press.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, felt obliged to reassure the public that Dr. Hicheur did not have access to anything dangerous and that antimatter bombs as featured in the Dan Brown novel “Angels and Demons” were for all practical purposes flights of fancy.
Lire la suite de l'article paru dans New York Times le 14 mars 2011