Middle East and North Africa Seminar
The Georgetown University Institute for Global History and the Mortara Center for International Studies present:
2011-2012 Middle East & North Africa Seminar: History and Cultures of Revolutions in the Arab World
convener Osama Abi-Mershed
Seminars will be held in ICC 241, the conference room of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, at 1 pm. Lunch will be served. Dr. Ulaby received his PhD in ehtnomusicology from UCLA in 2008 and in 2011 he was the Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at Convergence working on the US-Muslim Engagement Initiative.
Monday, 12 March 2012
Dr. Laith Ulaby, "Tears in Tahrir from Tamer: The Arabic Language Music Industry and the Arab Spring"
2010-2011 Middle East & North Africa Seminar (Convener Osama Abi-Mershed)
"Decolonization: 50 years after Fanon"
The seminar aims to examine how processes of decolonization and globalization have combined to preserve, while fundamentally altering, the complex relations and interactions between former colonizing and colonized societies and cultures. It aims to supplement conventional views on the political, economic, and cultural dominance of the neo-colonial West with studies that have highlighted the myriad ways in which the former colonial powers themselves have been shaped, transformed, or subverted by the"wretched of the Earth."
The regional focus of the seminar will be the Middle East and North Africa, but it will also invite scholars and specialists renowned for their works on the processes of decolonization in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Americas.
Among the themes it will address are:
1. Anti-colonialism in modern intellectual thought
2. Legacies of slavery and notions of race, gender, and identity
3. Migration, displacement, and territoriality
4. Sovereignty, citizenship, and trans-nationalism
5. Structures and relations of power, violence, resistance, and freedom struggles
Schedule of Events
All Seminars, unless otherwise indicated, are held on Thursdays at the Mortara Center 3600 N St. NW from 6:00-7:30 pm
September 15 Vijay Prashad, Trinity College, “Global Bonapartism and the Challenge of the South”
October 14 Marnia Lazreg, Hunter College-City University of NY, “Decolonization or counter-insurgency war? Paradoxes in Fanon's Theory”
February 2 Benjamin Brower, ICC 662
February 9 George Ciccariello-Maher, "Jump Starting the Decolonial Engine" ICC 662
April 14 Abdel-Majid Hannoum-- Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies,University of Kansas, Lawrence--"Memory at the Surface: Colonial forgetting in Post-Colonial France"
