Program and Participants Reconfiguring
Reconfiguring the (Non-)Political. Performing and Narrating Change and Continuity
28 August–4 September 2016, Tunis
Program [PDF]
Participants & Projects
| Carl Rommel |
Feeling Adrift – The inflation and burst of Egypt’s emotional-political football bubble |
| Sonali Pahwa |
Gendered Performance and the Re-Spatialization of Politics in Egyptian Vlogs |
| Ieva Zakareviciute |
In line with INFOCORE – an international collaborative research project studying the role of media in violent conflict |
| Charlotte Lysa |
Women’s football in the Arab Gulf: Challenging the patriarchy? |
| Charlotte Pardey |
Body Imagery in Tunisian Novels – Contemporary Tunisian Novels with Regards to the Body and the Market – |
| Christian Junge |
Feeling (as) Politics – Affect and Emotion in Egyptian and Tunisian Literature and Art since the 2000s |
| Rüstem Ertug Altinay |
Dressing for Utopia Fashion and the Performance of Citizenship in Turkey (1923-2015) |
| Rahma Essid |
The Power of Images: Truth, manipulation and Intolerance |
| Chiara Loschi |
Sweeping Too Much Dirt Under A Small Carpet. How Local Rubbish Collection Reforms Uncover The Destabilizing Force Of Authoritarian Persistence In Tunisia |
| Walid El-Houri |
Beyond failure and success: protest, hegemony, and the persistence of politics |
| Karl Karim Zakhour |
Tunisia in Transition? Center-Periphery Dynamics in the interior of Tunisia |
| Lamia Moghnieh |
Re-configuring violence through psychological aid: humanitarian psychiatry, violence and the politics of suffering in Lebanon |
| Veronica Ferreri |
Creating the Syrian subject, perceiving the Syrian state. Displacement, violence and fantasy of the State among Syrian refugees in Lebanon. |
| Haifa ben Chikha |
National Dialogue and democratic transition in Tunisia |
| Mohamed Amine Jelassi |
Minorities in the Constitution of 2014 |
| Aymen Balhadj |
La jeunesse et la contestation politique |
| Anahi Alviso-Marino |
Visual artists of Yemen. A sociology of artists in their relation to the political |
| Lauren Pyott |
The Art of Syrian Identity Construction”: Towards an ‘Aesthetics of Citizenship’ in Contemporary Syrian Cultural Practices |
| Hajar Berghrabi |
The Role of Hip Hop and Rap in the Transformation Process in Morocco |
| Ayça Tunç Cox |
Strategies of Subversion: Understanding Gezi through Visual Narratives |
| Giedrė Šabaseviciute |
Culture as Politics. Competing Readings of Islamic Literary Activism in Contemporary Egypt |
| Shareah Taleghani |
Rescripting Human Rights: the Poetics and Politics of Syrian Prison Literature |
| Valentina Marcella |
Negotiating the (Non-)Political: Common Paths of Political Satire in the Arab and Turkish Uprisings |
| Ophelie Mercier |
Theatre at the margins: investigating new forms of political mobilisation in Egypt |
| Naomí Ramírez Díaz |
The close link between citizen journalism and the political: the case of Rami Jarrah |
| Baran Germen |
Melodramatic Modernity: Narratives of Victimhood, Affect, and Politics in Turkey |
| Laura Galián |
Meaning of “anarchism” in post-Mubarak Egypt |
| Marine Poirier |
Politics as usual? Backing the authoritarian regime, the case of General People’s Congress supporters in Yemen (2008-2011) |
| Reem Mehdoui |
Tunisian Youth and Socialization into Political Awareness |
| Mehmet Ragip Zik |
Cyberspace, Visual Rhetoric and Emotions: a cross-country analysis of activist experience in contemporary social movements |
| Bochra Kammarti |
L’émergence du fait religieux islamique dans les espaces publics séculiers |
| Aymon Kreil |
Antipolitics and the Defence of Normality in Egypt |
Tutors
| Michael Allan |
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon (USA) |
| Friederike Pannewick |
Professor of Arabic Literature and Culture at the Philipps-University Marburg (Germany) |
| Laura Ruiz de Elvira |
Post-Doc in Political Science at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France) |
| Rachid Ouaissa |
Professor of Political Science at the Philipps-University Marburg (Germany) |
| Christoph Schwartz |
Post-Doc in Sociology (Re-Configurations) at the Philipps-University Marburg (Germany) |
| Jérôme Herteaux |
Institute de Recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (IRMC), Tunis |
| Malte Hagener |
Professor of Media Studies at Philipps-University Marburg (Germany) |
| Mouna Tekaya |
University La Manouba (Tunisia) |
| Felix Lang |
Post-Doc in Arabic Literature at the Philipps-University Marburg (Germany) |
| Enrique Klaus |
Post-Doc at MAEE / IRMC (Tunisia) |
| Imed Melitti |
Professor of Sociology at the University of Tunis El-Manar / Researcher at IRMC (Tunisia) |
