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Panel 6a Iraq, its Regions and the International

Chair: Dr Toby Dodge, Reader in International Relations, LSE

Paper 1: Sold Out? American Foreign Policy, Iraq and the Kurdish Revolt, 1972-75
Bryan Gibson, PhD candidate, LSE

Paper 2:  Iraq’s International Relations after Regime Change
Emma Sky, Visiting Professor, War Studies Department, Kings College London

Paper 3: The Link between Oil, War on Terror and Domestic Sovereignty: Explaining the Post-2003 Kurdish Decision-Making in Iraq
Yaniv Voller, PhD candidate, LSE

Panel 6b Arab Spring in the Maghreb: Hidden Stories and Alternative Voices

Chair: John King, Deputy Secretary, Society for Algerian Studies

Paper 1: Silenced Revolts, Enduring Revolution: Western Sahara
Dr Alice Wilson, Junior Research Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge

Paper 2: Revolution’s Refugees: Displaced Libyans in Tunisia and the Formation of Transnational Amazigh (Berber) Community
Dr Katherine E. Hoffman, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University

Paper 3: Mohammed Hassan Wazzani and Malek Bennabi: On the fringes of Maghrebi nationalism
Olivia Luce, DPhil Candidate at the History Faculty, University of Oxford

Paper 4: Hidden Histories of Resistance in Morocco and Libya
James Roslington, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge

Panel 6c The Role of Political Islam during and after the Arab Spring

Chair: Dr Katerina Dalacoura, Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, LSE

Paper 1: The ‘AKP model and Tunisia’s al-Nahda: From Convergence to Competition
Stefano Torelli, PhD candidate, University of Rome la Sapienza – Italian Centre for the Study of Political Islam

Paper 2: Arab Uprisings, Constitutional Law and Islam: Perspectives for an Accountable Government in Libya
Pietro Longo, PhD candidate, University of Naples ‘L’Orientale – Italian Centre for the Study of Political Islam

Paper 3: Al-Qaeda, the Arab Spring and the Decline of the Pan-Islamic Ideal
Ludovico Carlino, PhD candidate, University of Reading – Italian Center for the Study of Political Islam

Panel 6d The Crisis of Legitimacy: Transformations in Governance and Civil Society in the Contemporary Islamic Republic of Iran

Chair: Peyman Jafari, PhD candidate, International Institute of Social History and Leiden University

Paper 1: Iran’s Competing Discourses of Regime Legitimacy
Dr Maaike Warnaar, Associate Lecturer in International Relations, University of Amsterdam

Paper 2: From Ballots to Bullets – The Iranian Women’s Rights Movement after the Presidential Elections of 2009
Paola Maria Raunio, PhD candidate, University of St Andrews and Visiting Scholar, University of Turku

Paper 3: ‘Democracy’ as a Means of Legitimacy in Contemporary Iran
Dr Shabnam J. Holliday, Lecturer in International Relations, Plymouth University

Paper 4: Iranians in Turkey, Transnational Political Activism and the Legitimacy Crisis of the Regime
Dr Paola Rivetti, Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University

Paper 5: Salient Sanctions and Regime Resilienc: The Case of Iran
Ali Fathollah-Nejad, PhD candidate, SOAS & Münster and Assistant Lecturer, University of Duisburg–Essen

Panel 6e The Everyday Construction of Authoritarianism in the Middle East

Chair: Dr Jordi Tejel, Research Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Paper 1: Dangerous Liaisons under Qassem’s Rule: The Alliance Between the State and the Leftist Student Body in Iraq, 1958-1963
Dr Jordi Tejel, Research Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Paper 2: ‘Army-Youth Together’: Marxism, Nationalism and Authoritarianism in Turkey, 1960-1971
Murat Yilmaz, Research Assistant and PhD candidate, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Paper 3: The Egyptian Left, the Question of Authoritarianism, and the Nasser to Sadat Transition
Hassan Thuillard, PhD candidate and Research Assistant, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Paper 4: Resisting the British Authorities: Ordinary Britons in Revolutionary Egypt, 1919-22
Dr Lanver Mak, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London