april-workshop-the-politics-of-suffering-program-schedule

The Politics of Suffering: A Comparative Perspective on Colonialism, Nationalism and Religious Claims

April 10 -­‐ 11, 2014 Workshop Conveners: Nadera Shalhoub-­‐Kevorkian and Nadim N. Rouhana

Thursday, April 10, 2014 — Ambassador Hotel, East Jerusalem

9:15 – 9:45am

9: 45 – 10:00am

10:00 – 11:30am

Coffee and Welcoming Gathering Introduction to the Project Nadim N. Rouhana (Tufts University) Session I -­‐ Chair: Salim Tamari (Birzeit University, Palestine)

Rosemary Sayigh (American University of Beirut) Narratives of bodily and psychological suffering

11:30am – 12:00pm

12:00 – 1:30pm

Nadera Shalhoub-­‐Kevorkian (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Mada al-­‐Carmel – Haifa) Criminalizing Pain, and the Political Work of Suffering: The Case of Palestinian "infiltrators" Break Session II -­‐ Chair: Esmail Nashif (Ben-­‐Gurion University)

Suvendrini Perera (Curtin University, Australia) Accounting for Disposable Lives: Visibility, Suffering and Shame in a Necro-­‐ Geopolitical Order

Daphna Golan (Hebrew University) Denial on the Israeli Campus

1:30 – 3:00pm

3:00 – 4:30pm

Lunch Session III -­‐ Chair: Daphna Golan (Hebrew University)

Lena Meari (Birzeit University, Palestine) “Sumud” Versus “Trauma”

4:00 – 4:30pm

4:30 – 7:00pm

7:00pm

Abdel Aziz Mousa Thabet (Al Quds University) and Sana Sabah Thabet (Child and Family Training and Counseling Center, Gaza) Trauma due to 8 days war, PTSD, anxiety, and resilience in Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip

Break

Touring Occupied Jerusalem

Dinner Al Nafoura Restaurant, Old City Jerusalem

Friday, April 11, 2014 — Ambassador Hotel, East Jerusalem

8:00 – 9:00am

9:00 – 11:00am

Continental Breakfast

Session IV -­‐ Chair: Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie University, Australia)

Magid Shihade (Birzeit University, Palestine) Zionism as a Structural Rupture to the Palestinians and the Regions surrounding it

Rema Hammami (Birzeit University, Palestine) On (not) Suffering at the Checkpoint: Narrative Strategies of Survival in a Carceral Geography

Dino Abazović (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

11:00 – 11:30am

11:30am – 1:00pm

Break Session V -­‐ Chair: Rema Hammami (Birzeit University, Palestine) Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie University, Australia) Occupied Zones and Multi-­‐Dimensional Matrices of Suffering

Nada Sekulić (University of Belgrade, Serbia) The economy of the pain in the modern theories and doctrines of war

1:00 – 2:30pm

2:30 – 4:30pm

Lunch Break

Session VI -­‐ Chair: Nadim N. Rouhana (Tufts University)

Manuela Consonni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Knowledge and pain, and the nexus between identity and life

Urvashi Butalia (Director, Zubaan, India) "Histories of violation and political conflict in India"

Esmail Nashif (Ben-­‐Gurion University of the Negev) The Death Excess: Revisiting the Arab Now through Al-­‐Nakbah

4:30 – 5:00pm

Closing session Nadera Shalhoub-­‐Kevorkian (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Mada al-­‐Carmel – Haifa) and Nadim N. Rouhana (Tufts University)

7:00pm

Farewell Dinner Cheese and Wine Restaurant, The New Gate, Notre Dame, Jerusalem