Wednesday 28.11.
19:00 Opening
Neighborhoods of Beirut: An Artist's View with Marwan Rechmaoui (Artist, Beirut)
Thursday 29.11.
09:15 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome and Introduction: Birgit Schäbler (Director, OIBeirut)
Panel 1:
The Importance of being Earnest about Neighborhoods
10:00 – 10:50 Spontaneous Settlement, Social Reproduction, and Ethnic Identity in Homs - Kevin Mazur (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
10:50 – 11:50 Mosul: Changing Neighborhoods and Neighborly Relations - Omar Mohammed and Angela Boskovitch (Mosul Eye)
13:20 – 14:10 Spontaneous Reparation Practices in Beirut: Toward a New History of Post-War Reconstruction - Mazen Haidar (Architect in Conservation, AHTEEP, Sorbonne)
Panel 2:
Is There Something to be Learned from the Global Experience of Post- WWII? Three Examples of Rebuilding Neighborhoods after 1945
14:10– 15:00 The Reconstruction of Warsaw: Between Abhorrence and Acceptance - Piotr Korduba (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
15:30 – 16:20 Postwar-Rebuilding in Divided Germany: Neighborhood Rebuilding in the Case Studies of Berlin and Dresden during the Cold War - Paul Sigel (Art Historian and Urban Historian, Berlin)
16:20 – 17:10 Reconstruction for Vitality: The Revival of Downtown Hiroshima after the Atomic Bombing - Allam Alkazei (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Friday 30.11.
Panel 3: Iran
9:30 – 10:20 War Immigration and its Impact on the Post-War Reconstruction of Neighborhoods - A Case Study of Khorramshahr after the Iran-Iraq War - Mohammad Hassan Khani (Imam Sadiq University, Tehran)
Panel 4: Iraq
10:20 – 11:10 “Sectarianism”: The Impact of Eliminating Heterogeneity and Forcing Homogeneity on the Neighborhoods of Baghdad - Namariq al-Rawi (Architect, Baghdad)
11:30 – 12:20 Role of Youth Teams in the Reconstruction of the City of Mosul - Ahmad Kefah (University of Baghdad)
Panel 5: Syria
13:30 – 14:20 Reconstructing Memory in Aleppo’s Old City - Liam Nicoll (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
14:20 – 15:10 Rebuilding the Old City of Aleppo in a Coherent Way - Zoya Masoud (TU Berlin)
15:30 – 16:20 Informality for Reconstruction in Damascus - A Possible Partnership - Majida Malo (IWlab)
16:20 – 17:10 Post-Conflict Analysis and Strategies for Reconstructing the Old City of Aleppo: Socio-Political Deliberations - Mamoun Fansa (Friends of the Old City of Aleppo)
Panel 6:
Experiences from the Balkans, Cyprus, Afghanistan, and Kashmir
17:10- 18:00 The Need for New Planning Strategies: Experiences from the Balkans, Cyprus, and Afghanistan - Kai Voeckler (Urbanist, Offenbach)
Saturday 01.12.
09:30 – 10:20 Mapping Intimacy and Distance in a Kashmiri Neighborhood - Arshi Javid (Nehru University, India)
Panel 7: Lebanon
10:20 – 11:10 Neighbors under Fire: Community Relations in Lebanese War Literature - John Hanna (Technische Universiteit Delft)
Panel 8: Beirut’s Neighborhoods
11:30 – 12:20 Neighborhoods as Propertied Landscapes: Lessons from Beirut’s Reconstructions - Mona Fawaz / Nada Moumtaz (American University of Beirut)
12:20 – 13:10 The Promise: The Politicization of Post-War Reconstruction in Southern Beirut - Eric Lob (Florida International University)
Panel 9:
Cases of Reconstruction of Neighborhoods beyond Beirut
14:30 – 15:20 Re-Constructing the Historic Neighborhood in Bint Jbeil after the 2006 War - Howayda al-Harithy (American University of Beirut)
15:20—16:10 Power Dynamics in Reconstructing Peri-Urban Neighborhoods: The Case of South Lebanon - Diana Zeidan (EHESS, Paris)
16:40 – 17:30 Wrap-Up: Lessons for the Present and the Future