Monday 26 March 2012
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| 8.00 – 9.15 |
Registration, Tea & Coffee |
| 9.15 – 9.30 |
Opening & Welcome Addresses
Alastair Newton, President, BRISMES
Professor Fawaz Gerges, Director, Middle East Centre, LSE |
| 9.30 – 10.30 |
I.B. Tauris Plenary Session I: ‘Revolution and Revolt: Understanding the Forms and Causes of Change in the
Arab World’
Professor Ghassan Salamé, Dean, Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) |
| 10.30 – 11.00 |
Tea & Coffee |
| 11.00 – 13.00 |
Panel 1 |
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Reflecting on the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’: Can we understand new trends using old models? [part 1] The Syrian and
Egyptian Cases (Network Panels: ‘Liberation, Domination and Expression’ and ‘Resistance, Representation and Identity’) |
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Challenges to the GCC Social Contract in the Wake of the Arab Revolutions |
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Tunisia: Political Islam, Socio-demography and New Media in the Jasmine Revolution |
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Palestinian Strategies of Resistance and Development |
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Transitional Justice in the Middle East and North Africa |
| 13.00 – 14.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00 – 15.00 |
The Pearson Memorial Lecture: ‘Books as History in Medieval Iran’
Professor Charles Melville, University of Cambridge
Organised by the Middle East Libraries Committee (MELCOM) |
| 14.00 – 15.00 |
BRISMES AGM |
| 15.00 – 15.30 |
Tea & Coffee |
| 15.30 – 17.30 |
Panel 2 |
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Syrian Narratives during Revolutionary Change |
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The Persian Gulf and the Cold War |
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Discourses of Women’s Resistance in the Middle East |
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Reflecting on the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’: Can we understand new trends using old models? [part 2] The cases of Tunisia,
Jordan and Kuwait (Network Panels: ‘Liberation, Domination and Expression’ and ‘Resistance, Representation
and Identity’) |
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The Egyptian Revolution: Slogans, Symbolism and the Sisters |
| 18.30 |
Conference Dinner, Old Hall & Crypt, Lincoln’s Inn |
Tuesday 27 March 2012
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| 8.00 – 9.00 |
Registration, Tea & Coffee |
| 9.00 – 11.00 |
Panel 3 |
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The Media and the Arab Uprisings |
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Narratives of the Uprising and the (Re)production of Structural Flaws in Western Democracy Assistance |
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Gulf Economies in Transition |
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‘Neo-Ottomanism’?: National and International Dimensions of Shifts in Turkish Foreign Policy |
| 11.00 – 11.30 |
Tea & Coffee |
| 11.30 – 13.30 |
Panel 4 |
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Explaining Violence in Iraq |
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Asia, Russia and the Arab Uprisings: Asian Governmental and Popular Reactions to the Uprisings |
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Resistance through Music and Culture |
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Rethinking Islamist Movements in the Middle East; Mediating Cultures; Resistance and Power |
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Thinking about the Revolution: Social Movements, Structure, Space, Religion and the Military in the ‘January 25
Revolution’ (Critical Middle East Studies Network Panel) |
| 13.30 – 14.30 |
Lunch |
| 14.30 – 16.30 |
Panel 5 |
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The Arab Spring: New Directions in Teaching and Researching the Middle East (Islamic Studies Network Panel) |
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Syria: The Effect of the Intifada on Theoretical Understandings |
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Political Islam and the Arab Uprisings |
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Revisiting the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Missed Opportunities, Declassified Documents and Alternative Narratives |
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The Algerian Exception? |
| 16.30 – 17.00 |
Tea & Coffee |
| 17.00 – 17.45 |
Plenary Session II: International Policy Responses to Changes in the Arab World
Senior UK Government official |
| 17.45 |
Drinks Reception |
Wednesday 28 March 2012
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| 8.00 – 9.00 |
Registration, Tea & Coffee |
| 9.00 – 11.00 |
Panel 6 |
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Iraq, its Regions and the International |
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Arab Spring in the Maghreb: Hidden Stories and Alternative Voices |
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The Role of Political Islam during and after the Arab Spring |
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The Crisis of Legitimacy: Transformations in Governance and Civil Society in the Contemporary Islamic Republic
of Iran |
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The Everyday Construction of Authoritarianism in the Middle East |
| 11.00 – 11.30 |
Tea & Coffee |
| 11.30 – 13.30 |
Panel 7 |
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The Economics of the Arab Spring |
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The Struggle for Identity and Power in Lebanon |
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Literature, Resistance and Revolt |
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Routledge Workshop: How to get published in Academic Journals and Books |
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The Yemeni Revolt |
| 13.30 – 14.30 |
Lunch |
| 14.30 – 16.30 |
Panel 8 |
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Political Economy after the Arab Revolution: New Perspectives |
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Between Palestine and the Umma: Transnational Jihad Ideologues of Palestinian Origin |
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Shi’ism: Clerical Authority, Identity and Diaspora |
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The Arab Uprisings: Multidisciplinary Perspectives |
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Revolutionary Cities, Revolutionary Youth: The Arab Spring Society |
