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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/imaginary-divides-the-middle-east-a
 frica-across-empires-oceans-borders/
SUMMARY:Imaginary Divides The Middle East & Africa Across Empires\, Oceans 
 & Borders
DESCRIPTION:WASHINGTON\, DC\n\nThe conference interrogates the naturalized 
 boundaries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It seeks to underst
 and the relationship between the region and its adjacent spaces\, particul
 arly sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean. How can we reimagine the rel
 ationship between the MENA and other alternative geographies\, challenging
  the imagined divides between them? We bring together a diverse group of s
 cholars to think through the entanglements between\, across\, and beyond c
 ategories of region\, nation\, and language\, and to foreground the uneven
  power relations that exist between particular regions\, and the possibili
 ties for transcending them. To do this\, we consciously invite scholars wh
 ose research may not fit perfectly within regional categories or a single 
 discipline. The conference brings together emerging and established schola
 rs to think through these engagements across space and time\, foregroundin
 g scholarship that has not historically been spotlighted\, and creating ne
 w conversations across specializations.\n\nPanels\n\n1) Power Politics wit
 hin the Global South\n\n9:30am – 11:00am\n\nThis panel examines differen
 t types of interrelations\, both past and present\, that connect MENA and 
 sub-Saharan Africa\, and scrutinizes the asymmetrical forms of power that 
 both animate and are produced through these interrelations. Forms of inter
 relations include\, but are not limited to the movement of goods and peopl
 es\, systems of governance\, investment and resource extraction.\n\nNisrin
  Elamin (University of Toronto): Land\, Race and Empire-making in Central
  Sudan\n\nMostafa Minawi (Cornell University): Reading Difference: Inscri
 bing Race in the Late Ottoman Empire\n\nBeeta Baghoolizadeh (Princeton Un
 iversity): Circuitous Freedom: narratives from a so-called abolition\n\nEv
 e Troutt Powell (discussant\, University of Pennsylvania)\n\nMona Oraby 
 (panel chair\, Howard University)\n\n2) Maritime Spaces and Global Mobilit
 ies\n\n11:30am – 1:00pm\n\nMaritime spaces are often conceptualized as b
 arriers that separate\, or as conduits that connect the MENA and sub-Sahar
 an Africa regions. How significant are such spaces to the types and tenor 
 of interrelation between these regions? How have these interrelations and 
 their relative significance changed historically?\n\nMatthew Hopper (Cali
 fornia Polytechnic): Liberated Africans in Aden 1861-1897\n\nJatin Dua (U
 niversity of Michigan): Stuck: Chokepoints and (Im)mobility in the Indian 
 Ocean\n\nRenisa Mawani (University of British Columbia): Enemies of Empir
 e\n\nLaleh Khalili (discussant\, Queen Mary University of London)\n\nSara
  Rahnama (panel chair\, Morgan State University)\n\n3) Third Worldism and
  South-South Solidarity\n\n2:00pm – 3:30pm\n\nPanelists will explore how
  people in different parts of the world imagined the possibilities for sol
 idarity across borders among dispossessed\, colonized\, and/or racialized 
 subjects. Are there particularities that characterize forms of solidarity 
 that cross-cut MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa and how are such solidarities c
 onstituted?\n\nParaska Tolan Szkilnik (Suffolk University): Maghreb Noir:
  Pan-African Futures in North Africa\n\nZachariah Mampilly (Baruch Colleg
 e)\n\nYousuf Al-Bulushi (University of California – Irvine): Solidarity
  and the Dar School\n\nRosie Bsheer (discussant\, Harvard University)\n\n
 Melani McAlister (panel chair\, The George Washington University)
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CATEGORIES:Discussion,Lecture
LOCATION:Elliot School of International Affairs\, 1957 E St. NW\, Washingto
 n \, DC\, United States
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