Orient-Institut Beirut
October, 14 to October 15, 2015
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| Thursday, 15th October 2015 |
09:00-09:30 | Coffee |
09:30-10:00 | Welcome |
10:00-11:30 | Panel 1 – Chair: Miriam Catusse (IFPO) |
| Thomas Scheffler (Orient-Institut Beirut) Lebanon as a challenge to Weberian and Westphalian concepts of state |
| Antoine N. Messarra (Conseil constitutionnel | Université Saint-Joseph) Paradoxe ou réalité anthropologique ? Faiblesse et résistance de l’État au Liban |
11:30-11:45 | Coffee break |
11:45-13:15 | Panel 2 – Chair: Stefan Leder (OIB) |
| Edward Alam (Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh) More than a country: Existential reflections on the history of political society in Lebanon |
| Walid E. Moubarak (Lebanese American University) The National Dialogue of Lebanon: An experiment beyond mediation |
13:15-14:30 | Lunch break |
14:30-16:00 | Panel 3 – Chair: Achim Vogt (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Beirut) |
| Martin Beck(University of Southern Denmark, Odense) Revisiting the Lebanese state in the light of the ‘Arab Spring’: On the issue of external interference |
| Walid Hazbun(American University of Beirut) Assembling security in a ‘weak state’: The contentious politics of plural governance in Lebanon since 2005 |
16:00-16:15 | Coffee break |
16:15-17:45 | Panel 4 – Chair: Elizabeth Saleh (OIB) |
| Reinoud Leenders (King’s College, London) The first time as tragedy, the second as farce? Lebanon’s nascent petroleum sector and the risks of corruption |
| Sina Birkholz (Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700: “Governance in areas of limited statehood” | Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies) “I can’t imagine the [finance] ministry without them” – UNDP, EU and other donors’ roles in Lebanon’s hybrid governance constellation |
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| Friday, 16th October 2013 |
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09:30-10:00 | Coffee |
10:00-11:30 | Panel 5 – Chair: Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous (NDU) |
| Estella Carpi(Sydney / Abu Dhabi) Winking at humanitarian neutrality: Lebanese statehoods in emergency crises |
| Veronica Ferreri (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) On the porousness of warfare, bureaucracy and governmental practices in the shadow of the Syrian displacement in Lebanon |
11:30-11:45 | Coffee break |
11:45-13:15 | Panel 6 – Chair: Rita Sakr (OIB) |
| Fouad Gehad Marei (Free University of Berlin | Arab Council for the Social Sciences) Resistance, piety and city-making: Interrogating the state in Hezbollah’s capital of resistance |
| Nabil Nazha(University of Illinois at Chicago) Challenging Lebanon’s ethnocracy: The role of bottom-up movements in altering structural patterns of socio-political and spatial inequalities |
13:15-14:30 | Lunch break |
14:30-16:45 | Panel 7 – Chair: Sami Ofeish (Balamand) |
| André Sleiman (Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Beirut) Unpacking the Federalist ideology in Lebanon |
| Peter Sluglett (National University of Singapore) Pluralism on trial: difficult times for the “House of many Mansions” |
| Stefan Leder (Orient-Institut Beirut) Rhetoric of crisis against prospects of change |
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17:00-17:45 | Wrap-up session, concluding remarks |
Contact: Dr. Thomas Scheffler at scheffler@orient-institut.org
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