City Debates
- StartMonday, April 1, 2019 @ 2:30 PM
- EndWednesday, April 3, 2019 @ 5:00 PM
- LocationBechtel Engineering Building, Al-Qatami Engineering Lecture Hall
- CategoryAcademic
- Contact PersonDepartment of Architecture and Design, ard@aub.edu.lb
DAY 1 – MONDAY, 1 April 2019
5:30 - 6:00 PM Registration and coffee
6:00 -6:30 PM Opening session
- Alan Shihadeh (Dean, MSFEA, AUB). Welcome Note
- Howayda Al-Harithy (Conference Director, ArD, AUB). Introduction
6:30 - 8:00 PM Keynote 1
- Diane Davis (GSD, Harvard University). Resilience, Security, and Spaces of Migrant Refugees
Discussant: Mona Fawaz (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB) DAY 2 – TUESDAY, 2 April 2019
9:30 - 11:30 AM Panel 1. Housing the Displaced
- Cathrine Brun (Centre for Development and Emergency Practice, Oxford Brookes University). Understanding Protracted Displacement Through the Dwelling
- Camillo Boano (Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL), Joana Dabaj (CatalyticAction), Howayda Al-Harithy (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB). Learning to be a City: Emerging Practices for Housing the Displaced
- Namariq Al-Rawi (Independent Researcher, MSc. University of Stuttgart). Baghdad's Process of Urban Recovery: From Deactivating Eventfulness into Gradual Reactivation of Social-Spatial Networks
- Mona Fawaz (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB). "You Get What You Pay For" Syrian Refugees' Access to Shelter in Lebanon Since 2013
Chair: Seteney Shami (Arab Council for the Social Sciences) 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Coffee break
12:00 - 1:30 PM Panel 2. Reconstructed Memories and Spaces
- Elena Isayev (Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter), Peter Campbell (Archaeology Department, British School at Rome). Imagining Futures through UN/Archived Pasts
- Angela Boskovitch (Mosul Eye), Omar Mohammed (Mosul Eye). Mosul: Cultural Recovery and Reclaiming a Cosmopolitan Identity
- Riccardo Bocco (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies). Space, Time, Memories: The Palestinian Refugee Camps and their Cinematic Representations
Chair: Robert Saliba (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB) 1:30 - 2:30 PM Lunch break
2:30 - 4:00 PM Panel 3. Art as Recovery
- Omar Mismar (ArD, AUB). Confiscated Imaginaries: Notes on a Work in Progress
- Aseel Sawalha (Anthropology, Fordham University). Art, Women, Refugees and the Formation of Amman's Cultural Landscapes
- Judith Naeff (Leiden University). Provisionality and Liveliness in Beirut
Chair: Walid Sadek (FAAH, AUB) 4:00 - 4:30 PM Coffee break
4:30 - 6:00 PM Panel 4. Recovering Cultural Heritage
- Suzanne Harris-Brandts (Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT). The Politics of Urban Recovery in a Stalinist-era Resort Town: Heritage, Tourism Development, and Twice-Displaced Communities in Tskaltubo, Georgia
- Rohit Jigyasu (ICOMOS; UNESCO; ICCROM; Ahmedabad University). From Recovery to Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities for Post Crisis Recovery of Urban Cultural Heritage
- Chiara De Cesari (European Studies and Cultural Studies, University of Amsterdam). Restoring the Past, Claiming Rights in the Present: Uses of Heritage in Old Hebron
Chair: Howayda Al-Harithy (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB) 6:00 - 6:30 PM Coffee break
6:30 - 8:00 PM Keynote 2
- Sultan Barakat (Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies). Post-war Reconstruction – Towards a Regional Action
Discussant: Mona Harb (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB) DAY 3 – WEDNESDAY, 3 April 2019
9:30 - 11:30 AM Panel 5. Modalities of Local Governance
- Mona Harb (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB), Mona Fawaz (MUPP/MUD-ArD, AUB). Urban Governance and Displacement: Service Provision in Two Lebanese Cities
- Elisabetta Pietrostefani (RELIEF Centre, UCL). Spatializing Displacement in a Changing Urban Landscape: Insights from Ras Beirut and Mar Mikhael
- Loren Landau (African Center for Migration and Society, Wits University). Governing Displaced Cities: Calibrating Reconstruction Amidst Instability
Chair: Carmen Geha (Political Studies and Public Administration Department, AUB)11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Coffee break
12:00 - 1:30 PM Panel 6. Rethinking the "Camp"
- Kamel Doraï (Institut Français du Proche-Orient). Zaatari Camp, Rethinking the Camp Through Refugees' Socio-Spatial Practices
- Nick Tyler (Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, UCL), Samar Maqusi (Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, UCL). Designing Time as a Mode of Recovery and Vitality
- Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Department of Geography, UCL). A Rhizoanalysis of 'more-than-camps' in the Middle East: Exploring the Constitutive Nature of Overlapping Processes of Displacement and Destruction
Chair: Rabih Shibli (Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service, AUB) 1:30 - 2:30 PM Lunch break
2:30 - 4:00 PM Movie Screening Panel. The Question of Representation of the Palestinian Camps
- ZINCO by Serene Husni, 2013, 21 minutes
- VIDEOMAPPINGS: AÏDA, PALESTINE by Till Roeskens, 2008, 45 minutes
4:00 - 6:00 PM Special session on Syria
- Giulia Guadagnoli (Syria Initiative, Common Space Initiative). Scoping Women's Roles and Opportunities in Syrian Cities Across Conflict Lines
- Eva Ziedan (Independent Scholar). Souls of Homes: Heritage as a Manifestation of Communities' Relationships Through Spacetime
- Ghiath Al Jebawi (Erd-Teks). City Development Frame: The City as a Unit of the Syrian Countryside Recovery - Azaz
Chair: Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj (Syria Initiative, Common Space Initiative) 6:00 - 6:30 PM Coffee break
6:30 - 8:00 PM Keynote 3
- Jennifer Hyndman (Centre for Refugee Studies, York University). Global Compacts or Containment? Geopolitics by Design
Discussant: Henrietta Moore (RELIEF Centre; Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL) In conjunction with the conference:An exhibition curated by
Lina Ghaibeh, an installation by
Rana Haddad and
Pascal Hachem, graphic design by
Reza Abedini.
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