Evelyne De Mevius

Evelyne de Mevius -| - | Belgium LANGUAGES French (native), English (C2), Spanish (C2), Dutch (B2), German (B2) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Mar. 2021 – present Catholic University of Louvain, Institute of Political Science Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE) (Belgium) Research associate • Within the Memory and Conflict Resolution research programme of the Centre for International Crisis and Conflict Studies at ISPOLE, associated to Re-Member, a research project on official and family memory transmission related to collaborations and colonisation in Belgium. Jan. 2020 – present ATD Fourth World, Joseph Wresinski Archives and Research Centre (Paris, France) Translator and editor • Translate (French, English, Spanish), proofread, and edit articles, archive documents, reports, and collective works. Inter alia co-responsible for translating and editing the English and Spanish versions of Bruno Tardieu and Jean Tonglet (eds.), Ce que la misère nous donne à repenser, avec Joseph Wresinski, Paris: Hermann (2018). • Participate in research projects and training activities on the missing history, status, and recognition of victims of extreme poverty, particularly in Switzerland. Oct. 2019 – Nov. 2019 National University of Colombia, Department of Philosophy (Bogotá, Colombia) Invited lecturer • In the framework of an Ecos-Nord/Colciencias partnership with the Paris Nanterre University titled Crítica y hermenéutica de las sociedades contemporáneas, delivered lectures on competitive victimhood and reconciliation in the context of the armed conflict and transitional justice process in Colombia. Nov. 2014 – July 2017 University of Geneva, Department of Theology (Geneva, Switzerland) Teaching and research assistant • Teaching assistant in Ethics for master’s degree students of the Department of Theology. Teaching assistant in Business Ethics for master’s degree students of the Geneva School of Economics and Management. Curriculum design and delivery in French and English (online/in-person). • Speaker in numerous academic and non-academic events in Switzerland, France, Belgium, Lebanon, Algeria, Rwanda, Colombia, and Panama on topics including identity polarisation, competitive victimhood, transitional justice, reconciliation, dealing with the past. Sept. 2013 – Aug. 2016 United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (Geneva, Switzerland) Individual contractor • Responsible for the Programme’s publications in French and English. Responsibilities included assessing, compiling, translating, editing, proofreading, publishing, and promoting reports, handbooks, and training tools. Supervised the entire publication process of Alan Hunt, Public Diplomacy: What it Is and How to do It? (2016); Ronald A. Walker, Manuel pour les délégués aux Nations Unies (2016); Alice Hecht and Jean-Marc Boulgaris, Diplomatic Protocol in Geneva and Du protocole diplomatique à Genève (2015), United Nations Rules of Procedures Repository Platform (2015). • Focal point for the design and implementation of UNITAR’s communication and outreach strategy through website content writing and social media content production and management. • Developed and coordinated a three-year tailor-made capacity-building programme for Algerian government officials and diplomats in partnership with the Diplomatic and International Relations Institute of the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Responsibilities included project management and administration, thematic and strategic coordination, budget management and reporting, proposal writing and partnership strengthening, event organisation and servicing. • Responsible for implementing UNITAR’s Core Diplomatic Training activities in Geneva. Tasks included planning, designing, organising, facilitating, and evaluating face-to-face content-based and skill-oriented capacity-building trainings for national and international civil servants in Geneva. EDUCATION Sept. 2014 – Nov. 2019 Paris Nanterre University, Department of Philosophy (Paris, France) University of Geneva, Department of Theology (Geneva, Switzerland) PhD in Philosophy / PhD in Theology • Dissertation: La tragédie de la reconnaissance. Réflexions sur la Realphilosophie d’Iéna -) et les violences identitaires de notre temps. Directors: Christian Berner (Department of Philosophy, Paris Nanterre University) and François Dermange (Department of Theology, University of Geneva) • Winner of the 2020 Jeanne Hersch Prize in Ethics or Moral Philosophy (Fondation Arditi) Sept. 2011 – June 2012 Free University of Brussels, Institute of European Studies (Brussels, Belgium) Complementary MA in Multidisciplinary Analysis of the European Construction – Magna cum Laude Sept. 2009 – June 2011 Free University of Brussels, Department of Philosophy and Letters (Brussels, Belgium) MA in Ethics – Politics, Law, Media – Summa cum Laude • Dissertation: La reconnaissance du génocide des Arméniens. Une approche reconstructive. Director: Jean-Marc Ferry (Department of Philosophy and Letters, Free University of Brussels) • Winner of the Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca Prize for Excellence -) Sept. 2006 – June 2009 Free University of Brussels, Department of Philosophy and Letters (Brussels, Belgium) BA in Philosophy – Magna cum Laude • Erasmus at Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid, Spain) (Sept. 2008- Feb. 2009) SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Monographs • Une perspective hégélienne sur l’analyse et la résolution des conflits identitaires contemporains (provisional title based on doctoral research), Brussels : Peter Lang, coll. Geopolitics and Conflict Resolution, expected end 2021. • L’éthique reconstructive à l’épreuve du conflit sur la reconnaissance du génocide des Arméniens, foreword by Ahmet Insel, Brussels: Fondation Boghossian (2013/2015). Chapters in collective works • “Go Down in history, Not Only as a Victim”, in Bruno Tardieu and Jean Tonglet (eds.), Rethinking our World from the Perspective of Poverty with Joseph Wresinski, foreword by Ruth Lister, Paris: Hermann (2020), pp. 41-46. • “Au-delà du statut de victime”, in Mireille Delmas-Marty and André Vauchez (eds.), Quand les plus pauvres deviennent acteurs, Paris: Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (2019), pp. 53-57. • “L’ethos européen, de la narration à la reconstruction”, in Antoine Arjakovski (ed.), Histoire de la conscience européenne, foreword by Herman van Rompuy, afterword by Rowan Williams, Paris: Salvator (2016), pp. 291-312. Articles in peer reviewed publications • “Les limites du statut de victime. Le cas de la coercition à des fins d’assistance en Suisse”, Etudes, n° 10 (October 2017), pp. 27-35. • “(Dés)espérance”, Perspectives protestantes, n° 5 (April 2017), pp. 31-35. Book reviews • John K. Roth, The Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018). Book review requested by Reading Religion, Sept. 2018.