American University of Beirut (AUB), Auditorium B1, College Hall
September, 28 to September 29, 2013
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
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |