Colonial Subjects and the Right to Have Rights: Algeria, 1834

Convener: Professor Neil Ketchley

Speaker: Professor Charles Kurzman

Professor Kurzman will examine the public debate over what rights, if any, Algerians would have under French occupation, featuring a French general urging his country to do to the Algerians what the United States had done to Native Americans, and an Algerian representative urging France to obey the Law of Nations and make Algerians French citizens if it was not going to grant them independence.

Charles Kurzman is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of The Missing Martyrs (first edition, 2011; second edition, 2019), Democracy Denied, 1905-1915 (2008), and The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (2004), and editor of the anthologies Liberal Islam (1998) and Modernist Islam, 1840-1940 (2002).