News & Events / Conferences / Politics, Culture and Lebanese Diaspora /
| Time | Activity | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 4:30pm–5:30pm | Conference Opening | Business Building 903, Ground floor |
| 5:30pm–6:00pm | Launching of Institute for Migration Studies | |
| 6:00pm–7:00pm | Cocktails |
| Time | Activity or Session | Parallel Session |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30am–9am | Registration & Morning Coffee | |
9am–10am |
Keynote Speaker: Ghassan Hage. Location: Irwin Conference room A, B, and C |
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| 10am–10:30am | Tea Break | |
10:30am–12:30pm |
Diasporan PoliticsLocation: Irwin Conference room A, B, and C Khater, Akram. Mahjar: The rise of Lebanese or Syrian nationalisms. Abboud, Brian. Becoming political in diaspora: Assessing the beginnings of Syrian-Lebanese state-directed political claim making in Canada. Saghie, Nada. Transnational political activities of the Lebanese community in Montreal. Del Mar, Logrono-Narbona. Lebanese politics in the diaspora: An early historical overview from Argentina. Moderator: Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss |
Diasporan PoliticsLocation: Irwin Building, 7th floor Room 402 Leichtman, Mara A. Transnational religion and Shi’ite politics. The case of the Lebanese community in Senegal. Malki, Xerxes. The Lebanese and Lebanese party politics in Ghana, West Africa. Nadine A. Yehya. Small-scale Lebanese activism in the U.S. during July 2006 War on Lebanon: A resistive discourse Karam, Gebran. The right to vote of the Lebanese in the diaspora: The Lebanese-abroad.com movement experience. Thibaut, Jaulien. The political issue of the Lebanese migrants in the 1930s: The case of the 1932 census and the 1943 electoral laws. Moderator: Bassel Salloukh |
| 12:30pm–1:30pm | Lunch Location: Cafeteria, Nicol Building |
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1:30pm–3:30pm |
Racism and CitizenshipLocation: Irwin Conference room A, B, and C Noble, Greg. Respect means the world to me: Young, Arabic-speaking Australians and the politics of recognition. Farred, Grant. Foreigners among citizens: The Lebanese politizen in “Terror Australis”. Stasiulis, Daiva and Amery, Zainab. Questioning dual citizenship: The experience of the July 2006 evacuation among Australian- and Canadian-Lebanese. Hyndman-Rizik, Neila. On being honker Lebanese: Disaporic Hadchit identity across the American West. Moderator: Imad Salamey |
LiteratureLocation: Irwin Building, 7th floor Room 402 Hout, Syrine. The last migration: The first contemporary example of Lebanese diasporic literature. Hassan, Salah D. Unstated: Lebanon war narratives and the Lebanese diaspora. Abboud, Victoria M. (Trans)Planting cedars: Seeking identity, nationality and culture in the Lebanese diaspora. Kaedbey, Dima. Is brown the color of sexuality? Nikro, Saadi. Seductive identifications: Parody and power in Haikal’s seducing Mr. Mclean. Moderator: Jumana Bayeh |
| 3:30pm–4pm | Tea Break | |
4:00–5:30/6:00pm |
First Workshop: Akram Khater. Title: Finding voices, tracing lives: Issues in writing history of peasant immigrants. Location: Irwin Conference room A, B, and C |
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Evening 8:30pm |
Conference dinner (Sponsored by the Institut Francais du Proche-Orient) Location: Restaurant "Abd Al-Wahab", Abd Al-Wahab Al-Inglizi street, close to Monot Street |
| Time | Activity or Session | Parallel Session |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30am–9am | Morning Coffee | |
9am–10am |
Keynote Speaker: Vincent Crapanzano. Location: Irwin Conference room A, B, and C |
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| 10am–10:30am | Tea Break | |
10:30am–12:30pm |
CultureLocation: Irwin Conference room A, B, and C Al-Tawil, Hashim. The journey of the Turbah "Sajdah" from Mecca to Kerbala to Jerusalem: Transnational cultural and political identity of Lebanese Shi’ites in Michigan. Rowe, A.E. Ethnic no more? Generations and heritage identities among the Lebanese in Northern New England. Sarah Gualtieri Arab American and African American Alliances in the Wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War Maria Koinova When Are Diasporas a source of Moderation During Post-conflict Reconstruction? Lebanese and Albanian Diasporas Compared Moderator: Paul Tabar |
ArtLocation: Irwin Building, 7th floor Room 402 Khalil, Nadine. Lebanese cultural workers and artists: Navigating the Arab cultural terrain in New York. Sabsabi, Khaled. Hip-hop a cultural movement. Chrabieh, Pamela. Contributions of young Lebanese-Canadians to the culture of peace in Lebanon. Hassan, Jamelie. Landscapes of diaspora and migration.(Canada) Moderator: Greg Noble |
| 12:30pm–1:30pm | Lunch Location: Cafeteria, Nicol Building |
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1:30pm–3:30pm |
Community ProfileLocation: Irwin Conference room A, B, and C Al-Ariss, Akram and Ozbilgin, Mustafa. Careers of talented Lebanese migrants in France. Gomes, Charles. How remittance can contribute to economic growth in developing countries. Eugene Sensenig- Dabbous Engendering Diaspora Masculinities: The Impact of Forced Migration on Male Identity in Lebanese Network Communities Moderator: Sami Baroudy |
MediaLocation: Irwin Building, 7th floor Room 402 Joseph, Suad and D'Harlingue, Benjamin. Print Arabs and Muslims: Representational structures of Arab and Muslim Americans in The Wall Street Journal, 2000–2003. Shamas, Kristin. Representing/constructing immigrant identity: Lebanese Oklahomans from 1901 to 1975. Women and MigrationAmery, Zainab. Telling stories: Intergenerational patriarchal transformations of early Lebanese women immigrants. Moderator: Paul Tabar |
| 3:30pm–4pm | Tea Break | |
4pm–5:30/6pm |
Second Workshop: Vincent Crapanzano. Title: Diasporic horizons. Location: Irwin Conference room A, B, and C |
| Time | Activity | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
9am–11:30am |
Third Workshop: Ghassan Hage. Title: Methods in researching migration. Location: Irwin Conference room A, B, and C |
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| 11:30am–2:30pm | A Bus Trip to Byblos | A historical city on the coast |
| 2:30pm–4:00pm | Conference lunch Location: Dar Al-Azrak Restaurant, Byblos |
Covered by Conference Committee |
| 4pm–5pm | Back to LAU campus, Beirut |