Conference: Rethinking Nationalism, Sectarianism and Ethno-Religious Mobilisation in the Middle East (Day 3)
Conveners: Alex Henley (Pembroke), Ceren Lord (SIAS) and Hiroko Miyokawa (SIAS)
Speakers: Teije Hidde Donker, Fiona McCallum, Yasuyuki Matsunaga, Sule Can, Maria Kastrinou, Fouad Marei, Gaetan du Roy, Marina Calculli, Hiroko Miyokawa, Dylan O'Driscoll, Michael Willis, Alex Henley (Chair), Walter Armbrust (Chair), Ahmed Al Shahi (Chair)
The final day of a three-day event generously supported by Pembroke College, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, the Middle East Centre at St Antony's College, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). PLEASE NOTE THAT DAYS 2 and 3 OF THE CONFERENCE ARE NOW SOLD OUT
9.30-9.45 Coffee and pastries
9.45-11.15 Panel 8: Placing Religion in Protest and Social Movements
Chair: Alex Henley
Teije Hidde Donker: Jihadism and Governance in Northern Syria
Fiona McCallum: The Changing Nature of Coptic Protest in Egypt
Yasuyuki Matsunaga: A Processual Sociological Perspective on Sectarian Insurgency in Iran’s Two Border Areas
11.30-13.00 Panel 9: Everyday Sectarianism in the Reimagination of Boundaries
Chair: Walter Armbrust
Şule Can: Vahed! Nihna u Suriyah Vahed!: Shifting Ethno-Religious Boundaries and Politicization at the Turkish-Syrian Border
Maria Kastrinou: From a Window in Jaramana: Sectarianism, Religion and the Impact of War on a Druze Neighbourhood in Syria
Fouad Marei: Theatres of Resistance: Shi‘i Ritual Practice as Politics and Performance
Gaétan du Roy: Everyday Religious Boundaries: Reassessing Religious Revivals from Shubra, Cairo
13.00-14.00 Lunch (provided for speakers)
14.00-15.30 Panel 10: Reconciling State and Sub-State Identities in Contested National Spaces
Chair: Ahmed al-Shahi
Marina Calculli: Hezbollah’s Phoenicianism: From Threat to the Guardian of the ‘Lebanese Nation’
Hiroko Miyokawa: Coptic Historiography in Colonial Egypt: From the History of Patriarchs to the History of Coptic Nation
Dylan O’Driscoll: Iraq, Subnationalism and Militias
Michael Willis: Enemies, Allies or Competitors? Islamist-Amazigh Movement Relations in Morocco and Algeria
15.30-16.00 Closing remarks and coffee
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