Session 6B – Histories and Practices of Cultural Exploitation

Chair : Claire Begbie (Concordia University)

• Fatima Bahja (University of Texas at Austin) – Instagram Cooking as Affective Practice: Globalizing the Arab Home through Mama’s Voice
  Pelle Valentin Olsen (University of Bergen) – Idle Days and Nights: Leisure, Entertainment, and Everyday Life in Mandate Iraq
  Isabelle Freda (New York University / City University of New York) – Unwatchable?: Spectatorship, Catastrophe, and Gaza
  Iman Hamam (South-centered Image and Media Association) – The Myth of Fiction: Ibn Arabi’s Barzakh and the Problematics of Science Fiction