SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
Monday 9 September
9.0-9.30: Coffee and registration
9.30-9.45: Introduction to the symposium – Noor al-Qasimi and William Gallois (both Exeter)
9.45-11.0: Theorising the Gulf (Chair Noor al-Qasimi)
Attiya Ahmad (George Washington University) – Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Kuwait
Erin Kilbride (independent researcher) – The Biopolitics of Human Rights Claims in Bahrain
11.0-11.30: Tea and Coffee
11.30-1.0: Revolutionary Rhetoric and Temporality (Chair: William Gallois)
Ala’a Shehabi (bahrainwatch.org) “Sumood o Muqawama”: Bahrain’s Resistance Movement
Abdulnabi Al-Ekry (Bahraini Transparency Society) Modernity, Postmodernity in the GCC
Marwa Maziad (University of Washington) Qatar: A Nation Living in the Future
1.0-1.45: Lunch
1.45 – 3.15: The Revolution may be Livestreamed (Chair: Kevin Gray, American University of Sharjah)
Xenia Gleissner (Exeter) – UAE Film-makers and media
Dwaa Osman and Nadia Talpur (both Georgetown, Qatar) – Emerging Young Filmmakers in the GCC
3.15-3.45: Tea and coffee
3.45-5.0: The Potential of Transgressive Politics and Cultures of Fear (Chair: Marc Valeri, Exeter)
Yoel Guzansky (Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv)The GCC and the Muslim
Brotherhood
Christopher Davidson (Durham)on The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies
5.0-5.45: Laure Assaf (Paris Ouest Nanterre), Narratives of Love, Relationships and Marriage
Amongst UAE Youth
7.30 Dinner
Tuesday 10 September
9.0-9.15: Coffee and tea
9.15-10.30: Territorialisations/Reterritorialisations (Chair: William Gallois)
Noor al-Qasimi (Exeter) Generations of Slow Death: The Necropolitical Management of Emirati
Queers
Tim Niblock (Exeter) Repositioning the Gulf in Asia
10.30-11.0: Tea and coffee
11.0-12.15: Migrants (Chair: Marc Valeri, Exeter)
Sophia Furber and Reema Kalush (MigrantRights.org) Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the Gulf:
Invisble Women?
Jasim Husain (Bahraini politician) Nationals and Expatriates in GCC uprisings
12.15-1.15: Lunch
1.15-2.30: Political Horizons (Chair: Kevin Gray, American University of Sharjah )
Marta Saldana (Exeter) Political Socialization in the UAE
Basmah Alikyumi (lawyer and activist), Oman’s Constitutional Experience
2.30-3.30: Artist presentation and Q&A (Chair: Noor al-Qasimi, Exeter)
Guy Mannes-Abbot (Gulf Labour) Be-Coming Migrant and the Development of Gulf Labour
3.30-4.0: Tea and coffee
4.0-5.0: Artist presentation and Q&A (Chair: William Gallois, Exeter)
Mona Al Qadiri, Decadence in the Gulf: Experiments in Motion
5.0-6.0: Round-table
7.30 Dinner