WEDNESDAY, MAY 12
4:00 – 5:00 Welcome Note/Opening Session
• Robert Saliba (AUB) – Welcome Note
• Mona Fawaz (AUB) Introduction
5:00-6:30 Keynote 1
• Derek Gregory (University of Columbia) – “Baghdad Burning? Urban Violence and New Wars”
• Commentary: Patrick McGreevy (AUB)
Robert Saliba (AUB)
THURSDAY, MAY 13
9:30-11:00 PANEL I: CONSTRUCTING THREATS
• Paul Amar (UC Santa Barbara) -“Cairo’s Natasha Wars and Harasser Invasions: Human Security Governance & The Remapping of Gender, Class, & Morality in Neoliberal Egypt.”
• Omar Dewachi (AUB) – “Technologies of Security of Displaced Iraqis in the Urban Settings of Damascus and Beirut.”
• Hiba Bou Akar (UC Berkeley/AUB) – “The Spatial Construction of the Religious Other; the ‘Making of’ Sahra Choueifat, Lebanon.”
Discussant: AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths, University of London)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 PANEL II: DRAWING BOUNDARIES
• Parvati Nair (Queen Mary, University of London). – “Fault- Line City: Tangier Dreaming North.”
• Maryam Monalisa Gharavi (Harvard University). – “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Security, Sovereignty and Border Wall Geographies.”
• Nasser Yassin (AUB) – “Sect and the City: Understanding the Socio-spatial Practices of Young Beirutis.”
Discussant: Mustafa Dikeç (Royal Holloway/Sorbonne)
1:00- 3:00 Lunch Break
3:00-4:30 PANEL III: PLANNING SECURITY
• Mustafa Dikeç (Royal Holloway/Sorbonne) – “Aesthetics of Security.”
• Mona Fawaz – “A Regulatory Framework for an Architecture of Exclusion: Beirut as Case Study.”
• Nasser Abu-Rahme (UNRWA). – “The Bantustan Sublime: Security and Subjectivity in Ramallah.”
Discussant: Derek Gregory (University of British Columbia)
4:30-5:00: Coffee Break
5:00-6:30 KEYNOTE 2: TERESA CALDEIRA UC BERKELEY
• Teresa Caldeira (UC BERKELEY) – Transgressions, Circulations, and Walls: New Configurations of the Public in São Paulo
FRIDAY, MAY 14
9:30-11:00 ROUNDTABLE: NORMALIZING POLICING IN PLANNING PALESTINIAN CAMPS
Moderator: Philipp Misselwitz (University of Stuttgart)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 PANEL IV: LIFESTYLES OF EXCLUSION
• Ayse Onçu (Sabanci University) -“Neo-Liberalism, Governmentality, and Urban Space.”
• Anke Hagemann (Berlin) – “From Stadium to Fanzone: The Urban Footprint of a Mega Sports Event.”
• Adriana Young (New York) – “Shop and Awe: Shopping Malls, the War on Terror, and the Freedom to Shop.”
Discussant: Carole Levesque (AUB)
1:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 BEIRUT: A CITY OF SECURITY” NEWSPAPER
• -AUB, students’ presentations of their work on “Beirut: A City of Security
Coordinator: Ahmad Gharbieh (AUB/Mind the gap)
3:00-4:30 PANEL V: RESILIENCE / TRANSGRESSIONS
• AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths, University of London) – “Securing a Majority.”
• Asef Bayat (Leiden University) – “The City Inside Out.”
• AbdulHay Sayed (Damascus) – “Informal Housing and Resilience in Damascus.”
Discussant: Teresa Caldeira (UC Berkeley)
4:30-5:00 COFFEE BREAK
5:00-6:30 CLOSING PANEL
• Mustafa Dikeç (Royal Holloway/Sorbonne)
• Parvati Nair (Queen Mary, University of London)
• Ayse Onçu (Sabanci University)
• AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths, University of London)
• Moderators: Hiba Bou Akar (UC Berkeley/AUB)
Philipp Misselwitz (University of Stuttgart)