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Comparative Approaches To Latin America and The Middle East: A Workshop

This three day workshop is open to the Dartmouth community. To attend please e-mail Eman.S.Morsi@dartmouth.edu to access the drafts and prepare for the discussion.

10/27/2024
9:30 am – 2:00 pm
Reed 110
Intended Audience(s): Alumni, Faculty, Postdoc, Public, Staff, Students-Graduate, Students-Undergraduate
Categories: Arts and Sciences, Clubs & Organizations, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Lectures & Seminars

Please note that each of the sessions of this workshop is a discussion of a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Attendees need to read the pre-circulated draft to participate in the discussion. To access the drafts and attend please email eman.s.morsi@dartmouth.edu.

Friday , Oct 25, 2024, Haldeman 125

Session I: 9:30 am – 10:30 am : Eman Morsi, “The Sahrawi Hispanosphere” (Moderator: Christina Civantos)

Coffee Break: 10:30 am-11:00 am

Session II: 11:00 am -12:00 pm: Kevin Funk, “A (Neoliberal) “New World Economic Geography”: Comparative Perspectives on the Domestic Consequences of Booming Latin American-Middle Eastern Trade” (Moderator Eman Morsi)

Lunch Break: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Session III: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Christina Civantos, “Orientalist Solidarity: José Martí and Cuban Internationalism” (Moderator Marwan Kraidy)

Coffee Break: 3:00 pm- 3:30 pm

Session IV: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Marwan Kraidy, “Turkish Drama in Latin America: Coiled Temporalities & Narrative Decolonization” (Moderator John Karam)

Saturday Oct 26, 2024, Reed 110

Session V: 09:30 am – 10:30 am Jesús Muñoz, “Speaking in Glyphs: The Decolonial Poetics of Global Magical Realism” (Moderator Diogo Bercito)

Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00

Session VI: 11:00 am -12:00 pm Maru Pabón, “Word as Action, Immediacy as Style: Fayad Jamís’s Bridges of Communication” (Moderator Jesús Muñoz)

Lunch: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Session VII: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Diogo Bercito, “A Brazilian Thawra: Arab Migrants in the Revolution of 1932″ (Moderator Angela Haddad)

Coffee Break: 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Session VIII: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm John Karam, “Global South Prelude: Why Brazil Matters in the Arab Mediterranean” (Moderator Raffaele Mauriello)

Sunday Oct 27, 2024, Reed Hall 110

Session IX: 9:30-10:30 Raffaele Mauriello, “Iran’s Connections with Latin America in the Long Global Sixties and 1979: Literal, Aspirational, Conspiratorial, and Commemorative” (Moderator Kevin Funk)

Coffee/Tea Break: 10:30- 11:00

Session X: 11:00-12:00 Angela Haddad, “Caribbean Indigenism and Arab Migration” (Moderator Maru Pabon)

Lunch: 12:00-2:00 (To Go lunch will be provided for those needing to get on the 12:40 bus)

This workshop is funded by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and co-sponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Department of Latin American, Latino, & Caribbean Studies, and the Comparative Literature Program.

For more information, contact:
Eman Morsi
Eman.S.Morsi@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL to this event: https://writing.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=75936

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