This event is organized by the International Research Network RADEX and OCTAV.

Darryl Li will present his last book, The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity, published by Stanford University Press in 2019.

Speaker:
Darryl Li, University of Chicago.

Discussant:
François Burgat, Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman - IREMAM.

Darryl Li is assistant professor of anthropology in the department of anthropology at the University of Chicago. Darryl Li is an anthropologist and attorney working at the intersection of war, law, migration, empire, and race with a focus on transregional linkages between the Middle East, South Asia, and the Balkans.
Li has participated in litigation arising from the "War on Terror" as party counsel, amicus, or expert witness, including in Guantánamo habeas, Alien Tort, material support, denaturalization, immigration detention, and asylum proceedings. He is a member of the New York and Illinois bars.

François Burgat is emeritus research director at CNRS and at the Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (IREMAM). He is the author of numerous books such as Comprendre l'islam politique: une trajectoire de recherche sur l'altérité islamiste, 1973-2016, Paris, La Découverte, 2016, Face to Face with Political Islam (IB Tauris, 2002), and Islamism in the shadow of al-Qaeda, Paris, La Découverte 2005.

The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity, published by Stanford University Press in 2019.

No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national borders, and rejecting secular norms, so-called jihadists seem opposed to universalism itself. In a radical departure from conventional wisdom on the topic, The Universal Enemy argues that transnational jihadists are engaged in their own form of universalism: these fighters struggle to realize an Islamist vision directed at all of humanity, transcending racial and cultural difference. [...]
 

Responsables scientifiques : Nadia Marzouki, Sciences Po-CERI et Philippe Bonditti, ESPOL.