Venue: Auditorium Afonso de Barros, Building Ala Autónoma, Iscte (with online stream)
DAY 1 (Thursday, 16 September)
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:00 Inaugural Session
Luís Nuno Rodrigues (Director of CEI – Iscte) – Welcoming Remarks
Manuel João Ramos (Lead Organizer, CEI-Iscte) – Getting Started & Organizational Issues
10:00-11:30 | Panel 1 – Migration & Cultural Connections
Chair: Giulia Daniele (Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon)
Silvia Bruzzi (University of Padua & African Worlds Institute IMAF/CNRS) – Mobility and legal pluralism across the Mediterranean and the Red Sea: drafting end enacting the Personal Status Law in colonial Eritrea and Libya (in person)
Solenn Al Majali (Aix-Marseille University & French Institute of the Near East) – Sub-Saharan Forced Migrants in Amman: Between Sociabilities and Identity Reconfigurations in Exile (online)
Manami Goto (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies & University of Exeter) – Cultural Connectivity between the Persian Gulf and East Africa: The Case of the Female Face Mask (online)
Manya Kagan (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) – Schooling of refugee children in Kampala, Uganda (online)
Francesca Declich (University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”) – Living memories of domestic slavery and forced labour: case studies from Cabo Delgado (in person)
11:30-11:45 | Coffee Break
11:45-13:15 | Panel 2 – Politics & International Relations
Chair: Miguel Ajú (Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon)
Harry Verhoeven (Columbia University) – A Region in Theory: Africa, the Middle East and the Politics of Policy Discourses and Academic Concepts (online)
Alexandra M. Dias (NOVA University of Lisbon) – The Horn of Africa and The Arabian Peninsula: regional and national interests in a changing security complex (in person)
Victoria Silva Sánchez (Autonomous University of Madrid) – The Red Sea Council and the limits of Hegemonic regionalism for explaining regional security (in person)
Aleksi Ylönen (Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon) – African Agency in the Current Horn of Africa – Arab Relations: Asymmetricism Reconsidered (in person)
13:15-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Panel 3 – Security & Geo(hydro)politics
Chair: Aleksi Ylönen (Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon)
Abu Bakarr Bah (Northern Illinois University) – Glocalized Security: The Wars in Yemen and the Horn of Africa (online)
Brendon Cannon (Khalifa University of Science & Technology) & Federico Donelli (University of Genova) – Ports in the Horn, War in Yemen: Questioning Distributions of Power and New Security Orders in the Middle East (online)
Muzaffer Senel (Ankara Medipol University & Marmara University Research Center for International Relations) – Military Base Policy of Turkey and the ramifications to its Foreign Policy (online)
Ana Elisa Cascao – The Nile flows toward the Red Sea, not to the Mediterranean (in person)
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-18:00 Panel 4 – Diplomacy & Foreign Policy
Chair: Alexandra M. Dias (NOVA University of Lisbon)
Beatrice Nicolini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan) – The 1896 “Shortest War” in History: Oman, Zanzibar and Great Britain (online)
Paola Pizzo (University of Chieti) – Ethiopian Affairs in Palestine and the Italian Diplomatic activity in Jerusalem at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (online)
Eric Lob (Florida International University) – Iran’s Foreign Policy and Developmental Activities in Africa: Between Expansionist Ambitions and Hegemonic Constraints (1985-2021) (online)
Olga Piro (University of Pisa) – Gulf countries diplomacy and Sudan, from 2016 to Sudanese Revolution (tbc)
DAY 2 (Friday, 17 September)
09:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-11:30 Panel 5 – Religion & Development
Chair: Manuel João Ramos (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon)
Miguel Ajú (Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon) – East Africa, Horn of Africa and the Middle East: A Complex Political, Economic and Religious Dynamic (in person)
Sara Zavaree (University of Cologne) – Travelling spirits – The spirit possession practice of Zar between Zanzibar and Iran (in person)
Yonatan Gez (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute) – Religious ‘Nones’ and Atheists in Eastern Africa: Identity and Social Perception (online)
Caity Bolton (City University of New York) – “Development is People”: Kuwait’s Direct Aid, Islamic Development, and Spiritual Reward in Zanzibar (online)
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:45 Keynote Address
Iain Walker (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
12:45-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Roundtable – “Present Crises from the Horn of Africa to Cabo Delgado”
Convener: Preben Kaarsholm (Roskilde University)
15:30-16:30 Concluding Remarks and Future Plans
19:00- Conference Dinner