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29.05.2024
Cities and Circulations: Challenging theorical frameworks in Gulf Studies and geographies
About this event
From 29 May 2024 08:30 to 30 May 2024 16:00
Salons scientifiques
1 pl. Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, 75007, ParisThe conference revisits historical processes of knowledge production, immigration, and cultural exchange in colonial and post-colonial geographies of the Gulf. It also uncovers histories of community, migration, language/dialect, and hinterland denials in both the making of Gulf cities and the production of their histories. The aim is to foster novel investigations that question the positionality of different actors, that humanise the landscape, and that deconstruct persistent myths, material and immaterial structures, spaces and systems that limit a critical reading on the Gulf.
Programme
Jeudi 29 mai 2024 - INALCO, Maison de la Recherche, 2 rue de Lille, 75007
8h30 : Registration - Welcome Coffee
9h : Institutional welcome remarks. Inalco, KU, CEFREPA, Sciences Po
10h : Session 1: Moderated by Hélène Thiollet, Sciences Po-CERI
Challenging persistent dichotomies in historical processes: resituating Gulf histories within complex phenomena of hybridisation through South-South circulations
10h : Todd Reisz, Independant Scholar
Infinite Arrivals
10h30 : Mae Al-Ansari, Kuwait University (zoom)
Challenging dichotomies in Gulf histories: refraiming tradition, housing, and architectural flows as critical aspects of recentering
11h : Talal Al-Rashoud, Kuwait University & Wafa Al-Sayed, University for Science and Technolohy (zoom)
Arabia's anti-colonial hub: Kuwait and the Bahrani nationalist movement (1956-1966)
11h30 : Q&A
12h30 : lunch break
14h : Session 2: Moderated by Eric Verdeil, Sciences Po-CERI
Recentring Gulf cities within colonial- and post-colonial histories and uncovering the webs of connections, transfers and conflicts within And Across empires
14h : Philippe Pétriat, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
The (first) Line: Tapline's cities and the historiography of oil urbanism in the Gulf
14h30 : Lukasz Stanek, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Mobilities of weak actors
15h : Alix Philippon, Sciences Po, Aix-en-Provence
Redefining Baghdad trhough the shrines: translocal devotion, mobilities and urban politics in post-2003 Iraq
15h30 : Q&A
16h : Keynote - Mohammad Al Jassar, Secretary general for the National Council for Culture Arts and Literature, Kuwait
The past, present, and future of two marginalized towns in Kuwait
18h30 : cocktail Inalco aux salon Borel et de Tassy (1er étage)
Vendredi 30 mai 2024 - Sciences Po, Salons Scientifiques, 1 place Saint Thomas, 75007 Paris
9h : Welcome coffee
9h30 : Session 3: Moderated by Chantal Verdeil, Inalco-CERMOM
Representing cities, circulations and transformations through languages and literature
9h30 : Marcela Rubino, Inalco-CERMOM
The treatment of race in post-2000s Gulf novels
10h : Elisabeth Vauthier, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3 IETT - CEFREPA
Ville romanesques : une lecture de l'histoire du Koweit
10h30 : Laura Hindelang, University of Bern
Challenging cultural circulation: a media-historical approach to Gulf cities
11h : coffee break
11h30 : Q&A
12h15 : lunch break
14h : Session 4: Moderated by Asseel Al Ragam, Kuwait University
Revisiting and relocating Gulf architecture and urban planning within global, regional, and local contexts to draw Out continuities and exceptions beyond oil development
14h : Laurent Bonnefoy, Sciences Po-Ceri
The Omani urban counter-model in the Gulf
14h30 : Anahi Alviso, Sciences Po-CEFREPA
Un-Monuments across cities of the Arabian peninsula
15h : Jawaher Al Sudairy (zoom)
Tracing the endogenous forces animating Makkah's urban restructuring
15h30 : Q&A
16h : Concluding remarks
Roundtable discussion
Organised by Asseel Al-Ragam, Hélène Thiollet, Eric Verdeil, Chantal Verdeil