WEDNESDAY April 1, 2009 |
5:00 –6:00 pm |
Registration Connelly Center main lounge |
6:00 - 9:00 |
Opening of the Conference by Fr. Peter Donohue, President of Villanova University
followed by the screening of Cannes Award winning film: Caramel with the director,
Nadine Labaki present, introduced by Nasser Chour
Connelly Cinema |
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm |
Reception: hosted by Silvia Nagy-Zekmi,
Director and Nasser Chour, Associate Director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies
Connelly Center President’s lounge |
THURSDAY April 2, 2009 |
|
St. David's Room |
Haverford Room
|
Bryn Mawr Room |
8:30 – 9:00 |
Registration, light breakfast Connelly Center Main lounge |
9:00 - 10:30 |
Panel 1/A
Media: Reflections and Representations |
Panel 1/B
Roots of Arab Philosophy |
Panel 1/C
Approaches to Terrorism |
10:30 - 10:45 |
Coffee break: Refreshments. Main lounge |
10:45 – 12:15 |
Panel 2/A
Roundtable: Law in the Arab World: Religious and Secular |
Panel 2/B
Islamic Law and Legal Procedures |
DEVON ROOM
Panel 2/C
Workshop on Arab calligraphy |
12:15 – 2:00 pm |
Lunch with Saad Eddin Ibrahim introduced by Hasan Shahpari
Villanova Room |
2:00 – 3:30 |
Panel 3/A
Qur’an and the Gender Jihad |
Panel 3/B
Natural Resources in the Middle East |
Panel 3/C
Justice, Human Rights and Democratization in the Maghreb |
4:00 – 5:30 pm |
Meet the Authors
Susan Abulhawa, Habib Tengour, Eric Sellin
read their work
Moderated by Pierre Joris. Falvey Library |
5:30 – 7:00 |
Reception, book signing, book exhibit, photo exhibit.
Hosted by Joseph Lucia, Director of Falvey Library Falvey Library |
7:30 – 9:00 pm |
My Name is Rachel Corrie Compiled by Katherine Viner and Alan Rickman
A play based on the diaries of Rachel Corrie, directed by Sean O’Donnell, actress: Courtney
Day Nassar. Connelly Cinema |
FRIDAY April 3, 2009 |
|
St. David's Room |
Haverford Room
|
Bryn Mawr Room
|
8:30 – 9:00 |
Registration / light breakfast Connelly Center main lounge |
9:00 - 10:30 |
Panel 4/A
Tribute to Mahmoud Darwish |
Panel 4/B
Islam-based Self Representation and Political Movements |
Panel 4/C
Economic Foundations of Islam |
10:30 - 10:45 |
Coffee break |
10:45 - 12:15 |
Panel 5/A
Workshop on Iraqi refugees |
Panel 5/B
Culture and Politics in the Context of the War on Terror |
Panel 5/C
Al Andalous |
12:15 – 2:00 pm |
Lunch with James Zogby – introduced
by Marwan Kreidie
Villanova Room |
2:00 - 3:30 |
Panel 6/A
Roundtable: U.S. Promoting Democracy in the Middle East: Smart Strategy or Naïveté? |
Panel 6/B
Conflict, Resistance and Democratization |
Panel 6/C
Approaches to Postcolonial Writing |
3:30-3:45 |
Coffee break |
3:45 – 5:15 |
Panel 7/A
New Literary Consciousness: Studies in Exile
(dedicated to the memory of A. Khatibi) |
Panel 7/B
The Abrahamic Other |
|
5:30 – 7:00 |
Keynote address: Juan R. I. Cole
Fr. Kail Ellis, OSA Dean of Arts and Sciences introduces the speaker.
Connelly Cinema |
7:00 – 10:00 |
Banquet, hosted by John Johannes, Vice-President for Academic Affairs
Tribute to Hafeez Malik, founding member of the Villanova Center for Arab and Islamic Studies by Fr. Kail Ellis, OSA,
Dean of Arts and Sciences and Robert Langran, Chair of the Dept. of Political Science. Villanova Room |
SATURDAY April 4, 2009 |
|
St. David's Room |
Haverford Room
|
Bryn Mawr Room |
8:30 – 9:00 |
Registration / light breakfast Connelly main lounge |
9:00 - 10:30 |
Panel 8/A
Academe and Arab and Islamic Studies |
Panel 8/B
Mathematics in the Islamic World |
Panel 8/C
Diasporic Identities |
10:30 - 10:45 |
Coffee Break |
10:45 - 12:15 |
Panel 9/A
Perspectives on Muslim Women |
Panel 9/B
Contemporary Arab Literature |
Panel 9/C
The Ottoman Empire |
12:15 – 2:00 |
Lunch: Dougherty Hall Cafeteria ($5
with conference coupon) |
2:00 – 3:30 |
Panel 10/A
A Clash of What? Western Notions of the East |
Panel 10/B
Teaching Arab and Islamic Studies |
Panel 10/C
Many Faces of Islam:
Shi’a and Sufi |
| 3:30-3:45 |
Coffee break |
3:45 – 5:15 |
Panel 11/A
Palestinian Identity at Home and Abroad |
Panel 11/B
Diversity in Islamic Tradition |
Panel 11/C
Texts and Contexts in Arab Literature |
| 4:00 – 6:00 |
Women Take the Camera in the Middle East
One on one with leading music video producer, Mayada al-Hiraki and
award-winning film director, Nadine Labaki
Connelly Cinema |
April 2-4
continuous |
Continuous Film Screening of video clips, documentaries
and feature films.
Connelly Cinema |
