14 November 2018
16:00h Opening / Greetings: Stefan Weninger
16:30h Panel discussion: 100 Years of November Revolution and Armistice: From the Reorganization of the Middle Eastern and North African Region to its Reconfiguration in the 21st Century [in German]
Chair: Rachid Ouaissa (UMR, Marburg)
Panelists: Eckart Conze (UMR, Marburg), Alexander Flores (HSB, Bremen), Heike Liebau (ZMO, Berlin), John Kannankulam (UMR, Marburg)
18:30h Piano Concert by Aeham Ahmad
Introduction: Sihem Hamlaoui
19:30h Reception
15 November 2018
9h Introduction: Re-Configurations, Connections, and Contexts
[working title] Rachid Ouaissa and Achim Rohde
9:30h Panel 1: Political Reconfigurations and Transitional Justice
Chair: Susanne Buckeley-Zistel (UMR, Marburg) (tbc)
Mariam Salehi (UMR, Marburg): Transitional Justice in Process: How Do Institutionalized Processes of Social and Political Change Interplay with Unintended Processes, Power Shifts, and Frictions?
Irene Weipert-Fenner (HSFK, Frankfurt): Socioeconomic protests and incorporation crises in post-revolutionary Egypt and Tunisia: A comparative analysis inspired by Latin American experiences Laura Ruiz de Elvira (IRD, France): [Title pending]
Anika Oettler (UMR, Marburg): What Peace and Transitional Justice in Colombia teach us about the MENA region
11:30h coffee break
12h Panel 2: Space. Transregional Ties and Translocal Movements
Chair: Manja Stephan-Emmrich (HU Berlin)
Alena Strohmaier (META/UMR, Marburg): Counter-Spaces in/of „the first Iranian Vampire Western“
Claudia Derichs (UMR, Marburg): Manifestations of TRANS-MENA in Southeast Asia
Katrin Bromber (ZMO, Berlin): Spatial Re-configuration of Progress: Physical Fitness and Nation Building in Ethiopia between the 1920s and 1980
Steffen Wippel (UMR, Marburg): Current Re-configurations of Tangier (Morocco) from a Multiscale Spatial Perspective
14h lunch break
15h Panel 3: Generation and Youth: MENA and Southern Europe
Chair: Malte Hagener (UMR, Marburg)
Dimitris Soudias (UMR, Marburg): Spatializing Subjectivity. Theoretical Considerations on Crises, Protest Camps and Transformative Experiences
Nina S. Studer (UB, Bern): Starting Early: Drinking Habits of Children and Adolescents in the Colonial Maghreb
Anne-Linda Amira Augustin (UMR, Marburg): Intergenerational Resistance: The Transmission of a Counterhegemonic Narrative as an Everyday Form of Resistance in the South Arabian Independence Struggle (Southern Yemen)
Christoph Schwarz (UMR, Marburg): [Title pending]
Jamal Bahmad (MVU, Morocco): Youth, Social Media Activism and Citizen Cinema in Post-Arab Spring Morocco
17h Coffee break
17:30h Roundtable discussion: How global were the 'global Sixties'?
Chair: Benedikt Stuchtey (UMR, Marburg)
Panelists: Thorsten Bonacker (UMR, Marburg), Jens Hanssen (UT Toronto, Canada) Claudia Derichs (UMR, Marburg)
19:30h Dinner for invited conference participants
16 November 2018
9h Panel 4: Representation and Social (Dis)order
Chair: Hanna al-Taher (SOAS, London)
Igor Johannsen (UMR, Marburg): Re-Creating Resistance. Connective Marginalities and Contested Significations in/of the Middle Eastern Hip Hop Community
Jamie Furniss (Edinburgh): Al-Ustura: Batal Sha’abi or Baltagi? Class and Contested Masculinity in Egypt
Ines Braune (UMR, Marburg): A Radical Approach to the City. Parkour in Morocco
Andrea Fischer-Tahir (UMR, Marburg): [Title pending]
11h Coffee break
11:30h Panel 5: Researching Crisis and War, Researching in Crisis and War
Chair: Perrine Lachenal (UMR, Marburg)
Mina Ibrahim (GCSC – Giessen): De-Victimizing Emancipation: The Afterlife of Coptic Christians’ Crisis
Lamia Moghnieh (EUME Berlin): Ethnography, Violence and Knowledge Production in the Middle East
Ayse Cavdar (UMR, Marburg): Investigating Fear and Anxiety: The Reflexivity of the “Native” Researcher
Helena Nassif (OIB Beirut): [Title pending]
13:30h Lunch break
15:30h Panel 6: Reconfigurations of MENA Regional Sciences: Concepts, Challenges
Chair: Achim Rohde (AIWG, Frankfurt)
André Bank (GIGA, Hamburg): Comparative Area Studies in Theory and Practice
Sari Hanafi (AUB, Beirut): Social Sciences and Islamic Sciences: Mutual Ignorance or Competition?
Karima Direche (IRCM, Tunis): Observer une transition politique par un centre français à l'étranger. Le cas de l'IRMC à Tunis
Achim von Oppen (BAAAS, Bayreuth): [Title pending]
18h Dinner and Casual Get-Together with Audiovisual Musical Entertainment in the Building of the CNMS, Deutschhausstrasse 12, Marburg