XII SeSaMO Conference | January 16-17, 2015

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, MORNING 9.00 – 9.30 Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, Ca’ Dolfin OPENING REMARKS Professor MICHELE BUGLIESI Rector Magnificus, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Professor ANNA CARDINALETTI Director, Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies Professor SUSANNA REGAZZONI Director, School of International Relations Welcoming Address by the President of SeSaMO, Professor MATTEO LEGRENZI 9.30 – 11.00 Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, Ca’ Dolfin Keynote speech by Professor EUGENE ROGAN Conflicting Agreements: Wartime Partition Plans and the Postwar Disorder in the Middle East PANEL 1 – THE END OF BORDERS PANEL 2 - OTHER SPRINGS: REDISCOVERING MIZRAHI CULTURES IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL PANEL 3 – THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN UNDER HASSAN ROUHANI: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE PANEL 4 – WHAT ECONOMIC CHANGES? THEORETICAL DEBATES AND ACTORS AT STAKE IN THE MENA REGION PANEL 5 – ORIGINES ET DÉVELOPPEMENTS DES SYSTÈMES PARTISANS DU MONDE ARABE: UNE PERSPECTIVE COMPARATIVE FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, AFTERNOON PANEL 6 – WRITING THE ARAB MODERNITY: GENRE, WORLD VIEW, AND LITERARY CANON PANEL 7 – EXPERIMENTAL AND ALTERNATIVE URBANISM IN THE MENA REGION: BUILDING A CRITICAL AND “POLITICAL” RESEARCH ON THE “NEW” MODES OF MAKING THE CITY PANEL 8 – THE RISE OF THE GULF IN THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA PANEL 9 – ARAB WOMEN AND MEDIA IN CHANGING LANDSCAPES: REALITIES AND CHALLENGES. GULF ARAB AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES PANEL 10 – LEBANON FACING THE ARAB UPRISINGS. BETWEEN INTERNAL CHALLENGES AND EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS PANEL 11 – ELECTORAL FRAMEWORK AND PARTY SYSTEMS IN THE PERSIAN GULF AFTER THE ARAB SPRING PANEL 12 – THE ARAB WORLD AND SAHELIAN AFRICA: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AN EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP PANEL 13 – THE INTEREST OF ANALYSING PUBLIC MANAGEMENT IN NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES UNDER THE GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK 18.00 – 19.00 Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, Ca’ Dolfin Roundtable (in Italian): MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES IN ITALY: JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, MORNING 9.00 – 10.30, Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, Ca’ Dolfin Keynote speech by Professor NADJE AL-ALI Why Gender Matters: A Feminist Perspective on Protest, Political Transition and Violence in the Middle East PANEL 14 – A NEW WAVE? EXPLORING THE EXPERIENCES OF THE YOUTH IN THE MENA REGION PANEL 15 - CONSTRUCTING AND SUBVERTING GENDER NORMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: HISTORY, POLITICS AND NARRATIVES OF NON NORMATIVE SEXUALITIES PANEL 16 – THE ARAB SPRINGS AND THE WEST PANEL 17 – ETHNOGRAPHIES OF MOBILITY IN THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST AND IN ITALY SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, AFTERNOON PANEL 15 (Session 2) – CONSTRUCTING AND SUBVERTING GENDER NORMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: HISTORY, POLITICS AND NARRATIVES OF NON NORMATIVE SEXUALITIES PANEL 18 (Session 2) – BOUNDARIES AND IDENTITY SPACES IN THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST PANEL 19 – PUBLIC POLICING THE MIDDLE EAST: EXPLORING THE MICRO-FOUNDATIONS OF REGIME PERSISTENCE IN THE ARAB WORLD PANEL 20 – ARAB SENSITIVITIES AFTER THE UPRISINGS. ARAB ART AND ITS PERCEPTION OF REALITY: CHANGES AND INNOVATIONS PANEL 21 – “PRINTEMPS ARABE”: POURQUOI L’EFFET DOMINO N’A T-IL PAS EU LIEU? PANEL 22 – CO-IRIS: ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES ON THEORY AND PRAXIS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PANEL 23 – CREATIVE RESISTANCE AND TRANSNATIONAL POLITICAL COUNTER-CULTURE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY “GRIND”