I am really looking forward to attending this workshop and thought I would share more details about it here for anyone interested:
Social and Political Change in the aftermath of the 2005 Hariri Assassination: Implications for Everyday Life in Lebanon
May 20, 2011 – 10.30am – 6.30pm
Fellows’ Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, 62 Woodstock Road, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
10.30am – 10.45am: Registration/coffee
10.45am – 11.00am: Introductions and Welcome Remarks
George Asseily, Centre for Lebanese Studies
Luc Borot, Maison Francaise d’Oxford
11.00am – 1.00pm: Lebanese Political Parties and the Politics of Sectarianism
Bernard Rougier, Syria and Sunni Lebanon After 2005: Stakes and Levers
Aurelie Daher, Hezbollah as a Political Actor since Rafic Hariri’s Assassination
Joseph Bahout, Istiqlâl after ihbât? Christian New-Old Dilemmas
1.00pm – 2.30pm: Lunch Break
2.30pm – 4.45pm: Lebanon’s Public Life and Institutions: Reflections on Politics in Society
Sami Hermez, Living Everyday in Anticipation of Violence in Lebanon
Heiko Wimmen, Civic Activism and Non-Sectarian Citizenship: Lebanon 1996-2011
Muzna Al-Masri, Hariri and the Patronage of Nejmeh Football Club: Changing the Players or the Game?
Michelle Obeid, Discussant
5.00pm – 6.30pm: Keynote Speaker
Theodor Hanf, University of Freiburg & American Uni. Of Beirut, “How Resilient is Lebanese Communalism?” (will be held at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road)
Sponsors: Centre for Lebanese Studies; Middle East Centre; Maison Francaise d’Oxford, Oxford-Sciences Po Research Group
For more information: Contact Sami Hermez at sami.hermez@sant.ox.ac.uk or Aurelie Daher at aurelie.daher@politics.ox.ac.uk
