CAIRO WORKSHOP: Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, February 26-27, 2005

PROGRAM
Workshop Organization: Papers contributed to the workshop constitute a shared library around which workshop discussions are structured. All participants are expected to have read the papers in advance, there will be no formal paper presentations at the workshop itself. In each session the "presenters" will make brief contributions (5 minutes) after which the floor will be open for general discussion navigated by a facilitator.

Friday, February 25
7:00 Welcome Reception (La Pacha, Zamalek)

Saturday, February 26
9:00-10:00 Introductions

10:00 – 12:00 Session I:
Presenters:
1. Maha Yahya, American University in Beirut
Remapping Beirut
2. Chandraguptha Thenuwara, University of Kelaniya
Barrelism: A Response to the Militarization of Urban Space
3. Driss Maghraoui, Al-Akhawayn University
Colonial Urban and Marginalization: Prostitution in the Quartier Reservé of Casablanca

12:00-1:00 lunch

1:00-3:00 Session II:
Presenters:
1. AbdouMaliq Simone, New School University
Practices of Convertibility in Inner City Johannesburg and Douala
2. Amy Mills, University of Kentucky
Gentrification and Gendered Neighboring in Istanbul
3. Srirupa Roy, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Elsewhere: Vernacular cosmopolitanism and nation-building in the steel towns of India

3:00-3:30 coffee break

3:30-5:30 Session III:
Presenters:
1. Smitri Srivinas & James Heizmann, University of California at Davis
Body Culture, Performance, and Planning in an Indian City
2. Oskar Verkaaik, University of Amsterdam
Hot Issues: Ethnicity, Islam, and Gender in Urban Sindh

7:30 Dinner (Blue Nile Restaurant, Zamalek)

Sunday, February 27
9:00-10:30 Session IV
Presenters:
1. Thomas Bloom Hansen, Yale University
Race, Security and Spatial Anxieties in the Post-Apartheid City
2. Dina Sidiqqi, University of Pennsylvania
Women in Question: Globalization, Perilous Spaces and Imperiled States

10:30-10:45 coffee break

10:45-12:15 Session V
Presenters:
1. Susanne Dahlgren, University of Helsinki
Morphology of Social Flows: Segregation and the Public Sphere (Aden, Yemen)
2. Alev Cinar, Bilkent University
The City, the Body and the Nation: Negotiating a Place for Islam in Secular Spaces in Turkey

12:15-1:15 lunch

1:15-3:15 Session VI
Presenters:
1.Francesca Declich, University of Urbino
From Farming along a River to Making a Living in Dar Es Salaam’s Suburbs
2. Kamran Asdar Ali, ISIM & University of Texas at Austin
Could the Men Move: Women Workers and the Changing Public Sphere in Pakistan
3. Sabiha Sumar, Independent Filmmaker (Delhi)
City of Lights

3:15-3:30 coffee break

3:30-5:30 Network Discussions

7:30 Concluding Dinner (Tabuleh Restaurant, Garden City)

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