Venue
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Beit Al Hikma – The Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts
25, Avenue de la République – Carthage, Tunisie
Full Program
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THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2022
09:00-09:30 – Registration
09:30-10:00 – Opening session
Nejia Ouriemmi, Academician, Academy “Beit al-Hikma,” Carthage
Jonathan Laurence, Director, Reset US; Boston College
Mohammed Hashas, Scientific Coordinator, Reset DOC; Luiss University, Rome
Session 1 – Social Change and the Arab-Muslim Intelligentsia
10:00-11:30 – Panel 1
Mohamed Haddad, The social and the political in the Tunisian experience (In Arabic, Al-ijtima‘i wa-l-siyyasi fi al-tajriba al-tunusiyya)
Amel Grami, Academia and social change in the region: What is missing?
Wahid Abdelmeguid, Primitive thinking and the Arab social crisis (In Arabic, al-tafqir al-bida’i wal-azma al-ijtima‘iyya al-‘arabiyya)
Chair: Nejia Ouriemmi, University of Tunis al-Manar; “Beit al-Hikma”
11:30-11:45 – Coffee Break
11:45-13:15 – Panel 2
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, The intellectual challenges for keeping up with the social changes: the case of contemporary Arab political thought
Mohammed Hashas, For change in the Arab world: Three projects from Rabat School
Meysam Badamchi, The quest for reform in Islamic contexts: A comparative reflection on H. Hanafi and H. Yousefi Eshkevari
Chair: Jonathan Laurence, Boston College; Reset Dialogues US
13:15-14:30 – Lunch
Session II: Constitutionalism and Minorities in the Arab World
14:30-16:00 – Panel 3
Nejia Ouriemmi, The future of the minorities in the Arab world: What role for the concept of citizenship? (In Arabic, Mustaqbal al-aqalliyat fi al-‘alam al-‘arabi: ayyu dawr li-mafhum al-muwatana?)
Volker Kaul, Arab constitutionalism: Between freedom, identity and the truth
Georges Fahmi, Christian churches in the MENA and the Arab Spring (Online)
Chair: Mohammed Hashas, Luiss University; Reset DOC
16:00-16:30 – Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 – Panel 4
Lisa Anderson, On the social sciences in the Arab world (Online)
Mounir Saidani, Is (changing) sociology a social demand now?
Sari Hanafi, What does the ethical turn mean for the social sciences?
Chair: Volker Kaul, Luiss University; Reset DOC
FRIDAY, JULY 7, 2022
Session 3: Failed social change and and the rising challenges: sectarianism, migration, natural crises, and State reactions
09:00-10:45 – Panel 5
Joseph Bahout, Social change in Syria-Lebanon title tbc
Amel Boubekeur, Analyzing change in Algeria (Online)
Mohammed Masbah, The bureaucratization of “State Islam”: The case of Morocco
Sharan Grewal, US reactions to coups in Sudan, Tunisia, and Egypt
Chair: Sari Hanafi, American University of Beirut
10:45-11:00 – Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 – Panel 6
Stefano Allievi, Human mobility and plural societies: Migrations, cultural conflicts and social change
Renata Pepicelli, Environmental changes and challenges in the Arab world: The case of Tunisia
Jonathan Laurence, The role of the nation-state in religious life after ISIS and Covid-19
Chair: Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
12:30-13:15
Young Scholars Space – Presentations of Summer School Workshops.
13:15-14:30 Lunch
End of Carthage Seminars 2022.
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The Carthage Seminars are free and open to all.
Working languages: English and Arabic. A simultaneous translation will be provided.
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