Thursday, November 14, 6pm-9pm
U-M Museum of Art Auditorium, 525 S. State
6:00-6:20pm
Welcome Remarks by Christiane Gruber and Juan Cole
6:20-7:00pm
Keynote Address, Jill Dougherty, “Images of the Libyan Revolution"
Discussant: Elizabeth Rauh
Audience Questions
7:30- 9:00pm
Reception in UMMA
Friday, November 15, 9am-5pm
Rackham Amphitheatre, 915 E. Washington
Panel 1: From Tunisia to Bahrain: Recording Violence and Reviving Memory
9:00-9:30am
Nama Khalil, “Performing Resistance: The Iconic Case of the ‘Woman in the Blue Bra’”
9:30-10:00am
Elizabeth Rauh, “An Enduring Monument: Bahrain’s 2011 Pearl Roundabout Protests”
Discussant: Christiane Gruber
Audience Questions
10:30-11am
Tea Break
Panel 2: Video-Blogging and the Egyptian Uprisings
11:00-11:30am
Wael Abbbas, "Video-Blogging: Police Crimes, Internet Activism, and the Egyptian Revolution"
Discussant: Juan Cole
Audience Questions
12:00-1:30pm
Lunch Break
Panel 3: On the Walls: Visual Activism and Mural Arts in Egypt
1:30-2:00pm
Amr Nazeer, "Street Art as Collaborative Resistance"
2:00-2:30pm
Jennifer Pruitt, “Monumentalizing the Ephemeral: Ganzeer and the Rise of Cairene Street Art”
Discussant: Christiane Gruber
Audience Questions
3:00-3:30pm
Tea Break
Panel 4: The Performing Arts in Libya and Syria
3:30-4:00pm
Khaled Mattawa, “A Tent for Henrik Ibsen: What the Arab Spring Means to Me”
4:00-4:30pm
Stephennie Mulder, “Beeshu’s Laugh: The Arts of Satire in the Syrian Uprising”
Discussant: Nancy Linthicum
Audience Questions
