Panels

• Session 1: Friday, 15 - 17

Session 1: Friday, 15 - 17

Panel 1: New Media today 

• Mona Abdel-Fadil (University of Oslo): “Islam Online Guides Spouses towards Better Communication – Do IOL English and IOL Arabic send the same message?”
• Nele Lenze (University of Oslo): “Popular Culture Online: Online distribution of literature in the Gulf” 
• Päivi Miettunen (University of Helsinki): “Mōsam, Mosque or MTV? - Religion, secularisation and modernization in South Jordan”
  
  Chair: Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen

Panel 2: Arabic and Kurdish literatures 

• Ludmila Torlakova (University of Bergen): “Modern Arabic Lexicography”
• Jalal Abd Alghani (Haifa University): “Ibn Ḥazm’s Ṭawq al-Ḥamāma and the Epistemology of Love”
• Alireza Korangy Isfahani (University of Virginia): “Linguistic nuances in Nationalistic Kurdish Folklore”
  
  Chair: Sylvia Akar

Session 2: Saturday, 10.15 - 12.15

Session 2: Saturday, 10.15 - 12.15

Panel 3: Minority situations

• Aziz Sardar (University College Cork Ireland): “Minority in the Middle East: the Kurds”
• Anh Nga Longva (University of Bergen): “From the dhimma to the capitulations: Experience and memory of protection among Christians in Lebanon”
• Fiona McCallum (St Andrews University): “Walking the Tightrope: Patriarchal Politics in Contemporary Lebanon”
• Erdem Güven (Istanbul University): “Changing lifestyle of Turkish Jews: Example of Kuzguncuk neighborhood”
• Lina Kassem (Qatar University): “Identity Transformations among Druze Diaspora Communities: Regional Political Constraints and the Development of Transglobal Connections”
  
  Chair: Anh Nga Longva

Panel 4: City, hinterland and connectivity in the pre-Islamic Near East

Organizers: Eivind Seland and Jørgen Christian Meyer

• Jørgen Christian Meyer (University of Bergen): “Palmyrena. Villages and forts north of Palmyra”
• Kristina Josephson Hesse (Uppsala University): “Migration Networks in Archaeological Explanatory Models of Cultural Dispersion”
• Torbjørn Preus Schou (University of Bergen): 
• Leonardo Gregoratti (Udine University): “Palmyra, City and Territory through the Epigraphic Sources”
• Eivind Heldaas Seland (University of Bergen): “Protection and the caravan trade of Palmyra”
  
  Chair: Eivind Seland

Roundtable 1: The Aesthetics of Muslim Devotion

Organizers: Nefissa Naguib and Ingvild Flaskerud. 

Participants: 

• Nefissa Naguib (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen) 
• Ingvild Flaskerud (University of Bergen)
• Catharina Raudvere (Copenhagen University) 
• Anne K. Bang (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen)
  
  Chair: Ingvild Flaskerud

Panel 5: Connectivity between religious collectivities in education

• Alhagi Manta Drammeh (Al-Maktoum Institute): “Methodological Approaches in Dealing with Islamic Core Sources: Educational Implications” 
• Issam Aburaya (Seton Hall University): “Islam, the Jewish State and the Clash of Civilizations in Israeli Public Discourse” 
• Elise Burton (University of Berkeley): “Evolution and Creationism in Middle Eastern Education: A Comparative Study of Iran and Israel”
• Panel discussion: “Religious education and pluralism in the Middle East: Can ‘religion’ be compatible with ‘pluralism’?”
  
  Organizer and Chair: Hossein Godazgar (Al-Maktoum Institute)

Panel 6: Adaptations in laws, norms and practices 

• Marianne Bøe (University of Bergen): “A tug of war between modernities: Contemporary perspectives on the practice of temporary marriage (sighe/mut'a) in Shia Islam”
• Eirik Hovden (University of Bergen): “Zaydi debates over the legality of the family waqf”
• Monika Lindbekk (University of Oslo): “Divorcing in Egypt”
• Knut S. Vikør (University of Bergen): “Issues of ijtihād in contemporary uṣūl studies”
• Liv Tønnessen (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen): “Post-Islamism in Sudan” 
  
  Chair: Rania Maktabi

Session 3: Saturday, 14.30 - 16.30

Session 3: Saturday, 14.30 - 16.30

Panel 7: Salafism(s) across time and space

• Mark Sedgwick (Aarhus University): “Salafism in History: Authority, Sociology, and the Pendulum Swing”
• Thomas Fibiger (Aarhus University): “Long Beards and Loyalty. The Place of Salafism in Bahrain”
• Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus University): “Examining the Jordanian Islamic Triangle from the Salafist Corner”
• Lene van der Aa Kühle (Aarhus University): “Salafism in Aarhus, Denmark” 
  
  Organizer and Chair: Morten Valbjørn
  
  

 Panel 8: Islam in contestation

• Lena Ambjörn (Lund University): “Materia medica in al-Mu‘alajat al-Buqratiyya, an Arabic medical encyclopedia from the 10th century”
• Stefanie Brinkmann (Leipzig University): “Wine culture in ḥadīth - ḥadīth as source for material culture”
• Stephen Burge (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London): “Popular Religion and the ʿUlamāʾ: The Case of Al-Suyūtī”
• Marco Demichelis (University of Genoa ): “Reason in Islam as Manifesto of Critical Exegisis”
  
  Chair: Marianne Bøe

Panel 9: Sufism and popular culture

• Kevork Bardakjian (University of Michigan): “Deciphering Kostandin Erznkatsi's "unusual" poem”
• Heidi Gomi (Senior Researcher): “Narrative/Metaphor Nexus in Sufism” 
• Arin Salamah Qudsi (Haifa University): “Keep the door half-open": Mother Images and Roles in Early Sufi Literature"
• Richard Johan Natvig (University of Bergen): “I Saw the Prophet in My Dream”: A Zār song from Kafr al-Sayyadin in Lower Egypt” 
  
  Chair: Catharina Raudvere

Roundtable 2: Conflict and Co-existence in Post-Civil War Lebanon

Participants: 

• Are Knudsen (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen)
• Michael Kerr (Kings College, London)
• Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut)
• Fabrice Balanche (GREMMO, Lyon)
• Nasser Yassin (American University of Beirut)
• Marie-Jöelle Zahar (Montreal University)
• Augustus R Norton (Boston University)
• Theodor Hanf (American University of Beirut)
• Sune Haugbølle (University Copenhagen)
  
  Organizer and Chairs: Are Knudsen (CMI) and Michael Kerr (Kings College, London)

Panel 10: Transnational Family Law

• Rania Maktabi (Østfold University College): “Gendered Citizenship in the Middle East: How to compare family law reform in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Syria?”
• Annika Rabo (Stockholm University): “‘The good family’ and ‘the good family law’. Transnational debates on law and morality in the Middle East and the Nordic Countries”
• Nisrine Mansour (London School of Economics): “National family frameworks, transnational jurisprudence, and women’s legal subjectivity in Lebanese Shi’a family law”
• Susanne Dahlgren (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies): “‘She brings up healthy children to the homeland.’ Morality Discourses in Yemeni Legal Debates”
  
  Chair: Knut S. Vikør

Session 4: Sunday 9 - 11

Panel 11: Migratory situations (part 1)

• Maruta Herding (University of Cambridge): “The conservative avant-garde: Islamic youth culture in contemporary Western Europe”
• Marianne Holm Pedersen (The Royal Library, Copenhagen): “Practising Islam: Ritual performance and belonging among Iraqi women in Copenhagen”
• Konrad Pedziwiatr (Tischner European University): “The Limits of Religious Individualisation of the Young European Muslims”
• Synnøve Bendixsen (Humboldt Universitet/EHESS): “Muslim Youth in Europe:"individualisation" and "secularisation"?”
  
  Chair: Christine Jacobsen

Panel 12: The Middle East In East/Southeast Africa – A Sea of Connectivities

Organizer: Anne K. Bang

• Anne K. Bang (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen): “Islands in the Middle Stream: The Comoro Islands as intermediate station for Islamic reform in Madagascar and Mozambique, c. 1880-1920. ”
• Jeremy Prestholdt (University of California): “From Zanzibar to Beirut: Cartographies of Globalism in an Age of Empire”
• Eugeniusz Rzewuski (University of Warsaw): “Kerimba Islands past and present connectivities with the wider Swahili and western Indian Ocean world.”
• Preben Kaarsholm (Roskilde University): “Indian Ocean linkages of Islam in KwaZulu-Natal”
  
  Chair: Seán O’Fahey

Roundtable 3: Teaching Arabic in the Nordic countries

Organizer: Sylvia Akar

Participants: 

• Sylvia Akar (Helsinki University)
• Elie Wardini (Stockholm University)
• Pernille Myrvold (University of Bergen)
• Tania Al Saadi (University of Stockholm)
• June Dahy (Copenhagen University) 
• Ulla Prien (Copenhagen University)
• Pernilla Myrne (Gothenburg University)
• Kristian Kolding (Royal Danish Defence College)
  
  Chair: Elie Wardini

Panel 13: The New Islamic Public Sphere Programme, University of Copenhagen

• Sune Haugbølle (Copenhagen University): “Outside In: Locating State Interests in Lebanese Media History”
• Rikke Haugbølle (Copenhagen University): “Long live the big family of the Tunisian media,”
• Ehab Galal (Copenhagen University): “The State and Arab Islamic Satellite Television: Friends or Foes, Allies or Contestants? ”
• Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (Copenhagen University): “Pan-Arab Islamic Media in Crisis”
• Daniella Kuzmanovic (Copenhagen University): “An Anthropology of the Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK)”
  
  Organizer and Chair: Sune Haugbølle

Panel 14: Challenges of international politics and economy

• Maysam Behravesh & Mohammad Reza Kianie (University of Tehran): “The Hidden Enemy Out There: Western Iranophobia and Iranian Westophobia”
• Steffen Wippel (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin): “Between Economic Diversification and Global Branding: Port and Tourism Development in Salalah (Sultanate of Oman)”
• Marianne Laanatza (Lund University): “The complicated relationship between the EU and the Arab Gulf states members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - Broken negotiations and disappointments”
• Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh (Catholic University of America): “Iran, Tehran's capital city: Social Schizophrenia and Urban Form”
  
  Chair: Anders Bjørkelo

Session 5: Sunday 13.15 - 15.30

Session 5: Sunday 13.15 - 15.30

Panel 15: Migratory situations (part 2)

• Christine M. Jacobsen (University of Bergen): “Gaza in Oslo. Social imaginaries in the political engagement of Norwegian minority youth”
• Goetz Nordbruch (University of Southern Denmark): “National identity and the question of culture among Arab students in interwar Europe”
• Minoo Alinia (Mid-Sweden university): “Violence Against Women in the Name of Honour: Borders, Identities, and Sexualities”
• Sylvaine Camelin (Université Paris Ouest, La Défense): “Family and migration: Women's role in the United Arab Emirates”
• Karin Ask (Chr. Michelsen institute, Bergen): “Local and transnational connectivity among internally displaced (IDPs) in Khyber Pakthunkwah, Pakistan”
  
  Chair: Synnøve Bendixen

Panel 16: Christians in the Middle East

• Karen Sanchez Summerer (Leiden University): “The impacts of the French Catholic Schools in the Middle East (1908-1950): The Palestinian case”
• Amy Rowe (University of Cambridge ): “The Maronite Census: Counting the Faithful in Diasporic Contexts”
• Luisa Gandolfo (Durham University): “Political Pulpits: Christian Evangelical Proselytism and Inter-Denominational Relations in the Contemporary Middle East”
  
  Chair: Gerd Marie Ådna

Panel 17: Palestine

• Janne Bjorheim Bøe (University of Bergen): “Female networks in times of war”
• Kjersti G. Berg (University of Bergen): “The politics of UNRWA camp and shelter construction”
• Jacob Høigilt (FAFO Institute, Oslo): “Islamism and education: The Palestinian Case”
• Hilde Kjøstvedt (Chr Michelsen Institute, Bergen): “Palestinian Women in Islamist Organisations” 
• Frode Løvlie (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen): “Party Change in Palestine: Explaining Hamas’s Electoral Strategy, 1996-2006” 
  
  Chair: Liv Tønnesen

Panel 18: Issues of history and connectivity

• Frej Stambouli (Tunis University): “Global Change and the Rise of Islam in North Africa”
• Dietrich Jung (University of Southern Denmark): “"Transforming Islam": Intellectual and social relationships among Orientalists and Islamic Reformers”
• Anders Bjørkelo (University of Bergen): “Sudanese trading towns in a regional perspective.”
• Laura Wickström (Åbo Akademi University): “Ecological Views and Climate Change in the Middle East”
  
  Chair: Mark Sedgwick

Panel 19: Migration, travel and diasporas

• Jacqueline Armijo (Qatar University): “International Networks of Islamic Learning: Seeking Truth unto China and Back”
• Zvi Bar'el (Sapir Academic College): “Clashes of Westernizations: From Tahtawi to Qardawi”
• Hande Sağlam (Institute of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology): “The Musical Identification of Turkish Diaspora in Vienna Ethnicity of Turkish Music: Perceiving the Others – Representing One’s Own”
• Tom Solomon (University of Bergen): “Turkish Hip-Hop in Motion”
  
  Chair: Richard J. Natvig