Day 1: Thursday, 10/10/2019
Keynote, 18:00-19:30
Cyrus Schayegh (Geneva): Scale: Three Conceptual Reflections, with Special Reference to the Middle East
Day 2: Friday, 11/10/2019
Workshop
Introduction, 9:00-9:30
Manuel Borutta (Konstanz), Jasmin Daam (Kassel), Esther Möller (Mainz)
9:30-13:00
Bridging the Gap: Discourses on Modernity in the Arab World
Chair: Nora Lafi (ZMO Berlin)
Christian Taoutel (USJ Beirut): The Theory of Phoenicianism
Manfred Sing (IEG Mainz): Mediterranean Entanglements and Arab Reflections about them
Coffee Break (11:30-12:00)
Stefan Vogt (Frankfurt/Main): A Bridge over the Mediterranean: German Zionist Self-Conception as Mediators between the "Orient" and the "West"
14:00-17:30
Anchoring Space: Constructions of Belonging
Chair: Youssef Mouawad
Dennis Dierks (Jena, SPP Transottomanica): Mapping the umma: Mutual Perceptions of the (Arab) Centre and the (European) Periphery before WWI”
Coffee Break (15:00-15:30)
Jasmin Daam (Kassel): Greetings from the Southern Shore: Postcards and Spaces of Belonging in the Eastern Mediterranean
Joseph Rustom (Houshamadyan - UOB): Reconstructing an Armenian Identity through Religious Architecture in Lebanon and Syria (1923-1960).
18:00-19:30
Salon: Living in the Mediterranean : Mobilities and Performances in and across Lebanon (in English and French)
Chaza Charafeddine (Beirut), Charif Majdalani (USJ Beirut), Mounira al-Solh (Beirut/Amsterdam).
Day 3: Saturday, 12/10/2019
9:00-12:30
Shaping Seascapes: The Mediterranean as Connection and Boundary
Chair: Malte Fuhrmann (ZMO Berlin)
Selim Deringil (LAU Beirut): Criminalizing immigration: Ottoman attempts to prevent out migration from Mount Lebanon in the late 19th century
Onur Yildirim (AUB Beirut/METU Ankara): Human Displacement across the Mediterranean
Coffee Break (11:00-11:30)
Kamel Doraï (Ifpo Beirut): Migration, Mobility, Asylum and Place Making in the Middle East
12:30-13:15
Concluding Remarks (Birgit Schäbler (OIB Beirut))
Final Discussion: Is There an “Other” Mediterranean?
Tripoli’s Global Modernity: The Mediterranean and Beyond
Field Trip of the Network Members