Programme:

9-13:00 Morning programme (location: PCH)

9-9:30 Coffee and short welcome (Farid Boussaid & Maaike Voorhoeve) 

9:30-11:00 Panels I and II (parallel panels)

Panel I (PCH 1.04) 
History without archives (organiser: Amir Taha) 
Esther Schoorel, For Your Sake We Continue: Memory and Mobilization in the Aftermath of the 2019 Lebanese Uprising 
Misagh Javadpour, Selective Amnesia and Collective Memory; Constructing Acts of Violence During the Iranian Revolution of 1979
Amir Taha, Iraqi nationalism and the memory of the 1991 uprising
Discussant: Chiara de Cesari  

Panel II (PCH 1.05) 
Exploring gender, activism and Islam:  Iran, the Gulf, and the French digital world (Organisers: Annelies Moors and Sarah Bracke) 
Ladan Rahbari (Sociology, University of Amsterdam) -  The “Woman, Life, Freedom” Uprising in Iran: Women’s Activism and the Shifting Grounds of Religion
Lana Sirri (Sociology, University of Amsterdam) - Academic-Activism-Is That A Thing? Notes and Reflections from the GCC 
Sarah Bracke (Sociology, University of Amsterdam) - Re-Visualize: Gender and Islam in the French-speaking Digital World 
Chair and comments: Annelies Moors (anthropology, University of Amsterdam and NIAS) 

11-11:15 coffee break 

11:15-12:45 Panel III

Panel III (PCH 1.04) 
Artistic expressions as sites for examining the political (organiser: Lisa Schouten) 
Judith Naeff, The politics and poetics of family histories on the Arab left 
Faisal Hamadah, Liberation in the Context of Ecological Degradation  
Lisa Schouten, “Guilty until proven innocent”: contesting power(s) through Egyptian Mahraganat 
Chair: Veronika Zangl, University of Amsterdam

13-13:45 Lunch (canteen PCH)  

14:00 – 17:45 Afternoon Programme (location: OMHP) 

 14:00-15:30 Film & discussion (OMHP D 1.09) 
Boycott (Julia Bacha, Just Vision, 2021, 70 min.) 
Introduction: Anne de Jong 

 15:30-15:45 coffee break 

 15:45-17:45 Panels IV & V (parallel panels)

Panel IV (OMHP C2.17) 
Current Empirical Studies on Islam and Muslims in the Netherlands: Three research projects  
(organizer Gerard Wiegers)
Amine Oulad Lmaroudia, Primers, Preachers and Perception: Ibn ʿĀshir and the Transmission of Religious Didactical Texts 
George Muishout, Muslims and Palliative Decision Making 
Rafik Dahman, Islamic law concerning inter-religious coexistence; between formal legal authority and lived practice 
Chair: Gerard Wiegers 

Panel V (OMHP C1.23)
Researching and Teaching Entanglements: the Middle East in Europe- and Europe in the Middle East (organiser: Anne de Jong) 
Michelle Pace and Jan Völkel – Book presentation Knowledge production in higher education: Between Europe and the Middle East 
Dimitris Bouris – Book presentation Routledge Handbook of EU-Middle East Relations: Entanglements in EU–Middle East relations 
Virginie Mamadouh – In the Shadow of the European Neighbourhood: Political geographies of EU–Middle East relations 
Anne de Jong – Teaching the enlightened student: Political polarisation and the ongoing quest for critical thinking