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Nov 8, 2024
Environment and Climate Panels at the 2024 MESA Annual Meeting

Environment and Climate Panels at the 2024 MESA Annual Meeting

By : Environment Page Editors

The Jadaliyya environment page editors are pleased to feature these panels and roundtables focused on environment and climate at the 2024 Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (MESA). MESA 2024 will be held virtually from November 11–16.

We hope you will join us in attending these sessions, contributing to their discussions, and encouraging the ongoing growth of an interdisciplinary conversation on urgent environmental questions at MESA.

Please note that audience members must register in order to attend the conference.

Monday November 11


Environmental Challenges in the Middle East: A Comparative Analysis of Legislative and Governmental Policies in Iran and Lebanon (1900-Present)

  • Saghar Sadeghian -- Organizer, Presenter
  • Owain Lawson -- Presenter
  • Eric Lob -- Presenter
  • Amit Sadan -- Organizer, Presenter

Linking Iraq and the Gulf: New Historical and Literary Perspectives

  • Fahad Bishara -- Discussant, Chair
  • Arbella Bet-Shlimon -- Organizer, Presenter
  • Camille Cole -- Presenter
  • Abdulrahman Alebrahim -- Presenter
  • Adhraa A. Naser -- Presenter

Feminist Ecocriticism and Women's Art in the SWANA Region

  • Jameel Haque -- Presenter, Chair
  • Danielle Haque -- Organizer, Presenter
  • Holiday Powers -- Presenter
  • Damien Tissot -- Presenter

Tuesday November 12


Slow Violence and Hidden Culprits in the SWANA: "Green Neoliberalism", Capitalist Exploitation and the Future of Global Environmental Governance

  • Kali Rubaii -- Presenter
  • Lauren Baker -- Organizer, Presenter, Chair
  • Khaoula Bengezi -- Organizer, Presenter
  • Ekin Kurtic -- Presenter

Agri-Food Politics in Turkey: Defining the Alternative among Alternatives

  • Nurcan Atalan-Helicke -- Presenter
  • Caterina Scaramelli -- Presenter
  • Burge Abiral -- Organizer, Presenter
  • Atak Ayaz -- Organizer, Presenter
  • M. Fatih Tatari -- Presenter
  • Brian Silverstein -- Discussant

Knowledge Translated and Vernacularized: Science, Magic, and Philosophy in the Islamicate World

  • Justin Stearns -- Discussant, Chair
  • Thomas Benfey -- Presenter
  • Ahmed Almaazmi -- Organizer, Presenter
  • Cem Turkoz -- Presenter
  • Genie Yoo -- Presenter

Wednesday November 13


Climate Justice in the Arab World: Resisting Colonialism, Extractivism, Occupation and Conflict

  • Marwa Daoudy -- Organizer, Presenter, Chair
  • Muna Dajani -- Presenter
  • Zeinab Shuker -- Presenter
  • Noor Ghazal Aswad -- Presenter

Thursday November 14


Frontiers of Resource Extraction in the Modern Middle East

  • Guillemette Crouzet -- Organizer, Presenter
  • Shira Pinhas -- Organizer, Presenter
  • Dotan Halevy -- Presenter

Nature and the Non-human in Muslim Thought

  • Richard McGregor -- Chair
  • Jörg Matthias Determann -- Presenter
  • Munia Hweidi -- Presenter
  • Jens Schmitt -- Presenter
  • Aysenur Cam -- Presenter
  • Mustafa Diwan -- Presenter

Friday November 15


Ecology of the Anthropocene

  • Alex Schweig -- Chair
  • Burcu Ozdemir -- Presenter
  • Hiroshi Yasui -- Presenter
  • Majdi Awad -- Presenter

Food Producers, Consumers, and Providers

  • Fredrick Walter Lorenz -- Presenter, Chair
  • Sultan Toprak Oker -- Presenter
  • David Meza -- Presenter
  • maia nichols -- Presenter
  • Yusuke Kawamura -- Presenter

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8:30am PT / 10:30am CT / 11:30am ET

 
Join a conversation between Laila el-Haddad and Michael Fakhri. Leila el-Haddad is a renowned journalist and writer and co-author of critically acclaimed The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey (2013). She brings with her a wealth of experience and knowledge about Palestinian foodways and their relation to cultural resistance. Dr. Michael Fakhri is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and professor at the University of Oregon School of Law. He recently authored a 2024 UN report “Starvation and the right to food, with an emphasis on the Palestinian people’s food sovereignty.” Fakhri and El-Haddad will discuss the report and their respective research regarding Palestinian food, politics, and cultural resistance.
 
This is the keynote presentation of the "Palestinian Landscapes & Liberatory Ecologies" Autumn School. This keynote is free and open to the public. 
 
This event is organized by The Political Ecology Research Group—Palestine and DOPE+Palestine (Dimensions of Political Ecology) with the support of the Antipode Foundation Right to the Discipline Grant and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE).