CME at WOCMES III, Barcelona, July 2010, programme
July 14th, 2010
WOCMES III – Barcelona, July 2010
The Christians in the Middle East research network is hosting a three-panel symposium at WOCMES 2010 in Barcelona.
The papers being presented will be as follows (all in room 212; full details are in the WOCMES programme, whilst abstracts are available by clicking on each of the panel titles here):
Christian life in wider contexts (chair: Fiona McCallum), Thursday 22.7.10 9:00-11:00
- Willy Jansen: Demanding a religious place. Three female Christian visionaries in the Middle East
- Christine Lindner: “An Uncommonly Worthy Girl”: Exploring the Life and Influence of Rahil Ata al-Bustani
- Michael Marten: The negotiation of competing modernities: reading ‘western’ and ‘Zionist’ ideologies in gendered Palestinian spaces
Political and social negotiations of spaces (chair: Michael Marten), Thursday 22.7.10 11:30-13:30
- Sebastian Elsässer: Reflexions of Coptic intellectuals on the future of Egyptian Christians between Church, State, and Islam
- K. Luisa Gandolfo: Representations of Conflict: Images of Resistance and Religious Identity in Palestinian Art
- Roberto Mazza: Tradition and Modernity: the Custody of the Holy Land
- Fiona McCallum: The Merits of Individual and Communal Representation – Christian Political Involvement in Contemporary Syria
- Una McGahern: Palestinian Christians in the IDF – Challenging Assumptions
Middle Eastern Christians in a globalised world (chair: Christine Lindner), Thursday 22.7.10 14:30-16:30
- John Bradley: Assessing the Catholic Church’s impact as a Transnational Actor: Change and Continuity in the Role of a Global player in the Middle East
- Lise Galal: Transnational Coptic Spaces: negotiations of a minority identity
- Karene Sanchez Summerer: The Sisters of Saint Joseph’s schools in Palestine (1908-1967)
- Benjamin White: “In loco sultani”: the death of a patriarch and the changing architecture of community in French mandate Syria
