Conference: 30 June – 1 July
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Day 1 – Wednesday 30 June 2021
Opening Session and Introduction
15:00-15:45 (Rome Time)
Giancarlo Bosetti, Chair, Reset Dialogues on Civilizations (DOC), Milan
Jonathan Laurence, Director, Reset Dialogues US; Professor, Boston College
Federica Zoja, Scientific Coordinator, Reset DOC; Journalist
Panel 1 – How is Contemporary Islam reflected in Arab/Muslim Culture in the Great Mediterranean and beyond?
15:45- 17:00
Mustafa Akyol, Is there an Islamic Case for Free Speech?
Jocelyne Cesari, Religious tolerance Versus Political toleration
Zeineb Toujani, Islamism in the Tunisian media after 2018: Analytical and critical reading
Chair: Mohammed Hashas, Luiss University in Rome
Break 17:00-17:30
Panel 2 – Changing Societal Norms and Freedom of Speech in the Arts: Cinema, Design, Theatre
17:30-18:45
Peter Limbrick, New Networks for Arab Film and Video
Bahia Shehab, Art and Resistance
Ismail Khalidi, Thick as Thieves: Settler Colonial Delusions and the Policing of Palestine in Popular American Culture
Chair: Federica Zoja, Reset DOC
Panel 3 – Restrictions on cultural freedom and strategies of adaptation
18:45-20:00
Atef Elshaer, The poetry of Mahmoud Darwish and Adonis, between Freedom and Duress
Randa Aboubakr, Is the Digital a Freer Space?
Omar Fassatoui, Acculturation of Rights and Freedoms in the Post Revolutionary Tunisia
Chair: Mohammed Hashas, Luiss University in Rome
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Day 2, Thursday 01 July 2021
Panel 1 – No longer caught “between” Islam and the West? Cultural contributions to the construction of democracy
15:00-16:15
Shady Hamadi, The Impact of Living in Democratic, Pluralist Societies vis-a-vis Environments with fewer Freedoms, on Creative Production among the Arab Diasporas
Joshua Carney, Resur(e)recting a Spectacular Hero: Diriliş Ertuğrul, Necropolitics, and Popular Culture in Turkey
Moez Mrabet, Tunisian Theater from Dictatorship to Democracy
Chair: Azzurra Meringolo Scarfoglio, RAI
Panel 2 – Pluralism and freedom of expression in traditional and digital media – a method for dialogue in disguise?
16:15-17:30
Tarek El-Ariss Digital Subjects: Performing Exposure on Arab Social Media
Teresa Pepe, Arabic Literature and the Web 2.0
Abdel Aziz Hali, The Alternative Media in Tunisia (Nawaat, Inkyfada, al-Qatiba)
Chair: Jonathan Laurence, Boston College; Reset US
Break 17:30-18:00
Roundtable: Culture and the Arts — the Continuation of Politics by Other Means?
18:00-19:15
Lisa Anderson, Mayada Adil, Mustafa Akyol, Amel Boubekeur, Zyed Krichen
Chair: Giancarlo Bosetti, Reset DOC
Concluding remarks
19:15-19:30
Conference Venue
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The Seminars will be held in videoconference live on Zoom.
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The Seminars will also be streamed live on the Reset DOC’s Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/resetdoc
The program follows Central European Summer Time (GMT +02:00).