Wednesday, March 6th
5:30-6:00pm Registration, Coffee
6:00-6:15pm
Introductory Notes
Mona Fawaz, MUPP-MUD/AUB, Beirut Urban Lab/AUB, and IJURR Editorial Collective
Howayda Al-Harithy, Director, School of Architecture and Design, AUB
Zaher Dawy, Provost, AUB
6:15-7:30pm
[Special Palestine Week Event]
Opening Keynote
Mapping as Decolonial Praxis: Indigenous Imagination amidst Settler Destruction, from Algeria to Palestine and Hawaii
Nour Joudah, UCLA
Discussants:
Hiba Bou Akar, Columbia University
Rami Zurayk, AUB
Thursday, March 7th
9:00-11:00am
Panel 1 (Online Panel): Financialized Cities, MENA and beyond [pre-recorded panel]
Moderator/Discussant: Salim Rouhana, World Bank
Endowments and Transnational Networks: The Urban Politics of al-Jam’iyyat al-Khayriya in Kuwait
Asseel Al-Ragam, Kuwait University
Transnational Speculations on Urban Land: A Comparative Approach
Ozan Karaman, CNRS (France)
The Changing Face of Baghdad: Corruption, Urbanization, and Environmental Degradation
Zeinab Shuker, Sam Houston State University
The Depoliticization of Aid as a Colonial Practice in Palestine
Muna Dajani, LSE
11:30am-1:00pm
Panel 2: The New Faces of Statehood
Moderator/Discussant: Rima Majed, AUB
Insurgent Bureaucrats: Mobilizing for Social Justice within the Local State
Walter Nicholls, University of California, Irvine
Making the State Care: The Role of Political Willingness and Brokerage in Bogota’s New Feminist Care Policy
María José (Majo) Álvarez Rivadulla, Universidad de los Andes
Securing Hinterlands: Troubling State and Space in Baghdad
Omar Sirri, University of Toronto
3:00-5:30pm
[Special Palestine Week Event]
Panel 3: Mapping Territories, Understanding Histories
Moderator/Discussant: Umit Acikgoz, AUB
Interrupted Futures: Planning Modern Jaffa, 1936-1948
Nadi Abusaada, ETH Zurich
Interrogating Recovery: The Case of Gaza
Howayda Al-Harithy, AUB
Refugee Heritage
Sandi Hilal, Lund University and DAAR
6:00-7:30pm
Keynote 2
The Governance and Politics of Latin American Metropolises in Comparative Perspective
Eduardo Marques, University of São Paulo
Discussants:
Mona Harb, MUPP-MUD/AUB, Beirut Urban Lab/AUB
Seteney Shami, Arab Council for the Social Sciences
Friday, March 8th
9:00-11:00am
Panel 4 (Online Panel): Governing Territories
Moderator/Discussant: Yaser Abunnasr, AUB
Piecing Together Istanbul’s Puzzle of Oddities: Navigating financialization, populist authoritarianism, regulatory ambiguity, municipal dysfunction, and burgeoning entrepreneurial communities
Tuna Tasan-Kok, University of Amsterdam
Revolutionary Islamic Organizations and Land Ownership Conflicts in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas of Tehran
Azadeh Mashayekhi, UCL
Financialization and the Making of New Wuhan
Zhigang Li, Wuhan University
Thinking the City-Region from the Periphery: Spatial and Political Reconfiguration in Morocco
Maryame Amarouche, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3
11:30am-1:00pm
[Special Palestine Week Event]
Panel 5: The Many Faces of Colonialism
Moderator/Discussant: Jens Hanssen, Orient-Institut Beirut
National Plans for the Day After: the State Process, Capital, and Distribution of Precarity and Stability across Palestine
Kareem Rabie, University of Illinois, Chicago
Between Land and Live: Insurgent Geographies of Reproduction in Palestine’s Frontiers
Omar Jabary Salamanca, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Rhythms of Disruption: Palestinian everyday life encounters of spatio-temporal injustice
Maha Samman, Al-Quds University
2:30- 5:00pm
Panel 6: Governing with and without the State
Moderator/Discussant: Rana Sukarieh, AUB
A Seascape of Power: Turkish Energy Infrastructure in Ghana
Gokce Gunel, Rice University
Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul
Sarah El-Kazaz, SOAS, University of London
Urban Governance and Cityness: New Egypt and the Financialized Afterlives of Planning Traditions
Momen El-Husseiny, American University in Cairo
Syrian Refugee Camps in Jordan: From Shelters to Dwellings
Ayham Dalal, German University in Cairo
5:00pm
Closing Note: Mona Harb
6:00-7:30pm [In Issam Fares Institute, Bassile Antoine Meguerdiche Conference Hall, basement level auditorium]
[Special Palestine Week Event]
Closing Roundtable: Palestine, How can we care as Urbanists
Moderated by Hiba Bou Akar, Columbia University
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PROGRAM MARCH 6-8, 2024