Social Justice and the Arab Spring
January 30, 2015
Time: 6:00-8:30pm
Place: The Great Hall, UC San Diego

Babak Rahimi
Introduction to the workshop
(Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego)

John L Lejeune
“Revolution, Democracy, and Social Justice: Rethinking the Tactics and Strategy of the Egyptian Revolution”
(Department of Political Science, University of California San Diego)

Nadeen Kharputly
“Social Justice and the Rhetoric of Humanization in the language  of the Arab Spring,”
(Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego)

 Babak Rahimi
Introduction
(Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego)

Mark Levine
“Getting a Different Perspective: Michel Foucault and the Prehistory of the Jasmine Revolution–Tunis 1966-68”
(Department of History, University of California, Irvine)

Michael Provence
Introduction
(Department of History, University of California, San Diego)

 Asef Bayat
“Revolutions of Neoliberal Times”
(Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

*Sponsors: The Humanities Center, Third World Studies, Department of Literature, Program for the Study of Religion, Center on Global Justice, Department of Sociology