Sunday, February 9, 2020

• The conference takes place at 111 Thayer Street, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
• Sessions are held in the McKinney Conference Room (3rd floor).
• Film Screenings and panel discussions are held in the Joukowsky Forum (1st floor).

1:45–2:30pm
Opening Session
Greetings
KATHARINA GALOR (Brown University) and
NAJAT ABDULHAQ (Arab Film Festival Berlin): Film and the Gender Lens

2:30–3:30pm
Session I, “queer lives”
Chair
OMER BARTOV (Brown University)
Presenters
SA’ED ATSHAN (Swarthmore College): Media, Film, and the Politics of Queer Palestinian Representation
GIL HOCHBERG (Columbia University) Queer as Can Be: “Blessed Blessed Oblivion” and “The White Elephant”

 4:00–6:00pm
Film screening, Alatah – עלטה
(Out in the Dark, 2012, by MICHAEL MAYER)

6:00–7:00pm
Panel discussion
Moderator
NAJAT ABDULHAQ (Arab Film Festival Berlin)
Panelists
MICHAEL MAYER (Film director and writer)
SA’ED ATSHAN (Swarthmore College)
RUTH BEN-ARTZI (Providence College)

Monday, February 10, 2020

• The conference takes place at 111 Thayer Street, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
• Sessions are held in the McKinney Conference Room (3rd floor).
• Film Screenings and panel discussions are held in the Joukowsky Forum (1st floor).

9:30–10:30am
Session II, “gender and the Israel-Palestine conflict”
Chair
ANDREW LUND (Hunter College)
Presenters
KAMRAN RASTEGAR (Tufts University): Chronicles of Disappearance: Masculinity in the Cinema of Elia Suleiman
YAEL ZERUBAVEL (Rutgers University): Identity (Ex)Changes, Gender, and Family Ties: Cinematic Representations of Israeli Jews and Palestinians

10:30–11:00am
Break

11:00am–12:30 pm
Session III, “sex, gender, religion”
Chair
SAUL OLYAN (Brown University)
Presenters
NAVA DUSHI (Lynn University): “In Between” or The Ethics of the Aesthetics of Absence
KAREN SKINAZI (University of Bristol): The Reluctant Feminism of Rama Burshtein’s Religious Romances
LEMA MALEK SALEM (Independent scholar): Silence… No More

12:30–2:00pm
Lunch break

2:00–3:30pm
Session IV, “gender, race, ethnicity”
Chair
ALEX WINDER (Brown University)
Presenters
ANNA BALL (Nottingham Trent University): Embarrassing Relations?
Unmaking ‘the Palestinian Wedding’ in “Wajib” and “Villa Touma”
SHAI GINSBURG (Duke University): Write Down, I am an Arab, a Palestinian, and an Israeli, and a Woman, and …
GREG BURRIS (American University of Beirut) Our African Palestine: Intersectional Specters in the House of Zion

4:00-6:00pm
Film screening, Omor Shakhsiya – أُمور شخصيَّة
(Personal Affairs; 2016, by MAHA HAJ)

6:00 -7:00pm
Panel discussion
Moderator
KATHARINA GALOR (Brown University)
Panelists
NADJE AL-ALI (Brown University)
LEMA MALEK SALEM (independent scholar)
RAMI YOUNIS (Harvard Divinity School)