Socio-Cultural Implications of Post-2011 Literature, Cinema and Media in Egypt and the Arab World
| Dates: | 12 December 2015 |
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| Times: | 09:30 - 17:30 |
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| What is it: | Workshop |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Current University students, General public |
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Join us for a free workshop supported by the SALC Research Networking Fund and the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies
Events include:
Keynote: "The Prefigurative Politics of Volunteer Subtitling in the Egyptian Revolution" (Professor Mona Baker - The University of Manchester)
- Screening the documentary film "The Trace of the Butterfly" (pictured) – Q&A with filmmaker Amal Ramsis
- Presentation + Film "The Living Martyrs: Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails" (Professor Caroline Rooney – University of Kent)
- "The Poetics of Hope and Frustration in the Works of Two Contemporary Egyptian Poets" (Professor Faten Morsy – Ain Shams University)
- "Shut ub your mouse, Obama! (Shut up your mouth, Obama!): Media Discourse, Self- Representation, and Identity Construction in Post-2011 Egypt" (Dr Walid El Hamamsy – Cairo University)
- "'Entrapments in the Shadow of Da‘ish:' The Vilification of the Northeastern Lebanese Border in the Aftermath of the 2011 Syrian Protests"
(Dr Michelle Obeid – University of Manchester)
- "Negotiating Narrative on Twitter: Collective Storytelling in the Context of the 2013 Military Intervention in Egypt”
(Mr Neil Sadler - PhD candidate - University of Manchester)
- "Para-translation as Activism: Iraqi Women Writers’ Fiction in English-Arabic Translation"
(Mrs Ruth Abou Rached - PhD candidate - University of Manchester)
Download a workshop poster: http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=26069
Download a programme of events for the day: http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=26070
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