MENACA 2024
Second Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African and Central Asian Dances, Music and Performing Arts
SCHEDULE
Day 1: Thursday, October 3, 2024
6:00 -8:00 pm Welcoming Reception and Roundtable on Publishing & Research
With the participation of Prof. Anthony Shay (Pomona College), Roberta (Robin) Dougherty (Librarian for Middle East Studies and the Near East Collection, University of Yale) and Ahmad Jabbari (PhD, Publisher, Mazda Publishers)
Crookshank Hall
140 West 6th Street
Claremont, CA 91711
Sessions on Friday, 4 and Saturday, 5 October 2024 will be at:
Art Studio 122
370 E 4th St. & Amherst Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Day 2: Friday, October 4, 2024
09 a.m. - noon Dabke: Practice as Resistance
Moderator: Maria Faidi
Dance and Political Resistance in Palestine
Prof. Nicholas Rowe University of Auckland
Translating Syrianness: Migration, Masculinity, and Resistance through Syrian Dabke
Prof. Shayna Silverstein Northwestern University
Dabke as a Cultural Tool within the Palestinian Latin-America Diaspora
Francisco Montero Lahsen PhD Candidate Anthropology Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Palestinian Dabke and Decolonial Solidarities
Yasmine Benabdallah PhD Candidate Film and Digital Media University of California, Santa Cruz
1:30-4:30pm Current trends in Middle Eastern Dance and Music
Moderator: Robin Dougherty
Choreographing the City: Toronto and Yasmina Ramzy
Prof. Barbara Sellers-Young Professor Emerita York University
“Hunna Collective: Historians who Dance”: Historical Background, Proposals, and Definitions regarding Public History in the Dance field
Naiara Müssnich Rotta Gomes de Assunção Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) / Hunna Collective
Bellydance and Melancholia in Egyptian Golden Era Cinema
Maria Faidi PhD University of Chichester
Song in Mahfuz’ Bayna al-Qasrayn: Recreating and Appreciating the Diegetic ‘Soundtrack’ of a Modern Egyptian Novel
Roberta L. Dougherty Librarian Yale University
5-6:30pm Keynote Speaker: Suhaila Salimpour
Moderator: Anthony Shay
Day 3: Saturday, October 5 2024
9 am-noon Envisioning Decolonialism
Moderator: Maria Faidi
‘Give Us Fire, We’ll Tattoo the Dawn on You’: Exile and Freedom in Ishumar Music
Sheyda Aisha Khaymaz University of Texas at Austin
Exploring the Feminization of Tachelhit Language Transmission through Contemporary Amazigh Pop Songs
Ella Williams University of Oxford
Stambali-vism: From Slavery to the Creolization of Subversion
Mouna El Kahla Independent Scholar
'Now We Get It': Ukrainian Perception of Belly Dance as Colonial Practice
Maria Kardash Independent Scholar
1:30-4:30pm Turkey and the Persianate World
Moderator: Shaharzad Khorsandi
The Landscape of Dance at the turn of the 20th Century: Sites, Genres and Performers
Arzu Öztürkmen Bogazici University
Uzbek Dance Art in Colonial Conditions (on the example of the 20th - 30th of the XX Century)
Saodat Taufikovna Nazarova Researcher Institute of Cultural Studies Tashkent
Female Acrobats and Equestrians: Recovering Female Javānmardī in the Premodern Persianate World
Amanda Caterina Leong PhD Candidate University of California Merced
Khorezm National Dances in Uzbek Art: History and Today
Abduvali Abdumutalibovich Yuldashev Researcher History Institute of the Academy of Sciences Tashkent
Dezfuli Dances: Regional Cultural Contexts of Ceremonies in Khuzestan, Iran
Mahsa Hojjati Independent Scholar
5-6:30pm Keynote Speaker: Amir Hossein Pourjavady
"Professional Entertainers in the Iranian World"
Moderator: Anthony Shay
8-9:00pm MENACA Dance Concert
Day 4: Sunday, October 6 2024
Dance Workshops:
9:00-10:00 am Analytical and Intuitive Learning: Combining Movement Analysis and Improvisation in Pedagogy
10:15-11:15am Salimpour Hip Work: It's All in The Glutes
12:30-14:00pm Closing Session
Screening of "The Fez": The Golden Years of Middle Eastern Community in Los Angeles
Directed by Roxxane Shelaby
Moderator: Anthony Shay
Followed by virtual Q& A with Roxxane Shelaby
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