Battling Memory: Three Women’s Testimonials of the Battle of Algiers Inaugural Pettis Lecture at Kansas State University March 23, 2016 Dr Amy L. Hubbell University of Queensland Thanks to Melinda Cro and Derek Hillard for inviting me to speak and organizing the lecture. Thank you to my colleagues in Modern Languages for the warm welcome back in Manhattan and especially to Claire Dehon for her support and mentorship and to Bob Corum for being here as a friend and colleague. Warning: shocking violent images. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oAtMMvnDy0 Battle of Algiers Part B [2 Milk Bar bombing scenes - wrong terrorist, right place] clip 1 0m37-1m21 AND all clip 2 Zohra Drif, one of the notorious heroines of the Front de Libération Nationale’s independence movement during the Algerian War, has in the last fifteen years been frequently recreated in literature and film. Drif, who is now a retired lawyer and politician in Algeria as well as the author of her own memoires, planted a bomb in the Milk Bar in Algiers on September 30, 1956 [slide Milk Bar] which killed three people, wounded fifty and left twelve maimed—all were civilians. This terrorist act, famously depicted in Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 film The Battle of Algiers [slide film] is often viewed as a heroic measure instrumental in the eventual independence of Algeria. The 2008 documentary film Les Porteuses de feu (literally “Fire carriers”) directed by