Orient-Institut Beirut
Thursday, 30. May 2024, 18:00-19:30
Welcome addresses:
• Jens Hanssen, Director, Orient Institute Beirut, Director
• Susanne Dahlgren, Director, Finnish Institute in the Middle East
• Thomas Blom Hansen, Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
• Seteney Shami, Director General, Arab Council for the Social Sciences
| Speakers: |
| • Ala Alazzeh | Professor of Anthropology, Birzeit University |
| • Cemil Aydin | Professor of History, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
| • Hans Kundnani | Visiting fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University & Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop fellow |
| • Srirupa Roy | Professor, University of Göttingen/ICAS:MP |
Discussant:
• Rima Majed | Professor of Sociology, American University of Beirut
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the resurgence of "civilization talk" that defines people and nations in terms of their unique civilizational identity and calls for states to refurbish their timeless civilizational glory. This panel focuses on the relationship between war – real or rhetorical – and invocations of civilizational fault lines and conflicts in the Middle East, Europe/Russia and South Asia. Panelists will discuss the rhetoric of civilizational wars, collective memory, historical retrieval and revanchism, and violence as a source of historical justice.
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