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Aula Árabe Universitaria 5
From September 27, 2023 until April 23, 2024Check dates and times for each activity.
MADRID / CORDOBA / ONLINE
Casa Árabe’s headquarters in both cities (at Calle Alcalá, 62 in Madrid and Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9 in Cordoba).
Check dates and times for each activity.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
Casa Árabe is presenting yet another edition in the series of
conferences organized with the cooperation of the university programs in
Madrid, Cordoba and Alcalá de Henares, to be held from September 27,
2023 to April 23, 2024.
The conferences will deal with a wide range of subjects involving the Arab and Islamic world, from ancient history to the modern day, allowing students to get a closer look at the Arab world along with top-level experts, including topics and speakers selected by the associated university programs in accordance with their curricular needs and interests.
As if it were a trip to the Arab world, students receive a passport, the ”Passport to the Arab World,” a personalized document given to them the first time they attend one of the conferences in the series (available via download here), The passport contains the program for the series, and they receive stamps for attending each conference when they enter each event.
In order to receive announcements and updates on the various AAU conferences, they must sign up to receive the Casa Árabe Newsletter, indicating “Aula Árabe Universitaria” as one of their interests.
Aula Árabe Universitaria (AAU) is an inter-university cooperation program organized by Casa Árabe in collaboration with undergraduate and graduate university programs (Master’s degrees and doctorates) from universities in the Autonomous Region of Madrid (UAH, UAM, UCM, UC3M, Universidad Nebrija, Saint Louis University - Madrid Campus, Universidad San Dámaso and URJC), Cordoba (Universidad Loyola and UCO) and Segovia (IE University). This year, 26 university programs from the 10 partner universities are participating, with 13 conferences in Madrid and 3 in Cordoba.
Its purpose is to promote knowledge about the Arab and Islamic world, as well as complementing and enriching the training given in the different associated university programs, encouraging dialogue between disciplines and offering students, faculty and researchers from these programs the chance to make contact with relevant international speakers and experts on different subjects and topics related to the Arab world.
The conferences will be held at Casa Árabe’s facilities during the usual schedule for evening conferences (7:00 p.m., with some exceptions) and are open to the general public, with simultaneous translation when necessary. The conferences are also broadcast live on Casa Árabe’s YouTube channel.
As if it were a trip to the Arab world, students receive a passport, the ”Passport to the Arab World,” a personalized document given to them the first time they attend one of the conferences in the series (available via download here), The passport contains the program for the series, and they receive stamps for attending each conference when they enter each event.
In order to receive announcements and updates on the various AAU conferences, they must sign up to receive the Casa Árabe Newsletter, indicating “Aula Árabe Universitaria” as one of their interests.
At the end of the series and as proof of the experience acquired along the journey, students from the universities in the Autonomous Region of Madrid and in Segovia must show that they have attended over 50% of the conferences (6) in person in order to request the Aula Árabe Universitaria certificate. In order to acquire this certification, students from the University of Cordoba and associated Aula Mediterránea programs must demonstrate their online attendance by using the chat box on Casa Árabe’s YouTube channel, where the conferences will be broadcast live.
This year, we will continue to be sistered with the program Aula Mediterrània by IEMed, which began three years ago. Students from both programs can attend the respective conferences online, which will also be counted for certification purposes, in addition to those events organized jointly, thanks to the speaker exchange between the two programs.
Aula Árabe Universitaria (AAU) is an inter-university cooperation program organized by Casa Árabe in collaboration with undergraduate and graduate university programs (Master’s degrees and doctorates) from universities in the Autonomous Region of Madrid (UAH, UAM, UCM, UC3M, Universidad Nebrija, Saint Louis University - Madrid Campus, Universidad San Dámaso and URJC), Cordoba (Universidad Loyola and UCO) and Segovia (IE University). This year, 26 university programs from the 10 partner universities are participating, with 13 conferences in Madrid and 3 in Cordoba.
Its purpose is to promote knowledge about the Arab and Islamic world, as well as complementing and enriching the training given in the different associated university programs, encouraging dialogue between disciplines and offering students, faculty and researchers from these programs the chance to make contact with relevant international speakers and experts on different subjects and topics related to the Arab world.
The conferences will be held at Casa Árabe’s facilities during the usual schedule for evening conferences (7:00 p.m., with some exceptions) and are open to the general public, with simultaneous translation when necessary. The conferences are also broadcast live on Casa Árabe’s YouTube channel.
Image from the AAU5 program
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Archiving an Impossible Revolution: visual testimonies, digital memory-making and Syrian resilience
September 27, 20237:30 p.m.MADRID / ONLINECasa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62) and Casa Árabe’s YouTube channel. 7:30 p.m. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.In English and Spanish, with simultaneous translation.On Wednesday 27 September, a new course of Aula Árabe Universitaria begins with this lecture by Miriyam Aouragh, Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster.May 2023, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was welcomed back to his seat on the Arab League. On one of the news photos, we see a dozen leaders pose for a portrait in Jeddah (KSA) capturing the formal acceptance of Bashar al-Assad.How do we interpret the come-back of a smiling Assad receiving a warm welcome twelve years after he was thrown out of the Arab League due to his severe suppression of mass pro-democracy protests?It was not the first time a sense of demise surfaced, Assad’s troops (convoyed by the Russian military) entering Der’a in the summer of 2018 as Free Syrian Army (FSA) members surrendered across rebel-held regions. The moment an official regime flag was raised in the birthplace of the Syrian uprising, was jarring. Ghouta and Aleppo had already been crushed into submission following unprecedented bombing campaigns 18 months prior. The Guardian, Al Jazeera, BBC and many more news headings heralded a full-circle storyline.Without irony, Bashar al-Assad tells the Arab League “I hope that it marks the beginning of a new phase of Arab action for solidarity among us, for peace in our region, development and prosperity instead of war and destruction.” Those smiles, kisses and handshakes covered the press photos were illustrative, yet remembering the uprising it raises the question: What was it all for? In fact, at this circular moment, exactly one decade after the start of the uprising, a somewhat pressing feeling returned, was there really a revolution?To help make sense of this almost existential query, three themes come together in this presentation: how we remember major events; the way capitalist infrastructures turn political events into spectacles; the particularities of visual content that enable a space for meaningful political reverberation.Borrowing from what Haj Saleh (2017) termed the Impossible Revolution, and through the Al Sha’b Suri Aref Tarikh [ASSAT-the Syrian people know their way] collective as an empirical case study, I wish to challenge the prevalent outlooks that reduce a Syrian people’s uprising to “Arab Winter”, “conflict in Syria”, “imperial proxy war”, or “Islamism”. I will demonstrate the ways in which a particular triangulation across, time, place and tool has revealed a unique assembly. Al Sha’b Suri Aref Tarikh is the epitome of aesthetics, technology and revolutionary creativity during one of the most extraordinary and these complex political phenomena of the 21st century in West Asia.Dr. Miriyam AouraghDr. Miriyam Aouragh grew up in Amsterdam as a second generation Dutch-Moroccan and has a background in cultural anthropology and non-Western sociology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterrdam). Aouragh (Reader) is a researcher at CAMRI. She has studied the implications of the internet as it was first introduced (“Web 1.0”) in Palestine (PhD, University of Amsterdam, 2000-2008) to understand in particular the significance of techno-social evolutions by analysing how a "new" technology coincided with the outbreak of a mass uprising (Second Intifada 2000-2005). Aouragh subsequently (Rubicon NWO Grant) focused on the political role of new digital tools and spaces, such as how these earlier developments evolved to so-called "Web 2.0" as manifested through blogging and social networking (“Web 2.0”). Her ethnographies were conducted among grassroots activism in Lebanon and Palestine (Oxford Internet Institute, 2009-2011).
Aouragh set-up a critical research project Leverhulme Grant (UoW, 2013-2016) to study the Arab (Counter-)Revolutions, in which she relates critical theory with online-offline dialects. In 2017 she joined the Westminster School of Media and Communication.
Apart from 4 books: Palestine Online (IB Tauris 2011), (with Hamza Hamouchene) The Arab Spring a decade on about Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the transformation of a region (TNI 2022), Mediating the Makhzan about the (r)evolutionary dynamics in Morocco (forthcoming 2023) and (with Paula Chakravartty) Infrastructures of Empire (2024). Miriyam Aouragh has written numerous chapters and articles.
Session 1 - Sept. 27, 2023 (7:30 p.m.)
Miriyam Aouragh, Archiving an Impossible Revolution: Visual testimonies, digital memory making and Syrian resilience
With the cooperation of the Master’s degree in Contemporary Arab and Islamic World Studies (UAM) and the Inter-university Master’s degree in Contemporary Studies on the Arab World and Muslim Communities: Social Mediation and Conflict Management (UCM).
Session 2 - Oct. 25, 2023
Suhail Dabbach, Filming and Narrating Iraq: Challenges and Experiences
With the cooperation of the bachelor’s degree program in Audiovisual Communication (UC3M)
Session 3 - Nov. 2, 2023
Several speakers, Elections and Women’s Political Participation in Arab Countries
With the cooperation of the bachelor’s degree program in Political Science and Public Management (URJC)
Session 4 - Nov. 21, 2023
Haifa Zangana, The environmental legacy of the US-led war against Iraq.
In collaboration with the Master’s degree in International Relations and African Studies (UAM), the bachelor’s degree in International Relations (UCM) and the Master’s degree in International Journalism (URJC).of International Relations (UCM) and the Master’s degree in International Journalism (URJC).
Session 5 - Dec. 4, 2023
Roland Marchal, Sudan 2019-23: from revolutionary hopes to civil wars
With the cooperation of the Master’s degree in European Union and the Mediterranean: Historical, Cultural, Political, Economic and Social Basis (UCM) and the bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (UAM).
Session 6 - Dec. 12, 2023
Kawtar Najib, Spatialized Islamophobia on an Urban and Infra-urban Scale in London and Paris.
With the cooperation of the bachelor’s degree program in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UAM).
Session 7 - Jan. 25, 2024
Abdelali Oamroni, Translation and Interpreting in the Consular and Diplomatic Arena
With the cooperation of the Master’s degree in Intercultural Communication, Interpretation and Translation in Public Services (UAH) and the Degree in Translation and Communication & International Relations and Communication and the bachelor’s degree in Translation and Interpretation and Multilingual Communication (Universidad Pontificia de Comillas).
Session 8 - Feb. 6, 2024
Adlene Mohammedi, Yemen: Military quagmire, humanitarian tragedy, political stalemate
With the cooperation of the Saint Louis University-Madrid Campus Master’s degree in Political Science and Public Affairs
Session 9 - Feb. 15, 2024
Salma Jamoussi, AI, Social Networks, and Radicalization
With the cooperation of the Master’s degree in Democracy and Government (UAM), the Master’s degree in Contemporary Arab and Islamic Studies (UAM), the bachelor’s degree in Politics (UCM) and the bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity Engineering and bachelor’s degree in International Relations (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos).
Session 10 - Feb. 22, 2024
Lena Merhej (to be confirmed), Lebanese Reality Through Storytelling
With the cooperation of the bachelor’s degree in Applied Modern Languages (Universidad Nebrija)
Session 11 - Mar. 4, 2024
Ahdaf Soueif, Feminism in Arabic Literature: An Egyptian view.
With the cooperation of the course “Feminism, Literature and Business” at the School of Arts and Humanities (IE University).
Session 12 - Apr. 18, 2024
Glaire Anderson, Immersive Worldbuilding for Medieval Islamic Art & History
With the cooperation of the Master’s Degree in The Medieval Iberian World: Hispania, Al-Andalus and Sepharad, and the bachelor’s degree in History (UAM)
Session 13 - Apr. 23, 2024
Bishara Ebeid, The Use of the Qur’anic ext among Medieval Christian Arabic Authors
With the cooperation of the Master’s degree in Christian and Classical Literature (Universidad San Dámaso)
Miriyam Aouragh, Archiving an Impossible Revolution: Visual testimonies, digital memory making and Syrian resilience
With the cooperation of the Master’s degree in Contemporary Arab and Islamic World Studies (UAM) and the Inter-university Master’s degree in Contemporary Studies on the Arab World and Muslim Communities: Social Mediation and Conflict Management (UCM).
Session 2 - Oct. 25, 2023
Suhail Dabbach, Filming and Narrating Iraq: Challenges and Experiences
With the cooperation of the bachelor’s degree program in Audiovisual Communication (UC3M)
Session 3 - Nov. 2, 2023
Several speakers, Elections and Women’s Political Participation in Arab Countries
With the cooperation of the bachelor’s degree program in Political Science and Public Management (URJC)
Session 4 - Nov. 21, 2023
Haifa Zangana, The environmental legacy of the US-led war against Iraq.
In collaboration with the Master’s degree in International Relations and African Studies (UAM), the bachelor’s degree in International Relations (UCM) and the Master’s degree in International Journalism (URJC).of International Relations (UCM) and the Master’s degree in International Journalism (URJC).
Session 5 - Dec. 4, 2023
Roland Marchal, Sudan 2019-23: from revolutionary hopes to civil wars
With the cooperation of the Master’s degree in European Union and the Mediterranean: Historical, Cultural, Political, Economic and Social Basis (UCM) and the bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (UAM).
Session 6 - Dec. 12, 2023
Kawtar Najib, Spatialized Islamophobia on an Urban and Infra-urban Scale in London and Paris.
With the cooperation of the bachelor’s degree program in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UAM).
Session 7 - Jan. 25, 2024
Abdelali Oamroni, Translation and Interpreting in the Consular and Diplomatic Arena
With the cooperation of the Master’s degree in Intercultural Communication, Interpretation and Translation in Public Services (UAH) and the Degree in Translation and Communication & International Relations and Communication and the bachelor’s degree in Translation and Interpretation and Multilingual Communication (Universidad Pontificia de Comillas).
Session 8 - Feb. 6, 2024
Adlene Mohammedi, Yemen: Military quagmire, humanitarian tragedy, political stalemate
With the cooperation of the Saint Louis University-Madrid Campus Master’s degree in Political Science and Public Affairs
Session 9 - Feb. 15, 2024
Salma Jamoussi, AI, Social Networks, and Radicalization
With the cooperation of the Master’s degree in Democracy and Government (UAM), the Master’s degree in Contemporary Arab and Islamic Studies (UAM), the bachelor’s degree in Politics (UCM) and the bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity Engineering and bachelor’s degree in International Relations (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos).
Session 10 - Feb. 22, 2024
Lena Merhej (to be confirmed), Lebanese Reality Through Storytelling
With the cooperation of the bachelor’s degree in Applied Modern Languages (Universidad Nebrija)
Session 11 - Mar. 4, 2024
Ahdaf Soueif, Feminism in Arabic Literature: An Egyptian view.
With the cooperation of the course “Feminism, Literature and Business” at the School of Arts and Humanities (IE University).
Session 12 - Apr. 18, 2024
Glaire Anderson, Immersive Worldbuilding for Medieval Islamic Art & History
With the cooperation of the Master’s Degree in The Medieval Iberian World: Hispania, Al-Andalus and Sepharad, and the bachelor’s degree in History (UAM)
Session 13 - Apr. 23, 2024
Bishara Ebeid, The Use of the Qur’anic ext among Medieval Christian Arabic Authors
With the cooperation of the Master’s degree in Christian and Classical Literature (Universidad San Dámaso)
Session 1 (COR) - Dec. 5, 2023 (6:00 p.m.)
Roland Marchal, Sudan 2019-23: from revolutionary hopes to civil warswith the cooperation of the bachelor’s degree in International Relations Degree, Loyola University
Session 2 (COR) - Mar. 3, 2023 (to be confirmed)
Director / screenwriter, Arab cinema
With the cooperation of the bachelor’s degree program in Film and Culture (UCO)
Session 3 (COR) - April 17, 2023
Glaire Anderson, Immersive worldbuilding for medieval Islamic art & history
With the cooperation of the bachelor’s degree in Art History (UCO
List of university programs (numbered in the order in which applications were submitted)
1 Bachelor’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UAM)
2 Master’s degree in International Relations and African Studies (UAM)
3 Master’s degree in Contemporary Arab and Islamic World Studies (UAM)
4 Master’s degree in Democracy and Government (UAM)
5 Master’s degree in Intercultural Communication, Interpretation and Translation in Public Services (UAH)
6 Bachelor’s degree in International Relations (UCM)
7 Master’s degree in Contemporary Studies on the Arab World and Muslim Communities: Social Mediation and Conflict Management (UCM)
8 Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Public Management (URJC)
9 Master’s degree in International Journalism (URJC)
10 Course Feminism, Literature and Business (Faculty of Arts and Humanities) (IE University)
11 Bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual Communication (UC3M)
12 Bachelor’s degree in Translation and Communication & International Relations and Communication (Universidad de Comillas)
13 Bachelor’s degree in Translation and Interpretation and Multilingual Communication (Universidad de Comillas)
14 Bachelor’s degree in International Relations (Loyola University)
15 Bachelor’s degree in Applied Modern Languages (Universidad Nebrija)
16 Bachelor’s degree in Art History (UCO)
17 Master’s degree in Christian and Classical Literature (Universidad San Dámaso)
18 Master’s degree in Political Science and Public Affairs (Saint Louis University - Madrid Campus)
19 Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (UAM)
20 Master’s degree in the Medieval Iberian World: Hispania, Al-Andalus and Sefarad (UAM)
21 Bachelor’s degree in History (UAM)
22 Bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Culture (UCO)
23 Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity Engineering (URJC)
24 Bachelor’s degree in International Relations (URJC)
25 Master’s degree in European Union and the Mediterranean: Historical, Cultural, Political, Economic and Social Basis (UCM)
26 Bachelor’s degree in Politics (UCM)
1 Bachelor’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UAM)
2 Master’s degree in International Relations and African Studies (UAM)
3 Master’s degree in Contemporary Arab and Islamic World Studies (UAM)
4 Master’s degree in Democracy and Government (UAM)
5 Master’s degree in Intercultural Communication, Interpretation and Translation in Public Services (UAH)
6 Bachelor’s degree in International Relations (UCM)
7 Master’s degree in Contemporary Studies on the Arab World and Muslim Communities: Social Mediation and Conflict Management (UCM)
8 Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Public Management (URJC)
9 Master’s degree in International Journalism (URJC)
10 Course Feminism, Literature and Business (Faculty of Arts and Humanities) (IE University)
11 Bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual Communication (UC3M)
12 Bachelor’s degree in Translation and Communication & International Relations and Communication (Universidad de Comillas)
13 Bachelor’s degree in Translation and Interpretation and Multilingual Communication (Universidad de Comillas)
14 Bachelor’s degree in International Relations (Loyola University)
15 Bachelor’s degree in Applied Modern Languages (Universidad Nebrija)
16 Bachelor’s degree in Art History (UCO)
17 Master’s degree in Christian and Classical Literature (Universidad San Dámaso)
18 Master’s degree in Political Science and Public Affairs (Saint Louis University - Madrid Campus)
19 Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (UAM)
20 Master’s degree in the Medieval Iberian World: Hispania, Al-Andalus and Sefarad (UAM)
21 Bachelor’s degree in History (UAM)
22 Bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Culture (UCO)
23 Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity Engineering (URJC)
24 Bachelor’s degree in International Relations (URJC)
25 Master’s degree in European Union and the Mediterranean: Historical, Cultural, Political, Economic and Social Basis (UCM)
26 Bachelor’s degree in Politics (UCM)