Overview
- The two-day meeting, co-organized by historian Henry Laurens and CAREP, will run Nov. 13–14 at CAREP’s Paris premises with limited in-person capacity and full live streaming and recording.
- The Collège de France scrapped the original venue over the long weekend, citing the administrator’s responsibility for security and a stance of institutional neutrality.
- Public figures had labeled the event “pro‑Palestinian,” a characterization that fueled the controversy around hosting it at the Collège de France.
- Higher education minister Philippe Baptiste called the cancellation “responsible” before telling AFP he did not request it, saying he merely relayed alerts to university leaders.
- Petitions signed by more than 2,200 researchers, faculty and students denounce the cancellation as a serious blow to academic freedom and call for Baptiste’s resignation.