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Colloque : “The Revolutionary Public Sphere: Contention, Communication, and Culture in the Arab Uprisings” — Université de Pennsylvanie, Philadelphie (Etats-Unis), 10/04/2014

The popular rebellions that have swept Arab countries since December 2010 have spawned an active field of revolutionary cultural production. Scholars from around the world will gather at the Annenberg School for Communication’s The Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication’s (PARGC) inaugural symposium. Putting primary sources in dialogue with theory, we seek to understand aesthetic experimentation and stylistic innovation in this revolutionary public sphere. Together, we will strive to shed light on the ways in which various revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activists and regimes have attracted, upheld, and directed popular attention to themselves and to their opponents, created and mobilized publics, stirred and channeled affects. Our exploration of contention, communication, and culture in the Arab uprisings will yield conceptual tools to understand revolutionary public spheres at large.

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014

8:40 – 8:45 am: Welcome

Michael X. Delli Carpini, Dean, ASC

8:45 – 9:00 am: Symposium Introduction

Marwan M. Kraidy, Director, PARGC

9:00 – 10:30 am: Music, Memory, Contention

  • Yakein Abdelmagid: Precarious Improvisations: The mediations and circulations of alternative music production
  • Omar Al-Ghazzi: Haunted by anticolonial memories: Omar al-Mukhtar in the Libyan 2011 uprising
  • Nouri Gana: Venting Still: Tunisian Rap Music before and after the Revolution
  • Shayna Silverstein: Creative Flow: Music, Genre and Mobility in the Syrian Revolutionary Public Sphere

Chair: William Lafi Youmans

10:45 am – 12:15 pm: Power, Performance, Violence

  • Walter Armbrust: Beards and Uniforms: Political Bricolage and the Egyptian Revolution
  • Tarek El-Ariss: The Dark Side of the Arab Spring: Literature, Violence, and the Virtual
  • Leila Tayeb: Shahi al-Huriya: Militant Optimism and Freedom Tea
  • Edward Ziter: Syria’s Anecdotal Theatre

Chair: Christa Salamandra

1:15 – 2:45 pm: Images, Inscription, Space

  • Anahi Alviso-Marino: Contentious politics and collective action through street art in Yemen (2011-2013)
  • Nour Halabi: Hezbollah Logos and their Parodies: A study of cultural production and carnivalesque humor in revolutionary times
  • Adel Iskandar: The Politics of Memes: Irreverence, Intertextuality, and Irony in Revolutionary Egypt
  • Amal Khalaf: Reclaiming Bahrain

 

Chair: John Downing

3:00 – 4:15 pm: Memes, Screens, Networks

  • Donatella Della Rata: “I am with the law” but “I am not stupid!” Memes, resistance and the politics of cultural (re)production in Syria’s uprising
  • Marc Owen Jones: Satire, Social Media and Revolutionary Cultural Production in the Bahrain Uprising: From a Genre of Utopian Fiction to Political Satire
  • Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen: Media Controversies and the Cultural Policies of the Morsi Government

Chair: Guobin Yang

4:15 – 5:15 pm: Concluding Discussion

5:30 – 7:30 pm: Closing Reception

The Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication (PARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania promotes theoretical and empirical innovation in the study of global communication in public life.


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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (25 mars 2014). Colloque : “The Revolutionary Public Sphere: Contention, Communication, and Culture in the Arab Uprisings” — Université de Pennsylvanie, Philadelphie (Etats-Unis), 10/04/2014. IISMM. Consulté le 14 juin 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/py0k


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