American University of Beirut

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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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