| Panel 6: Beyond Egypt: Facebook Revolution? Social Media as Orientalist Mediation |
Miriyam Aouragh examines the useful and useless roles of the internet in the Arab revolutions by critically revisiting mainstream narratives on its role. |
Miriyam Aouragh |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 6: Beyond Egypt: Fear of Tahrir: Turkish Perspectives on the Egyptian Revolution |
Kerem Öktem presents a critical reading of Turkish public debates and the policies of the ruling party in Turkey on the Egyptian revolution. |
Kerem Öktem |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 6: Beyond Egypt: Contesting Democracy: Discursive Patterns Before and After the Egyptian Uprising |
Andrea Teti critiques European discourses on democracy promotion in Egypt and their alienation of Egyptian pro-democracy opposition groups. |
Andrea Teti |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 6: Beyond Egypt: Revolutionary Egypt's Relations with Surrounding States: Internal Transformation, External Realignment and Regional Security |
Fred Lawson examines the reconfiguration of Egyptian foreign policy since the revolution, particularly with respect to relations with Iran and Ethiopia. |
Fred Lawson |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 5: Competing Visions of Tahrir: Trickster: Taufiq 'Ukasha, the Perpetuation of Liminal Crisis, and the Shaping of Counter-revolutionary Discourse |
Walter Armbrust examines the 'counter-revolution' through the lens of television talk show host Taufiq 'Ukasha, a 'trickster' prone to generating perverted forms of social knowledge. |
Walter Armbrust |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 5: Competing Visions of Tahrir: In Search of Antistructure: The Meaning of Tahrir Square in Egypt's Ongoing Social Drama |
Mark Peterson examines meaning construction and the 'iterations' of Tahrir Square gatherings in the unfolding experience of the ongoing revolution. |
Mark Peterson |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 5: Competing Visions of Tahrir: Contesting Visions and Public Spaces in Cairo |
Aya Nassar examines the imagery and negotiation of place membership unfolding in public spaces such as Tahrir Square. |
Aya Nasar |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 4: Old State, New Rules: From War of Manoeuvre to War of Position |
Nicola Pratt discusses the competing wars of position being waged against the hegemonic system of authoritarianism in post-Mubarak Egypt, focusing on the realm of gender. |
Nicola Pratt |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 4: Old State, New Rules: Praetorian Parliamentarism: The Contradictions of Egypt's Post-revolutionary Experiment |
Alexander Kazamias conceptualises the Egyptian revolution as an incomplete process of socio-political transformation, having so far only partially changed the postcolonial Egyptian state. |
Alexander Kazamias |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 4: Old State, New Rules: New Logics of Popular Sovereignty and Subaltern Alternatives to the Egyptian 'Baltagi State' |
Paul Amar discusses subaltern forms of sovereignty and autonomous organisation that have been emerging in Egypt since the January uprising. |
Paul Amar |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Special Session: The Revolution Continues: A Conversation part 3 |
Marwa Sharafeldin of Oxford University and Musawah describes her experience as a women's activist and the position of women in the Egyptian revolution through a series of slides. |
Marwa Sharafeldin |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Special Session: The Revolution Continues: A Conversation part 2 |
Amr Salah, member of the Executive Board of the Revolutionary Youth Coalition, describes his role in the Coalition since 2011 and in the anti-Mubarak movement's organisations before the revolution. |
Amr Salah |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Special Session: The Revolution Continues: A Conversation |
Heba Raouf Ezzat of Cairo University reflects on the past year and the search for scholarly concepts with explanatory value in new political and social contexts. |
Heba Raouf Ezzat |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 3: The Language of Revolution: University on the Square Documentation Project: A glimpse into the Economic and Business History Research Center's Contribution |
Randa Kaldas of the American University in Cairo discusses the unfolding oral history project on the Egyptian revolution based at the American University in Cairo. |
Randa Kaldas |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 3 | The Language of Revolution: Poetry as Archive: Egypt's Revolution and Archival Poetics |
Tahia Abdel Nasser of the American University in Cairo analyses Egyptian poetry from the 2011 revolution and its role as archive and political site. |
Tahia Abdel Nasser |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 3: The Language of Revolution: Narrating the Egyptian Revolution through Jokes: Is it Still a Laughing Revolution? |
Hebatallah Salem of the American University in Cairo explains the role of political jokes and satire during the past year in Egypt. |
Hebatallah Salem |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 2 | Movements and Mobilisation: Unusual Suspects: "Ultra's" as Political Actors in the Revolution |
Robbert Woltering of the University of Amsterdam examines Egyptian football supporters, the 'ultras', as political actors in the Egyptian context. |
Robbert Woltering |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 2 | Movements and Mobilisation: Managing the Transition in the Arab Spring: A Comparative Perspective |
Mustapha al-Sayyid of Cairo University compares different cases in the Arab uprisings of 2011. |
Mustapha al-Sayyid |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 2 | Movements and Mobilisation Horizontalism on the Nile: what does it mean to say that the Egyptian uprising of 2011 was leaderless/or leaderful? And does it matter? |
John Chalcraft of the London School of Economics examines horizontalist mobilisation and questions of ideological programme in the Egyptian revolution of 2011. |
John Chalcraft |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 1 | Preludes and Explanations Re-scaling Egypt's Political Economy: Neoliberalism and the Transformation of the Regional Space |
Adam Hanieh of the School of Oriental and African Studies considers the connection between international and regional patterns in Egypt's neoliberal order under Mubarak. |
Adam Hanieh |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 1 | Preludes and Explanations What Did Mubarak Actually Do?: The Causes of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution according to Egyptian Intellectuals |
Amr Osman of the Gulf University of Science and Technology looks at the debate and consensus among Egyptian intellectuals critical of the rule of Hosni Mubarak. |
Amr Osman |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Panel 1 | Preludes and Explanations: The Egyptian Labour Movement and the Politics of Visibility |
Marie Duboc of the American University in Cairo looks at the Egyptian labour movement in the years preceding the Egyptian revolution. |
Marie Duboc |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Opening Remarks: Examining a Revolution in Progress |
Reem Abou-El-Fadl, conference convener from the University of Oxford, explains the conference rationale and aims in examining the revolution 'in progress'. |
Reem Abou-El-Fadl |
25 May, 2012 |
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| Welcome Speech |
Stephen Whitefield, Head of Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations, introduces the conference in the context of the Department's existing research. |
Stephen Whitefield |
25 May, 2012 |
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