7 October 2015
Dr Ruba Salih, scholar from the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, organised a conference in Athens on ‘Palestine and Self-determination beyond National Frames: Emerging Politics, Cultures, and Claims’ as part of a project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
Videos/podcasts of the talks will soon be available.
This event was organised by SOAS and the University of Exeter
Conference Programme:
| Thursday, 24th September |
| INTRODUCTION by Ruba Salih (SOAS, University of London) & Sophie Richter-Devroe (University of Exeter) |
| KEYNOTE by Joseph Massad (Columbia University) On Nationalism and Self-Determination |
| PAPER 1: Ruba Salih (SOAS, University of London) The ‘scandal of the nation’: Palestinian refugees and the politics of exile Chair/Discussant: Julie Peteet (University of Louisville) |
| PAPER 2: Julie Peteet (University of Louisville) The cultural politics of time and waiting Chair/Discussant: Ruba Salih (SOAS, University of London) |
| PAPER 3: Cedric Parizot (CNRS/Aix Marseille University) Palestine(s) below maps: reappraising the nature of the separation between Palestinians through visual network analysis (2005-2010) Chair/Discussant: Alessandro Petti (DAAR - Campus in Camps) |
| PAPER 4: Alessandro Petti (DAAR - Campus in Camps) Architecture of Exile: Palestinian Refugee Camps as World Heritage Site Chair/Discussant: Cedric Parizot (CNRS/Aix Marseille University) |
| PAPER 5: Sophie Richter-Devroe (University of Exeter) The Oslo Generation of Palestinian Refugees: Thinking Beyond the Nation? Chair/Discussant: Diana Allan (McGill University) |
| PAPER 6: Diana Allan (McGill University) ‘This is not a politics’: solidarity and subterfuge in the Palestinian camps in Lebanon Chair/Discussant: Sophie Richter-Devroe (University of Exeter) |
| Friday, 25th September |
| PAPER 7: Nell Gabiam (Iowa State University) Palestinians in France: Imagining Liberation and Return Beyond the Nation State Chair/Discussant: Riccardo Bocco (Graduate Institute, Geneva) |
| PAPER 8: Riccardo Bocco (Graduate Institute, Geneva) Screening Palestinian refugeehood: (un)censored narratives through cinematic representations Chair/Discussant: Nell Gabiam (Iowa State University) |
| PAPER 9: Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut) Complex entanglements: moving from professional to public sociology in the Arab world Chair/Discussant: Jalal Al-Husseini (Institut français du Proche-Orient) |
| PAPER 10: Jalal Al-Husseini (Institut français du Proche-Orient) The political management of long-term temporariness (tbc) Chair/Discussant: Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut) |
| PAPER 11: Yara Hawari (University of Exeter) Narratives and memories beyond nationalist frameworks and conceptualizing future political and social imaginaries in the Galilee Chair/Discussant: Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter) |
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PAPER 12: Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter) Title tbc Chair/Discussant: Yara Hawari (University of Exeter) |
Images of the event
