Borders, Boundaries and Identity Building in Lebanon
Borders, Boundaries and Identity Building in Lebanon
Friday 18th May - Middle East Centre Library 5pm-7pm
Saturday 19th May - Dahrendorf Room 9.30am-4.30pm
Friday 18th May - Middle East Centre Library
5.00-5.30pm Welcome Speech:
George Asseily (Chairman of CLS Board) and Michael Willis (Director of MEC)
5.30-7.00pm Plenary Conference: keynote speaker, Lord Michael Williams, former UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon (2008-2011)
Dinner for participants: High Table at St Antony's College
Saturday 19th May - Dahrendorf Room
9.30-9.45am Introduction and organisation of the day
George Asseily (Chairman of CLS Board)
Session 1: People at the margins (9.45-11.15)
Chair: Daniel Meier (CLS-MEC) - Discussant: Eugene Rogan (MEC)
9.45-10.10 Saoud al-Mawla (Lebanese University)
The Shia in South Lebanon: portraying suffering and group identity building.
10.10-10.30 Nicolas Puig (IRD - Paris/Beirut)
Corssing the borders: an ethnography of "transactions". The Case of Palestinian Refugees in the North of Lebanon.
10.30-10.50 Dawn Chatty, Nisrine Mansour and Nasser Yassin (Oxford University)
Statelessness and tribal identity on Lebanon's eastern borders
11.15-11.45 Coffee Break
Session 2: Wars and frontiers from limits to delineation (11.45am-1.00pm)
Chair: Ahmed al-Shahi (MEC) - Discussant: Michael Kerr (King's College)
11.45-12.10 Daniel Meier (CLS -MEC)
The southern border: drawing the line in shifting (political) sands
12.10-12.30 Franck Mermier (CNRS - Paris)
Beirut: Fear, violence and frontiers
1.00-2.30 Lunch at College
Session 3: Boundaries at stake: spaces of meaning (2.45-4.00)
Chair: Ahmed al-Shahi (MEC)- Discussant: Daniel Meier (MEC - CLS)
2.45-3.10 Fida Bizri (INALCO - Paris)
Language Practice in Lebanon: An Invisible Boundary Marker
3.10-3.30 Sune Haugbolle (Copenhagen University - Denmark)
'Ala al-hudud: Liminality, space and borders in the ideology of the Lebanese Left
4.00-4.30 Concluding remarks and Perspectives
George Asseily (Chairman of CLS Board) and Daniel Meier (CLS-MEC)