BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:36116@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260409T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260409T170000 DTSTAMP:20260331T214859Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/structures-of-survival-lebanon-acro ss-an-affective-and-material-landscape-2/ SUMMARY:Structures of Survival: Lebanon Across an Affective and Material La ndscape DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by\nAndrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy \n\n\n \;\n\nThis event brings together scholars working on Lebanon ac ross affect theory and critical political economy to make sense of the cur rent moment. The event thinks through material infrastructures of survival not only as responses to the present crisis\, but also as forces that sha pe Lebanon’s future.\n\nYara Damaj is a political theorist who is broad ly interested in the psychic and affective nodes of structural collapse. H er dissertation examines what she calls dispossession by nostalgia in Leba non. She will be graduating from Penn with a PhD in Political Science in M ay 2026.\n\nJowel Choufani is an anthropologist whose work examines stat e abandonment and community-based solidarity infrastructures in Lebanon\, and the moral and political economies that shape them. She will be graduat ing with a PhD in Anthropology from the George Washington University in Ma y 2026.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 026/03/Simple-White-Text-On-Cardboard-Homelessness-Awareness-Poster-2.png CATEGORIES:Community,Discussion LOCATION:University of Pennsylvania / Fisher-Bennett Hall\, Suite 228\, 334 0 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia \, PA\, 19104-6273\, United States GEO:39.952515;-75.191726 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=3340 Walnut Street\, Philad elphia \, PA\, 19104-6273\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Unive rsity of Pennsylvania / Fisher-Bennett Hall\, Suite 228:geo:39.952515,-75. 191726 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR