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Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War

International Conference

Orient-Institut Beirut

November, 29 to December 01, 2018

29 /11
to
01 /12

Program Abstracts and biographies CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Reconstructing Neighbourhoods of War

Postwar reconstruction has been and still is a vital concern of societies and states the world over. Taking a bottom-up approach and starting from the concept of neighborhood, both in its spatial and social dimensions, this international conference brings together historians, sociologists, activists, architects and city planners in order to learn from each other’s experiences, globally and comparatively. Cases range from the Middle East to Germany, the Balkans, Poland, and Japan.

Wednesday 28.11.

19:00

OPENING
Neighborhoods of Beirut: An Artist's View
Marwan Rechmaoui (Artist, Beirut)

Thursday 29.11.

09:15 – 09:30 

Registration

09:30 – 10:00

Welcome and Introduction 
Birgit Schäbler (Director, OIB)

Panel 1: The Importance of being Earnest about Neighborhoods

10:00 – 10:50 

Spontaneous Settlement, Social Reproduction, and Ethnic Identity in Homs
Kevin Mazur (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)

10:50 – 11:50

Mosul: Changing Neighborhoods and Neighborly Relations
Omar Mohammed and Angela Boskovitch (Mosul Eye)

11:50 – 13:20

Lunch Break

 

13:20 – 14:10

Spontaneous Reparation Practices in Beirut: Toward a New History of Post-War Reconstruction                                 
Mazen Haidar (Architect in Conservation, AHTEEP, Sorbonne)

Panel 2: Is There Something to be Learned from the Global Experience of Post-WWII? Three Examples of Rebuilding Neighborhoods after 1945

14:10– 15:00

The Reconstruction of Warsaw: Between Abhorrence and Acceptance Piotr Korduba (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

15:00 – 15:30  

Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:20

Postwar-Rebuilding in Divided Germany: Neighborhood Rebuilding in the Case Studies of Berlin and Dresden during the Cold War 
Paul Sigel (Art Historian and Urban Historian, Berlin)

16:20 – 17:10

Reconstruction for Vitality: The Revival of Downtown Hiroshima after the Atomic Bombing
Allam Alkazei (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Friday 30.11.

 Panel 3: Iran

09:30 – 10:20 

War Immigration and its Impact on the Post-War Reconstruction of Neighborhoods - A Case Study of Khorramshahr after the Iran-Iraq War
Mohammad Hassan Khani (Imam Sadiq University, Tehran)

Panel 4: Iraq

10:20 – 11:10

“Sectarianism”: The Impact of Eliminating Heterogeneity and Forcing Homogeneity on the Neighborhoods of Baghdad
Namariq al-Rawi (Architect, Baghdad)

11:10 – 11:30 

Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:20

Role of Youth Teams in the Reconstruction of the City of Mosul 
Ahmad Kefah (University of Baghdad)

12:20 – 13:30

Lunch break

Panel 5: Syria

13:30 – 14:20 

Reconstructing Memory in Aleppo’s Old City 
Liam Nicoll (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)

14:20 – 15:10

Rebuilding the Old City of Aleppo in a Coherent Way
Zoya Masoud (TU Berlin)

15:10 – 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:20

Informality for Reconstruction in Damascus - A Possible Partnership 
Majida Malo - Mr. Wissam Al Asali - Dr. Iyas Shahin (IWlab)

16:20 – 17:10

Post-Conflict Analysis and Strategies for Reconstructing the Old City of Aleppo: Socio- Political Deliberations

Panel 6: Experiences from the Balkans, Cyprus, Afghanistan, and Kashmir

17:10- 18:00

The Need for New Planning Strategies: Experiences from the Balkans, Cyprus, and Afghanistan
Kai Voeckler (Urbanist, Offenbach)

Saturday 01.12.

09:30 – 10:20

Mapping Intimacy and Distance in a Kashmiri Neighborhood
Arshi Javid (Nehru University, India)

Panel 7: Lebanon

10:20 – 11:10

Neighbors under Fire: Community Relations in Lebanese War Literature 
John Hanna (Technische Universiteit Delft)

11:10 – 11:30

Coffee Break

Panel 8: Beirut’s Neighborhoods

11:30 – 12:20

Neighborhoods as Propertied Landscapes: Lessons from Beirut’s Reconstructions
Mona Fawaz / Nada Moumtaz (American University of Beirut)

12:20 – 13:10

The Promise: The Politicization of Post-War Reconstruction in Southern Beirut
Eric Lob (Florida International University)

13:10 – 14:30

Lunch

Panel 9: Cases of Reconstruction of Neighborhoods beyond Beirut

14:30 – 15:20

Re-Constructing the Historic Neighborhood in Bint Jbeil after the 2006 War
Howayda al-Harithy (American University of Beirut)

15:20—16:10 

Power Dynamics in Reconstructing Peri-Urban Neighborhoods: The Case of South Lebanon
Diana Zeidan (EHESS, Paris)

16:10 - 16:40

Coffee Break

16:40 – 17:30

Wrap-Up: Lessons for the Present and the Future

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