vendredi 29 août 2014

Program of the 21th DAVO-Congress, 25 – 27 Sept. 2014 in Cologne (Stand 29.08.2014 /Version 29 Aug. 2014)

Programm des 21. DAVO-Kongresses, 25.-27. Sept. 2014 in Köln


Donnerstag / Thursday, 25. September

11.00 – 13.00: DAVO Mitgliederversammlung mit Verleihung des DAVO-Dissertationspreises / General Meeting of DAVO Members, Presentation of DAVO Dissertation Award
13.00 – 14.00:    Mittagspause / Lunch Break
14.00 – 16.00:    Panels

A 1) Psychologies, Politics and Narratives of Trauma: Comparative Perspectives (Part I)
Chair: Stephan Milich (Köln):
-          Barbara Hofner (Köln): Perspektiven auf psychische Folgen von Traumatisierung und Flüchtlingssituation in Jordanien und benachbarten Ländern: Ein Bericht vom 3. Jordanischen Psychiatriekongress Juni 2014 in Amman
-          Stephan Milich (Köln): Re-enacting the Unforgettable: Ways of Voicing Trauma in Contemporary Arabic Literature
-          Isabel Knoerrich (München): Tunisia´s Political Traumas: Case Study and Classification
A2) Between Neoliberalism and Revolution: Mapping Current Gentrification in the MENA City
Chair: Yannick Sudermann (Edinburgh)
-          Rayya El Zein (New York): Hip hop and Gentrification: Ramallah’s Rap Scene and “Resistance”
-          Jonas Margraff (Mainz): Neoliberal Urbanization in “Greater Manama”: The Case of Heritage Preservation in Muharraq
-          Marieke Krijnen / Christiaan De Beukelaer (Ghent): Capital, State and Conflict: The Various Drivers of Diverse Gentrification Processes in Beirut, Lebanon.
-          Yannick Sudermann (Edinburgh): Debating Gentrification under Neoliberal Authoritarianism – Evidence from Pre-war Damascus
A3) Moving Ties across the Middle East: University Students’ Modes of Mobility
Chair: Ala Al-Hamarneh (Mainz) / Daniele Cantini (Halle)
-          Ala Al-Hamarneh (Mainz): Students’ Mobility between Forced Migration and Employability – the Case of the Palestinian and Syrian Students at the University of Sharjah
-          Manja Stephan-Emmrich (Berlin): Study to Work, Work to Study – Tajik Students’ Mobility and Networks in the Arab World and Beyond
-          Daniele Cantini (Halle): South-south Student Mobility; Egyptian Private Universities in a Highly Mobile Regional Market
-          Annemarie Profanter (Bozen): Saudi Student Mobility: On the Journey to a Knowledge Economy
A4) Geschichte und Anthropologie im Libanon
Chair: Birgit Schäbler (Erfurt) / Discussant: Mara Albrecht (Erfurt)
-          Anne Lohss (Erfurt): Konfessionalistische Identitäten in libanesischen Geschichtsbüchern (1932-1990)
-          Robert Willecke (Erfurt): Lebenswelten, Integration und Identität eingebürgerter Palästinenser im Libanon (1948 bis heute)
-          Lennard Schlöffel (Erfurt): Libanesische Wahlen: Zur Geschichte des Wahlrechts im Libanon
-          Farah Sadeq (Erfurt): Hisbollah – the New Generation

16.00 – 16.30: Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00 Panels
B1) Psychologies, Politics and Narratives of Trauma: Comparative Perspectives (Part II)
Chair: Stephan Milich (Köln):
-          Katharina Kretzschmar (Berlin): Identitäten im Konflikt – Identitätskonstrukte und Selbstbild palästinensischer und palästinensisch-israelischer Studierender und Absolventen in Deutschland
-          Anne Rohrbach (Bremen): „The Empire plays back“: Playback-Theater als Ausdruck des kulturellen Widerstandes in den besetzten palästinensischen Gebieten
-          Swetlana Czerwonnaja (Torun): Die Muslim-Tatarische Krim vor der Realität der russischen Okkupation 2014
B2) Umwälzungen und Zusammenbruch der staatlichen und gesellschaftlichen Strukturen in Syrien / Upheaval and Collaps of Governmental and Social Structures in Syria
Chair: Huda Zein (Köln):
-          Huda Zein (Köln): Die syrische Gesellschaft im Existenzkampf: Zwischen Widerstand und Zerfall
-          Abdulhakim Khatib (Frankfurt): Political Instrumentalisation of Islam in a State Crisis: The Case of Syria
-          Viola Raheb (Wien): Schulbuchrevisionen: Spiegelbild der Konfliktparteien in Syrien
B3) Islamwissenschaft / Islamic Studies
Chair: N.N.
-          Thomas Würtz (Bern): Koranübersetzungen und theologische Fragen
-          Tahere Matejko (Köln): Āḫūndzādas Werk Maktūbāt im Kontext des qāğārischen Reformdiskurses
B4) Turkey and the Arab Spring
Chair: Ibrahim Natil (Dublin)
-          Ayman Talal Yousef (Jenin): The Paradox of Turkish-Israeli Relations during the Arab Spring: Entanglement of Geostrategic Considerations and Neoliberal Economic Factors
-          Ibrahim Natil (Dublin): Turkish International NGOs and the Arab Spring
-          Janet Kursawe (Duisburg) / Nora Stein (Hamburg): Agents of Change? Conceptualizing Contemporary Forms, Demands and Concerns of Women’s Participation in the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey
B5) Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Lebanon
Chair: Birgit Schäbler (Erfurt)
-          Samer El-Karanshawy (Doha): Subverting Two Marginalities: Jaʿfar al-Muhājir, Lebanese Shīʿīsm and Reinventing ʿĀmilite Proto-Nationalism
-          Mara Albracht (Erfurt): War of Symbols – Glorification of Violence and War in Lebanese Political Culture

18.30: Welcome Address
Günter Meyer (Mainz), Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf (Köln)

Key-Note Speech
Henner Fürtig (Hamburg): Neue Gestaltungsmächte in Nahost? Regionale Machtkonstellationen nach dem ‚Arabischen Frühling‘ / New Actors and Power Constellations in the Middle East after the ‘Arab Spring’ (in German with English translation)

20.00: Empfang / Reception
Freitag / Friday, 26. September
8.30 – 10.30: Panels
C1) Middle East Conflicts: Background and Chances for Solutions (Part I)
Chair: Fawzy Naji (Hannover)
-          Fawzy Naji (Hannover): Middle East Peace Process: One or Two States Solution in the Historic Palestine?
-          Ali Granmayeh (London): Sectarian Conflicts and Security Concerns in the Middle East.
-          Fethi Ahmed (Doha): Corruption as a Hindrance to Conflicts Resolution and Democracy in the Middle East: A Theoretical Approach with Reference to Selected Cases from the Arab Spring Countries
-          Bahareh Khorshidi / Pouriya Parandoush (Teheran): Arab Uprisings and the Fourth Wave of Democratization
C2) Economic Studies in the MENA Region
Chair: N.N. (Anja Zorob - angefragt)
-          David Ramin Jalilvand (Berlin): The Rentier State Approach: A Critique with Particular Reference to the Case of Iran
-          Heiko Schuß (Kayseri): Attitudes of Customers towards Islamic Banks and the Problem of Shariʿa Arbitrage
-          Steffen Wippel (Odense): Transsahara Reloaded: Die aktuellen marokkanischen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen mit dem subsaharischen Afrika
C3) Migration, Labour and Religion in the Gulf States
Chair: Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf / Michaela Pelican (Köln)
-          Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf / Michaela Pelican (Köln): Domestic Workers and the Sponsorship System in the Arab Gulf States 
-          Tamirace Fakhoury (Berkeley): Migration Governance in the Arab World: Drivers and Constraints
-          Latifa Mattar (Paris): Naturalization in Bahrain: Political and Social Implications
-          Carmella Pfaffenbach / Veronika Deffner (Aachen): Learning from Oman? The Immigration Society of Muscat between Segmentation and Toleration 
C4) Arab Perspectives on Israel (Part I)
Chair: Johannes Becke (Oxford)
-          Arik Rudnitzky (Tel Aviv): Israel's Arab Minority Discourse on "a Jewish State"
-          Johannes Becke (Oxford): Hebrew in Beirut: Studying Israel in the Last Arab Frontline State
-          Hebatallah Taha (Oxford): Challenges and Opportunities in the Field of Israel Studies in Egypt


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C5) Transformation of Religious Discourses in the Contemporary Islamic World (Part I)
Chair: Tim Epkenhans / Johanna Pink (Freiburg)
-          Johanna Pink (Freiburg): Politikverweigerung als postislamistisches Paradigma. Die ägyptische Gamāʿa islāmiyya und die Abkehr von der Gewalt
-          Sebastian Elsässer (Kiel): „Let’s talk about sex?“ Die ägyptische Muslimbruderschaft und der Trend zur islamischen Sexual- und Beziehungsberatung
-          Karima El Ouazghari (Frankfurt): An-Nahdha’s Changing Vision of Citizenship: Between Democracy, Gender and Shariʾa
-          Rüdiger Braun (Erlangen): Dignity and Deficiency – Intertextual-dialogical Approaches to the Adam Myth in Contemporary Turkish Theology
10.30 – 11.00: Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
11.00 – 13.00: Panels

D1) Middle East Conflicts: Background and Chances for Solutions (Part II)
Chair: Fawzy Naji (Hannover)
-          Hauke Feickert (Bonn): The New Iraq between Sovereignty and Iranian Influence
-          Ecaterina Cepoi (Basel): The Army in Post-Saddam Iraq: The Failure of a National Institution
-          Elke Grawert (Bonn): Strategies to Stay in Power. A Comparison of the Conflict Systems in Syria and Sudan
D2) Issues of Sustainable Economic Development in Iraq
Chair: Şefik Alp Bahadir (Erlangen) / Discussant: Mohammed Al-Musawi (Baghdad)
-          Akrem Mohammed Aswed (Dohuk): Confessional Composition, Government Expenditure and Income Level in Iraqi Governorates
-          Yelena Bondar (Erlangen): Main Obstacles to the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises in Iraq
-          Manahel Mustafa A. H. Alomar (Baghdad): Problems of Iraqi Sea Transport at the Ports of Um Quasar and Khor Al-Zubair
-          Saladin O. B. Perababi (Erbil): The Horizons and Importance of the Marble Industry in the Kurdistan Region – Iraq (IKR)
D3) Transformationsprozess im Jemen – Singularität oder Modell? / Transformation Process in Yemen
Chair: Henner Kirchner (Sana’a)
(Vortragsliste wird noch ergänzt / Papers to be announced)
D4) Arab Perspectives on Israel (Part II)
Chair: Johannes Becke (Oxford)
-          Menna Elabideen Abukhadra (Kairo): Modern Hebrew Poetry and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Sarah and Hagar as a Test
-          Katherine Maye-Saidi (Köln): The Depiction of the “Palestinian Issue” in Moroccan Textbooks

D5) Transformation of Religious Discourses in the Contemporary Islamic World (Part II)
Chair: Tim Epkenhans / Johanna Pink (Freiburg)
-          Menno Preuschaft (Münster): Religion, Plurality, and Identity: Inner-Islamic Implications of Saudi “National Dialogue”
-          Tim Epkenhans (Freiburg): Negotiating Islamic Normativity and Authenticity in post-Soviet Tajikistan
-          Yusuf Rahman (Jakarta): The Transformation of Academic Study of the Qurʾan and Tafsir in Indonesia

13.00 – 14.00 Mittagspause / Lunch Break
14.00 – 16.00: Panels

E1) Middle East Conflicts: Background and Chances for Solutions (Part III)
Chair: Fawzy Naji (Hannover)
-          Louise Klann (Boston): Islam in Syria's Civil War. Patrons, Militants and Religious Rent-seeking
-          Fawzy Naji (Hannover): Who is Responsible for the Bloodshed in Syria?
-          Zeyneb Şahin Mencütek (Izmir): The “Rebirth” of a Dead Organization? Questioning the Role of the Arab League in the “Arab Uprisings” Process.
E2) Towards Postcolonial Palestine Studies. Cross-Disciplinary Approaches (Part I)
Chair: Detlev Qintern (Istanbul), Ludwig Watzal (Berlin), Viktoria Waltz (Dortmund)
-          Detlev Quintern (Istanbul): Gaza in Palestine
-          Dalila Boualam (Jerusalem): An Ethnografic Investigation of the Educational and Migratory Trajectories of Palestine's 'Golden Youth'
-          Sonja Ganseforth (Leipzig): Occupying Spaces in a Japanese Development Project in Palestine
-          Viktoria Waltz (Dortmund): Raumplanung in Palästina/Israel – Mittel der Kriegsvorbereitung
E3) Jenseits der Tradition: Moderne hermeneutische Ansätze im islamischen Recht (Teil I) / Beyond the Tradition: Modern Hermeneutic Approaches in Islamic Law (Part I)
Chair: Benjamin Jokisch (Berlin)
-          Benjamin Jokisch (Berlin): Hermeneutics in Movement. Innovative Approaches in Modern and Pre-modern Islamic Law
-          Ibrahim Salama (Osnabrück): Reform von usul al-fiqh: Notwendigkeit – Tendenzen – Möglichkeiten
-          Serdar Kurnaz (Frankfurt): Beachtet wird der allgemeine Wortlaut und nicht der spezifische Anlass – linguistische Auslegungsmethoden im Spannungsfeld der Historizität des Korans
E4) Arab Youth: From Engagement to Inclusion?
Chair: Oliver Schlumberger / Hürcan Aslı Aksoy (Tübingen)
-          Mirjam Edel (Tübingen) / Maria Josua (Hamburg): Sequencing Legitimation and Repression Strategies: A Dynamic Perspective on the Interaction between State Actors and the Youth
-          Kressen Thyen (Tübingen): The Illusion of Inclusion? Post-Uprising Policies towards Youth in Egypt and Morocco
-          Amani El-Naggare (Casablanca): Gender Perspectives on Reform and Political Change
-          Nadine Sika (Kairo): Youth, Islamism and Political Contention
16.00 – 16.30 Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00 Panels

F1) Middle East Conflicts: Background and Chances for Solutions (Part IV)
Chair: Fawzy Naji (Hannover)
-          Rieger, René (Exeter): The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Saudi Arabia and the Arab Spring
-          Knoerrich, Isabel (München): Qatar and the Maghreb: What are the Goals of the Small Gulf State?
-          Niklas Hünseler (Köln): Ägyptens gescheiterte Demokratisierung 2011-2014. Politische Eliten als Hindernis erfolgreicher Transition?
F2) Towards Postcolonial Palestine Studies. Cross-Disciplinary Approaches (Part II)
Chair: Detlev Qintern (Istanbul), Ludwig Watzal (Berlin), Viktoria Waltz (Dortmund)
-          Helmut Krieger (Wien): Staatsformierung, Hilfsindustrie und multiple Krise – die Zukunft westlicher Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in Palästina
-          Ivesa Lübben (Marburg): Der Gazakrieg und seine regionalen Implikationen
-          Ludwig Watzal (Berlin): Ein- oder Zweistaatenlösung – was kann aus dem Nahost-Konflikt führen?
-          Schlussdebatte
F3) Jenseits der Tradition: Moderne hermeneutische Ansätze im islamischen Recht (Teil II) / Beyond the Tradition: Modern Hermeneutic Approaches in Islamic Law (Part II)
Chair: Benjamin Jokisch (Berlin)
-          Abdurrahim Kozalı (Osnabrück): Die Bedeutung und Funktion des Qiyās und İstiḥsān im traditionellen Fiqh-Denken
-          Abbas Poya (Erlangen): Ahmad Qābel (1957-2012) und das Konzept der „rationalen Scharia“ (shariʿat-e ʿaqlāni)
-          Jameleddine Ben Abdeljelil (Frankfurt): Maqāṣid aš-šarīʿa: traditionelle Konzepte und moderne Perspektiven

F4) Kultureller, gesellschaftlicher und persönlicher Wandel in Literatur und Theater Irans /
Cultural, Social and Individual Change in the Iranian Literature and Theatre
Chair: Bianca Devos (Marburg)
-          Anna Heller (Marburg): Gholam-Hoseyn Saʿedis Panj namayesh-nameh az enqelab-e mashrutiyat als individuelle Auflehnung gegen kollektive Resignation?
-          Goulia Ghardashkhani (Marburg): Identity, Narrative Articulation and the Urge for Self-elimination in Goli Taraqqi’s First Collection of Short Stories
-          Bianca Devos (Marburg): Shahkar-ha-ye nasr-e farsi-ye moʿaser: Saʿid Nafisis Kanon der literarischen Moderne
-          Yahya Kouroshi (Erfurt): Alternative Modernen. Literatur in autoritären Regimen: Sīmīn Dānešvar – Mercè Rodoreda – Christa Wolf

19.30: Meet & Greet im Brauhaus Weiss in der Kölner Innenstadt,
Am Weidenbach 24
Meet & Greet in a typical Cologne brewery, "Weiss" in the city center, Am Weidenbach 24

Samstag / Saturday 27. September
8.30 – 10.30: Panels
G1) Werkstattgespräche / Workshop for Young Scholars (Part I)
Chair: Nadine Scharfenort (Mainz)
-          Rahaf Aldoughli (Lancaster): The Relationship between the Germanic and French Nationalist Thinking and their Contribution to the Shaping of Arab Nationalist Thought        
-          Seba Asaaied (Kaiserslautern): Participatory Planning Approaches in the Arab Region: Aleppo and Alexandria (2003-2010)
-          Danaë Panissié (Tübingen): Oil for Power – Arab Official Development Assistance in the MENA since 2011
-          Julia Simon (Hamburg): The Construction of Meaning: The Arab Spring and its Implications on EU Democracy Promotion towards the Southern Mediterranean
G2) Political Development in Iran
Chair: Bianca Devos (Marburg)
-          Mari Nukii (Tokyo): American Foreign Policy and the August 1953 Coup d’Etat in Iran: Manipulation and Reflection of Iranian Public Opinion
-          Ali Granmayeh (London): Origins of Iranian Foreign Policy under the Islamic Regime: Ideology or Strategic Interests
-          Ali Fathollah-Nejad (London): Iran’s Civil Society Grappling with Triangular Dynamics: Effects of External Impacts on the Evolution of State-Society Relations in Strategically Important Countries
-          Ali Fathollah-Nejad, (London) / Fouad G. Marei (Berlin): The Arab Revolts and Iran’s Green Movement: A Comparative Analysis
G3) Political Development in North Africa
Chair: (Sonja Hegasy – angefragt)
-          Sonja Hegasy (Berlin): Transforming Memories: Reparation, Media and Historiography in the Aftermath of the Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission
-          Ángela Suárez Collado (Madrid): The Amazigh Movement in the Rif: Identity, Culture and Politics in the Provinces of Nador and Al Hoceima
-          Benedikt van den Woldenberg (Leiden): Political Institutions and the Reform Discourse in Jordan and Morocco (2011-2013)
-          Idriss Jebari (Oxford): Engagement and Disengagement in the Post-independence Public Sphere in North Africa: The Case of Critical Intellectuals
G4) Political Development in Egypt (Part I)
Chair: (Carola Richter - angefragt)
-          Gerasimos Tsourapas (London): Nasser’s ‘Soft Power’ Abroad: Emigration & Political Power in Egypt, 1954 – 1970
-          Lea Müller-Funk (Wien): Managing Distance: Examining Shifting State Policies Governing Egyptian Emigration and Egyptians Abroad
-          Maria Haimerl (Berlin): The Political Role of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt. Case Study on an Established Constitutional Court in Times of Transition
-          Behrouz Alikhani (Münster): How Structurally Similar is El-Sisi’s Seizure of Power in Egypt to Reza Khans Seizure of Power in Iran in 1925?
G5) Contemporary Literature in the Middle East (Part I)
Chair: (Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf – angefragt)
-          Majd Al-Mallah (Allendale): One Thousand and One Nights in the Contemporary Imagination: Hanan al-Shaykh’s “Retelling” & the Reinvention of the Classical Tradition
-          Mahmoud Kayyal (Tel Aviv): Naguib Mahfouz in Hebrew
-          Dorit Gottesfeld (Tel Aviv): Writing in the Making: A New Look at the Works of Pioneering Palestinian Women Writers
10.30 – 11.00: Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
11.00 – 13.00: Panels

H1) Werkstattgespräche / Workshop for Young Scholars (Part II)
Chair: Nadine Scharfenort (Mainz)
-          Sara Battke (Bonn): Ägyptisch-arabische Satire als populäre Gesellschaftskritik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Übersetzung ins Deutsche    
-          Anne-Marie Brack (Freiburg): Konzeptionen von Legitimität in Iran. Konstruktions- und Aushandlungsprozesse innerhalb der politisch-religiösen Elite
H2) Mobilities and Competences in the Middle East Region
Chairs: Azita Bathaie / Amin Moghadam (Paris)
-          Azita Bathaie (Paris): Mobility from Iran to Afghanistan: “Returnees” or “Newcomers”?
-          Dani Kranz (Wuppertal): Unplanned, Highly Skilled, and Socially – Potentially – Marginal: The Curious Case of non-Jewish, Foreign Spouses and Partners of Israelis
-          Amin Moghadam (Paris): Initiative and Migratory Project: The Creation of a Persian Radio in Dubai
H3) Zur Rolle des Nationalismus im Israel-Palästina Konflikt / The Role of Nationalims in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Chair: N.N.
-          Thomas Prenzel (Rostock): Judentum und Zionismus in der Nationalismusforschung
-          Tamar Amar-Dahl (Berlin): Das zionistische Israel. Jüdischer Nationalismus und die Geschichte des Nahostkonflikts
-          Eva Oliveira (Heidelberg): The State of Israel, its Palestinian Minority and the Effects of a Daring Legal System
H4) Social and Economic Development in Egypt
Chair: Günter Meyer (Mainz)
-          Liza Franke (Köln): Universities as Globalised Spaces: Academic Women in Contemporary Egypt
-          Carola Richter / Almut Woller (Berlin): Medienpraktiken von Protestbewegungen in Ägypten nach Mubarak
-          Sarah El Defrawy / Maike Didero (Aachen): Right to the City? Forced Evictions and Relocation processes in Cairo. From Past Policies to Current Practices.
-          Mohamed Hussein Abdel-Kader / Mahmoud Fouad Mahmoud Elbawab (Kairo): Industrial Sustainable Cities in Egypt: A Comparative Analysis of Strategic Development Plans
H5) Contemporary Literature in the Middle East (Part II)
Chair: (Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf - angefragt)
-          Tonia Schüller (Bonn): The Egyptian Revolution 2011 from Inside – Tahrir Square: Why We Went There and What We Hoped for
-          Börte Sagaster (Nikosia): The Representation of Memory in Bilge Karasu's Works
-          Béatrice Hendrich (Gießen): Essen erinnern – bei Mario Levi und Migirdic Margosyan


13.00: Ende des DAVO-Kongresses / The End of the DAVO Congress