Seminar
16/09/2024
03:00 p.m. (UTC)
05:15 p.m. (UTC)
The German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), the Iraqi Women Academics Network (IWAN), and Universität Hamburg invite you to a virtual seminar under the title “Narratives of Power, Memory and Place in Post 2003 Iraq”. The event celebrates the publication of a recent special issue in The Middle East Journal on Iraq Since 2003. The special issue incorporated papers from the conference “Iraq Twenty Years After the US Invasion: Memory Politics, Governance and Protests” that was held at GIGA in Hamburg on 29– 31 March 2023, analysing developments in Iraq 20 years after the US invasion.
The event will comprise two panels, including Q&A.
Panel 1: Spatial (in)justice: Architecture, Walls and Conflicts in Iraq, including a presentation of Sana Murrani’s new book Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq, 2003–2023 (Bloomsbury 2024)
Panelists: Dr. Ula Merie (University of Babylon)
Dr. Hadeel Abdelhameed (Monash University)
Dr. Sana Murrani (University of Plymouth)
Panel 2: The Future of Iraq Studies: Civil society and Memory Politics since 2003
Panelists: Assistant Professor Alda Benjamen (University of Dayton)
Dr. Achim Rohde (Universität Hamburg)
Prof. Dr. Eckart Woertz (GIGA and Universität Hamburg)
Moderator: Assistant Professor Mariam Georgis (Simon Fraser University)
Online Event
English
Registration required
We would like to ask you to register for this event with our cooperation partner. The registration is free of charge. You will receive all the information you need to participate when you register.