The Sixth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies Copenhagen, 8-10 October 2004Conference venue: DIIS, Strandgade 71, 1401 Copenhagen K Workshop Programme (As of 8 October 2004)Saturday 10.30-13.00: Workshops Part I(All workshops continue after lunch) Workshop 1: Middle East Reforms and EU Policies 10.30 – 10.50: International Relations in the Mediterranean and their Socio-Political Dimensions Tuomo Melasuo, Senior Researcher, Tampere University 10.50 – 11.10: The Impact of the EU’s Concepts of Security on Mediterranean Regionalisation Ulla Holm, Senior Researcher, DIIS 11.10 – 11.30: Break 11.30 – 11.50:The EU’s Security Discourses Marianne Laanatza, Senior Lecturer, Uppsala & Stockholm Universities 11.50 – 12.10: The Politics of Economic Liberalisation in Syria Søren Schmidt, Ph.D. Candidate, Roskilde University 12.10 – 12.30: Break 12.30 – 12.50: Institutional Reform Processes in the Middle East: Implementing Integrated Water Resources Management in Egypt Martin Hvidt, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark Workshop 2: Iran in Transition 10.30 – 10.50: The Secularising Force of Empowered Religion: Preliminary Notes on a Comparison of Iranian and Egyptian Islamism Bjørn Olav Utvik, Director of Middle East Studies, University of Oslo 10.50 – 11.10: Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran Yadollah Shahibzadeh, Candidate of Philology, University of Oslo 11.10 – 11.30: A Comparison of Revolutionary and Reformist Mobilisation Mohammad Javed, Ph.D. Candidate, Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen 11.30 – 11.50: Break 11.50 – 12.10: Is the End of the Khatami Era an End of the Reform Movement? Claus Pedersen, Associate Professor, Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen 12.10 – 12.30: Student Politics in Iran Rasmus Elling, MA Student, Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen 12.30 – 12.50: Luristan Nomadic Material Cultures in Denmark Pedram Khosrownejad, Ph.D. Candidate, Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Iranian Studies, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Workshop 3: The Middle East and Area Studies Controversy 10.30 – 10.50: Mesopotamian Turn and its Various Irrigation-Strategies – the Challenge of Bringing IR and Middle East Studies Together Morten Valbjørn, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, University of Aarhus 10.50 – 11.10: History, Theory and Ideology in Middle East Studies: The Bases and Prospects for Multi-Dimensional Area Studies? Recep Boztemur, Assistant Professor, Middle East Technical University European 11.10 – 11.30: Break 11.30 – 11.50: Territorial Legacy: Syrian Policies towards Lebanon and Hatay/Liwa’ Iskandarunah Emma Jørum, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Government, Uppsala University 11.50 – 12.10: Citizenship versus Traditional Forms of Allegiance in Some Successor States to the Ottoman Empire Vemund Aarbakke, Dr.Philos., Research Scholar, Department of East European and Oriental Studies, University of Oslo 12.10 – 12.30: Break 12.30– 12.50: The State as Conceptual Variable in Modern Middle Eastern Studies Rasmus Alenius Boserup, Ph.D. Candidate, Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen Workshop 4: Islamic Law and Politics 10.30 – 10.50: In Reference to the Prophet: Divorce in an Egyptian Context Mona Abdel-Fadil, Co-editor, Babylon (Journal of the Middle-East and North Africa) 10.50 – 11.10: Women, Equality and Rationality in Islam Henriette Sinding Aasen, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen 11.10 - 11.30: Break 11.30 – 11.50: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World Dietrich Jung, Senior Researcher, DIIS 11.50 – 12.10: Textualism and Reasoning in Saudi Arabian Jurisprudence Dorthe Bramsen, Ph.D. Candidate, Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen 12.10 - 12.30: Break 12.30 – 12.50: The Codified Shari’a: A European or an Islamic Law? Knut S. Vikør, Associate Professor, University of Bergen Workshop 5: European/Russian Relations with the Middle East: Past, Present and Future 10.30 – 10.50: Europe and the Middle East, from Entente Cordiale until Today Hassan Jamsheer, Dr., Professor, Chair of Middle Eastern Studies, Institute of History, University of Lodz, Poland 10.50 – 11.10: The Love-Hate Relationship between Europe and the Middle East: Examples of Unilateral and Enlightened Globalization Uichol Kim, Professor, Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 11.10 – 11.30: Break 11.30 – 11.50: Europe and Track II Diplomacy between Israel and the Palestinians: The Geneva Accord Iman Hamdy, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, American University in Cairo 11.50 – 12.10: Russia and Israel: Facing New Challenges and Opportunities Andrei V. Fedorchenko, Head of Department, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences 12.10 – 12.20: Break 12.20 – 12.50: Un-Finnished Business: A Never-sent Diplomatic Note Confirms Moscow's Premeditation of the Six-Day War Isabella Ginor, Fellow, The Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Gideon Remez, Former Head of Foreign News, Israel Radio Saturday14.15 – 16.30: Workshops Part II Workshop 1: Middle East Reforms and EU Policies 14.15 – 14.35: Civilisation and the Question of Turkish EU-Membership: Some Reflections on the Significance of the Concept of Civilisation in Europe and Turkey Daniella Kuzmanovic, MA, Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen 14.35 - 16.30: Questions, Discussions and Closing Remarks Workshop 2: Iran in Transition 14.15 – 14.35: The Impact of Symbolism on Persian New Poetry Heidi Ghomi, Ph.D., Fellow Assistant Professor, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Iran 14.35 - 14.55: EU Policies towards Iran and the Effects on Iranian Human Rights Anisseh Van Engeland Nouraï, Ph.D. Candidate, Institut d’Etudes Politiques 14.55 – 16.30: Questions, Discussions and Closing Remarks Workshop 3: The Middle East and Area Studies Controversy 14.15 – 16.30: Questions, Discussions and Closing Remarks Workshop 4: Islamic Law and Politics 14.15 – 14.35: The Disobediant Wife. The British Judge, Family Law, and Court Practice in Colonial Aden Susanne Dahlgren, Ph.D., Researcher, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki 14.35 - 16.30: Questions, Discussions and Closing Remarks Workshop 5: European/Russian Relations with the Middle East: Past, Present and Future 14.15 – 14.35: Questions, Discussions and Closing Remarks Sunday 13.00 – 15.00: Workshops Part IIIWorkshop 6: Literature and Art 13.00 – 13.20: Sulayman al-Bustani and his Arabic Translation of the Iliad Bo Holmberg, Professor, Lund University 13.20 – 13.40: The Modernist Ka’bah: On Modern European Appraisals and Creative Re-use of the Ka’bah Thomas Hoffmann, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Arts and Culture, University of Copenhagen 13.40 – 15.00: Questions, Discussions and Closing Remarks Workshop 7: Arabic Memoirs and Biographies 13.00 – 13.15: From the Kuttab to Global Fame; the Autobiography of Yusuf al-Qaradawi Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Associate Professor, Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen 13.15 – 13.30: Reading Europe: Arab Youth and European Literature Tetz Rooke, Associate Professor, Department of Oriental and African Languages, Göteborg University 13.30 – 13.45: Ibn Sa’d and the Women: Women's Space in the Earliest Extant Biographical Dictionary Pernilla Myrne, Ph.D. Candidate, Göteborg University 13.45 – 14.00: One Day We’ll be Looking Back at this with Nostalgia: Memoirs and Public Testimonies of the Lebanese Civil War Sune Haugbølle, Ph.D. Candidate, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University 14.00 – 15.00: Questions, Discussions and Closing Remarks Workshop 8: Values and Identities in the Middle East 13.00 – 13.20: Middle Easterners: An Imagined Community Aharon Klieman, Director, The Abba Eban Graduate Program in Diplomatic Studies, Tel-Aviv University 13.20 – 13.40: The Social Construction of the Maghreb: Cognitive, Institutional, and Economic Dimensions of the Regionalisation in the Southern Mediterranean Steffen Wippel, Research Fellow, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin 13.40 - 14.00: Commuting between Europe and the Middle East: Transnational Practice and Parents Concern Lene Kofoed Rasmussen, Ph.D., Researcher, Danish National Institute of Social Research 14.00 – 15.00: Questions, Discussion and Closing Remarks Workshop 9: Israel and Palestine: Conflicts, History, Colonialism and Migrants13.00 – 13.15: The Peace Process Caught between Liberalism and Ethno-Nationalism Louise Mørup, MA 13.15 – 13.30: The Development of Palestinian NGOs during the Oslo Years and Beyond Michael Irving Jensen, Ph.D., Middle East Coordinator, Danish Center for Culture and Development 13.30 – 13.45: The Paradiplomacy of the Palestinian Minority Citizen in the State of Israel Sameh El-Souefi, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Helsinki 13.45 – 14.00: The Palestinian Struggle in Israeli Media Steven Willadsen, BA, Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen 14.00 - 15.00: Questions, Discussion and Closing Remarks |
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