Talks and Events

Upcoming events

26/07/2024 Erasure and Preservation of destroyed landmarks as (non)archives in Syria and Lebanon, a comparative exploration- EASA Barcelona

12/09/2024 Book launch at FIME, Beirut 

Invited Research Seminars

2024 Book launch ‘Waiting for the Revolution to End’, CéSor EHESS – 3/06

2024 Book launch ‘Waiting for the Revolution to End’, UCL IGP – 30/05

2024 ‘Examining the aftermaths of the Syrian 2011 revolution: defeat, erasure and tentative archive’  Anthropology department, University of Durham 29/05

2023 Book launch ‘Waiting for the Revolution to End’, Sussex Anthropology – 18/05

2023 ‘Revolutionary Darayya : a Heterotopic Space of Enactment of Political Utopias with Muhammad Shihadeh’ –  in BRISMES (panel 3G 9-11)

2023 ‘Examining the Aftermaths of Defeat Ethnographically: the Syrian Revolution a Decade On’, Sussex Anthropology Seminar – 7/03

2023 ‘Ethnographic Perspective on the Syrian Revolution’s Defeat’, DREAM Seminar – 6/03

2022 ‘Pensées décoloniales et anthropologie de la révolution syrienne : Réflexions sur les catégories de religieux et de séculier autour de la notion de martyr’, EHESS, Research Seminar ‘The Anthropology of Religion in the Decolonial and Francfort School ’ – 2/02.

2021 ‘Martyrs et héros dans la révolution: (re)lectures et imaginations de la prédestination islamique’, CéSor –

2021 ‘Towards an Anthropology of Defeat: Rethinking the Syrian Revolution’s Aftermaths’, Goldsmiths Anthropology – 9/10.

2021  ‘Field-Notes from the Neighborhood: Gender and Transformation in Syria and Lybia’, Striking from the Margins’ Seminar Series, Central European University – 25/05.

2021 ‘Women in the Syrian Revolution’, discussant, SHAKK Seminar Series, IFPO Beirut – 17/05.

2021 “La Syrie, la révolution, la guerre, dix ans après” (Syria, the revolution and the war, ten years on), ERRAPHIS, University of Toulouse – 31/03

2019 ‘Martyrdom, Revolution, Predestination: Making Sense of the Syrian Revolution’s Unexpected Outcomes’, CUSAS, Anthropology Department, University of Cambridge – 24/01.

2018 ‘Study of a Revolution in Exile: From Political to Social Rupture. The ethnographic method in question’, CéSor, EHESS – 26/03.

2017 ‘Being a “Guest” in Turkey: Everyday life, legal status and future horizons’, Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, SOAS – 22/02.

2016 ‘Syrians’ Everyday in Antep, Dystopian Space and Suspended Time’, MireKoc, Koç University, Istanbul – 14/12.

2016 ‘Syrians in Revolution and Exile: An Ethnography of Everyday life in Antep’, SAN, Middle East Technical University – 10/03.

Organized Conferences, Workshops and Panels

Conferences

2019 ‘After the Event: Prospects and Retrospects of Revolution’, co-organiser, Anthropology Department, UCL – 15 & 17/05

2014 ‘Thinking with Anthropology’ (Penser avec l’Anthropologie), co-organiser, Philosophy Dept, University of Nanterre, Paris – 6&7/05.

Workshops and Panels

2020 ‘Remnants of Escalations: Post-conflict reconfiguration of politics in displacement’, co-organiser, CCRS, University of Copenhagen – 26&27/01.

2019 ‘Syria and Syrians in Anthropology: Challenges and Reinvention’, organiser, Anthropology Department, UCL – 18/05.

2018 ‘Dismemberment: Movement, Personhood and Collectivity’, co-organiser, American Anthropological Association annual conference (AAA), San Jose -14/11.

2012 ‘Cinema: an Act of Resistance. The Invention of Alter-Politics in Cinema: cinematographic, political and philosophical readings’ (Le cinéma: un acte de résistance. L’invention de politiques autres dans le cinéma: lectures cinématographiques, politiques et philosophiques), co-organiser, Philosophy Department, Toulouse University, Toulouse – 12/07.

2012 ‘Contemporary French Philosophy Study Day’ (Journée d’étude autour de la philosophie française contemporaine), co-organiser, Philosophy Department, University of Sao Carlos, Brazil – 07/05.

Selected conference and workshop papers

Conferences

2019 ‘Egalitarianism, the State and the Organisation of Society’, panel discussant, AAA, Vancouver – 21/11.

2019 ‘From the Political to the Social: The Speed and Depth of Revolutionary Transformations’, Syria Today conference, IFPO, Amman, Jordan – 24/09.

2019 ‘Spatial Disruptions and the Constitution of Revolutionary Selves in the Syrian Uprising and Its Aftermath’, SeSaMo, Torino, Italy – 02/02.

2018 ‘Scales of dismemberment: social and intimate sense of time in displacement’, AAA, San Jose – 14/11.

Workshops

2021 ‘Sketches of a genealogy of non-violence in Syria’ (presented in French, “Esquisse d’une généalogie de la non-violence en Syrie” with Al-Zahre, N.), ‘Gendered Expression of Resistance, Movement and Transformative Crises across the Mediterranean’, U. Aix-Marseille – 22/04.

2020 ‘Urgency and Destiny in the Syrian Revolution’, CCRS, University of Copenhagen/ University of Cambridge – 28/08.

2020 ‘Looking at the 2011 Revolution and its Afterlife as Escalation’, CCRS, University of Copenhagen – 28/01.

2017 ‘The Syrian Local Councils: Revolutionary Institutions and Politics’, Contentious Politics Workshop, LSE – 09/03.

2017 ‘Temporal and Spatial Ruptures: an Ethnography of the Syrian Revolution in Displacement’, Rupture Workshop, UCL – 14/02.

2016 ‘Loss of the homeland, loss of the self: exploring the ‘outside’, British Council Researcher Links Workshop, London – 08/09.

2015 ‘Revolution and Kinship in Syria: Individual Processes and Collective Dynamics’, Department of Philosophy, Havana University – 12/09.

2015 ‘Utopia, Heterotopia, Heterochronia in the Syrian revolution’, Anthropology Department, UCL – 16/12.

Talks and interviews