'Intellectual History of the Arab Left'

The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) and the University of Copenhagen are organizing a conference entitled "Intellectual History of the Arab Left," on July 6 and 7, 2012, in West Hall, Auditorium A.

Schedule

Friday, July 6, 2012

2:00 - 2:15 pm: Welcome note

2:15 - 3:00 pm: Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Recasting the Intellectual History of the Arab Left: Global Radical Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1870-1925

3:00 - 3:15 pm: Break

3:15 - 4:00 pm: Sune Haugbolle, Whither a secular left? Decontestation of Secular Leftism in War-Time Lebanon

4:00 - 4:15 pm: Break

4:15 - 5:00 pm: Jens Hanssen and Hicham Safieddine, Al-Akhbar and Lebanon's new political culture (2005-2011)

5:00 - 5:30 pm: Break

5:30 - 7:30 pm: Keynote speaker: David Scott, Thinking Through Intellectual Generations: Tradition, Memory, Criticism

Saturday, July 7, 2012

9:00 - 9:45 am: Samer Frangie, The Tragic Self: Yasin al-Hafiz's Autobiographical Writings

9:45 - 10:00 am: Break

10:00 - 10:45 am: Michaelle Browers, Mahmud Amin al-Alim: Pragmatic Commitment and the Legacy of the Critical Left from Egypt's 1952 Generation

10:45 - 11:00 am: Break

11:00 - 11:45 am: Fadi Bardawil, Militant Self--Fashioning: Socialist Lebanon's Political and Ideological Imaginary

11:45 am - 1:30 pm: Lunch

1:30 - 2:15 pm: Manfred Sing, The Leftist Critique of takhalluf: Revisiting Cultural and Psychological Approaches to the Study of Arab Societies

2:15 - 2:30 pm: Break

2:30 - 3:15 pm: Benjamin Geer, How Nationalism Hobbled Feminism and the Left in Egypt: Latifa al-Zayyat's The Open Door

3:15 - 3:30 pm: Break

3:30 - 4:30 pm: Suzanne Kassab, A Post-Colonial Tragedy of Enlightenment? Some Caribbean and Arab Thoughts