EPIIC Film Series: Film La Haine With Professor d'Appollonia

Film La Haine, 1995
When a young Arab is arrested and beaten unconscious by police, a riot erupts in the notoriously violent suburbs outside of Paris. Three of the victim's peers, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Said (Said Taghmaoui) and Hubert (Hubert Koundé), wander aimlessly about their home turf in the aftermath of the violence as they try to come to grips with their outrage over the brutal incident. After one of the men finds a police officer's discarded weapon, their night seems poised to take a bleak turn.

Film to be introduced by Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia.

Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia is Associate Professor at the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University (New Jersey). She is also Senior Researcher affiliated to the Center for Political Research at Sciences Po Paris. She is currently co-organizing the international project SoMi (Securitization of Migrant Integration) Her research focuses on immigration, discrimination and security issues. She has taught at universities in France (Paris III-Sorbonne, the Columbia University and the University of Chicago Programs in Paris) and in the US (New York University, University of Pittsburgh). She published seven books and co-edited two books with Simon Reich entitled Immigration, Integration and Security: America and Europe in Comparative Perspective (2008) and Managing Ethnic Diversity After 9/11: Internal Security and Civil Liberties in Transatlantic Perspective (2010). Her last two recently published books are entitled Les Frontieres du Racisme (Presses de Sciences Po, 2011) and Frontiers of Fear: Immigration and Insecurity in the United States and Europe (Cornell University Press, 2012).