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

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

Chair: Thabit A. J. Abdullah (York University) Alda Benjamen (University of Dayton) – The Bazaar of Alqosh in the 19th–mid-20thCenturies Sara Farhan (University of North British Columbia) – Heroic Argot: Medico-CulturalMicrohistory and the Technocratic Imaginary of an Iraqi Nahdawi Naz Yücel – (National Museum of Qatar, Qatar Museums) – Governing Property in Basra in the Late […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Chair : Norma M. Rantisi (Concordia University) 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 Carlos III de Madrid), Loreto García Saiz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Fidel Enciso Duran (University of Amsterdam) – Colonial Gaze […]

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 in […]

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) […]