Bringing together practitioners and scholars working on entertainment, arts, literature and language, this interdisciplinary conference is devoted to the complex relationship between mainstream and margin in contemporary Egyptian culture. Egypt’s cultural industries have undergone profound transformations in recent years. How are these transformations serving to unsettle boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, legitimate and illegitimate expression? Are these boundaries more fluid now than in previous eras, or does historicising our ‘exceptional’ contemporary moment reveal more continuities than ruptures? This conference provides an opportunity to think about repositioning Egypt, and the region more broadly, as a place of knowledge production; a place from which theory emerges, not just be applied or localised.
Oct 26-27: 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Hill House, AUC Tahrir (Cairo, Egypt)
Oct 29: 2-6 pm, Noir Art Zone (Cairo, Egypt)
Organizers:
Ramy Aly, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The American University in Cairo.
Sophie Frankford, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London.
Frédéric Lagrange, Director of CEDEJ, Cairo, Professor of Arabic Studies, Sorbonne Université, Paris.
Registration Required: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmtpK8dzLnftpGLEJuG8XRTyywTJNwtveLBqrzrx3KWMMDyg/viewform
To view the Conference Agenda:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-voij_AdsNhppKbnNnZuLmfdw0NjALyP/view