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  • Welcome speech

    By Alejandra Val Cubero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Ellen Perrault, Dean, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary

  • Opening Remarks

    By Ibrahim G. Aoudé (University of Hawai‘i)

  • Session 1A -The Ottoman Roots of Modern Iraq

    Chair: Thabit A. J. Abdullah (York University) Alda Benjamen (University of Dayton) – The Bazaar of Alqosh in the 19th–mid-20th Centuries Sara Farhan (University of North British Columbia) – Heroic Argot: Medico-Cultural Microhistory and the Technocratic Imaginary of an Iraqi Nahdawi Naz Yücel – (Independent Scholar) – Governing Property in Basra in the Late Ottoman Empire: […]

  • Session 1B – The Censorship of Palestinian Art in Museums and Academia post-October 7, 2023

    Chair : Nada Shabout (University of North Texas) Dina Ramadan (Bard College/Center for Curatorial Studies) – When Genocide Is Not Academic Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert (Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University) – “The Integrity of the Exhibit”: On Art, Censorship, and Palestine in America Rachel Winter (curator, art historian, author) – “Activism,” Academic Freedom, and […]

  • Session 2A – Turkey and Iran: Past and Present in their Relationships with the United Kingdom

    Chair : Valentina Sommella (University of Perugia) Michele Brunelli (University of Bergamo) – Between History and Prospects: Anglo-Iranian Relations between Propaganda and Geopolitical Opportunities Nicola Melis (University of Cagliari) – Echoes of Empire: Ottoman Legacies and the Struggle for Sovereignty in a Changing Imperial Landscape Christian Rossi (University of Cagliari) – British Foreign Politics beyond […]

  • Session 2B – The Western Sahara Issue, Caught between Aggressive Realpolitik and Weakened Multilateralism, Panel 1: Limited Multilateralism in the Face of Occupation

    Chair: Isaías Barreñada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, OUISO) Yahia Zoubir (Fudan University Scholar, Shanghai) – Prevention of Western Sahara from Exercising the Right to Self-Determination: The Negative Game of Western Powers María López Belloso (Universidad de Deusto, San Sebastián, Basque Country) – Measuring Legal Entropy to Trace the Turning Point of Multilateralism: Insights from the Western […]

  • Session 3A – Empire and the Politics of Waqf Endowments in the Middle East and North Africa

    Chair: Musa Sroor (Birzeit University) Musa Sroor (Birzeit University) – The Problematic of the Sacred and the Material in the Relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Waqf of Al-Aqsa Mosque Randi Deguilhem (CNRS, TELEMMe-MMSH, Aix-Marseille University) – Weaponizing Waqf: The French Mandate’s Agenda to Dismantle the Waqf Endowment System in Syria (1920–46) Ouddène Boughoufala […]

  • Session 3B – Cultures and Geographies of (De)Colonization

    Chair : Norma M. Rantisi (Concordia University) Farbod Honarpisheh (Connecticut College) – From 1979, Parviz Kimiavi’s OK Mister: On the Comings and Goings of Oil Brokers, Orientalists, and Masses Rehab Nazzal (Dar Al-Kalima University) and Norma Rantisi (Concordia University) -Bulldozer Colonial Planning, Campicide and Resistance in the Northern West Bank Tayri Paz García Medina (Universidad […]

  • Session 4A – Iraqi Politics and Economy

    Chair : Sherzad Ahmed Ameen Al-Najjar (University of Salahaddin – Erbil) Joseph Sassoon (Georgetown University) – Iraq’s Three Wars Kamal Abdullah Hassan (University of Sulaimani) – The Future of the Iraqi Political System in Light of Regional Changes after 2023 Sherzad Ahmed Ameen Al-Najjar (University of Salahaddin – Erbil) – The Role of the Constitution […]

  • Session 4B – Palestine and Cinema

    Chair: Terri Ginsberg (Rutgers University) Terri Ginsberg (Rutgers University) – Unspoken Zionism in Hollywood Films: Another Hermeneutics of Suspicion Chris Lippard (University of Utah) – Animals as Referents in some Documentary Accounts of Palestinian Exclusion Dareen Hussein (Ohio State University) -Infrastructures of Solidarity: Film Festivals, Movie Magazines, and the Palestinian Struggle Hadil Abuhmaid (Independent Scholar) […]

  • Session 5A -EU-Arab Partnership, EU Sanctions against MENA Countries, and EU Intervention in MENA Heritage Reconstruction

    Chair/Discussant: Ibrahim G. Aoudé (University of Hawai‘i) Víctor Luis Gutiérrez Castillo (University of Jaén) – The New Cooperation between the European Union and the Arab League Aims for a Rapprochement: Towards a More Solid Euro-Arab Partnership? Rabia M’Rabet Temsamani (Universidad Internacional de la UNIA) – Critical Analysis of the Sanctions of the European Union against […]

  • Session 5B – Monumental Baghdad: The Complexities of Public Art in the City of Peace

    Chair: Tiffany Floyd (University of North Texas) Nada Shabout (University of North Texas) – New Narratives: Monumental Renovation and Cultural Consumption Tiffany Floyd (University of North Texas) – Legendary Baghdad: Ghani’s City of Monuments Peter Wien (University of Maryland) – Monumental Art, Totalitarian Storytelling, and the Persistence of Narrative Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University) – Ghosts […]

  • Session 6A – Roundtable: The Reordering of the “Middle East Region”

    Chair: Moncef Khaddar (Cyprus International University, Northern Cyprus) Elizabeth Bishop (International University of Iraq – Baghdad) Emad Eldin A. Shahin (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar) Rabab Abdulhadi (San Francisco State University) Wojciech Forysinski (Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus) Nur Köprülü (Near East University, Northern Cyprus) Abdullah Ahmed Rais Alkatheri (Near East University, Northern Cyprus) Session […]

  • 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 […]

  • ROUNDTABLE: MEMORIAL TO TAREQ AND JACQUELINE ISMAEL

    Sponsored by the University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work – In Memory of Dr. Jacqueline S. Ismael & Dr. Tareq Y. Ismael (A light lunch will be provided to participants and attendees of this session.)

  • Session 7B – Géopolitique des migrations artistiques en région MENA: Panel 1

    Chair : Patricia Caillé (Université de Strasbourg) Azza Chaabouni (ISAMM – Université de la Manouba) – Création en mouvement: Trajectoires migratoires et pratiques cinématographiques au sein du collectif Rawiyat-SIF. Le cas des réalisatrices: Erige Sehiri (France-Tunisie) et Zoulikha Tahar (Algérie) Patricia Caillé (Université de Strasbourg) – Migration and Film Training among Third-Generation Tunisian Filmmakers Ons […]

  • Session 7A – Genocide, Sumud, and Empir

    Chair and Discussant: Yousef Baker (California State University, Long Beach) Salam Mir (Independent Researcher) – Israel’s Genocide against Gaza Tahrir Hamdi (Arab Open University, Jordan) – Palestinian Sumud: From the Everyday to the Political to the Theoretical Ramzi Baroud (Istanbul Zaim University) – The Transformative Power of Sumoud: Reconceptualizing the Palestinian Struggle Through Gaza Ibrahim […]

  • Session 8B – Géopolitique des migrations artistiques en région MENA: Panel 2

    Chair : Alejandra Val Cubero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Elie Yazbek and Pamela Nassour (Université St-Joseph, Beyrouth) – Cinematic Migrations. Trajectories of Lebanese Filmmakers and Technicians between Lebanon, France, and Canada (1990–today) Raluca Calin (Université de Lyon 3) – Migration des Européens au Maghreb – Parcours et apports des technicien.nes Jaouad Serghini and Maria […]

  • FILM SCREENINGS (location to-be-announced)

    Vibrations from Gaza / ذبذبات من غزة (Rehab Nazzal, Canada/Palestinian, 2023, 16 min.) preceded by Canada Park (Rehab Nazzal, Canada/Palestinian, 2015, 11 min.) Multimedia artist Rehab Nazzal will be present for Q&A. (Refreshments will be served.) Dr. Nazzal’s photographic and video exhibition, Driving in Palestine, curated by  Stefan St-Laurent (SAW Centre, Ottawa), will be on […]

  • Session 9A – Imperial Realities: Genocide, Carcerality, Resistance

    Chair: Ali H. Musleh (University of California, Davis) Ferial Menaifi (Salah Boubnider University) – Gaza Under Fire, Algiers on the Diplomatic Front: Algeria’s Role in the Palestinian Resistance Post-October 2023 Zarefah Baroud (University of Exeter) – The Role of Carcerality in Israel’s Settler Elimination Project, Then and Now Ali H. Musleh (University of California, Davis) […]

  • Session 10A – Institutions, Power, Law and Religion in the SWANA Region

    Chair: Chris Lippard (University of Utah) Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln) – The Impact of Institutionalisation on Irregular Armies: The Case of the Peshmerga Forces in the Kurdistan Region-Iraq (KRI) Melania Brito-Clavijo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) – Religion in Foreign Policy: Theoretical Approaches and the Transnational Projection of Moroccan State Islam

  • Session 10B – New Venues in Arab Cinema

    Chair: Thomas Richard (Boston University / Université de Paris 1) Stefanie Van de Peer (Trinity College Dublin) – “For the Self-Expression of the Arab Woman” (1978): A Feminist Cinematic Collaboration Mathilde Rouxel (Aix-Marseille University) – A Look Back at Militant Films Thomas Richard (Boston University/Université de Paris 1) – Arab Women’s Portrayal and Militancy Re-examined

  • Session 12 A – The Western Sahara Issue, Caught between Aggressive Realpolitik and Weakened Multilateralism, Panel 2: Plundering of Resources and the Normalization of Illegality

    Chair: Yahia Zoubir (Fudan University Scholar, Shanghai) Carlos Ruiz Miguel (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) – The Economic Dimension of the Right to Self-determination: The Western Sahara Case Victoria Veguilla De Moral (Universidad Pablo Olavide) – “Non-interference” or Neutrality as an Alibi for Participation in the Occupation Economy of the Western Sahara? Raquel Ojeda-García and […]

  • Session 12B – Arab Futurism: On the Role of Imagination, Chronopolitics, and Futurism in Setting Alternative Political Agendas

    Chair: Julia Choucair Vizoso (Arab Reform Initiative) Julia Choucair Vizoso (Arab Reform Initiative) – Seed Sovereignty as Arab Futurism Mariz Kelada (American University of Beirut) – Re-reading Arabic Sci-Fi Series and Films: Utilizing Crisis and Hijacking Futurity Malek Lakhal (Arab Reform Initiative / novelist) – The Politics of Waiting: Power, Inequality, and Temporal Control Sarah […]