Poetics and Politics of Imagination

14 Sept

Causes and Obstacles to Prosperity

10:30-12:00 Panel 1: Populism and Prosperity 1: Populist Imaginaries
Discussant: tba

Chair: Dr. Chris Harker (UCL)

My heart beats Hussain”: Prophetic charisma, humanitarian ethics, and the re-enchantment of Shi’a populist thought by Emanuelle, Degli Esposti (Cambridge)
Yaxshi—Expressing the evolution of CCP's conceptualization and governance of Xinjiang through a folk song by Michael Wang (UCL)
Imagined Futures and Theological Discourse: The Relevance of Eschatology for Historical Imagination by Ghassan El Masri (Freie Universitat Berlin)
"The Lesser Evil": Techniques of Neutralizing Populism in Pakistan by Sumrin Kalia (UCL)

13:00-14:30 Panel 2: Populism and Prosperity 2: Engendering Populisms and the Masculinist Restorations
Discussant: Prof Deniz Kandiyoti (SOAS)

Chair: Dr. Yuan He (UCL)

Do They Talk about Economy when they talk about women's rights in India? By Shilpi Pandey (Vrije)
Adalet, Alimony Debate and Intimate Politics of Divorce in Turkey by Burcu Kalpaklıoğlu (Amsterdam U)
Shame, Hope, and Islam in the Interwar Algerian Debates about Women by Dr Sara Rahnama (Morgan State Uni)
The Reinvention and Appropriation of Traditions in the Turkish Marriage Market by Dr Merve Kütük-Kuriş (29 Mayıs)

15:00-16:30 Roundtable: Intimacy, Charisma, and Leadership
Discussant: tba

Chair: Charis Bouteri

Breathing Together”: Conspiracies that Bind “US” by Dr Hayal Akarsu (Utrecht)
Charisma Building and The Politics of Enchantment under Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia by Ismail Numan Telci (Sakarya U)
How can we understand and theorise charismatic leaders’ ability to enchant followers, and form intimate bonding? By Zora Kostadinova (UCL)

Food and Drinks

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09:30-11:00 Panel 3: Imagining Prosperity: Revolutionary Aspirations in the “Non-revolutionary” Middle East
Discussant: tba

Chair: Dr. Ala’a Shehabi (UCL)

Protecting the Dead from the Dangers of the Present: Martyrs, Ethics and Resistance by Dr Deniz Yonucu (Newcastle U) (online)
Ethnographic Theory of Revolution: Understanding the Syrian Revolution beyond Failure and Success by Charlotte Al-Khalili (Sussex)
Arab Jacobins or Passive Revolutionaries? The Yemeni Revolutions in Historical Perspective by Raza Naeem (Independent)
Politics in Unusual Time: Redemptive Aspirations in Non-revolutionary Situation by Fatemeh Sadeghi (UCL)

11:15-12:45 Panel 4: Dramas and Imaginary Narratives of Prosperity
Discussant: tba

Chair: Dr. Nikolay Mintchev (UCL)

The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend: Revisit the Mamluk Dynasty in Post-2013 Pan-Arab Drama by Dr Yasmine Moataz (American University in Cairo) (online)
Staging the National Utopia: Militarism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Late Ottoman Children’s Performances by Dr Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay (Kadir Has U) (online)
News from the "World": Broadcasting Turkish Geopolitical Identity in the Emerging World Order by Dr Fulya Hisarlıoğlu and Prof Lerna Yanık (Kadir Has U) (online)

13:45-15:15 Panel 5: Imaginations as Politics of Enchantment
Discussant: Prof Homa Hoodfar (Concordia)

Chair: tba

Exiles of the oneiric: how disenchanted experiences of timespace ascended among Turkish Cypriots by Sergen Bahceci (LSE)
Ruins of Memory: Nostalgia and the Indo-Muslim Imagination in Intizar Husain's Fiction by Zehra Kazmi (U St Andrews)
Imagining Otherwise: Stateless Political Struggles & Worldmaking in Kuwait by Nour Almazidi (LSE)
Islamic-Hermeneutic Reflexivity and the Prophetic Hermeneutics: the Mutuality Nexus of Contemporary by Dr Abdul Rahim Afaki (U Karachi)

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