Rethinking Nationalism, Sectarianism and Ethno-Religious Mobilisation in the Middle East
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
Date: 28 January 2018, 9:00 (Sunday, 3rd week, Hilary 2018)
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Harold Lee Room
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Andreia Gomes Da Costa Leite