Beirut Conference Panels
Published on: Sep 22, 2004

Friday, October 22, 11:15 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.

Conflict, Collective Action and Mobilization (Room 204)

  • Chair: Semsa Ozar (Bogazici University)
  • Marie Le Ray — War, place and voice: Reconstructing a public sphere around "contested spaces"
  • Hanne Kirstine Adriansen — The Emergence of Public Spheres in Egypt's New Lands?
  • Mona Fawaz — The State and the Production of Illegal Housing: Public Practices in Hayy el Sellom, Beirut-Lebanon
  • Nadia Latif — Collectivity, Conflict and Lived Experience: Community in a Refugee Camp
  • Zeynep Gambetti — Conflict, "Commun-ication" and the Role of Collective Action in the Formation of Public Spheres


Questioning the Modern and the Secular (Room 301)

  • Chair: Michael Fischer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Edward Webb — The Subject of Secularization: Ambiguities in the Transformation of the Public and Private Spheres in Early Republican Turkey
  • Denise Davidson — Visibility, Gender, and Social Interaction in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris
  • Andreas Langenohl — The Public Sphere and the Crisis of the Critical Representation: Jurgen Habermas meets postcolonial theory
  • Driss Maghraoui — The Ambiguities of Secularism in Morocco
  • Michael Gasper — Five Peasant Characters in Search of Bourgeois Identity: Public Deliberations of Egyptian Identity in the 1890s


Torture, Resistance, and the Making of New Public Spheres in the Middle East (Auditorium B1)

  • Chair: Rosemary Sayigh (independent researcher)
  • Lisa Hajjar — Torture is a Crime-Always, Everywhere
  • Khalid Medani — Globalization and Resistance? Informal markets and the rise of Islamic militancy in an informal neighborhood in Cairo
  • Garay Menicucci — Sexualized torture: Images, exposure, and human rights discourses
  • Paul Amar — Cosmopolitan Brutalities of Urban Security: Race/Sex globalization and policing in Rio de Janeiro and Cairo
  • Viola Shafik — Countering the Siege or How to Assess the Virtual Intifada




Saturday, October 23, 9:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.

The Public Space of the Private Sphere: Domestic Employment in Middle Eastern Households (Room 204)

  • Chair: Homa Hoodfar (Concordia University)
  • Annelies Moors — Migrant Domestic Workers: Rethinking gender, the public sphere and the politics of presence
  • Rima Sabban — Domestic Workers and Media Discourse of Inclusion and Exclusion in UAE
  • Ray Jureidini — Deference and Authority: The Allocation of Public Space in the Private Sphere and Private Space in the Public Sphere for Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
  • Ferhunde Ozbay — Nationalism and the Emergence of Republican Elite Women in Turkey: an Old Tale of Interdependence of Public/Private Spheres
  • Hana Jaber — Agents and Advertising of Domestic Workers in Jordan


Authority and Public Space in Iran (Room 301)

  • Chair: Mojtaba Sadria (Chuo University)
  • Masserat Amir-Ebrahimi — Weblogs and the Emergence of a New Public Sphere in Iran
  • Azam Khatam — From Public Secret to Open Life Politics in Tehran
  • Ugur Komecoglu — Multifaceted or Fragmented Characteristic of Sociality in Public
  • Mojtaba Sadria — Public Sphere and Cultural Social Movements
  • Parviz Piran — Youth Movement in Iran: Capturing the Public Sphere


Transnational and Diasporic Public Sphere (Room 315)

  • Chair: Seteney Shami (Social Science Research Council)
  • Noor-aiman Khan — Students on Soapboxes: The Metropole in Anti-Colonial Nationalist Activity
  • Alan McPherson — Defining Anti-Americanism in the Public Sphere: Lessons from Twentieth-Century Latin America
  • Caner Dogan — Politics and Publics Across Networks: A Case on Dam Politics in Munzur Valley, Turkey
  • Matthijs van den Bos — Online Dutch-Iranian (Transnational) Networks


Cities, Semiotics and Spaces of Sociability (Auditorium B1)

  • Chair: Maher Jarrar (American University of Beirut)
  • Selma Ozkocak — Coffeehouses: The Emergence of a Public Sphere in Early Modern Istanbul
  • Khaled Ziadeh — The Struggle for the Public Square in Tripoli, Lebanon
  • Renate Dieterich — More than Movies -- Cinema PETRA in Amman during the Mandatory Period
  • Vincent Battesti — Change in the Uses of Urban Public Spaces by Cairo People (with a special focus on a public garden)
  • Martina Rieker — The Spatiality of the Public Sphere in the Middle East/North Africa




Saturday, October 23, 11:15 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.

Tourism, Historical Representation and Transient Publics (Room 204)

  • Chair: Tarif Khalidi (American University of Beirut)
  • Rami Farouk Daher — Domains of Heritage in Bilad al Sham: Places, Actors and Agents "Where are the Publics?"
  • Mike Robinson — 'Awrence Slept Here: Tourist Experiences of Colonial Histories in a Syrian Hotel
  • Vida Bajc — Walking the Holy Land: Pilgrimage Encounters as Communicative Practices


Visuality, Nationalization and the Public Sphere in Comparative Perspective (Room 301)

  • Chair: Fawwaz Traboulsi (Lebanese American University)
  • Alev Cinar — Film as the Public Sphere: Secularism and the Image of the State in Turkish Cinema
  • Maha Yahya — Building Cities and Nations: Visual Practices in the Public Sphere in Comparative Perspective in India and Lebanon
  • Srirupa Roy — Seeing a State: National Commemorations and the Public Sphere in India and Turkey


Contested Publics, Counter Publics (Auditorium B1)

  • Chair: Edmund (Terry) Burke III (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  • Schirin Fathi — Ali Shariati's Use of a Traditional Venue for Unconventional Means: The Case of the Husseiniye Ershad
  • Haldun Gulalp — Dilemmas of Citizenship: The Bahai Community in Turkey
  • Plamen Makariev — Sub-Publics and the Cultural Incommensurability of Needs' Interpretations
  • Joseph E. Alagha — Hizbullah's Gradual Integration in the Lebanese Public Sphere




Sunday, October 24, 9:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.

War, Memory and Public Representations (Room 204)

  • Chair: Dwight Reynolds (Universidad de Granada)
  • Serguei Oushakine — Local Wars and Private Losses: Domesticating Trauma in a Russian Province
  • Sune Haugbolle — "One Day We'll be Looking Back at All This with Nostalgia": Memoirs and Public Testimonies of the Lebanese Civil War
  • Heiko P. Wimmen — New Nations, Imagined Borders--Engineering Public Space in Postwar Mostar/Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Ayse-Betul Celik — Reconstruction of Kurdish Public Spheres in the Post-Conflict Era
  • Walid Hamarneh — Violence, Public Sphere and the Institution of Literature: The Lebanese Civil War as Exemplum


National Publics, Democracy and Public Opinion (Room 301)

  • Chair: Riccardo Bocco (IUED, University of Geneva)
  • Cengiz Kirli — Public Opinion, Surveillance, and the Question of Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire
  • Eric Davis — The Historical Genesis of the Public Sphere in Iraq, 1900-1963: Implications for Building Democracy in the Post-Ba'thist Era
  • Abbas Vali — The Political Authority, Law and the Discursive Limits of the Development of the Public Sphere in Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Michaelle Browers — The Theorization of Gender and its Absence in Arab Debates over Civil Society


Negotiating the Public and the Private (Auditorium B1)

  • Chair: Samir Khalaf (American University of Beirut)
  • Ghazi-Walid Falah and Colin Flint — Geopolitical Spaces: The Dialectic of Public and Private Space in the Palestine/Israel Conflict
  • Sofian Merabet — Creating Queer Space in Beirut: Zones of Encounter on the Border of an Assumed Private and Public Sphere
  • Zakia Salime — Before Entering the Public Sphere: Islamist Women, Publics, Spaces and Debates about Women's Rights in Morocco
  • Ratiba Hadj-Moussa — Gender Relations, Publicness and New Media in the Maghreb
  • Nukhet Sirman — The Constitution of Relations between Strangers in Turkey




Sunday, October 24, 11:15 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.

Socio-Religious Movements and the Transformation of the Public Sphere: Palestine, Lebanon and Beyond (Room 204)

  • Chair: Khaldoun al-Naqeeb (Kuwait University)
  • Mark Levine and Armando Salvatore — A Framework for the Study of Socio-Religious Movements in the Public Sphere
  • May Jayyusi — Subjectivity and Public Witness: An Analysis of Islamic Militance in Palestine
  • Lara Deeb — Gender, Piety, and the Reconstruction of the Public Sphere in a Lebanese Shi'i Community
  • Dyala Hamza — Intifada's Fida': Suicide or Martyrdom? (Trans) Nationalist Icons, Islamic Consultation and the "Arab Public Sphere"


Changing Media, Dialogics and the Construction of Citizenship (Room 301)

  • Chair: Samir Saikaly (American Univesity of Beirut)
  • Michelle U. Campos — Lisan al-sha'b: The Press and the Public Sphere in Revolutionary Palestine, 1908-14
  • Franck Mermier — Beirut as an Arab Public Sphere? The Case of the Publishing Sector
  • Bahiyyih W. Maroon — National Projections and Emergent Forms of Moral Citizenship in the Wired Public of Morocco
  • Nazan Ustundag — The Role of the Dramas of Corruption and Poverty in the Constitution of a Neo-Liberal Regime
  • Ayse Oncu — The Realm of Public Chatter


Cities, Performance and Mobility (Auditorium B1)

  • Chair: Mona Abaza (American University in Cairo)
  • Scott Morrison — The Semiotics of the Ordinary: the Architecture, Print and Performance of the Syrian-Lebanese Public in Sao Paolo
  • Deniz Yukseker — From Visibility to Invisibility: Internally displaced Kurds in Diyarbakir and Istanbul
  • Nicolas Puig — Wedding Music in Cairo: Music world and public sphere


 
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