Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine

Ingraham 206
@ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Professor Bhungalia demonstrates how US empire operates as a topological formation that projects security and war power through opaque arrangements and blended genres of rule—in this case contracted relationships of aid—that render Washington’s counterterrorism regime intimately embedded in the lifeworlds of those afar.

Arab Brazil: Ternary Orientalism and the Question of South-South Comparison

Ingraham 206
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Waïl S. Hassan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will discuss how the Arab world in Brazil works paradoxically as a site of otherness (different language, culture, and religion) and solidarity (with cultural, historical, demographic, and geopolitical ties).

Siege Creep: Waste, Airbnb, and Speculation between Israel/Palestine and Athens

Online via Zoom
@ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (Bard College) draws on long term fieldwork for two book projects, one based in Palestine and the other based in Greece, to make the case for thinking about the strategies people use to mitigate besieging circumstances through questions about infrastructure.

Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt

Online via Zoom
@ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Jessica Barnes, associate professor at the University of South Carolina, explores the anxiety that pervades Egyptian society surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out of wheat or that people might not have enough good bread to eat.

Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art: Between Singularities and Multitudes

Ingraham 206
@ 12:00 pm - 1:05 pm

Profesor Nevine El Nossery will discuss her latest book in which she explores the ways women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa have re-imagined revolutionary discourses through creativity and collective action as a means of resistance.