FRIDAY, 24 NOVEMBER 2017 17:30-18:00 COFFEE BREAK DIANA EL RICHANI (University of Ottawa) 13:00-13:30 REGISTRATION 18:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE “Electro Tarab and the Emerging Sounds of the Arab World” 13:30-14:00 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION WALTER ARMBRUST (University of Oxford ) 13:00-14:00 LUNCH BREAK “Meandering Through the Magazine: New 14:00-15:30 PANEL I: ORAL AND WRITTEN Media in Interwar Egypt” 14:00-15:30 PANEL V: ARABIC CULTURE AND TRANSMISSION OF PREMODERN WEB 2.0 ARABIC LITERATURE 19:30 DINNER RECEPTION, BEIT AL-HIKMA MARIE-THERESE ABDEL-MESSIH HATIM EL-HIBRI SATURDAY, 25 NOVEMBER 2017 (Kuwait University) (George Mason University) “Intermedial and Multimodal Crossings: Re/ “Mediation, Mediatization, and Historical 09:30-11:00 PANEL III: ARABIC CULTURE FOR Siting Cultural Processes” Change in Arab Societies” THE MASSES AMAL HASSAN BEATRICE GRÜNDLER (Lebanese University) (Freie Universität Berlin) ZIAD FAHMY “Arabic Literary Books in Digital Libraries’ “(In)conveniences of Book Usage and (Cornell University) Websites: Availability and Use” Possession in the Ninth Century” “Media-Capitalism: A Historical Perspective MUJTABA ISANI SALIM OMRI on Media and Society in Early Twentieth (University of Münster) (University of Gabes) Century Egypt” “The Potential of an Emerging Arab “The Takhmis in the Post-Classical Period: ANDREW SIMON “Blogosphere” in Shaping the Future Cultural Its Ritual and Semiotic Aspects, and the (Dartmouth College) Agenda” Transformations of Orality and Literacy” “Censuring Sounds: Tapes, Taste, and the Creation of Egyptian Culture” 15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK 15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK INES BRAUNE (University of Marburg) 16:00-18:00 MEDIA AND/IN REVOLUTION: 16:00-17:30 PANEL II: MEDIA PRACTICES IN THE “Uneven Contemporaneity in Contemporary NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND NAHDA PERIOD Youth Cultures: Parkour in Morocco” CHALLENGES IN TIMES OF POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE MAHA ABDELMAGEED 11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK () PANEL DISCUSSION WITH PRACTITIONERS IN “Miṣbāḥ al-Sharq: Print Media and 19th 11:30-13:00 PANEL IV: CULTURAL DEBATES AND THE CULTURAL FIELD Century Literary Objects of Truth” THE AVANTGARDE SAMUEL SHIMON () BARBARA WINCKLER \ AYOUB EL MOUZAINE (Fes) (University of Münster) YVONNE ALBERS MERIAM MECHTI () “Orality in Print: The Representation of UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG/ORIENT-INSTITUT ABDELHAK TARCHOUNI (Tunis) Speeches, Orations and Cultural Events in CHAIR: CAROLA RICHTER Arabic Magazines of the 1920s” “Re-Launching the Arab Intellectual: Mawaqif (Freie Universität Berlin) TERESA PEPE and Levantine Periodical Culture around (University of Oslo) 1967” 19:30 DINNER IN THE MEDINA OF TUNIS “Fictionalizing the Self and Building MONIQUE BELLAN (ONLY BY INVITATION) Communities: The Ancestral Genres of the (Orient-Institut Beirut) Autofictional Blog” “Exhibition as a Medium and the Emergence of an “Art System”? Contact Art Gallery in Beirut in the Early 1970s” SPONSORED BY THE SUNDAY, 26 NOVEMBER 2017 About the conference In the last decades, the Arab world has witnessed the emer- 09:30-11:00 PANEL VI: VISUAL AND gence and broad diffusion of ‘newʼ media, most prominently PERFORMATIVE CULTURES the Internet. However, the adoption of digital technologies is not the first media transition to occur. It could be compared to the transition from oral to script culture, from manuscript to AMMEKE KATEMAN International Conference of the Arab-German print culture, or the emergence of audio-visual media, such as (University of Amsterdam) Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) radio, TV, photography and film. “Historical ḥajj-Selfies? Portraits of Authors in Applying a transhistorical perspective (9th-21st century), the con- ajj-Travelogues in the First Half of the 20th Media Transitions and Cultural ḥ ference aims at exploring how the emergence and diffusion of Century” new communication technologies have affected the conditions of Debates in Arab Societies KHADEEJA AMENDA cultural production, distribution, and reception and how cultural Transhistorical Perspectives on the Impact (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) debates are shaped by the use of different media. ”The Arabia of Hyderabad: Photographs as of Communication Technologies Media and Mediations Among the Hadramis 24-26 November 2017 of Barkas” Conference Organizers: Barbara Winckler Beit al-Hikma / The Tunisian Academy of Sciences, JAN SCHOLZ Letters and Arts, Tunis (Heidelberg University) Junior Professor for Modern Arabic Literature, “Modern Islamic Preaching Manuals and New University of Münster / AGYA Communicative Technologies in the Arabic [email protected] Context” Carola Richter Professor for International Communication, Freie Universität Berlin / AGYA 11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK [email protected] Teresa Pepe 11:30-13:00 PANEL VII: CULTURAL DEBATES Associate Professor at the Institute for Culture Studies AND DEBATE CULTURES ACROSS MEDIA and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo [email protected] KHAWLA AL-SHUWAIHI Bilal Orfali (Zayed University, UAE) Associate Professor for Arabic Studies, ”Social Media and Cultural Authority: What American University of Beirut / AGYA Can We Learn from the Arabian Gulf?” [email protected] OMAR AL-GHAZZI (London School of Economics and Political Conference Venue: Science) Beit al-Hikma ”Al-Andalus 2.0: Reimagining Arab Collective 25, Avenue de la République, Site archéologique de Carthage, Tunis Memory on Social Media” MAGDALENA KAROLAK Twitter: @AGYA_events (Zayed University, UAE) Facebook: www.facebook.com/agya.info ”Music for Thought: Investigating the Role of www.agya.info Social Media in Saudi Arabia” The title collage was compiled by Tasnim Baghdadi, 13:00-13:30 FINAL DISCUSSION: MEDIA www.tasnimbaghdadi.com TRANSITIONS AND CULTURAL DEBATES Das neue Logo „WWU Münster“ / CLOSING WORDS

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