Orient-Institut Beirut
November, 29 to December 01, 2018
Program Abstracts and biographies CALL FOR PAPERS
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.
| 19:00 | OPENING |
09:15 – 09:30 | Registration |
09:30 – 10:00 | Welcome and Introduction |
10:00 – 10:50 | Spontaneous Settlement, Social Reproduction, and Ethnic Identity in Homs |
10:50 – 11:50 | Mosul: Changing Neighborhoods and Neighborly Relations |
11:50 – 13:20 | Lunch Break
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13:20 – 14:10 | Spontaneous Reparation Practices in Beirut: Toward a New History of Post-War Reconstruction |
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 |
16:20 – 17:10 | Reconstruction for Vitality: The Revival of Downtown Hiroshima after the Atomic Bombing |
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 |
10:20 – 11:10 | “Sectarianism”: The Impact of Eliminating Heterogeneity and Forcing Homogeneity on the Neighborhoods of Baghdad |
11:10 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
11:30 – 12:20 | Role of Youth Teams in the Reconstruction of the City of Mosul |
12:20 – 13:30 | Lunch break |
13:30 – 14:20 | Reconstructing Memory in Aleppo’s Old City |
14:20 – 15:10 | Rebuilding the Old City of Aleppo in a Coherent Way |
15:10 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:30 – 16:20 | Informality for Reconstruction in Damascus - A Possible Partnership |
16:20 – 17:10 | Post-Conflict Analysis and Strategies for Reconstructing the Old City of Aleppo: Socio- Political Deliberations |
17:10- 18:00 | The Need for New Planning Strategies: Experiences from the Balkans, Cyprus, and Afghanistan |
09:30 – 10:20 | Mapping Intimacy and Distance in a Kashmiri Neighborhood |
10:20 – 11:10 | Neighbors under Fire: Community Relations in Lebanese War Literature |
11:10 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
11:30 – 12:20 | Neighborhoods as Propertied Landscapes: Lessons from Beirut’s Reconstructions |
12:20 – 13:10 | The Promise: The Politicization of Post-War Reconstruction in Southern Beirut |
13:10 – 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 – 15:20 | Re-Constructing the Historic Neighborhood in Bint Jbeil after the 2006 War |
15:20—16:10 | Power Dynamics in Reconstructing Peri-Urban Neighborhoods: The Case of South Lebanon |
16:10 - 16:40 | Coffee Break |
16:40 – 17:30 | Wrap-Up: Lessons for the Present and the Future |