Today, it is safe to say that Tassadit Yacine is the repository of the memory, the work and even the intellectual sensitivity of Mouloud Mammeri, thanks to whom we gained a forager in the flowery field of the Amazigh domain. Mammeri through whom the happy reconversion of the young graduate in Spanish language and culture who ended up as a doctor in anthropology (1992) took place. Rubbing shoulders with scientific authorities of the stature of Amusnaw, but also with the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, the historian André Nouschi and the philosopher Mohamed Arkoun, to name but a few, nourished the soul and spirit, forged the personality and enriched the thinking of Tassadit Yacine. Her anthropological work is now a reference in the field of scientific research and provides keys to better understand Kabyle society, in its representations, its structures and its imagination.
Tassadit Yacine's studies are part of the evolution of anthropological studies that reorient interest on questions of identity. They are distinguished by an approach that integrates the tools of anthropological analysis and the analysis of oral literature as a reservoir of Amazigh sociocultural material, specifically Kabyle, by being both subject and object of the society it studies. This return to oneself and this focus on the "same" places it in a fruitful proximity with the subjects of study, and where one does not find the traditional distancing that recommends being interested in "the other".
Should we not see in her academic commitment one of these "spirits inhabited by revolt, the questioning of everything that is oppressive, imposed from the outside [for whom] detecting these oppressions, rebelling against them, fighting them then becomes their reason for being"? (Tidjet, 2022, p.73). Does not the intellectual thus show himself (herself) in a surge of cultural, even political activism, which would make him (her) "intellectural"?
Today, "the intellectual debt" that we owe to Bourdieu, Mammeri, Sayad and all the tireless scholars, the thinkers and transmitters of culture and science, is also to be honoured to her. To shed light on research on the added value of Tassadit Yacine's work, from "Berber poetry and identity: Qasi Udifella herald of the At Sidi Braham" (1987) to "Rereading Feraoun: Between lucidity, combat and commitment" (2023), and because there is capital to consider from an analytical but also critical point of view, and finally because it is necessary that we deal with the history of accumulated knowledge for the Amazigh language and culture, we propose to do so within the framework of a conference around her experience and her works, inviting researchers to take a cross-examination, critical and informed look at it.
Some Research Axes:
The Works of Tassadit Yacine: Critical Readings.
The Intellectual and "Cultural Roots."
Mammeri-Yacine: Writings, Proximity, and Influences.
Bourdieu in the Work of Tassadit Yacine.
Anthropological Research and Methodological Choices.
Anthropology between Objectivism and Subjectivism, between the Cultural and the Political.
Cultural Anthropology in the Age of Today's Amazigh Realities.
The Production of Tassadit Yacine: A Voice for the Dominated.
Awal: Editorial and Academic Experience from Mammeri to Yacine.
On Oral Literature and Its Teaching.
Important Dates
Date de publication de la conférence : 25 septembre 2025
Date limite de soumission des curriculum vitae : 20 décembre 2025
Notification d'acceptation des curriculum vitae : 31 décembre 2025
Date limite de soumission des articles : 1er mars 2026
Date limite de confirmation du programme : 5 mars 2026
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