The Politics of Suffering: A Comparative Perspective on Colonialism, Nationalism and Religious Claims
April 10 -‐ 11, 2014 Workshop Conveners: Nadera Shalhoub-‐Kevorkian and Nadim N. Rouhana
Thursday, April 10, 2014 — Ambassador Hotel, East Jerusalem
9:15 – 9:45am 9: 45 – 10:00am 10:00 – 11:30am
Coffee and Welcoming Gathering Introduction to the Project Nadim N. Rouhana (Tufts University) Session I -‐ Chair: Salim Tamari (Birzeit University, Palestine)
Rosemary Sayigh (American University of Beirut) Narratives of bodily and psychological suffering
11:30am – 12:00pm 12:00 – 1:30pm
Nadera Shalhoub-‐Kevorkian (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Mada al-‐Carmel – Haifa) Criminalizing Pain, and the Political Work of Suffering: The Case of Palestinian "infiltrators" Break Session II -‐ Chair: Esmail Nashif (Ben-‐Gurion University)
Suvendrini Perera (Curtin University, Australia) Accounting for Disposable Lives: Visibility, Suffering and Shame in a Necro-‐ Geopolitical Order
Daphna Golan (Hebrew University) Denial on the Israeli Campus 1:30 – 3:00pm 3:00 – 4:30pm
Lunch Session III -‐ Chair: Daphna Golan (Hebrew University)
Lena Meari (Birzeit University, Palestine) “Sumud” Versus “Trauma”
4:00 – 4:30pm 4:30 – 7:00pm 7:00pm
Abdel Aziz Mousa Thabet (Al Quds University) and Sana Sabah Thabet (Child and Family Training and Counseling Center, Gaza) Trauma due to 8 days war, PTSD, anxiety, and resilience in Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip
Break
Touring Occupied Jerusalem
Dinner Al Nafoura Restaurant, Old City Jerusalem
Friday, April 11, 2014 — Ambassador Hotel, East Jerusalem 8:00 – 9:00am 9:00 – 11:00am
Continental Breakfast
Session IV -‐ Chair: Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie University, Australia)
Magid Shihade (Birzeit University, Palestine) Zionism as a Structural Rupture to the Palestinians and the Regions surrounding it
Rema Hammami (Birzeit University, Palestine) On (not) Suffering at the Checkpoint: Narrative Strategies of Survival in a Carceral Geography
Dino Abazović (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) 11:00 – 11:30am 11:30am – 1:00pm
Break Session V -‐ Chair: Rema Hammami (Birzeit University, Palestine) Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie University, Australia) Occupied Zones and Multi-‐Dimensional Matrices of Suffering
Nada Sekulić (University of Belgrade, Serbia) The economy of the pain in the modern theories and doctrines of war 1:00 – 2:30pm 2:30 – 4:30pm
Lunch Break
Session VI -‐ Chair: Nadim N. Rouhana (Tufts University)
Manuela Consonni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Knowledge and pain, and the nexus between identity and life
Urvashi Butalia (Director, Zubaan, India) "Histories of violation and political conflict in India"
Esmail Nashif (Ben-‐Gurion University of the Negev) The Death Excess: Revisiting the Arab Now through Al-‐Nakbah
4:30 – 5:00pm
Closing session Nadera Shalhoub-‐Kevorkian (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Mada al-‐Carmel – Haifa) and Nadim N. Rouhana (Tufts University)
7:00pm
Farewell Dinner Cheese and Wine Restaurant, The New Gate, Notre Dame, Jerusalem