[ecrea] PARGC 2014 Symposium - The Revolutionary Public Sphere: Contention, Communication and Culture in the Arab Uprisings

The Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication



is proud to present



the Inaugural PARGC Symposium



The Revolutionary Public Sphere

Contention, Communication and Culture in the Arab Uprisings



Thursday, April 10, 2014

Annenberg School for Communication



View full program here: http://bit.ly/1dY4J9L



The popular rebellions that have swept Arab countries since December 
2010 have spawned an active field of insurrectionary cultural 
production. Scholars from around the world will gather at the Annenberg 
School for PARGC’s inaugural symposium. Putting primary sources in 
dialogue with theory, we seek to understand aesthetic experimentation 
and stylistic innovation in this revolutionary public sphere. Together, 
we will strive to shed light on the ways in which various revolutionary 
and counter-revolutionary activists and regimes have attracted, upheld, 
and directed popular attention to themselves and to their opponents. Our 
exploration of contention, communication and culture in the Arab 
uprisings will yield conceptual tools to understand revolutionary public 
spheres at large.



Speakers & Topics:



Yakein Abdelmagid (Duke University): Independent music production in Cairo



Omar Al-Ghazzi (University of Pennsylvania): The symbol of Omar 
al-Mukhtar in the Libyan uprising



Anahi Alviso-Marino (Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Contentious 
politics and street art in Yemen



Walter Armbrust (University of Oxford): Egypt’s June 30th rebellion as 
social drama



Donatella Della Ratta (University of Pennsylvania): Syrian internet 
memes and the politics of cultural (re)production



Tarek El-Ariss (University of Texas, Austin): Literary writing and 
violence in the Arab Spring



Nouri Gana (University of California, Los Angeles): Rap music in the 
Tunisian revolution



Nour Halabi (University of Pennsylvania): Hezbollah logos and 
carnivalesque humor in revolutionary times



Adel Iskandar (Georgetown University): The politics of memes in 
revolutionary Egypt



Marc Owen Jones (University of Durham): Satire and social media in the 
Bahrain uprising



Amal Khalaf (Serpentine Galleries): The Pearl Roundabout and public 
space in Bahrain



Shayna Silverstein (University of Pennsylvania): Syrian revolutionary 
music and the politics of memory



Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (University of Copenhagen): Revolutionary and 
Islamic content in Ramadan musalsalat (long TV drama)



Leila Tayeb (Northwestern University): Utopian impulses in Libyan 
revolutionary performances



Edward Ziter (New York University): The anecdotal in Syrian oppositional 
theatre





Contact:

Marina Krikorian

Project Coordinator

Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication

The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

(mkrikorian /at/ asc.upenn.edu)







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