Political Economy of the Middle East Continuities & Discontinuities in Teaching & Research

6 November 2015 @ 3:00pm
Merten Hall 1202
George Mason University

Sponsored by the Arab Studies Institute, Political Economy Project, George Mason University's Middle East and Islamic Studies, AVACGIS, SPGIA, and Global Programs
 
Pizza and Refreshments Served
 


Schedule
 
Panel 1: Field Research  : :  3 pm
​Melisande Genat, Stanford University
From Agrarian Experiments in the Context of Socialist "Villagization" to Popular Displacements: Iraqi Kurdish Collective Towns During the Seventies
 
Max Ajl, Cornell University
Event and Conjuncture : Braudel, Political Economy, and the Tunisian Uprising
 
Panel 2: Teaching the Middle East   : :   4:30 pm
 
Omar Dahi, Hampshire College
Against the Grain: 
Syrian Refugees and the Political Economy of Survival
 
Shana Marshall, George Washington University
Do not go quietly: Human agency, contingency, and the push to formulate a structural explanation of the Arab Spring
 
Ziad Abu-Rish, Ohio University
Revisiting the Merchant Republic: 
Lebanon in Comparative Perspective
 
Samer Abboud, Arcadia University
The World Bank, the Arab Uprisings, and the Poverty of Neoliberal Repetition
 
Bassam Haddad, George Mason University
Incorporating Class and Capital in Teaching the Middle East: 
The Case of Syria, Then and Now

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