2014 | Event Program

FRIDAY, MARCH 7

9:30 Introduction

  • Makram Suidan, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, AUB
  • Mona Fawaz, Associate Professor and Coordinator, MUPP/MUD, AUB
  • Nada Moumtaz, Assistant professor in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Comparative Studies, Ohio State University

10:00 Keynote #1

  • Nicholas Blomley- Why and how property matters to planning

Discussant: Omar Razzaz

11:15-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45-1:30 Panel 1: Law and Property

  • Edesio Fernandes – A step towards the right to the city? An assessment of Brazil’s 2001 City Statute
  • Ayona Datta- The elusive struggle for the legal city: Squatters, tenure and the myth of resettlement in Delhi slums
  • Ann Varley- Normalising informal settlements? Titling and the construction of everyday properties

Discussant: Samer Ghamroun

1:30-3:00 Lunch

3:00-4:30: Panel 2: Representing Property

  • Yucel Kaya- Politics of cadastral property assessment in the Ottoman provincial towns in the nineteenth century
  • Aziz Hallaj- Cadasters, property and the creation of Modernity in the Levant
  • Eric Denis- Ordinary occupancy contested and property engineering from Indian’s city to Egypt: Scale, democracy and inclusive planning

Discussant: Richard Smith

4:30- 5:00 Coffee Break

5:00 Keynote #2 Hurichan Islamoglu – Globalization and the Politics of Property

Respondent: Fawwaz Traboulsi

SATURDAY, MARCH 8

9:30-11:00: Panel 3: Making Private Property

  • Martha Mundy, Cynthia Gharios, & Saker El Nour- The urban in the rural: commodification, land-use and landscape in a village of S Lebanon (19th – 21st centuries)
  • Mona Fawaz – The politics of property in planning: Hezbollah’s reconstruction of Haret Hreik (Beirut, Lebanon) as case study
  • Ozan Karaman – Contested trajectories of urban renewal in Istanbul

Discussant: Vijay Prashad

11:00-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-1pm: Panel 4: Thinking Property Otherwise

  • David Correia- The fetishism of common property and its secret
  • Nada Moumtaz – Alienating inalienables, making the Muslim community: waqf exchanges during the reconstruction of Beirut’s Central District
  • Abir Saksouk-Sasso – Contesting National Authority in the Construction of Public Space: Dalieh or the making of Communal Spaces in Beirut

Discussant: Nadia von Maltzahn

1:00-2:30 Lunch

2:30-4:30 Roundtable: Taxation

  • Charbel Nahas , Economist and Professor at AUB, LAU, Lebanese University
  • Vincent Renard , Economist and Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research
  • Mounir Rached , Vice President and a founding member of the Lebanese Economic Association

Moderator: Mona Harb

4:30-5:00 Closing