What Will Yesterday Be Made Of? Reflections on Cancel Culture

"Since George Floyd's death, statues of Confederates and colonizers have been toppled all over the world. What cancel culture, considered as "alt-left fascism" by Donald Trump, does teach us about a racist continuum and its translation in the public space? What solutions could be found? What historical knowledge can be elaborated based on an activist momentum, the most important since the the Civil Rights movement?"

Laure Murat is professor at UCLA. Historian and writer, she specialized in history of psychiatry and gender studies, and teaches literature. She is the author of several books, including La Maison du docteur Blanche (Lattès, 2001, Goncourt Prize of Biography), Passage de l'Odéon (Fayard, 2003), La Loi du genre (Fayard, 2006), The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon (Chicago : the University of Chicago Press, 2014, Femina Prize for non fiction), Relire (Flammarion, 2015) and Une révolution sexuelle? Réflexions sur l'après-Weinstein (Stock, 2018).