#  The Somali Territories and Somali Diaspora in the Modern World: Knowledge, Power, Practice 

 



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 **November 15, 2019** 

 09:00AM - 05:00PM EST 

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 **History Department Conference Room (formerly the Lower Library), Robinson Hall**  



 

 



 

 The Somali Territories and Somali Diaspora in the Modern World: Knowledge, Power, Practice

 November 15, 2019  
Harvard University  
Location: Lower Library, Robinson Hall  
Time: 9-5pm

 **9:00-10:20am  
Home and Belonging in the Diaspora**  
*Carrying Culture: Temporal and Spatial Constructions of Somalia Among Women in the Diaspora*  
Suban Nur Cooley (Michigan State University)  
  
*The Qalanjo Project: Using Culturally Relevant Pedagogical Approaches to Bridge Gaps & Create Cultural Programming for Somali Students in Minneapolis*  
Sara A. Osman (The Qalanjo Project)  
  
*Always Kawaaling: Somali Personhood in the Margins of Rap*  
Zeinab Dahir (Independent Scholar)  
  
*At Home and Abroad: Transnational Political Practices of the Somali Diaspora in the United Kingdom*  
Ilhan Dahir (Columbia University)

 **10:30-11:50am  
Somalis in the Domestic and Global Order**  
*Beyond Liberal Peacebuilding: Lessons from AMISOM in Somalia*  
Abdiasis Issa (Balsillie School of International Affairs)  
  
*The Arrogance of the Leviathan: Global War on Terror and Techno-Politics in Somalia*  
Monica Fagioli (Independent Scholar) and Debora Malito (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)  
  
*Waxqabadka Xawaalada: Somalis in the Global Financial/Security Order*  
Hafsa Mohamed (University of California Santa Cruz)

 *To Move is to Stir: Immigrant Movement and Public Housing*  
Nima Dahir (Stanford University)

 **1:00-2:20pm  
Surveilling the Somali**  
*CVE programming in Boston: Community perspective*  
Fatuma Mohamed (Northeastern University)  
  
*Liminalities of Somalinimo: CVE and Community Organizing in the Diaspora Space of Boston*  
Hanna Sheikh (Dartmouth College)  
  
*On Being Black, Muslim, and a Refugee: Stories of Somalis in Chicago*  
Ifrah Magan (New York University)  
  
*Policing Somali Refugees*  
Mohamed Abumaye (California State University San Marcos)

 **2:30-3:30pm  
Histories and Legacies**  
*“Bringing ʿIlm to the Common People: The Didactic Religious Poetry of the Ulama of Brava”*  
Lidwien Kapteijns (Wellesley College)  
  
*New and Old Mogadishians? Memory and Space in a Contested City*  
Surer Qassim Mohamed (University of Cambridge)  
  
*Dealing with the Past: Transitional Justice Approaches in the Context of Somali Region*  
Fowsia Abdulkadir (Independent Scholar)

 **4:00-5:00pm  
Rethinking the Post-Conflict Landscape**  
*Studying The Somali Tahriib Movement: Indigenous and Decolonizing Methodological Research*  
Jaafar Dirie (University of Toronto)  
  
*Localization - Reframing the Debate through Lessons from Hollywood*  
Nasra A. Ismail (Independent Scholar)  
  
*Reconstructing the Education System and Post-Conflict Recovery in Somalia*  
Faiza Hassan (Independent Scholar)

 Cosponsored by:

 -Weatherhead Cneter for Internationa Affairs  
-Harvard University Center for African Studies  
-Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

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