Art & Resistance in the Middle East: History & Change
Dept of Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh
19 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD
Saturday 16th November 2013
10 – 10.30am, room G2
Registration
10-:30 – 11:00am , room G2
Welcome and housekeeping
with Dr Anthony Gorman, head of the department of Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh
11:00 – 11:15am, IMES common room
grab tea and coffee in preparation for the first panel sessions
11:15am – 12:45pm
Panel Session One
Panel A – The Writing on the Wall
Street Art, Collective Action and Dissent in Sana’a (Anahi Alviso-Marino, Paris 1-Sorbonne/University of Lausanne)
From Green to Red: A visual study of the Iranian Green Movement’s protest posters (Elham Mahootchi, Bergen National Academy of Arts and Design)
The Commoditisation of Revolutionary Art? The example of Cairo Graffiti (Zoe Carle, Centre de Recherche Comparatistes, University Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Chair: Laura Kandle, University of Edinburgh
Panel B – Art under Occupation
Embroidered Identities: Appropriations of Traditional Palestinian Folk Art in Contemporary Art in Palestine (Sinead O’Donnell Dunn, independent artist/researcher)
Neither Victims nor Heroes: Politics of Pleasure, Sonic Liberation and Dance in Palestine (Nadeem Karkabi, SOAS)
Renaming Shuhada Street: Palestinian Direct Action, Spatial Narratives and Graffiti in Hebron (Ea Arnoldi, University of Lund)
Chair: Ania Gaboune, University of Edinburgh
12:45 – 1:00pm, room G2
Debrief and discussion session with panel speakers and audiences and comment from Professor Paul Starkey, Emeritus Professor in the School of Modern Languages & Cultures, University of Durham
1:00 – 2:30pm
Lunch
(there will be two spaces for lunch; in IMES common room you are free to mingle (or not!); in G22 there will be semi-guided discussion and debate for those who want more opportunities to chew over the day’s topics)
2:30 – 3:30pm
Panel Session Two
Panel C – writing resistance
Resistance within Resistance: al-Jawahiri in Prison (Ahmed Khaleel, University of York)
Resisting the Occupation: Palestinian Literature and Art (Nicola Robinson, University of York)
Chair: Zara Shad, University of Manchester
Panel D – Acting as thinking
Drama Series as Political Analyses (Lovisa Berg, University of Edinburgh)
The Reciprocal Relationship Between Iranian Passion Plays (ta’ziyeh) and Iranian Collective Identity (Alexander Kolbitsch, University of Wales – Lampeter)
Chair: Hamish Kinnear, University of Edinburgh
3.30 – 3:45pm, IMES common room
Tea/coffee
3:45 – 4:15pm, room G2
Debrief and discussion with panel speakers and audience, wind-up and thank-yous
5.30
Dinner for those who have booked places
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