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Whither the nation? National identity in the twentieth-century

International conference, 27-29 September 2013

American University of Beirut (AUB), Auditorium B1, College Hall

September, 28 to September 29, 2013

28 /09
to
29 /09

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Orient- Institut Beirut and Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, AUB 

Programme: 

 

8.45 – 9.15 Coffee and Registration

9.15 – 9.30 Welcome and opening remarks

9.30 – 10.30 Keynote: 

Lisa Wedeen / University of Chicago

Nationalism, Sentimentality, and Judgment

Discussant: Ghassan Hage

Panel I

10.30 – 12.30

Faisal Devji / University of Oxford

Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea

Shruti Kapila / University of Cambridge

Hindutva’s war and the battlefield of India

Discussant: Tareq Tell

12.30 – 14.00

Lunch Break

Panel II 

14.00 - 16.00

Reza Zia-Ibrahimi / King’s College London

Dislodging the Iranian Nation from the Islamic Umma: Iranian Nationalists and Gobineau

Bashir Saade / American University of Beirut

Writing Space, using and confronting the state: Hizbullah’s politics of legitimacy

Karim Sadek / Oxford Center for Islamic Studies

The Islamic Umma vs the Political Umma: Islamic politics, apostasy, and the non-Muslims"

Discussant: Faisal Devji 

16.00 – 16.30

Coffee Break

 16.30– 17.30

TALK 1:

Marc Nichanian / Sabancı University Istanbul

The Specters of the Nation 

Discussant: Lisa Wedeen  

Sunday September 29, 2013

Panel III 

9.00– 9:30 

Coffee

9.30 – 11.30

Hussein Omar / University of Oxford-NYU

More Islamic than the Khalif (Egyptian anti-colonial Nationalism)

Umar Ryad / Leiden University

Neither Visitors, nor Colonial Victims: Muslim Political Activities in Interwar Europe

Nadia Bou Ali / American University of Beirut

The Arab Nahda and the Nation Form

Discussant: Shruti Kapila 

Panel IV

11.30 – 13.30

Monika Halkort / Lebanese American University

Expressive sovereignty

Tim Jacoby / University of Manchester

Turkish Nationalism and the Crisis of the State

Ahmed Daleimi / University of Oxford

Revisiting the National Paradigm: Bahrain Workers’ Movement in the Early 20th Century

Discussant: Angela Harutyunyan

13.30 – 14.30

Lunch Break

Panel V

14.30 – 16.00

Rohit Goel / University of Chicago

War and Peace in Lebanon  

Angela Harutyunyan / American University of Beirut

The Dialectic of Betrayal and Fidelity of the Armenian Avant-Garde

Discussant: Ghassan Hage 

16.00 – 16.30

Coffee Break

16.30 – 17.30

Talk 2: 

Walid Sadek / American University of Beirut

Beirut Open City

Discussant: Ghassan Hage

17.30– 18.00

Concluding Remarks: Nadia Bou Ali and Faisal Devji

 

 

 

 

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