Schedule

SECT SCHEDULE
SPACES OF RESISTANCE
American University of Beirut

Maps and information will be distributed on the first day of the seminar. Items with an asterisk will be open to the public.

Monday, July 30

9:00 am Welcome: overview and logistics
Introductions: each person one minute
11:00 am Note on the Arab Revolution: Howayda Al-Harithy
11:30 am Panel of Responses and Discussion: Karim Makdisi, AbdouMaliq Simone
* 2:00 pm Anti- and Alter- : Ontologies of Resistance
Ghassan Hage
Discussion moderated by David Theo Goldberg
3:30 pm Break-out discussions about agenda
4:00 pm Tour: Solidere and its discontents
Walking tours
7:30 pm OPENING DINNER
Mayrig Restaurant

Tuesday, July 31

9:00 am Panel of responses to Solidere tour; reflections and thoughts followed by questions and discussion
Howayda Al-Harithy, Saree Makdisi, Ackbar Abbas
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Break-out discussion groups to expand and elaborate conversations
12:30 pm Reconvening + responses
2:30 – 4:00 pm Privatization and neoliberal logics: Beirut and Beyond
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Ghassan Hage, Jala Makhzoumi
4:15 pm Buses to depart from AUB
Visit to Waad + Green Line led by Mona Fawaz and Hiba Bou Akar
Iftar dinner, Saha

Wednesday, August 1

* 9:00 – 11:00 am Discussion: Logics, Projects and Spaces of Revolution
Mona Fawaz and AbdouMaliq Simone
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Breakout discussion groups
* 2:30-4:00 pm Moral Leisure Sites: Mona Harb
Respondents: Ghassan Hage, Saree Makdisi
4:15 – 6:00 pm Walking tours of graffiti in Ras Beirut
Led by Nadine Bekdache and Abir Saksouk-Sasso

Thursday, August 2

* 9:00-11:00 am Graffiti as Resistance/Posters of Resistance
Zeina Maasri
Discussant: David Theo Goldberg
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Spaces of memorialization, history, traces of the past
Walid Sadek
Discussant: Ackbar Abbas
2:30 – 4:00 pm Participant feedback panel, photos and responses
4:30 – 6:00 pm Cinemas of Resistance: a discussion
Presentation by Akram Zaatari
Followed by a conversation with Ackbar Abbas

Friday, August 3

* 9:00 – 11:00 am Incarceration and/as spaces of resistance
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Kelly Gillespie
11:30 am -12:30 pm Breakout discussions of presentation
12:30 – 1:00 pm Responses
2:30 – 4:00 pm Lines of Resistance: The hot edge of St. Therese and the Green Line
Hiba Bou Akar
Discussant: AbdouMaliq Simone

Saturday, August 4

Visit to South Lebanon (all day)
Led by Timur Goksel and Karim Makdisi
7:30 am Buses to depart from Mayflower Hotel

Monday, August 6

9:00-11:00 am Reflections on borders, walls and lines
Karim Makdisi and David Theo Goldberg
Response by Ackbar Abbas
11:00 am Coffee Break
11:30 – 1:00 pm Breakout groups to discuss border spaces, resistance
2:30 – 4:30 pm The public square and popular culture with reflections on the Arab Spring, Occupy
Choukri Hmed
Talk by Fadi Bardawil
4:30 pm Coffee Break
*5:00 – 6:30 pm Spaces of resistance: The Case of Palestine
Saree Makdisi

Tuesday, August 7

8:50 am
9:00 am
Meet outside of School of Art and Architecture to walk to Hostler Gate
Buses to depart from AUB at Hostler Gate
9:00 am – 1:00 pm Visit to Palestinian camps
2:30 – 4:00 pm Responses to visit & group discussion
4:00 – 4:30 pm Coffee Break
4:30 – 6:30 pm Conversation: Inhabiting the City
Mona Fawaz and AbdouMaliq Simone
7:30 pm CLOSING DINNER AT TAWLET
Sector 79 – Naher Street # 12 (Jisr el-Hadeed)
Mar Mikhael district, Beirut

Wednesday, August 8

9:00 – 10:30 am Participant Interventions
Moderated by David Theo Goldberg
10:30 am Coffee Break
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Round Table on Spaces of Resistance
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Howayda Al-Harithy, Ackbar Abbas
2:30 – 5:30 pm Free / Visit to Beirut neighborhoods (on your own)