Month: September 2024

Please note that each of the sessions of this workshop is a discussion of a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Attendees need to read the pre-circulated draft to participate in the discussion. To access the drafts and attend please email eman.s.morsi@dartmouth.edu.

All sessions will be held in Dartmouth Hall 104 EXCEPT for sessions III and IV which will be held in Haldeman 246.

Friday , Oct 25, 2024

Session I: 9:30 am – 10:30 am : Eman Morsi, “The Sahrawi Hispanosphere” (Moderator: Christina Civantos)

Coffee Break: 10:30 am-11:00 am

Session II: 11:00 am -12:00 pm: Kevin Funk, “A (Neoliberal) “New World Economic Geography”: Comparative Perspectives on the Domestic Consequences of Booming Latin American-Middle Eastern Trade” (Moderator Eman Morsi)

Lunch Break: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Session III: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Christina Civantos, “Orientalist Solidarity: José Martí and Cuban Internationalism” (Moderator Marwan Kraidy)

Coffee Break: 3:00 pm- 3:30 pm

Session IV: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Marwan Kraidy, “Turkish Drama in Latin America: Coiled Temporalities & Narrative Decolonization” (Moderator John Karam)

Saturday Oct 26, 2024

Session V: 09:30 am – 10:30 am Jesús Muñoz, “Speaking in Glyphs: The Decolonial Poetics of Global Magical Realism” (Moderator Diogo Bercito)

Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00

Session VI: 11:00 am -12:00 pm Maru Pabón, “Word as Action, Immediacy as Style: Fayad Jamís’s Bridges of Communication” (Moderator Jesús Muñoz)

Lunch: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Session VII: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Diogo Bercito, “A Brazilian Thawra: Arab Migrants in the Revolution of 1932″ (Moderator Angela Haddad)

Coffee Break: 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Session VIII: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm John Karam, “Global South Prelude: Why Brazil Matters in the Arab Mediterranean” (Moderator Raffaele Mauriello)

Sunday Oct 27, 2024

Session IX: 9:30-10:30 Raffaele Mauriello, “Iran’s Connections with Latin America in the Long Global Sixties and 1979: Literal, Aspirational, Conspiratorial, and Commemorative” (Moderator Kevin Funk)

Coffee/Tea Break: 10:30- 11:00

Session X: 11:00-12:00 Angela Haddad, “Caribbean Indigenism and Arab Migration” (Moderator Maru Pabon)

Lunch: 12:00-2:00 (To Go lunch will be provided for those needing to get on the 12:40 bus)

Silvia Marsans-Sakly is an Associate Professor of the Practice in History and Islamic World at Fairfield University. She focuses on the modern history of the Maghreb, particularly Tunisia, with research interests in post-colonial memory, state-society relations, and East-West cartographies of power and memory.

A returned Peace Corps volunteer stationed in Tunisia, Dr. Marsans-Sakly earned her Ph.D. in Middle Eastern and Modern European History from New York University. Her publications include peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and the forthcoming monograph History, Power, and Memory in Tunisia, 1864-2011 (IB Tauris). Her next project explores the intersections between Cuba, the Arab world, and the Maghreb. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) and Fulbright and received Fairfield University’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

Martínez Lillo is an Arabist and Literary Translator. She is a professor at the Universidad de Malaga and the Coordinator of the Area of ​​Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Greek Philology, Arabic Studies, General Linguistics, Documentation and Latin Philology.

Martinez Lillo has taught at a variety of academic centers and universities in Egypt, Italy, Chile, and Uzbekistan. She is a member of the Research Group HUM108: CONTEMPORARY ARAB STUDIES (EEAACC) at the Universidad de Granada.

She has written extensively on Arabic and Latin American literatures and has published several translations of Arabic prose and poetry in Spanish. For a list of her publications please click here.

Basil Farraj is the Director of the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural studies, Birzeit University. Basil is currently working on a research project that explores the global circulation of carceral practices, funded by the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS). Basil’s research addresses the intersections of memory, resistance, and art by prisoners and others at the receiving end of violence. Basil has conducted research in several countries including Chile, Colombia, and Palestine.

Please note that the morning sessions are discussions of pre-circulated works-in-progress. If interested in joining the discussion of the drafts please contact Eman.s.morsi@dartmouth.edu to get a copy.

The Teach-In sessions and film screening do not need preparation. Join if you can!

Program:

Saturday 9/21

Location for morning sessions: Reed Hall 102

10:00 am -11:00 am: Silvia Marsans-Sakly, “In the Time of Genocide: Reading Las Casas During the Nakba of 2023–24” 

11:00 am -11:30 am Coffee Break

11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Amal Eqeiq, “Ethnography as a Method: The Examination of the “I”/Eye in South-South Encounters”

Afternoon Events will be held in Reed Hall 105

2:30-4:00 Teach-In: “Practices of Violence, Practices of Resistance” with Basil Farraj

5:00-6:30 Film Screening and Discussion: Cuatro colores (Four Colors) Documentary by Aldo Guerrero

Sunday 9/22

Reed Hall 102

10:00 am- 11:00 am: Rosa Isabel Martinez Lillo, “Young Chilean Prose of Arab Origin: Farha Nasra and the Children of the Intifada” 

11:00 am-11:30 am Coffee break

11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Basil Farraj, “On the Move: the Mobility of Israeli Carceral Practices”

Reed Hall 105

 2:00-3:30 pm Teach-In with Amal Eqeiq, “From La Calle to الشارع:  Latin American Solidarity with Palestine through Street Art”

4:00-5:30pm Teach-in with Silvia Marsans-Sakly, “Echoes of Empire: How Does Colonial Violence from the Indies Resonate in Gaza?”