Time / Venue

Khaili Lecture Theatre

G67

9.30 – 11am

Ibrahim Aoude (University of Hawaii)
“Iraq and Palestine: US strategy since 2006”
[Abstract]

S. Gulden Ayman (Marmara University)
“The future of Iraq and Turkish-American relations” [Abstract]

Samir Rihani (University of Liverpool)
“A Complex Systems View of America’s Misadventure in Iraq” [Abstract] [Paper] [Slides]

Seif Da’na (University of Wisconsin-Parkside)
“The New Islam: Re-inventing Arab Culture and Nationalism” [Abstract]

Dai Yamao (Kyoto University)
“Iraqi Islamic Parties: Primary Sources and Reconstructing their Activities and Ideologies” [Abstract] [Paper]

11 – 11.15

Coffee break

11.15 – 12.45

Kamil Mahdi (University of Exeter)
“Notes on the Management of the Iraqi Economy since the 2003 US Occupation”

Ali Merza (Independent Scholar)
“Policies and Economic and Social Trends in Iraq: 2003-2007” [Abstract] [Paper]

Amal Shlash (Bayt al-Hikma)
“Human development and human security: Iraq’s case” [Abstract]

Haifa Zangana (Novelist)
“Neutrality and objectivity in the discourse on “Iraqi women under occupation”… or is it?” [Abstract]

Lucia Sorbera (Ca’ Foscari University)
"Dreams and Fears Between Exile and Homeland. Iraqi Cinema Today" [Abstract]

Muhamad Tawfiq Ali (Applied Linguistics Researcher)
“Literature of War and Peace” [Abstract] [Paper] [Slides]

12.45 – 1.30

Lunch

1.30 – 3.15pm

Aspects of the recent Iraqi displacement crisis: session 1 [Panel Abstract]

Panel convened by Géraldine Chatelard (French Institute for the Near East (IFPO)

Phil Marfleet (University of East London)
“‘Unmixing’ Iraq: migrants and the state” [Abstract]

Joseph Sassoon (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford)
“Iraq's brain drain” [Abstract]

Nabil Al-Tikriti (US Institute of Peace)
“Policy effects vis-à-vis Iraqi forced migrants” [Abstract] [Slides]

3.15pm – 3.30

Coffee break

3.30 – 5pm

Aspects of the recent Iraqi displacement crisis: session 1 [Panel Abstract]

Panel convened by Géraldine Chatelard (French Institute for the Near East (IFPO)

Laura Watkins (Visiting Research Fellow - Regional Human Security Centre, Amman)
“The challenges of delivering humanitarian assistance in an urban refugee setting: an examination of the human security needs of displaced Iraqis in Jordan” [Abstract]

Giorgio Heinrich Neidhardt (Independent Scholar)
“The integration process of Iraqi refugees in Syria”
[Abstract]

Géraldine Chatelard (French Institute for the Near East (IFPO)
“Constructing and deconstructing 'Iraqi refugees'” [Abstract] [Paper]

Nadje Al Ali (SOAS, University of London)
“Best Day in our Lives” or “End of Iraq”?: Iraqi Women Narrating the Revolution [Abstract]

Anne Alexander (SOAS, University of London)
“Political opportunities and collective action in the Iraqi revolution 1958-1959” [Abstract]

5 – 5.30

Break

5.30 – 7pm

Public panel discussion:
‘Fifty years since the Iraqi revolution of 1958’
Nearly fifty years after dissident army officers toppled the Hashemite dynasty, the significance of the Iraqi revolution of 1958 is still the subject of intense debate. Was it a popular uprising against a narrow, British-backed elite, or merely a military conspiracy, a simple changing of the guard at the highest echelons of the state? Did the revolution mark the end of an era of liberal, pluralist politics? What is the legacy of the events of the revolution today?
Three historians offer contrasting perspectives on the debates over July 1958.
Speakers: Kamal Mudher Ahmed, Hala Fattah, Anne Alexander
Chair: Charles Tripp

IACIS would like to thank the ESRC Non-Governmental Public Action research programme for assistance in organising this event.

Time / Venue

Khaili Lecture Theatre

G67

9.30 – 11am

Gendering wars, occupation, migration [Panel Abstract]
Panel convened by Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt (SOAS and University of East Anglia)

Achim Rohde (Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig)
“Assessing the Impact of War: Iraqi Gender Policies in the 1980s” [Abstract]

Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt (SOAS and University of East Anglia)
“Gendering Imperialism and Resistance: A Postcolonial Feminist Perspective on the Occupation” [Abstract]

Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt (SOAS and University of East Anglia)
“Between Nationalism and Women’s Rights: The Kurdish Women’s Movement” [Abstract]

Isis Nusair (Denison University)
“Gendered Bodies/Gendered Wars: Iraqi Women Refugees in Jordan” [Abstract]

Firat Bozcali (New York University)
“Managing oil in Kurdistan-Iraq: 1991-2003” [Abstract] [Paper]

Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (Stanford University)
“The End of the Concessionary Regime: Oil, Iraq, and American Power, 1958-72.” [Abstract]

11 – 11.15

Coffee break

11.15 – 12.45

Mores and Wars: Cultural Patrimony in Iraq [Panel Abstract]
Panel convened by Nada Shabout (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of North Texas)

Jeff Spurr (Harvard University)
“Invasion, Devastation and Controversy:The Case of Iraqi Libraries and Archives since 2003” [Abstract]

Caecilia Pieri (EHESS, Paris and Amman Ahlia University)
“Baghdad's modern built heritage: presence, absence, questions about the memory” [Abstract]

Nada Shabout (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of North Texas)
“Modernity Denied: the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art, public monuments and migration of artists”[Abstract] [Slides]

Kamil al-Adhadh (Independent Scholar)
"Optimization Policies for the Management of the Iraqi Oil Extraction Industry" [Abstract] [Slides] [Paper]

Ahmed Jiyad (Independent Scholar)
"Federal Petroleum Policy in Iraq: Feasibility and Challenges” [Abstract] [Paper] [Slides]

Thamir Uqayli (Independent Scholar)
“Upstream Hydrocarbon Industry in Kurdistan-Iraq: Opportunities and Challenges” [Slides]

Muhammad-Ali Zainy (Centre for Global Energy Studies)
“Iraqi Oil: Turning the Curse to a Blessing”[Paper]

12.45 – 1.30

Lunch

1.30 – 3.15

Joy Gordon (Fairfield University)
“Auditing the reconstruction in Iraq” [Abstract]

Ed Harriman (Independent Scholar)
“The new Iraqi Kleptocracy” [Abstract]

Ane Mannsåker Roald (Oslo University)
“The role of religion and the region in Iraq” [Abstract] [Paper]

Robert Smith (Lancaster University)
“The brief life of the local government movement in Iraq: From regime change to the elections of January 2005” [Abstract] [Paper]

Fawziya Sabir (Baghdad University)
الاقليات في منظور السلطة : دراسة في الارث  التاريخي واشكاليات الاندماج في الهوية الوطنية . الحالة الكردية في العراق انموذجا

3.15 – 3.30

Coffee break

3.30 – 4pm

Open meeting of the Association
All delegates, whether members or not, are welcome to join us for brief meeting to end the conference.

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