THE PROJECT FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH IN GLOBAL COMMUNICATION PRESENTS
The Revolutionary Public Sphere
Contention, Communication and Culture in the Arab Uprisings
April 10, 2014 | UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014
8:00 – 8:40 am: Registration and Breakfast
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: Ordinary Art, Ordinary Politics:The Compositions, Mediations and Circulations of theChoir Project in Egypt
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
10:30 – 10:45 am: Break
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
12:15 – 1:15 pm: Lunch
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
2:45 – 3:00 pm: Break
3:00 – 4:15 pm: Memes, Screens, Networks
Donatella Della Rata: Memes 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 – 7:00 pm: Closing Reception