The Shadow Years: Material Histories of Everyday Life
March 9-10, 2018
McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Friday, March 9
8:30–9:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00–9:30 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
Beshara Doumani
9:30–11:15 a.m. Panel 1: Subjectivities and Everyday Material Life
Respondent: Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
1. Mezna Qato, Schooling Stories across a New Terrain
2. Nasser Abourahme, “Nothing to Lose but Our Tents”: The Camp, Revolution, and the Stubborn Insistence of Everyday Material Life
3. Dima Saad, Materializing Palestinian Memory: Objects of Home and Everyday Eternities of Exile
11:15–11:30 a.m. Coffee Break
11:30 am–1:00 p.m. Panel 2: The Social Lives of Things
Respondent: Beshara Doumani
1. Basma Fahoum, Tobacco Cultivation in Palestine: Peasant Households, Zionist Farmers, and the Global Market
2. Nimrod Ben Zeev, The Many Lives of Cement: Construction, Economy, and Emotions in Mandate Palestine
1:00–2:30 p.m. Lunch
2:45–4:30 p.m. Panel 3: Negotiating the Built Environment
Respondent: Ilana Feldman
1. Dotan Halevy, Mandatory Gaza Recovered: Towards a Palestinian History of Ruins
2. Faedah M. Totah, Finding Refuge in the Courtyard House: Palestinians in the Old City of Damascus
3. Silvia Pasquetti, Negotiating Stigma among Ruins: Histories of Displacement and Control from Lydda to West Bank Refugee Camps (and Back)
4:30–4:45 p.m. Coffee Break
4:45–5:45 p.m. Thematic Discussion: Archiving the Shadow Years, led by Ilan Pappé
7:15–9:15 p.m. Dinner for Presenters, Respondents, and Invited Guests
Saturday, March 10
8:45–9:15 a.m. Continental breakfast
9:15–11:00 a.m. Panel 4: Violence and Loss
Respondent: Salim Tamari
1. Charles Anderson, The Suppression of the Great Revolt and the Destruction of Everyday Life in Palestine
2. Frances S. Hasso, Documenting the Non-Archival Reproductive Subject: Intimate Palestinian Life during the British Mandate
3. Adel Manna, Resistance and Survival in the Center of the Galilee (July 1948–January 1949)
11:00–11:15 a.m. Coffee break
11:15 am–1:00 p.m. Panel 5: Infrastructure, Technology, and Space
Respondent: Gary Fields
1. Omar Imseeh Tesdell, Territoriality and the Technics of Drylands in Palestine
2. Fredrik Meiton, The Non-Electrification of Nablus
3. Muna Dajani, Sahl al-Battuf: A Site of Protest and Contestation against the National Water Carrier (1954–1964)
1:00–2:30 p.m. Working lunch for workshop participants