XII Convegno SeSaMO – XIII SeSaMO Conference FULL PROGRAMME Giovedì 17 marzo / Thursday, March 17th 8.00 – 9.00 Registrazione / Registration 9.00 – 9.30 Apertura del convegno / Opening addresses PROF. GIACOMO PIGNATARO, Magnifico Rettore dell'Università di Catania PROF. GIANCARLO MAGNANO SAN LIO, Direttore del Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche PROF. GIUSEPPE BARONE, Direttore del Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali PROF.SSA MIRELLA CASSARINO, Comitato Organizzativo del XIII Convegno SeSaMO 9.30 – 10.30 Lectio Magistralis / Keynote speech by PROF. GREGORY GAUSE, III: “The New Middle East Cold War and the Future of the Arab State”, introduced by Prof. Matteo Legrenzi - Auditorium G. De Carlo PANEL SESSION A Orario / Time: 11.00 – 13.00 Luogo / Venue: DISUM - Piazza Dante 32 AUDITORIUM GIANCARLO DE CARLO Panel 1 - Troubled Borders and New Orders: The Impact of Altered Border Dynamics on the International Relations of the MENA Region, director: Raffaella A. Del Sarto, European University Institute/Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe CORO DI NOTTE Panel 2 - From Protests to Elections: The Aftermath of the 2013 Protests in Turkey, directors: Isabel David, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon; Kumru F. Toktamis, Department of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn AULA 254 Panel 4 - Migration and the Making of National Identity in Modern and Contemporary Egypt, directors: Francesca Biancani, Università di Bologna; Giuseppe Acconcia, Goldsmiths, University of London AULA A8 Panel 6 - The Arab Spring and the Arab Christian Diaspora in Europe, directors: Alessia Melcangi, Università di Catania; Georges Fahmi, Carnegie Middle East Center AULA A9 Panel 7 - Across Borders: Patterns of Mobility from and to Europe, directors: Pina Sodano, Università di Roma Tre; Maria do Céu Pinto Arena, University of Minho, Braga; Francesco Antonelli, Università di Roma Tre 13.00 – 14.00 Assemblea dei soci di SeSaMO – SeSaMO Business Meeting PANEL SESSION B Orario / Time: 14.00 – 16.00 Luogo / Venue: DISUM - Piazza Dante 32 AUDITORIUM GIANCARLO DE CARLO Panel 8 - Faces of Displacements. Constructions of the Self and Discourses about Refugeeness Across the Mediterranean Region, directors: Veronica Ferreri, SOAS; Magdalena Suerbaum, SOAS CORO DI NOTTE Panel 9 - Narrare le migrazioni – Sessione I, directors: Mirella Cassarino, Università di Catania; Monica Ruocco, Università di Napoli l’“Orientale” AULA 252 Panel 11 - Mediterraneo allo specchio: migrazioni verso sud tra passato e presente, directors: Salvatore Speziale, Università di Messina; Michele Brondino, Direttore Association Sciences, Education et Culture en Mediterrań eé (Secum) AULA 254 Panel 3 - Middle Eastern and North African Migrants in Postcolonial Europe: Ethnicity, Nationhood and Memory, 1950s to Today, directors: Dario Miccoli, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; Jozefien de Bock, Ghent University AULA A7 Panel 12 - The Sahara-Sahel Region: A context in conflict, with Special Reference to Western Sahara, directors: Raquel Ojeda García. University of Granada; Victoria Veguilla del Moral. University Pablo de Olavide AULA A8 Panel 13 - Syrians and Policies On the Move: Middle East to Europe, directors: Tuba Bircan, HIVA – KULeuven; Ulaş Sunata, BAUMUS - Bahçeşehir University PANEL SESSION C Orario / Time: 16.30 – 18.45 Luogo / Venue: DISUM - Piazza Dante 32 AUDITORIUM GIANCARLO DE CARLO Panel 14 - Bodies, Discourses and Geographies: Mediterranean Migrations in Postcolonial Perspectives, directors: Gabriele Proglio, European University Institute and University of Tunis; Chiara Giubilaro, University of Milano Bicocca CORO DI NOTTE Panel 10 - Narrare le migrazioni: sentimenti, spazi e tempi della dislocazione nelle letterature arabo-islamiche - sessione II, directors: Mirella Cassarino, Università di Catania; Monica Ruocco, Università di Napoli l’ “Orientale” AULA 252 Panel 15 - In-Between Borders: Buffer Zones, Safe Zones, No Man’s Land, directors: Daniel Meier, CNRS Grenoble, France; Rosita Di Peri, University of Torino AULA 254 Panel 16 - Time of Conflicts / Time Of Migration: Reflections on the Categories and Genealogy of Migration in the Middle East, directors: Luigi Achilli, European University Institute; Norig Neveu, Ifpo AULA A7 Panel 17 - Beyond the Disaster Discourse: Redrawing Borders of “Us” vs. “Them” in the Migration Debate, directors: Lucia Volk, San Francisco State University; Khaldun Bshara, Riwaq, Ramallah AULA A8 Panel 18 - Politics of Civil War and Humanitarian Response along the Turkish-Syrian Border, directors: Murat Çemrek, Necmettin Erbakan University; Hüsrev Tabak, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University AULA A9 Panel 19 - The real and Imagined Female Exilic Self in Persian Narratives, directors: Manijeh Mannani, Athabasca University; Khatereh Sheibani, York University Venerdì 18 marzo / Friday, March 18th PANEL SESSION D Orario: 9.00 – 10.45 Luogo / Venue: DISUM - Piazza Dante 32 AUDITORIUM GIANCARLO DE CARLO Panel 20 - International Private Law and Migration: From the Middle East and North Africa to Europe and Back, directors: Katherine Elizabeth Hoffman, Northwestern University; Maaike Voorhoeve, EUME Programme, Forum Transregionale Studien CORO DI NOTTE Panel 21 - Syria’s Alawites: from Domination to Survival?, directors: Leif Stenberg, Lund University; Matteo Legrenzi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice AULA 252 Panel 22 - Frontières et mouvements de population au Maghreb à l’époque moderne et contemporaine – session I, directors: Federico Cresti, Università di Catania; Anna Maria Medici, Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo AULA 254 Panel 24 - Border Changes Post-2011. Historical and Geographical Background, New and Future Challenges – session I, directors: Chiara Denaro, University of Rome/ Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Natalia Ribas-Mateos, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona AULA A7 Panel 25 - The Invention of Migration: Discourses, Representations and Practices – session I, directors: Lorenzo Casini, University of Messina; Maria Grazia Sindoni, University of Messina PANEL SESSION E Orario / Time: 11.15 – 13.15 Luogo / Venue: DISUM - Piazza Dante 32 AUDITORIUM GIANCARLO DE CARLO Panel 27 - Migration and Transnational Governance, directors: Laurie Brand, University of Southern California; Tamirace Fakhoury, Lebanese American University CORO DI NOTTE Panel 28 - Migrations across the Mediterranean: Popular Uprisings, Imperial Legacies, and the Right to Move, directors: Linda Herrera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Peter Mayo, University of Malta AULA 252 Panel 23 - Frontières et mouvements de population au Maghreb à l’époque moderne et contemporaine – session II, directors: Federico Cresti, Università di Catania; Anna Maria Medici, Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo AULA A7 Panel 26 - The Invention of Migration: Discourses, Representations and Practices – session II, directors: Lorenzo Casini, University of Messina; Maria Grazia Sindoni, University of Messina AULA A8 Panel 29 - Revolutions and Wars in the 19th and 20th Century: Research, Politics, Ethic and Militancy in the Human and Social Sciences – session I, directors: Francesco Correale, CNRS/Univ. F. Rabelais, Tours; Gennaro Gervasio, British University in Egypt AULA A9 Panel 31 - Migration in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries, directors: Gennaro Errichiello, Loughborough University; Neema Noori, University of West Georgia PANEL SESSION F Orario / Time: 14.45 – 17.15 Luogo / Venue: DISUM - Piazza Dante 32 AUDITORIUM GIANCARLO DE CARLO Panel 32 - Identità migratorie in Medio Oriente e in Europa, directors: Domenico Copertino, Università di Milano Bicocca; Paolo La Spisa, Università di Genova CORO DI NOTTE Panel 33 - Young People in North Africa and Middle East: Explorations within a Social and Moral Experience, directors: Jose Sanchez Garcia, University of Lleida; Francesco Vacchiano, University of Lisbon AULA 252 Panel 34 - Migrant Protests and Political Mobilization in North Africa and the Mediterranean: Spaces, Infrastructures, and Embodied Experiences of Migrant Political Agency, directors: Cristina Brovia, University of Turin and Université Paris 1; Elisa Pascucci, University of Tampere; Marta Scaglioni, University of Milan Bicocca and University of Bayreuth AULA 254 Panel 35 - Strategies for Forging Social Integration and Belonging among Refugees, Displaced, Migrants, and their Children in Diaspora, directors: Louise Cainkar, Marquette University; Abla Amawi, UNDP, Jordan AULA A7 Panel 36 - Transnationalism, Islam and Politics of Identity in the West-Mediterranean Area, directors: Ana Isabel Planet Contreras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Paola Gandolfi, University of Bergamo AULA A8 Panel 30 - Revolutions and Wars in the 19th and 20th Century: Research, Politics, Ethic and Militancy in the Human and Social Sciences – session II, directors: Francesco Correale, CNRS/Univ. F. Rabelais, Tours; Gennaro Gervasio, British University in Egypt AULA A9 Panel 37 - The Migrating Subject: Displacement, Self-Discovery and Nostalgia at the Core of Modern and Contemporary Arabic Novel and Autobiography, directors: Maria Elena Paniconi, University of Macerata; Martina Censi, Université de Liège 17.45 – 18.45 Lectio Magistralis / Keynote speech by PROF. LALEH KHALILI: “War, Trade and Migration in the Making of Maritime Transport in the Arabian Peninsula”, introduced by Dr. Paola Rivetti – Auditorium G. De Carlo 20.30 - GALA DINNER/CENA SOCIALE Dimora De Mauro, Via Gesualdo Clementi, 5, 95124 Catania Sabato 19 marzo / Saturday,