Dialogue Under Occupation
4th Annual Conference – American University, Washington DC
June 1st - 3rd, 2010
PLENARIES
Possibilities for Dialogue
under Occupation: The Case
of Israel and Palestine
Mohammed Abu-Nimer
American University
PANELS
Education and Media
Discourse Under Occupation
Nora El-Bilawi
George Mason University
Nader Ayish
George Mason University
Historicity and Hybridity: An
Approach to
Studying Dialogue Under
Occupation
Lawrence N. Berlin
Northeastern Illinois
University
The Representation of
“Threats” in the Cyberspace
Political Macro-Dialogue
Adriana Bolívar
Universidad Central de
Venezuela
The Coloniality of
Knowledge, Complex
Communication and
Resistant Negotiation
Sarah Lucia Hoagland
Northeastern Illinois
University
Americanisation and
Englishisation as Processes
of Global Occupation:
Coalition or Coercion of the
Willing?
Robert Phillipson
Copenhagen Business School
Julie Galle
George Mason University
Ilham Nasser
George Mason University
Family Histories and
Resistance to Occupation
Mary Romney-Schaab
University of Connecticut
PAPERS / ROUNDTABLES
The Occupation of Yenga in
Sierra Leone by Guinean
Troops: The Reactions of the
Inhabitants and the Sierra
Leonean Government
Abdul Karim Bangura
Howard University
Muslim Non-Violent
Resistance: the Case of the
Al-Aqsa Association for
Islamic Restoration and
Sanctities in Israel
Ibtisam Ibrahim
American University
Using Counter Stories to
Promote Positive Identity,
Empathy, and a Peaceful
World: The Case of Haiti
Sandra Duval
Tezin Inc.
Shifting Lines in Sand:
Dialogue Beyond the
Boycott
Stephanie Jo Kent
University of Massachusetts
– Amherst
The Israeli-Palestinian
Identity Conflict: The Myth
of Dialogue under
Occupation
Ibrahim El-Hussari
Lebanese American
University
Public Sphere and Fear: A
Sociological Reading of
Roma People Stereotyping
Aide Esu
University of Cagliari
Essentially Theoretical:
Postmodernism and
Discoveries of the Emperor
Who is Butt-Naked
C. L. Nash
Edinburgh University
Mustafa Barzani: Dialogue,
Conflict, and Great
Leadership
Kamaran Fathulla
King’s College London
Successful Take-Off and
Flight of Interfaith Dialogue:
The Essential Role of
Hawkish Leadership
Laura Provencher
Building Peace in Contexts
of Asymmetry: The IsraelPalestine Case
Michelle Gawerc
Boston College
Towards a Critical Pedagogy
of Possibility: ArabAmerican Hip Hop and
Spoken Word as Cultural
Action for Freedom
Muna Shami
American University
Imagining “Romanianness”
in History Textbooks
Razvan Sibii
University of Massachusetts
– Amherst
Sylvia Sanchez
George Mason University
Shelley Wong
George Mason University
Register Online
$100 Professionals / Academics
$50 Students
www.dialogueunderoccupation.org
Sustainability of
Nonviolence: Underlying
Issues in Conflict Resolution
Dee Gephart
Qatar University
The Bounded, Shifting
Frontier: How Palestinians
Succeed in Coping with the
West Bank Barrier
Jennifer Pashley
University of Arizona
Multiple Dialogues and the Representation of Power in the
Discourse of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in his
Weekly Television Show Aló Presidente
Ricardo Gualda, Columbia University