BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.5//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:875@test.arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit;VALUE=DATE:20150424 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit;VALUE=DATE:20150426 DTSTAMP:20150403T153304Z URL:https://test.arabamerica.com/events/radical-increments-toward-new-plat forms-of-engaging-iraqi-studies/ SUMMARY:Radical Increments: Toward New Platforms of Engaging Iraqi Studies DESCRIPTION:NEW YORK\n\nRadical Increments: Toward New Platforms of Engagin g Iraqi Studies\n\nAs the rift between theory and application in the field of Iraqi studies has grown over the past three decades for political\, so cial\, economic and security reasons\, the Conference seeks to create an i nformed space to address major intellectual and political issues pertinent to Iraq in a manner that bears practical utility. To that end\, the Confe rence will bring together a number of scholars and researchers in the fiel d of Iraqi studies as well as Iraqi policy makers\, journalists and noveli sts\, with the hope that this platform will help modify\, extend\, or repo sition existing frameworks of knowledge to allow for new possibilities of application and action.\n_________________________________\n\nApril 24-25\ , 2015\nButler Library\, Room 203\n\nYou MUST REGISTER by emailing Joscely n Shawn Ganjhara Jurich (jsj10@columbia.edu)\n\nSponsored by the Middle Ea st Institute\, the Middle East\, South Asian and African Studies Departmen t (MESAAS)\, Butler Library\, and al-Shaybani Foundation.\n\nConference Co -Organizers:\nMuhsin al-Musawi\, Columbia University\nYasmeen Hanoosh\, Po rtland State\n_________________________________\nSchedule\n\nFRIDAY\, APRI L 24\nLocation: Butler Library – Room 203\n\n8:30-9:00am\nRefreshments a nd Registration\n\n9:15-9:30\nIntroduction: Dr. Muhsin al-Musawi\, Columbi a University\nOpening Remarks: Dr. Lila Abu-Lughod\, Joseph L. Buttenweise r Professor of Social Science\, Director of the Middle East Institute\, Co lumbia University\n\n9:30-10:00\nOpening Presentation: Dr. Mohamed Ali Alh akim\, Iraq Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the United Nations\ n\n10:00-10:30\nKeynote Address: Dr. Eric Davis\, Rutgers University\n\n10 :30-12:00pm\nSession I: Institutions\, Infrastructure\, Space\nChair: Yasm een Hanoosh\, Portland State University\nAbeer Shaheen\, Columbia Universi ty\, “God’s Eye View into Transparent Baghdad.”\nClaudia Lefko\, Ira qi Children’s Art Exchange\, “Baghdad Resolve: An International Collab oration to Improve Cancer Care in Iraq.”\nBridget Guarasci\, Oberlin Col lege\, “Virtual Realities: The Wartime Labor of Eden in Iraq’s Marshes .”\nEmily Stetler\, Mount St. Mary’s University\, “Education for a N ew National Identity: Sketching an Iraqi Critical Pedagogy.”\nYaseen Raa d\, American University of Beirut\, “Consolidating Socio-Spatial Practic es in a Militarized Public Space: The Case of Abu Nuwas Street in Baghdad. ”\n\n12:00-1:30pm\nLunch\n\n1:30-3:00pm\nSession II: Secularism\, Religi on\, Politics\nChair: Mohammad Salama\, San Francisco State University\nDr . Jabbar al-Obaidi\, Bridgewater State University\,\n“Iraqi Media Post 2 003: An Analytical\, Historical\, and Political Overview.”\nHenrik Ander sen\, independent researcher\, “The Politics of Corruption and Organized Crime in Contemporary Iraq.”\nDena al-Adeeb\, New York University\, “ Architecture of Trauma: Embodied Practices and Resistance.”\n\n3:00-4:00 \nCoffee Break\n\n4:00-5:30\nSession III: Iraq in Literature\nChair: Muhsi n al-Musawi\, Columbia University\nMoneera al-Ghadeer\, Columbia Universit y\, “Cannibalizing Iraq.”\nDaniel Wolk\, University of Chicago\, “Co nfronting Corruption in the Iraqi City from Afar: Ṣakhī’s Khalfa al S addah/Durūb al-fiqdān and al-Dāhūdī’s Dhākirat madinah munqariḍa h.”\nIkram Masmoudi\, University of Delaware\, “Desertion: Then and No w.”\nMohammad Salama\, San Francisco State University\, “A Mimesis of the Future: The Dialectic of Writing and Forgetting in Luay Ḥamza ‘Abb ās.”\n\nSATURDAY\, APRIL 25\nLocation: Butler Library\, Room 203\n\n8:3 0-9:00am:\nRefreshments and Breakfast\n\n9:00-10:30am\nSession IV: Diaspor ic Continuities\nChair: Dr. Jabbbar al-Obaidi\nDeborah al-Najjar\, Univers ity of Southern California\, “Iraq and the Consolidation of Grief.”\nS obia Khan\, Richland College\, “Enacting Disaster: The Iraqi Nights\, a Site of Conflict and Crisis.”\nReemah al-Urfali\, American University in Cairo “Translating Iraqi Women’s Literature: Between Gender and Genre .”\n\n10:30am-12:00pm\nSession V: Writing in Post-Occupation Iraq: Sessi on in Arabic with translation\nChair: Ikram Masmoudi\, University of Delaw are\nDr. Taher al-Bakka\, former Minister of Higher Education in Iraq\, 20 05-2008\nDr. Jabbar al-Obaidi\, Bridgewater State University\nSamuel Shimo n\, Banipal Literary Magazine\, UK\nShakir Noori\, Iraqi Journalist and No velist\n\n12:00-12:30\nClosing Remarks: Professor Muhsin al-Musawi\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2015/04/11053625_1027577053937401_8347237949248150075_n.jpg CATEGORIES:Academic Lecture LOCATION:Columbia University\, 116th St &\; Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 1 0027\, United States GEO:40.8080586;-73.96400840000001 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=116th St & Broadway\, New Y ork\, NY\, 10027\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Columbia Unive rsity:geo:40.8080586,-73.96400840000001 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR