This event is jointly organised by the LSE Middle East Centre and LSE Cities
Nelida Fuccaro launches her edited book 'Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East', with two of the contributors to the volume, exploring violence in the public lives of modern Middle Eastern cities, approaching violence as an individual and collective experience, a historical event, and an urban process. The essays included in this volume reflect the diversity of Middle Eastern urbanism from the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, from the capitals of Cairo, Tunis, and Baghdad to the provincial towns of Jeddah, Nablus, and Basra and the oil settlements of Dhahran and Abadan. In reconstructing the violent pasts of cities, new vistas on modern Middle Eastern history are opened, offering alternative and complementary perspectives to the making and unmaking of empires, nations, and states.
Event Details
Speaker: Dr Nelida Fuccaro; Professor Ulrike Freitag; Dr Rasmus Christian Elling
Chair: Professor Fran Tonkiss
Date: Wednesday 05 October 2016
Time: 18:00-19:30
Event Hashtag: #LSEViolence
Location: Room 9.04, Clement's Inn, Tower 2, LSE
Attendance: This event is free and open to all, however registration is necessary. Registration has now closed.
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Speakers
Nelida Fuccaro teaches modern Middle Eastern history at SOAS, University of London. Her research focuses on urban history, the history of oil and violence, ethnicity, nationalism and frontier societies. Between 2011 and 2014 she led with Ulrike Freitag an international project on the history of public violence in modern Middle Eastern cities sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain and the Deutsche Forschungemeinschaft.
Ulrike Freitag is a historian of the modern Middle East and the director of Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin as well as professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on urban history in a global context.
Rasmus Christian Elling is Associate Professor at the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, where he teaches Middle East Studies as well as Global Urban Studies. His work focuses on the cultural, social and political life (and, occasionally, death) of cities – and the historical and ethnographic focus of his work is on modern Iran in particular.
Chair
Fran Tonkiss is Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Cities Programme. Her research and teaching is in the fields of urban and economic sociology. Her interests in urbanism include cities and social theory, urban development and design, urban inequalities, spatial divisions and public space.