Retrospective of Arab Academics/Intellectuals
Arab Intellectuals in the 20th and 21st Centuries is a two-fold collaborationbetween the American University of Beirut (AUB), the French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo), and the Center for Sociological and Political Research of Paris (Cresppa-LabTop, Paris 8). This collaboration will result in a series of events dedicated to Arab intellectuals in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The first part of this collaboration will be a series entitled: Retrospective of Arab Intellectuals, and the second part will be a research seminar entitled: Beirut intellectual worlds: figures, institutions, circulations (1958-2005).
« Taamira », Hamed Abdalla, 1937
Retrospective of Arab Intellectuals
A series organized by the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies and the Mohammad Atallah Chair for Ethics at the American University of Beirut, in collaboration with the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo). This monthly series aims to highlight the work and legacies of several Arab intellectual figures. It will take place during the academic year 2021-2022 and will be online and/or in-person. Each event will include two talks: one will be a lecture on the work of the “intellectual of the month” and his/her legacy, and the other will be a lecture from this figure which includes a response. These events will be open to the public (online and in-person), and the audience will be invited to participate in a Q & A session at the end of each event. All events will be filmed and posted on YouTube.
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NEXT SESSION
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2023 | 5:00–8:30 PM BEIRUT TIME
IFI CONFERENCE ROOM, 4TH FLOOR | ZOOM
FROM CONNECTIVITY TO CONNECTIVE TRAUMA CRITICAL PATHWAYS ENGAGING ARAB FAMILIES AND SELVING
DR. SUAD JOSEPH [UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS]
The lecture contextualizes Joseph’s trajectories of research in the socio/political/ and intellectual contexts from the 1970’s to the present. It particularly focuses on the theorization on the Arab family, the relational self, connectivity, patriarchal connectivity, the kin contract, citizenship, civil society, and relational rights. It traces this genealogy to her current work on foundational concepts of STEM and rethinking western conceptualization of refugee trauma.
Suad Joseph is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Davis. She is the founder and founding president of the Middle East Research Group in Anthropology (aka: Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association), founder and founding president of the Association for Middle East Women›s Studies (AMEWS) and founder/director of the Arab Families Working Group. She founded
and directed the University of California Davis Arab Region Consortium, including the American University of Beirut, the American University in Cairo, the Lebanese American University, Birzeit University, American University of Sharjah, and UC Davis. She was president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America in 2010-2011. She is co-founder and founding president of the Arab American Studies Association and
co-founder of the Association for Middle East Anthropology and the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. She is General Editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. She has edited or co-edited 12 books, and published over 100 articles in journals and books, most recently Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews (2018); the award-winning Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal (2021): The Politics
of Engaged Gender Research (2022); Handbook of Middle East Women (2022). She is the founder and founding director of the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program at UC Davis, co-founder of the Feminist Research Institute. She was awarded the UC Davis Prize – the largest undergraduate teaching and research prize in the United States; the Middle East Studies Association Jere L. Bacharach Life Time Service Award in 2019; the
Association for Middle East Women’s Studies and the Arab American Studies Association life time service awards; and the UC Davis Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship for 2020-2021.
DISCUSSANTS
LIVIA WICK, American University of Beirut
ZINA SAWAF, Lebanese American University
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PAST SESSIONS
Retrospective of Arab Academics/Intellectuals
Symposium 1 | December 11, 2021 | Flyer & YouTube
Surveillance, Mapping and Control of the Palestinian Landscape
Salim Tamari – Bir Zeit University
Discussants:
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi | Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
ِAmerican University of Beirut
Moderator:
Sari Hanafi – ِAmerican University of Beirut
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Retrospective of Arab Academics/Intellectuals
Symposium 2 | January 14, 2022 | Flyer & YouTube
How do we write our military history? The June 1967 war as an example
Khaled Fahmy – University of Cambridge
Discussants:
Pascale Ghazaleh – American University in Cairo
Gennaro Gervasio – Università Roma Tre, Rome
Moderator:
Sari Hanafi – ِAmerican University of Beirut
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Retrospective of Arab Academics/Intellectuals
Symposium 3 | February 24, 2022 | Flyer & YouTube
On sects, classes and civil wars
Fawwaz Traboulsi
Writer, Historian & Academic
Discussants
Rima Majed | Charles al-Hayek
American University of Beirut
Moderated by
Sari Hanafi – American University of Beirut
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Retrospective of Arab Academics/Intellectuals
Symposium 4 | March 24, 2022 | Flyer & YouTube
How are we convinced? Or, where do we derive our convictions from?
Hazem Saghieh
Journalist and Author
Discussants
Ziad Majed – The American University of Paris
Hicham Bou Nasi – Claremont McKenna College
Moderated by
Sari Hanafi – American University of Beirut
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