Programme
Day One, Friday July 16th
Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
Registration 12.15-1.00
Session One: 1.00-2.45
Thomas Burkhalter (Independent Network for Local and Global Soundscapes, Switzerland), ‘War concrète: music and strategic responses to warfare in Beirut’
Jay Murphy (Aberdeen University), ‘Filming the Siege: 1982 and 2006’
Anna Ball (Nottingham Trent University), The Burden of Selective Memory: Bearing Ambivalent Witness in Waltz with Bashir and Lebanon
Tea and Coffee: 2.45-3.00
Session Two: 3.00-4.30
Ziad Elmarsafy (University of York), ‘Son’allah Ibrahim’s Beirut, Beirut’
Caroline Rooney (University of Kent), ‘A question of faith in humanity: Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments’
Patrick Williams (Nottingham Trent University), ‘“I didn’t die here…”: Mahmoud Darwish, Naji Al-Ali and the Siege of Beirut’
Session Three: 4.45-6.00
Screenings
