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Date: Thursday 3 and Friday 4 September 2009
Time: 9am -5pm; 9am -5.30pm
Venue: Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter, UK
Keynote Speaker: to be announced
The conference aims to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines
in Middle Eastern studies, providing a reputable platform to show case the current
debates and research carried out on the region. The BRISMES Graduate Section
seeks to promote an inter-disciplinary approach to Middle Eastern studies in
this event, allowing graduate students to share ideas, receive feedback on their
research and exercise their critical abilities. It will also provide guidance
on career development from professionals in the field.
This event is open to all graduate students. Please register in advance by 7th
August 2009 to benefit the early registration discount
Before 7th August
Non-BRISMES members: £20.00, both days inclusive.(The cost will cover:
membership to BRISMES for 2009, conference registration fee, refreshments, lunch,
during the first and the second day of the conference, wine reception and conference
dinner on the first day of the conference)
BRISMES members: £FREE. (The cost will cover: conference registration
fee, refreshments, lunch, during the first and the second day of the conference,
wine reception and conference dinner on the first day of the conference)
After 7th August
Non-BRISMES members: £25.00, both days inclusive.
BRISMES members: £5.00
For further information please contact the conference organisers at: brismes2009@ex.ac.uk
For a registration form and other information about the conference, please click here.
Call for papers:
The conference is open to the submission of papers from all postgraduate students
from any university worldwide pursuing either Masters or PhD studies concerning
the Middle East region. There are no limitations or specific requirements for
the topic, era or discipline of the research. However, it must be original and
insightful research in connection with countries in the Middle East region.
Please send your abstract (up to 300 words) by email to conference Executive
Assistant, Sharifa Hashem at brismes2009@ex.ac.uk
Please include your name, university/affiliation and contact details in your
email.
Abstract submission due: 1st May 2009
Reply by: 1st July 2009
Announcement of the program by: 7th August 2009
For further information, please E-mail Sarah Bazoobandi
4th BRISMES Annual Graduate Conference 2008
London School of Economics and Political Science
Monday 8th and Tuesday, 9th September
‘Bridging Disciplinary Divides’
Last year's graduate conference encouraged inter-disciplinary studies on the region and a cross-fertilisation of ideas and concepts, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. The Conference provided a supportive environment where students shared their ideas, practiced their presentation skills, received feedback on their research projects and exercised their critical abilities in a constructive way. The two-day event also provided advice on practical matters such us funding, fieldwork and career development. The 2009 conference will be run along similar lines.
2008 Conference Programme
MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2008
09:00 –09:30 Registration & Coffee; Submission of Posters:
(Old Building)
09:30 –10:00 Welcome and Introductions: New Theatre (East Building)
Dr. John Chalcraft, Government Department, LSE
Sir Harold Walker, President of BRISMES
LSE BRISMES Graduate Conference Committee
10.05 – 11.35 Panel Session 1A
Media and Communications in Middle Eastern Culture and Politics
Chair: Amira Halperin, University of Westminster
Lama Al- Hammouri, Brunel University
The Road to the White House through Arab Eyes
Sanaz Raji, University of Manchester
Gender and Iranian Diasporic Cyberspace: the Carnevalesque, Control, and Controversies
Kevin F. Adler, University of Cambridge
Variations in Rhetoric and Coverage: How American and English-Language Arab
Newspapers Differ in their Presentation of the “War on Terror”
Janroj Yilmaz Keles, Brunel University
Representation of Turkish- Kurdish Ethnic Conflict in Media
10:05 – 11:35 Panel Session 1B
Minorities in the Middle East
Chair: Najiyah Al Wazir, LSE
Laurent-Olivier Mallet, Galatasaray University
Turkish Representation of the Jewish Question: A Key to Analyze the Contemporary
Turkish Identity and Approach of Westernization
Paul Griffiths, University of Exeter
The Causal Factors of Communal Violence: the Case of Iraq
Vivian Ibrahim, SOAS
Coptic Participation in Grassroots Egyptian Nationalist Activity: The Case of
Qommus Sergius in 1919
10:05 – 11:35 Panel Session 1C : Room tbc
‘Christian’ Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Chair: Richard Ratcliffe, University of Oxford
Carlo Aldrovandi, University of Bradford
Politics of the Apocalypse: Christian Zionism and US Foreign Policy
W. Richard Oakes Jr. , University of Edinburgh
‘A common Word between Us and You”: A communicative Bridge?
John Bradley, University of Edinburgh
Contradictions in Vatican Policy towards Lebanon: the vacillation of a transnational
actor in the Middle East
Scott Rank, Bilgi University
Centres of Provocation or Progress? Re-examining the Impact of Nineteenth-Century
Anatolian Missionary Stations
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break: Room A318 (Old Building)
12.05 – 13.30 Panel Session 2A: Room tbc
Identities and Ideas in Literature
Chair: Lydia Wilson, University of Cambridge
Pelin Unsal, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Simultaneous Modernism in Literature: Turkey in the 1950
Manar Makhoul, University of Cambridge
Identity in the 1970’s Palestinian Literature: a Comparative Analysis
Elizabeth Miller, University of Oxford
Individual and National Identity in Art and Literature in Egypt, 1908-1939
12.05 – 13.30 Panel Session 2B: Room tbc
Kurdistan and Kurdish Nationalism: Statehood and Identity
Chair: Janroj Yilmaz Keles, Brunel University
Djene Bajalan, Istanbul Bilgi University
The Strange Death of Kurdistan: the politicization of Middle Eastern Geography
Zelal Bal, Orebro University
Strengthened National and Political Identities among Kurds in Turkey? The Formation
of a Kurdish Civil Society
Zeynep Kaya, LSE
The Role of Theoretical Paradigms in Creating “Aspirational Territories”
as Modern Phenomena
12.05 – 13.30 Panel Session 2C: Room tbc
Religion and Nationalism in the Middle East
Chair: Amelie Barras, LSE
Maaike Warnaar, University of St Andrews
Religion and Nationalism in Iranian Foreign Policy Thought
Luca Casiraghi, LSE
The Irreconcilable Identities of AKP Turkish Islamism at the European Cross
Roads
Yonatan Mendel, University of Cambridge
Arabic Language in Palestine and Israel: in the Shadows of a Political Conflict
Marc Axel Herzog, University of Exeter
The contested faiths of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party
(AKP)
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.00 BRISMES Graduate Section AGM: New Theatre (East Building)
Chair: Mona al- Kouedi, University of Westminster, BRISMES Graduate President
15.05 – 15.50 Getting Published
Marigold Acland, Cambridge University Press: Book publishing
Representative of SEN (Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism): Journal Publishing
15.55 – 16.55 Research Methodology and Fieldwork
Roberto Mazza, SOAS
Archival Research in Middle Eastern Archives
Nisrine Mansour, LSE
Interview Skills
Leandro Carrera, LSE
Quantitative Methods for Middle East Research
16.55 – 17.30 Coffee Break: Room
17.40 Keynote Speech: New Theatre
Professor Fred Halliday, LSE and IBEI
‘Bridging Disciplinary Divides: the Study of Culture
and Nationalism in the Middle East’
TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2008
09:00 –09:30 Coffee
09.35 – 11.00 Panel Session 3A : Room tbc
Gender, Culture and the Politics of Resistance
Chair: Francesca Biancani, LSE
Nahid Siamdoust, University of Oxford
Islam as a Contested Idiom in Iranian Rap and Pop Music
Theresa Parvin Steward, University of Edinburgh
Veiled Nightingales: the Contribution of Female Musicians in Iran during the
Pahlavi Era
Kathleen Pullum, LSE
Baghdad Burning and Beyond: Female bloggers tell an alternate story of modern
Iraq
Sara Ababneh, University of Oxford
Women inside Hamas: politics of everyday resistance
09.35 – 11.00 Panel Session 3B : Room tbc
Globalisation and Governance in the Gulf
Chair: Kristian Coates-Ulrichsen, LSE
Mohd Fauzi Bin Abu- Hussin, University of Durham
Exploring and Analysing Malaysia – Gulf Cooperation Council Economic Relations
Nasim Adeli, LSE
Iran’s Energy Shortage: The Paradox and the need for energy efficiency
Amir Farr, Royal Holloway
Political Economy of Democratic Transition: The Case of Iran
09.35 – 11.00 Panel Session 3C : Room tbc
Legal Theory and Politics in the Middle East
Chair: Mona Al-Kouedi, University of Westminster
Faisal Alkahtani, Newcastle Law School
Settlement of Foreign Investment Disputes in Saudi Arabia
Samy A. Ayoub, University of Edinburgh
Shura, Democracy and Shuracracy: The Islamist Dilemma
Matthias Vanhullebush, SOAS
The Islamic Legal History on the Self and the Other
Kayhan Jafar-Shaghaghi, University of St. Andrews
Awqaf in Iran
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.00 Panel Session 4A : Room tbc
The United States in the Middle East
Chair: Jasmine Gani, LSE
Tytti Erasto, Aberystwyth University and Tampere, Finland
Outlawing Iran: the Bush Administration’s Rhetoric and Policy on Iran
2002-2008
Noa Schonmann, University of Oxford
From Liability to Asset: Israel’s Periphery Pact and the Birth of the
Special Relationship
Matthew Malone, University of Exeter
After the Surge: Political Mobilisation and State-building in Iraq since 2007?
Ehsan Abdohtabrizi, University of Durham
Iran-US: a problem of policy making; a review on the decision making process
of Iran’s foreign policy and its relations with U.S.A.
11.30 – 13.00 Panel Session 4B : Room tbc
EU influence in the Middle East
Chair: Enver Gulseven, Brunel University
Agnes Bertrand-Sanz, SOAS
European Strategy of Economic Integration in the Middle East: The Risks of
Leading a Peace Building Strategy in the Absence of Peace Making Directions
Roberto Roccu, LSE
Towards Neo-Liberal Authoritarianism in the Arab Mediterranean?
EU Promotion of Rule of Law and Competition in Egypt and Morocco
Ricardo Borges de Castro, University of Oxford
Turkey and the Challenges of Democratic Secularism
Naz Sunay, LSE
The Perceived (il)Legitimacy of the EU Conditionality: The Role of Uncertainty
and Asymmetry of Power
11.30 – 13.00 Panel Session 4C : Room tbc
The Policies of NGOs in the Middle East
Chair: Jana Farr, University of Bradford
Markus Ketola, LSE
The early impact of EU pre-accession funding on Turkish NGOs
Karin Seyfert, SOAS
Reproducing or Challenging the Status Quo: The Rile of NGOs in the Lebanese
Political Economy
Hanan Toukan, SOAS
The Culture Sphere in Lebanon: The Last Remaining Bastion?
Richard Ratcliffe, University of Oxford
Education for Citizenship: Development, Governance and the Changing Politics
of Negev Bedouin Education
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch and Prize-Giving for the Poster Exhibition
14.00 -15.30 Careers Panel
Academia: Professor Elisabeth Ozdalga
Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
Journalism: Adam Smallman
Global Managing Editor for Investment Banking, Dow Jones Newswires
15.40 – 17.10 Panel Session 5A : Room tbc
Resource and Economic Management in the Middle East
Chair: Roberto Roccu, LSE
Martin Keulertz, SOAS
The political Economy of Water in Jordan
Zack Barnett- Howell, Bogazici University
Three Types of Simit: The Distribution of a Tasty Treat in Istanbul
Lauren Abdel-Razak, LSE
The Role of the Private Sector in Socioeconomic Development in Egypt
15.40 – 17.10 Panel Session 5B : Room tbc
Transnational Movements
Chair: Amelie Barras, LSE
Nomaan Hanif, Royal Holloway
The Middle East and the Arab World in Hizb ut-Tahrir Philosophy and Strategy
Anne De Jong, SOAS
“Against all Odds”, Palestinian and Israeli Popular Nonviolent Resistance
Francesca Burke, University of Oxford
National Rights or Civil Rights? Palestinian Student Activism in Israel
Silvia Colombo, SOAS
The Iraqi Refugee Community in Syria: a socio-political case study
15.40 – 17.10 Panel Session 5C : Room tbc
Colonial Legacies: Anti-Imperialism, Neutralism, and Foreign Policy in the Middle
East
Chair: Francesca Biancani, LSE
Andrew Patrick, University of Manchester
Prophetic or Ill-Informed? A “Post-social” Reassessment of the King-Crane
Commission
Reem Abou-El-Fadl, University of Oxford
Neutralism made positive: from Gaza to Bandung to Czechoslovakia
Max Kendrick, University of Cambridge
Iranian Perceptions of American Ascendancy in Iran: 1945-1964
Jeffrey Byrne, LSE
The Algerian Revolution’s Left Turn: The FLN in the Cold War, 1958-1960
17.15 Closing Remarks : New Theatre (East Building)
17.40 Conference Ends
The Conference is kindly supported by:
BRISMES
The LSE Annual Fund
Association for Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)
Kuwait Research Programme at the LSE Centre for Global Governance