Blurring the boundaries between perpetrators and victims: Pied-noir memories and the harki community

This article seeks to trace the evolving relationship between the collective memories of the pied-noir community, the former settler population of French Algeria, and the harkis, those Algerians who fought for the French during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62). Although regarded by many as at best complicit in, and at worst the perpetrators of, a system of colonial domination, the pieds-noirs view themselves as innocent casualties of a destructive and erroneous historical force, decolonization. In light of this, the article will focus on the ways in which pieds-noirs, primarily through their strong associational network, have attempted to retrospectively redeem themselves by converting their status from that of perpetrators into that of victims by grafting their collective memories onto those of a clearly identified ‘victim’ population, the harkis with whom they feel a special affinity. The reaction of the harki community to this process and the implications for the development of their own memories will also be examined

Coupling a CLOVER detector array with the PRISMA magnetic spectrometer

Following the commissioning of the PRISMA large-acceptance spectrometer, installed at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (LNL), an international nuclear-structure collaboration has started to develop a large $\gamma$-ray setup to be installed in the target position of the spectrometer. The array is based on the EUROBALL composite CLOVER detectors. In this contribution the CLOVER detector array is described and its expected performance figures discussed. This new setup, by using the high-intensity heavy-ion beams provided by the LNL ALPI linac, will push the study of nuclear structure towards moderately neutron-rich nuclei by means of quasi-elastic and deep inelastic reactions