Julie Gagné (she/her)

After doing undergraduate studies in history and journalism at Laval University, Julie completed her M.A. in African history and produced two studies, one on journalism in Mauritania and the other, a video study, on "Belgian and Congolese Mourning for the Colonial Past."

Her doctoral thesis, which she is now completing under joint supervision at Laval University and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is about this remembrance of colonization seen as "a global traumatic event that neither memory nor political and social relationships can erase," one that is at once "of sharing and of division."