When:
Thursday, October 22, 2015
10:00 AM - 6:30 PM CT
Where: Scott Hall, 601 University Place, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Cost: free
Contact:
Lexy Gore
(847) 467-5314
Group: Middle East and North African Studies
Category: Lectures & Meetings
The Program in Middle East and North African Studies (MENA) will be holding its inaugural conference, “Theorizing Transformations in the Middle East and North Africa,” from October 21-24, 2015. During conference proceedings, national and international scholars will discuss scholarship of the modern Middle East, critiquing and expanding upon existing models in addition to proposing new approaches for understanding the rich and complex region through a wide variety of lenses and methodologies.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22
Session 2: States, Territories, Citizens
10:00 am – 12:00 noon
Guild Lounge, Scott Hall, 601 University Place
Panel Chair: Katherine Hoffman, Associate Professor of Anthropology and MENA, Northwestern
Kevin Martin, Indiana University: “A State without Citizens: The Tragedy of Syrian History”
Mezna Qato, University of Cambridge: “Lessons in Exile: Palestinian Refugees, Territoriality, and Settler-Colonial Reverberations “
Michelle Campos, University of Florida: “‘Unmixing' the Holy City: Historicizing Urban Sectarianism in Jerusalem Digitally and Textually”
Session 3: Media, Politics
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Guild Lounge, Scott Hall, 601 University Place
Panel Chair: Hamid Naficy, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor in Communication, Professor of Radio/Television/Film and MENA, Northwestern
Ibtissam Bouachrine, Smith College: “Women, Islam, Film, and Privilege”
Roxane Farmanfarmaian, University of Cambridge: “Youth and Social Media Use in Political Transition in Tunisia and Turkey”
Session 4: Neoliberalism, Political Action
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Guild Lounge, Scott Hall, 601 University Place
Panel Chair: Wendy Pearlman, Associate Professor of Political Science and MENA, Northwestern
Sarah Tobin, Brown University: “Neoliberal Piety: From Islamic Economics to Economized Islam”
Zakia Salime, Rutgers University: “The Uprisings and Their Margins: Legible, Illegible Bodies”
Plenary: Asef Bayat, University of Illinois: “Revolutions of Neoliberal Times”
5:30 pm
Guild Lounge, Scott Hall, 601 University Place
Introduction: Dilip Gaonkar, Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern
When:
Friday, October 23, 2015
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM CT
Where: McCormick Foundation Center, 1870 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Cost: free
Contact:
Lexy Gore
(847) 467-5314
Group: Middle East and North African Studies
Category: Lectures & Meetings
The Program in Middle East and North African Studies (MENA) will be holding its inaugural conference, “Theorizing Transformations in the Middle East and North Africa,” from October 21-24, 2015. During conference proceedings, national and international scholars will discuss scholarship of the modern Middle East, critiquing and expanding upon existing models in addition to proposing new approaches for understanding the rich and complex region through a wide variety of lenses and methodologies.
Session 5: Sovereignties
9:30 am- 11:00 am
McCormick Tribune Forum, 1870 Campus Drive
Panel Chair: Henri Lauzière, Assistant Professor of History and MENA, Northwestern
Andrea Stanton, University of Denver: “Rethinking Sovereignty through a Levantine Lens”
Alice Wilson, Durham University: “Remaking Sovereignty in the Sahara: People, Territory and State Power in the Western Sahara Conflict”
Plenary: Marwan Kraidy, University of Pennsylvania: “Burning Man and Laughing Cow: Theorizing the Arab Uprisings Through the Body”
11:00 am- 12:00 noon
McCormick Tribune Forum, 1870 Campus Drive
Introduction: Hamid Naficy, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor in Communication, Professor of Radio/Television/Film and MENA, Northwestern
Session 6: Margins and the Marginalized
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
McCormick Tribune Forum, 1870 Campus Drive
Panel Chair: Jessica Winegar, Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Chair, Associate Professor in Anthropology and MENA, Northwestern
Darryl Li, Yale University: “Mercenaries and Morality: Notes on Migrant Military Labor in the Trucial States”
Miriam Lowi, College of New Jersey: “Identity, Community, and the Foreigner in Gulf Oil Monarchies”
Plenary: Judith Tucker, Georgetown University: “Pirates and Power: Transformations on the Middle East Margins”
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
McCormick Tribune Forum, 1870 Campus Drive
Introduction: Carl Petry, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor in Middle East Studies, Professor of History and MENA, Northwestern
Closing Session:
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
McCormick Tribune Forum, 1870 Campus Drive
Remarks:
Daniel Linzer, Northwestern Provost
Henry Bienen, Northwestern President Emeritus
Plenary: Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah, Oxford University: “Gone with the Wind? Four Years After the Arab Spring”
Reception to Follow