2015 Conference: The Middle East, North Africa and the World
FEBRUARY 27, 2015 - 4:30PM
ENCINA CENTRAL, CISAC CONFERENCE ROOM (616 SERRA STREET)
Open only to Stanford faculty, students and researchers.
Convened by Professor Joel Beinin and Professor Robert Crews, this one-day conference will explore the global history of the Middle East and North Africa.The conference is chronologically delimited by two New York-centered financial panics that had substantial consequences for the Middle East and North Africa. While the region has long been engaged in global circuits of commerce, culture, and migration, this choice of chronological frame highlights the renewed salience of political economy in several academic disciplines.
Contact
abbasiprogram [at] stanford.edu (abbasiprogram[at]stanford[dot]edu)
650-725-9098
Agenda
8:45 am – 9:00 am Welcoming Remarks
9:00 am -10:30 am Political Economy
Energy and War in the Persian Gulf”
Rutgers University
“Oil, Guns, and Dollars: U.S. Arms Transfers and the Breakdown of Bretton Woods”
CSU Stanislaus
Brandon Wolfe Hunnicutt Abstract
10:45 am – 12:15 pm Ideas and Institutions
Stanford University
“An Iconic Betrayal: Jean Paul Sartre and the Arab World”
University of Texas, Austin
“The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and the Psyche in postwar Egypt”
University of California, Davis
1:30 pm -3:00 pm Global Palestine
Stanford University
“Palestine and Circuits of Coercion”
University of London, SOAS
“Humanitarianism and Revolution: Samed, the Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the work of liberation”
George Washington University
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm Circulation of Popular Culture
Stanford University
“Frantz Fanon and Judeo-Arab Music”
Columbia University
“A Global Maghreb: Crossroads, Borderlands, and Frontiers in the Rethinking of Area Studies”
Reed College
5:00 pm Concluding Remarks
Stanford University
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