Spaces of Resistance, American University of Beirut

Spaces of Resistance, scheduled for July 29-August 8, 2012, will investigate various strategies of non-violent popular resistance and how they unfold spatially using multidisciplinary frames of reference and methods of reading/analysis. This 8^th Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory will explore the spatialities and speeds of resistance to dominant and exclusionary power structures, how spaces are shaped by and produced through various forms and temporalities of resistance, and how they can enable or impede resistance. Emphasis will be placed on the revolutions currently sweeping the Arab world. The seminar will also engage the various ways in which established powers attempt to foreclose the possibilities of space through forms of abstraction, development plans, and the creation of closed commemorative spaces. Particular attention will be placed on space(s) as "contested" materially and imaginatively, and to locate resistance within the attempts of power to determine and control space.

Seminar Co-conveners:

• Saree Makdisi, English, UCLA 
• Howayda al-Harithy, Architecture and Design, American University of Beirut
• Mona Fawaz, Urban Studies and Planning, American University of Beirut
• David Theo Goldberg, Director, UC Humanities Research Institute

TO APPLY: Visit the Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory website. For fullest consideration please apply by Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Applications will be accepted through 5:00 pm on Monday, March 5, but seminar space is limited and applications will be considered in the order in which they are received.