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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LOCATION:History Department Conference Room (formerly the Lower Library), Robinson Hall STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20191115T140000Z DTEND:20191115T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR