The Orient after 9/11
Conference at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute for Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen, 15th of May 2002.
Programme:
10.00: Introduction by PhD scholar Jakob Feldt, University of Copenhagen.
10.15: Assistant professor Michael Irving Jensen, University of Copenhagen: “Palestine, the Al Aqsa Intifada and the War against Terrorism”.
10.45: Research student Rasmus Alenius Boserup, EHESS: “Studying violent actors in the Middle East”.
11.15-11.30: Break.
11.30: Associate professor Leif Stenberg, University of Lund: “Meetings with Muslims after 9/11”.
12.00: Associate professor Ilan Pappé, University of Haifa: “Alarming Similarities: America’s and Israel’s War on Terrorism”.
12.30-13.30: Lunch.
13.30: Senior correspondent Herbert Pundik, Politiken: “Past experiences, future challenges – one view on the Israeli predicament”.
14.00: Editor Pernille Bramming, Weekendavisen: “Facing Reality”.
14.30-14.45: Break.
14.45: Editor Klaus Wivel, Weekendavisen: “Islamic self-criticism”.
15.15: Associate professor Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, University of Copenhagen: “Middle Eastern Studies under attack”.
15.45-16.00: Questions to the panel.
The conference will take place at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute for Near Eastern Studies, Snorresgade 17-19, 2300 Cph. S. in room U3 on 1st floor.
Organisers: The Carsten Niebuhr Institute for Near Eastern Studies and Danish PEN.