Conflict and Mobility in the City Urban Space, Youth and Social Transformations
Monday, August 25
7 pm Welcome Dinner At the Hotel Le Pietri 4 Rue Tobrouk, Rabat 10000
Tuesday , August 26
Venue: École de Gouvernance et d'Économie, Avenue Mohamed Ben Abdellah Regragui, +212 5372-76100
9.30am-11am Introduction (Library, 1st floor) Manuel Goehrs, Georges Khalil, Friederike Pannewick, Baudouin Dupret 11am-11.30am Coffee Break 11.30am-1pm Project Presentations 1 Group A (salle 2D) Mohamed Elshahed Producing the Public: Space, Media, and Participation Chair: Amir Moosavi Group B (salle 2B) Nancy Demerdash Razing Gourbivilles and Decolonizing Space: Bourguibist Spatial Politics in Post-Independent Tunisia Chair: Dina El-Sharnouby Group C (salle 2C) Mohammed Ezzeldin Violence, Neoliberalism, and the Production of Slums in Cairo Chair: Jimena Ponce De Leon 1pm-2pm Lunch 2pm-3.30pm Thematic Discussions: Group 1 (salle 2B) Different Kinds of "Public" in the Public: an Empirical View Introduced by: Ines Braune Text: Fawaz Traboulsi: Public Spheres and Urban Space: A Critical Comparative Approach
Negotiating Youthfulness in Revolutionary Times of the Arab World
Introduced by: Dina El-Sharnouby Texts: Asef Bayat: Reclaiming Youthfulness Emma Murphy: Problematizing Arab Youth: Generational Narratives of Systematic Failure 3.30pm -4pm Coffee Break 4pm-5.30pm Lecture (L'Amphithéâtre) Michael Allan (Eugene) Re-Framing Orientalism: The Afterlife of Cinema in Colonial Algeria Chair: Friederike Pannewick
Wednesday, August 27
9.30am-11am Project Presentations 2 Group A (salle 2D) Hatim El Hibri The Before/After Shot: Solidere's Corporate Films, and the Work of Images in Postwar Beirut Chair: Omar El-Ghazzi Group B (salle 2B) Dina El Sharnouby Youth Politics in Revolutionary Egypt Chair: Maaike Voorhoeve Group C (salle 2C) Deniz Yonucu From Center to Margin: Rethinking the Gezi Uprisings with Istanbul's Alevi Neighbourhoods Chair: Mehmet Baris Kuymulu 11am-11.30am Coffee Break 11.30am-1pm Thematic Discussions: Group 1 (salle 2B) Urban informality: Ethnographic Perspectives on Law, Justice and Pluralism Introduced by: Baudouin Dupret Group 2 (salle 2C) Contested Memories of the Arab Uprisings Introduced by: Omar Al-Ghazzi Texts: Sami Zubaida: The 'Arab Spring'in the historical perspectives of Middle East politics, Stephen Legg: Contesting and surviving memory: space, nation, and nostalgia in Les Lieux de Memoire 1pm-2pm Lunch 2pm-3.30pm Thematic Discussions: Group 1 (salle 2B) Development, Urban Citizenship and the Neglectful State Introduced by: Mohamed Elshahed Texts: Gehan Selim: Instituting order: the limitations of Nasser's post-colonial planning visions for Cairo in the case of the indigenous quarter of Bulaq (1952–1970) Francesco Chiodelli: Planning and urban citizenship: suggestions from the thoughts of Henri Lefebvre Group 2 (salle 2C) Assemblages, Aesthetics, and Urban Life Introduced by: Hatim El Hibri Texts: Simone AbdouMaliq: The surfacing of urban life
Thursday, August 28
9.30am-11am Project Presentations 3 Group A (salle 2D) Cristiana Strava At Home with Modernity: Exploring Place-Making on the Margins of Casablanca Chair: Hatim El-Hibri Group B (salle 2B) Gretchen Head Contesting the City: Dissident Writing in the Final Decade of Ben Ali's Rule Chair: Nancy Demerdash Group C (salle 2C) Mehmet Baris Kuymulu The Geography of Turkey's Urban Uprising: Placing Protest in a Transregional Perspective Chair: Anne-Linda Amira Augustin 11am-11.30am Coffee Break 11.30am - 1pm Thematic Discussions: Group 1 (salle 2B) Urban Renewal: Towards a Comparative Ethnography of Mediterranean Cities Introduced by: Stefano Portelli Texts: Edward C. Banfield: Ends and means in planning Amalia Signorelli: Spazio concreto e spazio astratto: divario culturale e squilibrio di potere tra pianificatori e abitanti dei quartieri di edilizia popolare Mindy Fullilove: Root Shock: the Consequences of African American Dispossession Ayfer Bartu Candan, Biray Kollouglu: Emerging spaces of neoliberalism: A gated town and a public housing project in Istanbul Group 2 (salle 2C) The Political Economy of Urban Development and Protest Introduced by: Koenraad Bogaert Texts: Timothy Mitchell: Carbon democracy Henry Lefebvre: Writings on Cities 1pm-2pm Lunch 2pm-3.30pm Project Presentations 4 Group A (salle 2D) Nicholas Arese Simcik Common-ing the Compound: Conceptions of Citizenship and Ownership as Poverty Frontierism in the Squatting of Cairo's Gated Suburbs Chair: Christiana Strava Group B (salle 2B) Meriem El Haitami Islamist Feminism in Morocco: (Re)defining the Political Public Space Chair: Dimitris Soudias Group C (salle 2C) Jamal Bahmad Screens of Reconfiguration: Political Violence and Collective Memory in Contemporary Maghrebi Cinema Chair: Mohammed Ezzelldin 3.30pm-4pm Coffee Break 4pm-5.30pm Thematic Discussions Group A (salle 2D) Revolutionary Temporality (How the current revolution transforms our perception of history and time) Introduced by: Mohammed Ezzeldin Texts: David Harvey: Rebel Cities, Marina Sitrin: Horizontalism Group B (salle 2B) Nora Lafi, Historical Anthropology of Violence in Ottoman Cities: Reflections on Cairo, Tunis and Aleppo (1798-1864)
Friday, August 29
9.30am-11am Project Presentations 5 Group A (salle 2D) Omar Al-Ghazzi The Mnemonic Battles of the Arab Uprisings: The Case of the War over Flags in Syria Chair: Koenraad Bogaert Group B (salle 2B) Stefano Portelli The Social Impact of Urban Renewal in Peripheral Neighbourhoods: Comparative Ethnography in Mediterranean Cities Chair: Christoph Schwarz Group C (salle 2C) Jimena Ponce de León Youth and Street Art: Strategies Developed in a Changing City Chair: Ines Braune 11am-11.30am Coffee Break 11.30am-1pm Thematic Discussions Group 1 (salle 2B) Mediterranean Metropolises. Urban Transformations, Urban Imagineries and the Lure of Mediterraneism Introduced by: Martin Baumeister Texts: Iain Chambers: Mediterranean crossings. The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity Group 2 (salle 2C) Neoliberal Globalisation, Social Change and Urban Politics in North Africa Introduced by: Jamal Bahmad Texts: Shana Cohen: The Moroccan Subject in a Globalizing World Bogaert, Koenraad: Contextualizing the Arab Revolts: The Politics behind three Decades of Neoliberalism in the Arab World 1pm-2pm Lunch 2pm-3.30pm Panel Discussion (Library, 1st floor) Art and Resistance Jamal Bahmad, Ines Braune, Felix Lang, Rachid Ouaissa, Friederike Pannewick, Christoph Schwarz Chair: Georges Khalil Text: Charles Tripp: The Art of Resistance in the Middle East
Saturday, August 30
Free 9 am Possibly: Excursion
Sunday, August 31
Free
Monday, September 1
9.30am -11am Project Presentations 6 Group A (salle 2D) Koenraad Bogaert Urban Politics in Morocco: A Political Economy of Uneven Development Chair: Perrine Lachenal Group B (salle 2B) Christoph Schwarz Political Activism under Authoritarian Rule. Historical and Family Narratives of Young Protesters in Morocco and Tunisia Chair: Gretchen Head Group C (salle 2C) Ines Braune Parkour: Claiming Public Space in Morocco Chair: Özlem Köksal 11am-11.30am Coffee Break 11.30am-1pm Thematic Discussions Group 1 (salle 2B) Urban Citizenship from the Margins: New Forms of Contestation and Belonging Introduced by: Cristiana Strava Texts: Asef Bayat: Cairo's Poor: Dilemmas of Survival and Solidarity James Holston: Insurgent Citizenship in an Era of Global Urban Peripheries Group 2 (salle 2C) (Re)Constructions, Colonial Continuities and Vernacular Contestations) Introduced by: Nancy Demerdash Text: Marion von Osten: In Colonial Modern Worlds 1pm -2pm Lunch 2pm-3.30pm Project Presentations 7 Group A (salle 2D) Emily Drumsta Inconstant Constantine: Physical Landscapes and Literary Paradigms in Algerian Fiction from the 1990s Chair: Nicolas Arese Simcik Group B (salle 2B) Maaike Voorhoeve Controlling Bodies, Controlling Space: The Case of the Law Prohibiting Sexual Harassment in Tunisia Chair: Meriem El Haitami Group C (salle 2C) Özlem Köksal Narratives of Taksim and the Gezi Protests in Visual Culture Chair: Sarah Jurkiewicz 3.30pm-4pm Coffee Break 4pm-5.30pm Lecture (L'Amphithéâtre) Zakaria Rhani (Université Mohamed V and Centre Jaques Berque) Revolutionary Dynamics in Morocco: Youth and the Will of Secularization
Tuesday, September 2
9.30am - 11am Project Presentations 8 Group A (salle 2D) Amir Moosavi Cities at War: The City, Writer and the Limits of Fiction from the Iran-Iraq War Chair: Emily Drumsta Group B (salle 2B) Dimitris Soudias Theorizing a "Sociology of The Square": Space, Habitus, and Liminality in the 2011 Occupations of Tahrir and Syntagma Square Chair: Stefano Portelli Group C (salle 2C) Sarah Jurkiewicz In Search of Urban Involvement—Cultural Activism in Kuwait City Chair: Deniz Yonucu 11am-11.30am Coffee Break 11.30am-1pm Thematic Discussions Group 1 (salle 2B) Framing Street Art and Youth Expressions on Walls: The Capabilities Approach and Studies of Appropriation Introduced by: Jimena Ponce de León Text: Arnd Schneider: On'appropriation': A critical reappraisal of the concept and its application in global art practices Group 2 (salle 2C) Mohammed Bensalah (École de Gouvernance et d'Économie), Transformations of political Islam and the Arab Spring (in Arabic) Chair: Zakaria Rhani 2pm-3.30pm Thematic Discussions Group 1 (salle 2B) Aziz Iraki (Institut National d'Aménagement et d'Urbanisme-Rabat), Solidarities in the City (in French) Chair: Baudouin Dupret Group 2 tba 3.30pm- 4pm Coffee Break 4pm-5.30pm Panel Discussion (Library, 1st floor) Re-Configurations: History, Memory and Transformation Processes Chaired and introduced by Achim Rohde (Philipps University Marburg), with Rachid Ouaissa, N.N.
Wednesday, September 3
11.30am-1pm Project Presentations 9 Group A (salle 2D) Perrine Lachenal Learning Self-Defense in Revolutionary Cairo: Gender, Class and the Economy of Violence Chair: Mohammed Elshahed Group B (salle 2B) tba Group C (salle 2C) Anne-Linda Amira Augustin Family Memories and Urban Areas as Contested Spaces – Being Young and South Arabian in Aden (Southern Yemen) Chair: Jamal Bahmad 1pm-2pm Lunch 2pm-3.30pm Panel Discussion (Library, 1st floor) Performance, Politics, Space in Youth Subcultures introduced by Najib Bounahai (École de Gouvernance et d'Économie) Chair: Friederike Pannewick 3.30pm-4pm Coffee Break 4pm-5.30pm Lecture (L'Amphithéâtre) Mohammed Tozy (École de Gouvernance et d'Économie), Casablanca: Une Métropole au Défi du Référentiel Ethnique Chair: Rachid Ouaissa
Thursday, September 4
9.30am-11am Thematic Discussion Group 1 (salle 2B) Group 2 (salle 2C) 11am-11.30am Coffee Break 11.30am-1pm Final Discussion (Library, 1st floor) 6 pm Farewell Dinner
