Couldn’t make it to the conference, or want to read the authors’ contributions to NACLA, MERIP, and Jadaliyya? Their articles are available open access for a limited time for your perusal. You can follow along below:
Friday, April 27:
Welcome:
Alejandro Velasco, Omar Dahi, Sinan Antoon, and Laura Weiss: “The Latin East,” NACLA
Session 1: The Politics of Art: Readings, Reflections, and Refractions
Chair: Omar S. Dahi
Panelists:
Houzan Mahmoud and Ismail Hamalaw, “The Latin Boom in Iraqi Kurdistan,” NACLA
Lena Meari, “Reading Che in Colonized Palestine,” NACLA
Roosbelinda Cárdenas and Hiba Bou Akar, “Writing about Violence,” MERIP
Sinan Antoon, “Reading César Vallejo in Arabic,” MERIP
Rania Jawad, “Traveling Pedagogies and Theaters of Violence,” forthcoming in Jadaliyya
Discussant: Eman Morsi, forthcoming in Jadaliyya
Session 2: Political Parallels and Economic Intersections
Chair: Alejandro Velasco
Panelists:
Paul Amar, “Military Capitalism,” NACLA
Kaveh Ehsani, “Blessing or Curse? From Resource Nationalism to Neoliberalism in the Politics of Oil in the Middle East and Latin America,” forthcoming in Jadaliyya
Cecília Baeza and Paulo Pinto, “The Syrian Uprising and Mobilization of the Syrian Diaspora in South America,” MERIP
Paulo Daniel Farah, “South-South Solidarity and the Summit of South American-Arab Countries,” MERIP
Discussant: Arang Keshavarzian, forthcoming in Jadaliyya
Session 3: Mapping Solidarities
Chair: Sinan Antoon
Panelists:
Tariq Dana, “Palestine Beyond Slogans,” NACLA
Sara Awartani, “Puerto Rican Decolonization, Armed Struggle and the Question of Palestine,” MERIP
Nadim Bawalsa, “Palestine West of the Andes,” NACLA
Amal Eqeiq, forthcoming in Jadaliyya
Omar Imseeh Tesdell, “Planting Roots, Claiming Space,” NACLA
Discussant: Ella Shohat, forthcoming in Jadaliyya
Saturday, April 28:
Session 4: Confluences and Cartographies
Chair: Laura Weiss
Fernando Camacho Padilla, “Reading Latin America in Tehran,” NACLA
Marwan M. Kraidy, “A Tale of Two Modernities,” NACLA
Kevan Harris, “Divergent Histories and Converging Inequalities in the Middle East and Latin America,” NACLA
Omar Dahi and Alejandro Velasco, “Latin America-Middle East Ties in the New Global South,” NACLA
Discussant: Ali Mirsepassi, forthcoming in Jadaliyya
