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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T190000
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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
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
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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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LAST-MODIFIED:20260511T175504Z
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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:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T133004Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T155000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T105529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260527T192022Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T125000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T155000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
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SUMMARY:Session 11A - ART EXHIBITION: The Phoenix of GazaXR
DESCRIPTION:
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T125000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T140000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T105315Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/lunch-3/
CATEGORIES:Day 3
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T125000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T125000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T105055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T210306Z
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T125000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T104125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T061407Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T105000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260612T105000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T104413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T213251Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T210000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T104250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260603T154412Z
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SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING and EXHIBITION OPENING at Casa Árabe
DESCRIPTION:Multimedia arts Rehab Nazzal’s photographic and video exhibition\, Driving in Palestine / التحرّك في فلسطین curated by Stefan St-Laurent (SAW Centre\, Ottawa) and sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts\, will be on display beginning on June 12 at the nearby Casa Árabe. \nDr. Nazzal will be present at the Opening for Q&A. \n(Refreshments will be served courtesy of the Canadian Embassy in Madrid)
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/film-screenings-casa-arabe-including-hors-doeuvres/
CATEGORIES:Day 2
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T171000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T190000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T104023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T102427Z
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SUMMARY:Session 8A - Roundtable : Genocide in Gaza : Eyewitness Testimony\, Legal Framing\, and  Paths to Accountability
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Samir Abed-Rabbo (Cambridge Center for Palestine Studies) \nKhalil Abu Shammala (Palestinian human rights activist\, Gaza)  \nMona Ali Khalil (Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict) \nSonia Boulos (Universidad Antonio de Nebrija\, Madrid) \nFrancesca P. Albanese (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967)
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-8a-genocide-in-gaza/
CATEGORIES:Day 2
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T170000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T103801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260520T164000Z
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SUMMARY:KEYNOTE ADDRESS : Richard Falk (University of California\, Santa Barbara)
DESCRIPTION:Moderator: Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University) Sponsored by the University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work – In Memory of Dr. Jacqueline S. Ismael & Dr. Tareq Y. Ismael \nRichard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara\, California\, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. \nFor more information: https://richardfalk.org/
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/keynote-address-richard-falk/
CATEGORIES:Day 2
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T155000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T103520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T165535Z
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SUMMARY:Session 7A - Genocide\, Sumud\, and Empire
DESCRIPTION:Chair and Discussant: Yousef Baker (California State University\, Long Beach) \nSalam Mir (Independent Researcher) – Israel’s Genocide against Gaza \nTahrir Hamdi (Arab Open University\, Jordan) – Palestinian Sumud: Survival\, Resistance\, and Hope for Liberation \nIbrahim G. Aoudé (University of Hawai‘i) – Palestine\, Genocide\, and Empire
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-7a-genocide-sumud-and-empir/
CATEGORIES:Day 2
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T155000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T103630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260603T134038Z
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SUMMARY:Session 7B - Géopolitique des migrations artistiques en région MENA: Panel 1
DESCRIPTION:Chair : Patricia Caillé (Université de Strasbourg) \nAzza 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) \nPatricia Caillé (Université de Strasbourg\, LinCS UMR 7069) – Migration and Film Training among Third-Generation Filmmakers in Tunisia \nOns Kamoun (ESAC\, Tunis) – Voix nomades du regard critique: itinéraires migratoires de penseurs tunisiens du cinéma \nEmna Mrabet (Université de Paris 8) – Parcours diasporique et trajectoire artistique de cinéastes tunisiens
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/geopolitique-des-migrations-artistiques-en-region-mena-panel-1/
CATEGORIES:Day 2
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T125000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T135500
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T103356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T174342Z
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SUMMARY:ROUNDTABLE: MEMORIAL TO TAREQ AND JACQUELINE ISMAEL
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work –\nIn Memory of Dr. Jacqueline S. Ismael & Dr. Tareq Y. Ismael\n(A light lunch will be provided to participants and attendees of this session.)
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/lunch-2/
CATEGORIES:Day 2
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T125000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T103308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260520T163315Z
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SUMMARY:Session 6B - Histories and Practices of Cultural Exploitation
DESCRIPTION:Chair : Claire Begbie (Concordia University) \nFatima Bahja (University of Texas at Austin) – Instagram Cooking as Affective Practice: Globalizing the Arab Home through Mama’s Voice \nPelle Valentin Olsen (University of Bergen) – Idle Days and Nights: Leisure\, Entertainment\, and Everyday Life in Mandate Iraq \nIman Hamam (South-centered Image and Media Association) – The Myth of Fiction: Ibn Arabi’s Barzakh and the Problematics of Science Fiction
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-6b-histories-and-practices-of-cultural-exploitation/
CATEGORIES:Day 2
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T125000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T103128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260605T121258Z
UID:184-1781175600-1781182200@iamesconference2026.com
SUMMARY:Session 6A - Roundtable: The Reordering of the “Middle East Region”
DESCRIPTION:Chair: M. Moncef Khaddar (Cyprus International University\, Northern Cyprus) \nElizabeth Bishop (American University of Iraq-Baghdad) \nRabab Abdulhadi (San Francisco State University) \nWojciech Forysinski (Eastern Mediterranean University\, Northern Cyprus) \nNur Köprülü (Near East University\, Northern Cyprus) \nSession in honor of Tareq Ismael
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-6a-the-reordering-of-the-middle-east-region/
CATEGORIES:Day 2
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T105000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T102824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260421T163331Z
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SUMMARY:Session 5B - Monumental Baghdad: The Complexities of Public Art in the City of Peace
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Tiffany Floyd (University of North Texas) \nNada Shabout (University of North Texas) – New Narratives: Monumental Renovation and Cultural Consumption \nTiffany Floyd (University of North Texas) – Legendary Baghdad: Ghani’s City of Monuments \nZainab Bahrani (Columbia University) – Ghosts of the Gates of Baghdad: Monuments\, Colonialism and Spatial Transformation in Early Twentieth Century Iraq \nSession in honor of Tareq Ismael
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-5b-monumental-baghdad-the-complexities-of-public-art-in-the-city-of-peace/
CATEGORIES:Day 2
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260611T105000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T102715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T214704Z
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SUMMARY:Session 5A -EU-Arab Partnership\, EU Sanctions against MENA Countries\, and EU Intervention in MENA Heritage Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:Chair/Discussant: Ibrahim G. Aoudé (University of Hawai‘i) \nVíctor 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? \nRabia M’Rabet Temsamani (Universidad Internacional de la UNIA) – Critical Analysis of the Sanctions of the European Union against the MENA Countries \nVictoria Quirosa García (University of Jaén) – The European Union’s Intervention in Heritage Reconstruction Processes in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Countries in Conflict
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-5a-eu-arab-partnership-eu-sanctions-against-mena-countries-and-eu-intervention-in-mena-heritage-reconstruction/
CATEGORIES:Day 2
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T164000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T183000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T102417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T205349Z
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SUMMARY:Session 4B - Palestine and Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Terri Ginsberg (Rutgers University) \nTerri Ginsberg (Rutgers University) – Unspoken Zionism in Hollywood Films: Another Hermeneutics of Suspicion \nChris Lippard (University of Utah) – Animals as Referents in some Documentary Accounts of Palestinian Exclusion \nDareen Hussein (Ohio State University) -Infrastructures of Solidarity: Film Festivals\, Movie Magazines\, and the Palestinian Struggle \n 
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-4b-palestine-and-cinema/
CATEGORIES:Day 1
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T164000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T183000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T102252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T205547Z
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SUMMARY:Session 4A - Iraqi Politics and Economy
DESCRIPTION:Chair : Sherzad Ahmed Ameen Al-Najjar (University of Salahaddin – Erbil) \nJoseph Sassoon (Georgetown University) – Iraq’s Three Wars \nSherzad Ahmed Ameen Al-Najjar (University of Salahaddin – Erbil) – The Role of the Constitution in Political Transformations in Iraq: Why Was the Constitution Not Implemented? A Case Study of Iraq 1921–2025 \nSession in honor of Tareq Ismael
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-4a-iraqi-politics-and-economy/
CATEGORIES:Day 1
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T144000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T163000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
CREATED:20260114T101932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T215044Z
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SUMMARY:Session 3B - Cultures and Geographies of (De)Colonization
DESCRIPTION:Chair : Norma M. Rantisi (Concordia University) \nRehab Nazzal (Dar Al-Kalima University) and Norma Rantisi (Concordia University) -Bulldozer Colonial Planning\, Campicide and Resistance in the Northern West Bank \nTayri Paz García Medina (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)\, Loreto García Saiz \n(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Fidel Enciso Duran (University of Amsterdam) –\nColonial Gaze and Archival Practices: Spanish Colonial Home Movies Filmed in Western Sahara \nLucía Aisha Tembrás Guimarey (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) – State Islamophobia and Self-Criminalization in Muslim Communities in Spain: An Intersectional and Decolonial Theoretical Framework
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-3b-cultures-and-geographies-of-decolonization/
CATEGORIES:Day 1
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T144000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T163000
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SUMMARY:Session 3A - Empire and the Politics of Waqf Endowments in the Middle East and North Africa
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Musa Sroor (Birzeit University)\n\nMusa 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\n\nRandi Deguilhem (CNRS\, TELEMMe-MMSH\, Aix-Marseille University) – Weaponizing Waqf: The French Mandate’s Agenda to Dismantle the Waqf Endowment System in Syria (1920–46)\n\nOuddène Boughoufala (Ibn Khaldoun University\, Tiaret\, Algeria) – Local Family\nStrategies in the Context of Empire: Family and Genealogy in Medea and Miliana Based\non Ottoman Archives of Algeria\n\nMohammadreza Neyestani (Researcher\, TELEMMe-MMSH\, Aix-Marseille University) – The Waqf System in Safavid Persia (Iran)\n\nSalem Salah (Independent Researcher\, Tunisia/France) – The Management Policy of Waqf Foundations in Tunis at the End of the Ottoman Period: From Local Management to Centralization (1875–1881)
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-3a-empire-and-the-politics-of-waqf-endowments-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/
CATEGORIES:Day 1
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T144000
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SUMMARY:Lunch
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URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/lunch/
CATEGORIES:Day 1
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T114000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T133000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
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SUMMARY:Session 2B - The Western Sahara Issue\, Caught between Aggressive Realpolitik and Weakened Multilateralism\, Panel 1: Limited Multilateralism in the Face of Occupation
DESCRIPTION:Chair: Isaías Barreñada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid\, OUISO) \nYahia Zoubir (Fudan University Scholar\, Shanghai) – Prevention of Western Sahara from Exercising the Right to Self-Determination: The Negative Game of Western Powers \nMaría López Belloso (Universidad de Deusto\, San Sebastián\, Basque Country) – Measuring Legal Entropy to Trace the Turning Point of Multilateralism: Insights from the Western Sahara Case \nFarah Dih (New York University\, Madrid) – More than a Tent: The Role of the Jaima in the Sahrawi Culture \nConsuelo Wynter Sarmiento (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) – Sahrawi Digital Resistance against Algorithmic Realpolitik: Narratives\, Legitimacy\, and Global Dissent
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-2b-challenging-the-cultural-erasure-of-palestine-in-the-north-american-context/
CATEGORIES:Day 1
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T114000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260610T133000
DTSTAMP:20260729T001316
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SUMMARY:Session 2A - Turkey and Iran: Past and Present in their Relationships with the United Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:Chair : Valentina Sommella (University of Perugia) \nMichele Brunelli (University of Bergamo) – Between History and Prospects: Anglo-Iranian Relations between Propaganda and Geopolitical Opportunities \nNicola Melis (University of Cagliari) – Echoes of Empire: Ottoman Legacies and the Struggle for Sovereignty in a Changing Imperial Landscape \nChristian Rossi (University of Cagliari) – British Foreign Politics beyond Brexit towards Iran and Turkey
URL:https://iamesconference2026.com/event/session-2a-turkey-and-iran-past-and-present-in-their-relationships-with-the-united-kingdom/
CATEGORIES:Day 1
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