"Power, Governmentality, Resistance and State of Exception" conference to be held at AUB

Notes and media contacts

PROGRAM:

- Friday August 29:

9:45 Opening Ceremony
Chair: Khaldoun al-Naquib (Vise-President, Arab Sociology Association- AAS)
Mustafa al-Teer (President, Arab Sociology Association- AAS)
Kheir al-Dine Hassib (General Director, Center for Arab Unity Studies)
Heiko Wimmen (Program Officer, Heinrich Boll Foundation)
Peter Dorman (President, American University of Beirut [AUB])

10:15 Introducing the Workshop
Fahmiyya Sharaf al-Dine (General Secretary, AAS, Prof., Lebanese Univ.)
Sari Hanafi (Associate Professor of Sociology, AUB)

10:45-11:45 Keynote Speaker
Samir Amin (Director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal)
Different Modes of Resistance in Arabic World

11:45-12:15 Coffee break

12:15-13:45 Session I: The State of Exception: Spatial analysis
Chair: Fahmiyya Sharaf al-Dine
• Alessandro Petti (International Academy of Art - Palestine, Architect and Researcher)
Archipelagos and Enclaves: Dubai, Jerusalem, Baghdad and other spaces of exception
o Discussant: Ahmad Zayed
• Sari Hanafi (Professor of Sociology, AUB)
Managing Refugee Camps in Arab Region: State of Exception and Biopolitics
o Discussant: Salem Sari

13:45 -15:00 Lunch break

15:00-17:30 Session II: Social Movements and Resistance
Chair: Altaher Labib (Honorary President, Arab Sociology Association- AAS)
• Mona Abaza (Associate Professor, American University in Cairo [AUC])
On Recent Social Protests in Egypt: A Success Story in spite of the Absence of Political Parties
o Discussant: Khaldoun al-Naquib
• Ahmad Mousalli (Professor, AUB)
Radical Islam: The Struggle Between Globalization and Islamization
o Discussant: Faleh Abdel Jabbar
• Mohamed Dahan (Prof. University of Muhammad V)
State and Social Movement in Maghreb
o Discussant: Al-Zubair Al-Arouss
• Nada Ghandour-Demiri (PhD candidate, University of Bristol)
Nonviolence - an art of resistance
o Discussant: Marlene Nasr

- Saturday August 30:

9:30-11:30 Session III, State of Exception: The Sociological Approach
Chair: Sabah Yasin
• Dina Matar (Lecturer in Arab Media and Political Communication, Centre for Film and Media Studies, SOAS)
Syria and the Power of Symbolic Appropriation
o Discussant: Borhan Ghalyoun
• Lina Khatib (Senior Lecturer, Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Spaces of Exception in the Arab World
o Discussant: Mokhtar al-Harras
• Haidar Ibrahim (Center for Sudan Studies)
Arab Civil Society: Is It Capable of Resistance?
o Discussant: Fethia Saidi (Assistant Professor, Manar University, Tunis)

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12:00-14:00 Session IV: State of Exception in a Colonial Setting
Chair: Mustafa al-Teer
• May Jayyusi, (Executive director of Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy)
Subjectifying Practices and the State of Exception: The body as site of resistance

o Discussant: Iman Faraj
• Nurhan Abujidi (Post-doctoral researcher, Centre for Urban Research - City, Culture & Society, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels)
Urbicide as a Condition of the State of Exception
o Discussant: Shaoul Melhem
• Adel Selmi (Researcher, l'Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique en France)
Colonial Experiment in the Birth of the Politics of Environment
o Discussant: Ahmad Baalbaki

14:00-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-16:30 Session V: 'Security State' and Governmentality
Chair: May Jayyusi
• Ruba Saleh (Senior Lecturer, Exeter University)
Immigration and Governmentality
o Discussant: Bashir al-Tlili
• Mohsen Bouazizi (Associate Professor, Tunisia University)
Sociology of the Indifference: From Indifference to the Free Aggression in Tunisia
o Discussant: Mohammad Baker Al-Najjar

16:30- 17:30 Wrap-up
Chair: Ahmad Zayed (Vice-President, Arab Sociology Association- AAS)
Adonis

N.B. The duration of the sessions will take place as follows: Presenter: 20 minutes, discussant: 5-10 minutes and the rest of the time will be left for general discussion and questions.

Simultaneous translation (Arabic, French and English) will be ensured during the conference.

For further information, kindly contact:

Maha Al-Azar
Media Relations Officer
Office of Information & Public Relations
American University of Beirut
Tel: 961-1-353 228 or AUB ext. 2676
Fax: 961-1-363 234