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