OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
9.30-9.45: Coffee and pastries
9.45-11.15:
Panel 8: Placing Religion in Protest and Social Movements
Chair: Alex Henley
Teije Hidde Donker: Jihadism and Governance in Northern Syria
Fiona McCallum: The Changing Nature of Coptic Protest in Egypt
Yasuyuki Matsunaga: A Processual Sociological Perspective on Sectarian Insurgency in Iran’s Two Border Areas
11.30-13.00:
Panel 9: Everyday Sectarianism in the Reimagination of Boundaries
Chair: Walter Armbrust
Şule Can: Vahed! Nihna u Suriyah Vahed!: Shifting Ethno-Religious Boundaries and Politicization at the Turkish-Syrian Border
Maria Kastrinou: From a Window in Jaramana: Sectarianism, Religion and the Impact of War on a Druze Neighbourhood in Syria
Fouad Marei: Theatres of Resistance: Shi‘i Ritual Practice as Politics and Performance
Gaétan du Roy: Everyday Religious Boundaries: Reassessing Religious Revivals from Shubra, Cairo
13.00-14.00: Lunch (provided for speakers)
14.00-15.30:
Panel 10: Reconciling State and Sub-State Identities in Contested National Spaces
Chair: Ahmed al-Shahi
Marina Calculli: Hezbollah’s Phoenicianism: From Threat to the Guardian of the ‘Lebanese Nation’
Hiroko Miyokawa: Coptic Historiography in Colonial Egypt: From the History of Patriarchs to the History of Coptic Nation
Dylan O’Driscoll: Iraq, Subnationalism and Militias
Michael Willis: Enemies, Allies or Competitors? Islamist-Amazigh Movement Relations in Morocco and Algeria
15.30-16.00: Coffee
