ةرئاد مولعلا
ةيعامتاجلا ةيكولسلاو
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Contestations, Emotions! : Social and artistic expressions in the Public Space.
A theoretical and practical perspective from the ground.
Birzeit University 18 &19 February 2014.
Coordinaters for the Program SOCMED (CNRS-IRD): Sylvaine Bulle (CRESPPA, Paris 8), Nicolas Puig (URMIS).
The Organizing Committee: Abaher Elsakka, Ala Alazzeh, Moslih Kanaaneh, Fardous Salameh (Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Birzeit University)
Monday 18 February 2014 - Birzeit University. Institute of Law. Room 243
9:00
Welcoming address and thanks 9:.15 - 12:00
Session 1: Contestation and performance in the public spaces: which kind of critic, which kind of experimentation of social contestation?
Chair Session: Lisa Taraki (Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Birzeit University).
- Sylvaine Bulle (CRESPPA, Université de Paris VIII). Introduction to the session. Is the ordinary critic a radical critique ?
- Rania Jawad (Department of English Language and Literature, Birzeit University). Stage and Spectatorship in Palestine. The case of Bi’lin (Palestine).
- Pelin Tan (Architecture Faculty of Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey). Urban Communing in Conflict. The case of Turkish contestation.
- Wesam Rafidi (Department of Social Sciences, Bethlehem University).The Nature of the relationship between the political Egyptians revolutionary song and the masses movements in Tahrir square.0
- Questions and debate Break
14:00 - 16:00
Session 2: Ordinary cultures, intimacy and gestures as social and critical expressions. The construction of
some musical and corporal languages (Lebanon, Palestine and Mediterranean bank).
Chair Session: Majdi Al-Malki (Social and Behavioral Sciences, Birzeit University)
- Nicolas Puig (URMIS-IRD). Critical Sounds from the Periphery. Palestinian Electro-rap in Lebanon.
- Farah Saleh (Dancer and Choreographer). On art production as a form of daily protest, - Rana Bishara (painter, graphic artist, and performing artist). Installation artist,
- Moslih Kanaaneh (Social and Behavioral Sciences, Birzeit University). The National Identity of Contemporary Music in the Palestinian Society.
- Gilles Suzanne (Université d’Aix-Marseille, III), Events in Mediterranean Bank.
- Questions and debate
17:00 - 19:00
Performance, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center- Ramallah.
Tuesday 19 February 2014 - Birzeit University. Insitute of Law. Room 243
09:00 - 12.00
Session 3: Streets politics. The role of the art in the cognitive and didactic knowledge on the public domain.
Chair Session: Sylvaine Bulle,( CRESPPA, Université de Paris VIII).
- Abaher El Sakka (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Birzeit University, Approaches on the Palestinian public space
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- Yasid Anani (Department of Architecture. Birzeit University). Schizophrenia, the Urban Experience and Temporal Art Interventions.
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Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh (Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Birzeit University),Re-membered Memories. Place Names in the Palestinian Visual Imagination.- Esmail Nashif ( Palestinian anthropologist and writer).Rules of Creation: The Institutionalization of the Palestinian Plastic Art field,
-Questions and debate
12.00 - 12.30
A theoretical perspective from the seminar.
- Christophe Traïni Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence). Sensitizing devices: Between esthetic and contestation.
Break
14:00 - 15:00
Special Round table. Experimentation in /vis Academic ?
Chair Session: Ala Alazzeh (Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Birzeit University).
With
- Asma Ghanem and Stormtrap Asifeh, Artists, - Rula Khoury, Art Director, Sakakini Center, - Hafez Omar,Visual Artist,
- Reem Shielh, Artist - Palestinians activists
