Program
Leacock 232
9:00 am - 9:30 am - Breakfast and Coffee
9:30 am - 9:45 am - Opening Remarks
Welcome by Prof. Khalid Medani, Director, IIS
Welcome by Rachel Habrih and Arteen Khachekyan, Co-chairs, MIISSC
9:45 am - 11:15 am - Panel 1
Chair: Prof. Setrag Manoukian
Alex Kreger, “This is Not a Concert”: Grieving Ritual Loss through Staging Consensus in Alevi Concerts in Urban Turkey
Maryam Yousefi, From Grief to Justice and Empowerment: Toward a Radical Critique of Ta'zie
Hala Qasqas, Liberation in a Cup: Coffee, Controversy, and Community in Damascus
11:15 am - 11:30 am - Coffee Break
11:30 am - 1:00 pm - Panel 2
Chair: PhD. Jaleh Ebrahimi
Shams Seif, But Why Does Storytelling Matter? On Narrative Inheritance that Sustains Us
Negin Sajadi, Iranian Youth and Its Connotations: A Political Reading of the Discursive Function of The Catcher in the Rye in Iranian Protest Movements
Farshid Sadatharifi, She'r Damaani (شعر درمانی): Poetry Therapy as a Pathway to Liberation in Iran - A Case Study on Prof. Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani's Telegram Channel
Heather Porter, Muslim Futurism and Radical Reimaginings Against Anti-Muslim Racism
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm - Panel 3
Chair: Prof. Sara Abdel-Latif
Alexandra Zybinova, Women’s Political Participation in the 2011 Tahrir Square Uprising: Critical Discourse Analysis
Maya Rodrigo-Abdi, Editing and Extracting the Body Out of Oppressive Timelines: Cyberfeminist Processes Throughout Hayv Kahraman’s Oeuvre
Zainab Khalid, The Longing Lotus: Femaleness and Sexualities of Absence in Sufism
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm - Coffee Break
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm - Panel 4
Burnside Steps
Chair: Prof. Michelle Hartman
Omar Kamal, Late Ottoman Responses and Communication from Palestinian Bedu and Fellahin regarding the New Yishuv
Athina Khalid, The Violence the Revolution Failed to Prevent: Grief, Loss, and Critiques of Fatah Rhetoric in Mustafa Abu Ali's Palestine in the Eye (1977)
Salma Shaaban, Free Palestine, Palestine Free: Travel and Translation in Pro-Palestine Solidarity Chants
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm - Break
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Keynote Speaker, Prof. Rula Abisaab
Apartheid Impaired: Esoteric (bātinī) Palestine, the Communists, and Women in Emile Habiby’s novel The Pessoptimist
6:30 pm - Dinner at Faculty Club
