Program Schedule

Issam Fares Hall

Sunday, October 4th, 2009
6:00 p.m. Conference Opening:

Noha Bayoumi – Secretary General, Lebanese Association of Women Researchers (Bahithat)

  • Opening Speech

Jean Said Makdisi – Conference Organizing Committee

  • Welcome

Rafif Rida Sidawi – Conference Organizing Committee

  • Introducing Dr. Mervat Hatem
Keynote Address:

Mervat Hatem - Department of Political Science, Howard University, Washington D.C., President of the Middle East Studies Association,

Women and Memory

  • What do Women Want? A Critical Mapping of the Future Direction for Arab Feminisms
7:00 p.m. Reception

College Hall – B1

Monday, October 5, 2009
09:00-09:30 a.m. Registration
09.30-11.30 a.m.

 PANEL 1

New Directions for Arab Feminist Thought (I)

  • Chair:  Maher Jarrar – American University of Beirut
Hoda El-Sadda – University of Manchester, Manchester, UK., Women and Memory

  • Feminism in the Arab World: Challenging Discourses and Definitions
Kaltham Al-Ghanim – Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

  • The Limits of Arab Feminist Thought and Its Cultural Framework
Najla Hemadeh -  Lebanese American University, Bahithat

  • No Comparison: Women Evolved Progressively Away from Men
Suaad Zayed Al-Oraimi – The United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain

  • The  Emergence of Arab Feminism: Possibilities and Challenges
Zeina Zaatari – Global Fund for Women, San Francisco, CA.

  • An Arab Feminist Renaissance: Possibilities and Requirements
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-02:00 p.m. PANEL 2

New Directions for Arab Feminist Thought (II)

  • Chair: Rafif Rida Sidawi - Bahithat
Amira Y. Badri – Ahfad University for Women, Umdurman, Sudan

  • The Role of Sudanese Women’s Movements in Peacemaking and Well-being
Noha Bayoumi – Lebanese University, Bahithat

  • Feminist Studies and the Feminine Self
Hatoon Ajwad Al-Fassi - King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Is There a Saudi Feminism?
Mai Al-Nakib* - Kuwait University, Kuwait

  • Accounting for Affect: Kuwaiti Women Between Freedom and Apathy
02:00-04:00 p.m. Lunch
04:00-06:00 p.m. ROUND-TABLE 1

Feminism and the Arts

  • Chair: Nada Sehnaoui - Bahithat
Fowziyah Abu-Khalid - King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • The Question of Freedom and the Feminist Perspective  in the Work of an Arab Creative Artist
Dina Georgis*- University of Toronto, Canada

  • Injured Masculinities and Violent Reactions: A Feminist Response (cinema)
Watfa Hemadi - Lebanese University, Bahithat

  • Feminist Features in Dramaturgical Discourse
05:00-05:15 p.m. Coffee Break
Dalia ٍSaid Moustafa - University of Manchester, UK

  • A Young Girl’s Identity: War and Adulthood in Daniel Arbid’s Film “In the Battle Fields”
Anastasia Valassopoulos*- University of Manchester, UK

  • Representation of Women in the Early Films of the “New Cinema Collective”

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
09.30-11.30 a.m.

 PANEL 3

Feminist Studies and Social Transformation

  • Chair: Carmen Bustani - Bahithat
Hala Kamal – Cairo University, Egypt, Women and Memory

  • The Aesthetics of the Feminist Writing in the Works of Sahar al Mougi
Mouza Ghubash – Association of Humanities Studies, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  • Social Impediments to the Education of Women
Amina El-Bendary – American University in Cairo, Egypt , Women and Memory

  • Arab Feminist Historiography
Huda Ali Alawi Hussein – University of Aden, Yemen

  • The Experience in Women’s and Gender Studies at  the University of Aden
Nahwand Al-Kaderi – Lebanese University, Bahithat

  • Feminist Thought and Masculine Traps
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-02:00 p.m. PANEL 4

Feminism and Islam

  • Chair: Ahmad Dallal – American University of Beirut
Omaima Abu Bakr – Cairo University, Egypt, Women and Memory

  • Themes and Directions in Muslim Feminist Thought
Amel Grami – University of Manouba, Tunis

  • A New Feminist Movement or a Feminist Strategy to Gain Rights
Hosn Abboud – Independent Researcher, Bahithat

  • Feminist, Modernizing Koranic Exigesis: The Work of Aisha Abdel Rahman and Amina Woudoud
Hoda El-Saadi – American University of Cairo, Egypt, Women and Memory

  • Islamic Feminism in the Arab World: Acceptance or Rejection
Elora Shehabuddin*- Rice University, Houston, Texas

  • Rokeya in the world: The experience of 20th Century Bengal
02:00-04:00 p.m. Lunch
04:00-06:00 p.m. ROUND-TABLE 2

Globalization and Colonial Feminism

  • Chair: Nayla Kaedbey - Bahithat
Amina El-Annan*- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

  • The American Relationship with the Middle East: Globalization, Art, Religion and Gender
Laleh Khalili* – SOAS, University of London, UK

  • Gendered Practices of Counterinsurgency
Eilleen Kuttab - Bir Zeit University, Palestine

  • Arab Feminist Thought: Where is it Going?
05:00-05:15 p.m. Coffee Break
Jean Said Makdisi - Independent Writer and Researcher, Bahithat

  • “Women’s Rights” and Feminist Thought
Shahrzad Mojab*- University of Toronto, Canada

  • Tracing Dollars, Mapping Colonial Feminism
Vron Ware*- The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

  • Reading to Change the World: Sexual Politics and Publishing in the Age of Public Diplomacy

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
09.30-11.30 a.m.

 PANEL 5

Feminism, Islamism and Secularism

  • Chair: Sabah Ghandour – Balamand University
Islah Jad – Bir Zeit Univeristy, Palestine

  • The Palestinian Women’s Movements Between Secularism and Islamism:
Marnia Lazreg*- Hunter College, CUNY

  • Postmodern Theory and Muslim Women
Azza Charara Baydoun – Lebanese University, Bahithat

  • Feminist Approaches to the Study of Arab Masculinity: The Example of Nawal al Saadawi
Saba Mahmood*- University of California at Berkeley

  • Secular Feminism and Religious Reform: Politics of an Imperial Imaginary?
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-02:00 p.m. PANEL 6

War, Occupation and Arab Feminism

  • Chair: Syrine Hout - American University of Beirut
Amal Amireh - George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

  • The Disappearing Act of Palestinian Women:
Haifa Zangana – Iraq

  • The Iraqi Feminist  Movement: From Resistance to Acceptance
Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian – Arab Center For Applied Social Research, Palestine

  • Palestinian Women: Between Racist Theology and the Physics of World Power
Anisseh al Amine-Merhi – Psychoanalist, Bahithat

  • War and Conflict: The Clandestine Discourse of Women
Elaheh Rostamy-Povey*- SOAS, University of London, UK

  • Afghan Women Resistance and Struggle in Afghanistan and Diasporic Communities
02:00-04:00 p.m. Lunch
04:00-06:00 p.m. ROUND-TABLE 3

Feminism in the World

  • Chair: Fadia Kiwan – St. Joseph University
Zainah Anwar*- Sisters in Islam, Malaysia

  • Working on Women’s Rights within Religion: Successes and Challenges
Hazel Carby*- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Deniz Kandiyoti*- SOAS, University of London, UK

  • Between Feminism and Social Engineering: The Troubled Trajectory of International Gender Activism
05:00-05:15 p.m. Coffee Break
Mari Oka*- Kyoto University, Japan
Kumkum Sangari*- University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee,  Wisconsin
Joan Scott*- Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

  • Feminism’s Difference Problem

Guest Participant:

  • Nivedita Menon – University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
  • Rosemary Sayegh – American University of Beirut
  • Suad Joseph – University of California

* English presentation

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