Borders and Territorial Reconfigurations in the Middle East and the Sahel

Borders and Territorial Reconfigurations in the Middle East and the Sahel
International Academic Conference – Aswan, January 29th – 31st , 2017

The international scientific conference “Borders and Territorial Reconfigurations in the Middle East and the Sahel” organized by CEDEJ will stand from January 30th to 31st, 2017, in Aswan, at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport.

DRAFT PROGRAM:

JANUARY 28TH, EVENING

Transfer to Aswan and registration of participants (17:00-18:00)

SUNDAY JANUARY 29TH

07:00-11:00 Brunch + End of registration of participants (10:00-11:00)

12:00-16:00 Fieldwork Excursion

18:00 Buffet – Film projection We are Rebels, a documentary by Katherine Von Schroeder in the presence of the filmmaker

MONDAY JANUARY 30TH – THE ARAB ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MARITIME TRANSPORT

09:15 Bus departure from hotel

09:30 Official opening – Welcome

10:00-11:15 Keynote 1 (35-40 mn)

Paul Nugent (University of Edinburgh-CAS), Re-(B)ordering Africa: Beyond the Cairo Declaration?

Keynote 2 (35-40 mn)

Richard Schofield (King’s College, London), Boundaries and Borderlands in the Middle East: Balancing Exceptionalism, Context and Representation

11:15-12:00 Discussion/debate

– Lunch break –

13:00-15:00 Panel 1. Bordering/shifting borders in the Middle East

Chair: Karine Bennafla (CEDEJ, Cairo)

– Daniel Meier (univ. of Grenoble), Conceptual tools for the bordering of the MENA region

– Charles Heller (AUC-CEDEJ, Cairo), Shifting Borders in the Mediterranean Sea in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings

– Leila Vignal (univ. of Rennes-Oxford), Syria’s transforming borders and borderlands

– Thomas Hüsken (univ. of Lucerne), Political Orders in the Makings : a comparative study of emerging forms of political organisation from Lybia to Northern Mali

– Abaher El Sakka (univ. of Birzeit, Ramallah), La recomposition des frontières palestiniennes depuis les accords d’Oslo

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:30 Panel 2. Borders, mobilities, and State making

Chair: Hassan Elhag Ali (Univ. of Khartoum)

– Géraldine Pinauldt (IFG, univ. Paris 8) and Nathalie Coste (CERI- Sciences Po Paris), Somaliland et Soudan du Sud : Des précurseurs à la marge des bouleversements frontaliers au Moyen-Orient et au Sahel. Création d’Etat et identité(s) nationale(s), entre reconfiguration et statu quo

– Netsereab Ghebremichael Andom (univ. of Khartoum), Migrant Influxes and their Implications to Border and Territorial Reconfigurations in SSA: The Case of Eritrea and Sudan

– Nadia Belalimat (EHESS-CESSP, Paris), La reconfiguration territoriale et politique des territoires sahélo-sahariens : le cas du Fezzan, une analyse anthropo-historique

– Bachir Shariff (univ. of Khartoum), Thinking Islamic Borders in the Horn of Africa

– James Okoli-Osemene (univ. of Ibadan), Territorial reconfigurations in the Sahel Region: A study of cross border trafficking risks

17:30 Bus departure to Hotel

18:15 Felouca (boat) from hotel to Nubian village

TUESDAY JANUARY 31ST – SOFITEL HOTEL

9:00-10:00 Keynote 3

Michel Foucher, Réflexions géopolitiques sur les dynamiques frontalières contemporaines au Moyen-Orient et au Sahel

– break –

10:20- 12:30 Panel 3. Jihad and the renegotiation of the post-colonial political and territorial order

Chair : Jean-Nicolas Bach (CEDEJ Khartoum)

– Matthieu Cimino (univ. of Oxford, St Anthony’s College), Invention, Legitimation, and Diffusion of a Spatial Ideology in Militant Islam: the Case of Dā’ish schoolbooks

– Pauline Poupart (IEP, Paris), « L’Azawad » comme enjeu des négociations de paix au Nord du Mali. Entre indépendance, autonomie et décentralisation, quel statut pour la région ?

– Vincent Hiribarren (King’s College London), History of the borders in the region of Borno (Nigeria), focusing on borderlands known for harbouring Boko Haram terrorists

– Alessio Iocchi (univ. of Naples), Space of refuge, space of war : reshaping territorial order in the Lake Chad area

– Myriam Ababsa (IFPO Amman), The claimed borders of the City of Raqqa (1919-1921, 2013, 2014-2016)

– Raphaëlle Chevrillon-Guibert (IRD-PRODIG, Paris): Construction asymétrique des territoires et contestation de l’Etat dans le Sahel central : les enjeux territoriaux du boom minier au Tchad et au Soudan (TBC)

12:30-13:30 Lunch buffet

13:30- 15:30 Panel 4 – Border practices and community identities

Chair : Daniel Meier (Grenoble)

– Jose Maria Munoz (univ. of Edinburgh), Foreign Bodies in the Douala-Ndjamena transport corridor

– Yves Béringue (IMAF-univ. Paris Sorbonne), Siradjouba, laboratoire de la gestion des frontières par le Mali

– Michaela Göken (Univ. of Oldenburg), Transition from Nomadism to Sedentarism : (Dis-)Advantages on the cross-border Beni Amir tribe

– Ohoud Wafi (CEDEJ, Cairo), Transformations urbaines à la frontière égypto-soudanaise

– Monica Hanna (AUC, Arab Academy of Aswan), Post-conflictual cultural desecration and community response

13:30-15:30 Panel 5- Contested borders: between reconciliation and new territorial reconfiguration

Chair : Alice Franck (MCF, PRODIG, Paris)

– Ismael Maazaz (IFEA Ibadan), Southern connexion: Chadian politics of extraversion and the remaking of Libyan territory

– Marius Lazar (univ. Babes-Bolyai de Cluj-Napoca), Vers un Etat Baloutche ? Les mobilisations baloutches et la contestation de la frontière Iran-Pakistan

– Jean Marcou (IEP Grenoble), Les enjeux politiques, juridiques et stratégiques de la nouvelle frontière arabo-kurde de la Turquie

– Ugur Kaya (EHESS-IFEA Istanbul), Frontière et territorialité dans la perception du monde selon l’État turc

– Amani Al Taweel (CEPS Al Ahram, Cairo), The Egyptian-Sudanese border: historical differences and cooperative opportunities

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:00 Conclusion

Jean-Paul Chagnollaud (IREMMO, Paris) et Pierre Blanc (LAM, Sciences Po Bordeaux)

19:00 Closing dinner

Optional :

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 1ST

10:00 Visit of Elephantine site, guided by Dr. Cornelius VON PILGRIM (Director of Swiss Institute of Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt), and Johanna SIGL (Academic Research Fellow at German Archaeological Institute Cairo)

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