6:00 -6:30 PM: OPENING SESSION

·  Alan Shihadeh (Dean, MSFEA, AUB). Welcome Note

·  Howayda Al-Harithy (Conference Coordinator, ArD, AUB). Introduction

6:30 – 8:00 PM: KEYNOTE 1

Diane Davis (GSD, Harvard University). Resilience, Security, and Spaces of Migrant Refugees

Discussant: Mona Fawaz (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB)

9:30 – 11:30 AM: PANEL 1. HOUSING THE DISPLACED

·  Cathrine Brun (Centre for Development and Emergency Practice, Oxford Brookes University). Understanding Protracted Displacement Through the Dwelling

·  Camillo Boano (Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL), Joana Dabaj (CatalyticAction), Howayda Al-Harithy (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB). Learning to be a City: Emerging Practices for Housing the Displaced

·  Namariq Al-Rawi (Independent Researcher, MSc. University of Stuttgart). Baghdad’s Process of Urban Recovery: From Deactivating Eventfulness into Gradual Reactivation of Social-Spatial Networks

·  Mona Fawaz (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB). “You Get What You Pay For” Syrian Refugees’ Access to Shelter in Lebanon Since 2013

Chair: Seteney Shami (Arab Council for the Social Sciences)

12:00 – 1:30 PM: PANEL 2. RECONSTRUCTED MEMORIES AND SPACES

·  Elena Isayev (Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter), Peter Campbell (Archaeology Department, British School at Rome). Imagining Futures through UN/Archived Pasts

·  Angela Boskovitch (Mosul Eye), Omar Mohammed (Mosul Eye). Mosul: Cultural Recovery and Reclaiming a Cosmopolitan Identity

·  Riccardo Bocco (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies). Space, Time, Memories: The Palestinian Refugee Camps and their Cinematic Representations

Chair: Robert Saliba (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB)

2:30 – 4:00 PM: PANEL 3. ART AS RECOVERY

·  Omar Mismar (ArD, AUB). Confiscated Imaginaries: Notes on a Work in Progress

·  Aseel Sawalha (Anthropology, Fordham University). Art, Women, Refugees and the Formation of Amman’s Cultural Landscapes

·  Judith Naeff (Leiden University). Provisionality and Liveliness in Beirut

Chair: Walid Sadek (FAAH, AUB)

4:30 – 6:00 PM: PANEL 4. RECOVERING CULTURAL HERITAGE

·  Suzanne Harris-Brandts (Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT). The Politics of Urban Recovery in a Stalinist-era Resort Town: Heritage, Tourism Development, and Twice-Displaced Communities in Tskaltubo, Georgia

·  Rohit Jigyasu (ICOMOS; UNESCO; ICCROM; Ahmedabad University). From Recovery to Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities for Post Crisis Recovery of Urban Cultural Heritage

·  Chiara De Cesari (European Studies and Cultural Studies, University of Amsterdam). Restoring the Past, Claiming Rights in the Present: Uses of Heritage in Old Hebron

Chair: Howayda Al-Harithy (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB)

6:30 – 8:00 PM: KEYNOTE 2

Sultan Barakat (Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies). Post-war Reconstruction – Towards a Regional Action

Discussant: Mona Harb (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB)

9:30 – 11:30 AM: PANEL 5. MODALITIES OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE

·  Mona Harb (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB), Mona Fawaz (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB). Urban Governance and Displacement: Service Provision in Two Lebanese Cities

·  Elisabetta Pietrostefani (RELIEF Centre, UCL). Spatializing Displacement in a Changing Urban Landscape: Insights from Ras Beirut and Mar Mikhael

·  Loren Landau (African Center for Migration and Society, Wits University). Governing Displaced Cities: Calibrating Reconstruction Amidst Instability

Chair: Carmen Geha (Political Studies and Public Administration Department, AUB)

12:00 – 1:30 PM: PANEL 6. RETHINKING THE “CAMP” 

·  Kamel Doraï (Institut Français du Proche-Orient). Zaatari Camp, Rethinking the Camp Through Refugees’ Socio-Spatial Practices

·  Nick Tyler (Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, UCL), Samar Maqusi (Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, UCL). Designing Time as a Mode of Recovery and Vitality

·  Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Department of Geography, UCL). A Rhizoanalysis of ‘more-than-camps’ in the Middle East: Exploring the Constitutive Nature of Overlapping Processes of Displacement and Destruction

Chair: Rabih Shibli (Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service, AUB)

2:30 – 4:00 PM: MOVIE SCREENING PANEL. THE QUESTION OF REPRESENTATION OF THE PALESTINIAN CAMPS 

·  ZINCO by Serene Husni, 2013, 21 minutes

·  VIDEOMAPPINGS: AÏDA, PALESTINE by Till Roeskens, 2008, 45 minutes

4:00 – 6:00 PM: SPECIAL SESSION ON SYRIA

·  Giulia Guadagnoli (Syria Initiative, Common Space Initiative). Scoping Women’s Roles and Opportunities in Syrian Cities Across Conflict Lines

·  Eva Ziedan (Independent Scholar). Souls of Homes: Heritage as a Manifestation of Communities’ Relationships Through Spacetime

·  Ghiath Al Jebawi (Erd-Teks). City Development Frame: The City as a Unit of the Syrian Countryside Recovery – Azaz

Chair: Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj (Syria Initiative, Common Space Initiative)

6:30 – 8:00 PM: KEYNOTE 3

Jennifer Hyndman (Centre for Refugee Studies, York University). Global Compacts or Containment? Geopolitics by Design

Discussant: Henrietta Moore (RELIEF Centre; Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL)