Thinking Dignity. The Politics of Dignity in the aftermath of the NAWA Revolutions

We wish to collectively think and reflect on the place of dignity/karama in contemporary political and cultural mobilizations in the Arab World and beyond. Taking dignity as our focal point and examining it from different angles, this workshop will grapple with a number of fundamental questions: Has dignity taken on a renewed political and social meaning throughout the Arab Revolutions (2010-present) ? Why did this emotion-value-notion become central to the claims of these revolutions? To what type of conception of politics does it correspond in a time of questioning of the ideological horizons inherited from the 20th century? What kind of circulation of this notion of dignity can be observed on a diachronic level (in the form of a genealogy) and on the scale of the spaces of protest, between regions, languages, social spaces? In the two roundtables the speakers will share her/his thoughts, reflections and questions on the concept of dignity. We aime to create a space for collective reflection and conversation more than a panel or an academic roundtable. The first roundtable will be on theorizing the concept of dignity in the aftermath of the Arab Revolutions and the second roundtable will focus on ethnographies of dignity especially in Tunis, Algeria and Egypt. For participation ONLINE or ON SITE, please register by fillling out the following form: https://rb.gy/j8a7i Language: English The conversation will continue 7 June 2023, at the EUME SEMINAR with Leyla Dakhli and Saphe Shamoun in conversation with Yassin Al Haj Saleh.