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Workshop on Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan and the Near East Living, Planning and Managing a Lasting Temporariness
Monday, March 7th, 2011, 9.15am-5.45pm At the British Institute (CBRL), Tla' Al-Ali, Amman
Organized by the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) and the French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo)
With the support of the French Embassy (Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle) Program:
Opening Official opening
Opening by CBRL Dr. Carol Palmer (Director of the British
Institute, Amman)
Opening by Ifpo Dr. Elisabeth Longuenesse (Head of
Contemporary Studies Department) General introduction to the workshop Luigi Achilli (PhD candidate, School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London and PhD associate, Ifpo, Amman) and
Lucas Oesch (PhD candidate, Institut de hautes études internationales et du
développement (IHEID), Geneva and PhD associate, Ifpo, Amman and Damascus) 9.15
“Mapping Palestine and Palestinian refugees social disparities in Jordan”
Dr. Myriam Ababsa (Associate researcher, Ifpo, Amman)
10.00 Coffee Break
Panel 1: Living a 'lasting temporariness': social practices and politics of daily life
Introduction Luigi Achilli
“Palestinian refugees' relationship to space and political evolution in post-war Lebanon (1990 to present)” (Lebanon)
Hala Abou-Zaki (PhD candidate, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and scholarship holder of IRD, CEMAM) 10.20
“Transformation of Palestinian tribal identity into a spatial identity: Irbid refugee camp as a case study”
(Jordan)
Wael AlKhatib (MA candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid) and
Mahmoud Naamneh (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid)
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“The right of return organisations in the Yarmouk camp: new form of mobilization for the national cause or a masked form of political factions?”
(Syria)
Valentina Napolitano (PhD candidate, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
(EHESS), Paris and scholarship holder, Ifpo, Damascus)
“Community based rehabilitation in Jordan:
Challenges to achieving occupational justice”
(Jordan)
Rawan AlHeresh (MSc., Lecturer, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Jordan, Amman)
Dr. Jalal Husseini (Associate researcher, Ifpo, Amman)
Comments
Oraïb Rantawi (Director, Al-Quds Center for Political Studies, Amman)
Discussions and questions 13.00 Lunch
Panel 2: The governance and planning of ‘temporary’ spaces
Introduction Lucas Oesch
“Humanitarian governance and the establishment of the emergency camps in Jordan 1967–1970”
(Jordan)
Kjersti G. Berg (PhD Fellow, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen)
“Toward more durable planning ‘pending just resolution’: The permanent temporariness of Jordan’s Palestinian question” (Jordan)
Greta Byrum (MUP 2011, GSAPP, Columbia University, New York)
“Fight for temporariness: Power relations in the management of the refugee camp of Dheisha”
(West Bank)
Anita De Donato (MA candidate, Faculty of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca)
“Improving camp public space: Opportunities and challenges from Talbiyeh” (Jordan)
Dr. Fatima Nammari (Camp Improvement Projects' Manager, Jordan-Field, UNRWA) 14.15
“Bypassing an exclusionary law: How Palestinian refugees in Lebanon forge their space in the city”
(Lebanon)
Rana Hassan (MUPP, Department of Architecture and Design, American University of Beirut (AUB)) 16.00 Coffee Break
Dr. Aude Signoles (Researcher and Lecturer, Political Science Department, University of Galatasaray, Istanbul)
Comments
Dr. Daniel Meier (Senior researcher of the Swiss National Fund (FNS))
16.20
Discussions and questions
17.40 Concluding remarks and ending 17.45
- For more information or if you wish to attend, please register at: [email protected] or [email protected]
- Presentations and discussions will be in English
3 - The organizational committee would like to thank warmly: the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), and particularly the British Institute and her Director, Dr. Carol Palmer; the Contemporary Studies Department of the French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo) and her Director, Dr. Elisabeth Longuenesse; the Ifpo Amman and his Director, Dr. Jacques Seigne, as well as Brigitte Mermoud, Carmen Elias, Mohammad Khalaf and the entire administration staff for their important help; and finally, the scientific committee, Dr.
Jalal Al-Husseini, Prof. Riccardo Bocco, Dr. Elisabeth Longuenesse, Dr. Carol Palmer and Dr. Cyril Roussel. The organizers would also like to thank greatly Mr. Alain Aumis and the Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle of the French Embassy for their essential support.
- Organizational committee: Luigi Achilli (SOAS, London and Ifpo, Amman)
Lucas Oesch (IHEID, Geneva and Ifpo, Amman and Damascus) - Scientific committee: Dr. Jalal Al-Husseini (Ifpo, Amman)
Prof. Riccardo Bocco (IHEID, Geneva) Dr. Elisabeth Longuenesse (Ifpo, Beirut) Dr. Carol Palmer (CBRL, Amman) Dr. Cyril Roussel (Ifpo, Amman)
- Websites: CBRL: http://www.bi-amman.org.uk (+962 (0)6 534 1317) Ifpo: http://www.ifporient.org (+962 (0)6 464 0515)
- Location map of the British Institute (CBRL), 102 Uhod Street, Tla' Al-Ali:
