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SUMMARY:FINAL GROUP DINNER
DESCRIPTION:(Location to be announced)
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/dinner/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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SUMMARY:CLOSING REMARKS: Terri Ginsberg (Rutgers University)
DESCRIPTION:Terri Ginsberg
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/closing-remarks/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T190000
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SUMMARY:KEYNOTE ADDRESS: "Islam\, the Arabs… and Spain" - Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work – In Memory of Dr. Jacqueline S. Ismael & Dr. Tareq Y. Ismael \nGonzalo Fernández Parrilla is the author of the literary travelogue Al sur de Tánger. Un viaje a las culturas de Marruecos (South from Tangiers. A Voyage to the Cultures of Morocco) (2022) in its seventh edition and translated into Arabic\, French\, English\, Italian and Persian. He is the author of La literatura marroquí contemporánea (Modern Moroccan Literature) (2006)\, and the co-editor of New Geographies: Texts and Contexts in Modern Arabic Literature (2018); Remembering for Tomorrow or Autobiografía y literatura árabe (2000).
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/possible-2nd-keynote-address-francesca-albanese/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T175000
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SUMMARY:Session 12B - Arab Futurism: On the Role of Imagination\, Chronopolitics\, and Futurism in Setting Alternative Political Agendas
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Julia Choucair Vizoso (Arab Reform Initiative) \nJulia Choucair Vizoso (Arab Reform Initiative) – Seed Sovereignty as Arab Futurism \nMariz Kelada (American University of Beirut) – Re-reading Arabic Sci-Fi Series and Films: Utilizing Crisis and Hijacking Futurity \nMalek Lakhal (Arab Reform Initiative / novelist) – The Politics of Waiting: Power\, Inequality\, and Temporal Control \nSarah Anne Rennick (American Graduate School in Paris) – Chronopolitics and Temporal Imaginaries: Time\, Agency\, and Political Dynamics
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-12b-arab-futurism-on-the-role-of-imagination-chronopolitics-and-futurism-in-setting-alternative-political-agendas/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T175000
DTSTAMP:20260729T011959
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260528T212244Z
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SUMMARY:Session 12 A - The Western Sahara Issue\, Caught between Aggressive Realpolitik and Weakened Multilateralism\, Panel 2: Plundering of Resources and the Normalization of Illegality
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Yahia Zoubir (Fudan University Scholar\, Shanghai) \nCarlos Ruiz Miguel (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) – The Economic Dimension of the Right to Self-determination: The Western Sahara Case \nVictoria Veguilla Del Moral (Universidad Pablo Olavide) – “Non-interference” or Neutrality as an Alibi for Participation in the Occupation Economy of the Western Sahara? \nRaquel Ojeda-García (Universidad de Granada) – The Exploitation of Natural Resources in Western Sahara in the Narratives of Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) \nIsaías Barreñada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid\, OUISO) – Western Sahara and Spain’s Contradictory Foreign Policy \nYolanda Blanco Souto (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) – Is There Still a Place for Africa in a Solution for Western Sahara?
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-12-a-the-western-sahara-issue-caught-between-aggressive-realpolitik-and-weakened-multilateralism-second-panel-proposal/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T155000
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SUMMARY:Session 11B - Roundtable : Locating Gender and Feminisms in the Middle East and North Africa: A New Handbook of Critical Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Randi Deguilhem (CNRS\, TELEMMe-MMSH\, Aix-Marseille University): « Educational systems\, literacy\, publishing and emergence of feminisms in the late Ottoman empire » \nNadia Al Bagdadi (Central European University\, Vienna): « Gendering the modern public sphere: perspectives on media and literature » \nBettina Dennerlein (University of Zurich): « Arab feminisms and human rights languages (1960s to 2011) » \nValentine Moghadam (Northeastern University\, Boston): « Varieties of Feminism in the Middle East and North Africa: A sociological and historical perspective »
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-11b-locating-gender-and-feminisms-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-a-new-handbook-of-critical-analysis/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T155000
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SUMMARY:Session 11A - ART EXHIBITION: The Phoenix of GazaXR
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URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-11a-the-western-sahara-issue-caught-between-aggressive-realpolitik-and-weakened-multilateralism/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T125000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T140000
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SUMMARY:Lunch
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URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/lunch-3/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T110000
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SUMMARY:Session 10B - New Venues in Arab Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Thomas Richard (Boston University / Université de Paris 1) \nMathilde Rouxel (Université Aix-Marseille) – A Look Back at Militant Films \nThomas Richard (Boston University/Université de Paris 1) – Arab Women’s Portrayal and Militancy Re-examined
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-10b-new-venues-in-arab-cinema/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T110000
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SUMMARY:Session 10A - Institutions\, Power\, Law and Religion in the SWANA Region
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Chris Lippard (University of Utah) \nMarianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln) – The Impact of Institutionalisation on Irregular Armies: The Case of the Peshmerga Forces in the Kurdistan Region-Iraq (KRI) \nMelania Brito-Clavijo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) – Religion in Foreign Policy: Theoretical Approaches and the Transnational Projection of Moroccan State Islam \nKamal Abdullah Hassan (University of Sulaimani) – The Future of the Iraqi Political System in Light of Regional Changes after 2023
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-10a-teaching-palestine-in-iberia-internationalism-resistance-against-fascism-zionism-imperialism-from-haifa-to-albacete/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T125000
DTSTAMP:20260729T011959
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SUMMARY:Session 10C - Géopolitique des migrations artistiques en région MENA: Panel 2
DESCRIPTION:Chair : Alejandra Val Cubero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) \nJaouad Serghini and Maria Bouzine (Université Mohammed 1er\, Oujda) – Corps homosexuel et esthétique de l’excès en contexte d’émigration \nAlejandra Val Cubero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) – A Moroccan Filmmaker in Spain: Tarik al Idrissi \nElie Yazbek and Pamela Nassour (Université St-Joseph\, Beyrouth) – Cinematic Migrations. Trajectories of Lebanese Filmmakers and Technicians between Lebanon\, France\, and Canada (1990–today)
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-8b-geopolitique-des-migrations-artistiques-en-region-mena-panel-2/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T105000
DTSTAMP:20260729T011959
CREATED:20260114T104618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T181733Z
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SUMMARY:Session 9B - Roundtable: Weaponized AI and the Ethics of Silence: Gaza as the Defining Case for Responsible AI
DESCRIPTION:Chair/participant: Naim Aburaddi (University of Colorado\, Boulder) \nAhlam Muhtaseb (California State University\, San Bernardino) \nGregory Gondwe (Harvard University)
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-9b-weaponized-ai-and-the-ethics-of-silence-gaza-as-the-defining-case-for-responsible-ai/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T105000
DTSTAMP:20260729T011959
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SUMMARY:Session 9A - Imperial Realities: Genocide\, Carcerality\, Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Ali H. Musleh (University of California\, Davis) \nFerial Menaifi (Salah Boubnider University) – Gaza Under Fire\, Algiers on the Diplomatic Front: Algeria’s Role in the Palestinian Resistance Post-October 2023 \nZarefah Baroud (University of Exeter) – The Role of Carcerality in Israel’s Settler Elimination Project\, Then and Now \nAli H. Musleh (University of California\, Davis) – The Question of Genocide \nYousef Baker (California State University\, Long Beach) – The Colonial Present: Performing Legality and Death in America\, Iran\, and Gaza
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-9a-resistance-carcerality-deportation/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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