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 California State University, Fullerton

Iraq After Ten Years of War: Its Causes and Consequences

Experience this exciting conference featuring scholars from around the world discussing topics such as; Pedagogical Issues in Teaching Iraq and the Middle East, A Decade in Review, Iraq: Domestic Politics, Iraq, The United States and Regional Dynamics, and Towards a Theorization of Contemporary Iraqi Film and Media Studies.

April 18th and 19th, 2013
Center for Oral and Public History
Pollak Library South, Room 360

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Presenters

  • Basim Aljnabi, Professor of Political Science at the University of Baghdad
  • Sherzad Ahmed Ameen Al-Najjar, Professor of Political Science and Constitutional Law at Salahaddin University, Erbil, the Kurdistan Region, Iraq
  • Ibrahim G. Aoudé, Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai‘i
  • Saadet Gülden Ayman, Professor of International Relations at Istanbul University
  • Jochen Burgtorf, Chair of the History Department at CSUF
  • Mandy Bush, Teacher in the Alvord Unified School District in Riverside, California
  • Connie Decapite, Director of Fullerton International Resources for Schools and Teachers
  • Mona Damluji, Doctoral Candidate in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Terri Ginsberg, Film Scholar
  • William W. Haddad, Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSUF
  • Barbar Hall, Faculty Member in the Irvine Unified School District
  • Stefka Hristova, Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Michigan Technological University
  • Baasil Hussein, Deputy Director of the Iraqi Center for Strategic Studies, Amman, Jordan
  • Mahmood Ibrahim, Interim Chair of History at Cal Poly Pomona
  • Zakyi Ibrahim, Associate Professor at CSUF in the Department of Comparative Religion
  • Jacqueline S. Ismael, Professor of Social Work at the University of Calgary
  • Tareq Y. Ismael, Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary and the Secretary General of the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies
  • Orayb Aref Najjar, Professor of Journalism at Northern Illinois University
  • Judy Richonne, Teacher of Advanced Placement World History, United States History and Psychology in the Irvine Unified School District
  • Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at CSUF
  • Hussein Shaban, Professor at the University of Non-Violence (AUNOHR) in Beirut
  • Ghada Hashem Talhami, D. K. Pearsons Professor of Politics, Emerita, Lake Forest College
  • Janice J. Terry, Professor Emerita of modern Middle East History at Eastern Michigan University and an adjunct professor at Marietta College in Ohio

Schedule

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Conference Opening:
Welcome
Angela Della Volpe
Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Panel I (9:30 AM – 11:15 AM)
Pedagogical Issues in Teaching Iraq and the Middle East
Panel Chair: Connie DeCapite

  • "Adapting Outdated Content Standards: Complications of Teaching the Middle East in the California K-12 Setting" - Barbara Hall
  • "Addressing the Gap: Approaches to Addressing the Middle East Within the Social Science Standards" - Mandy Bush
  • "The Cost of War in Iraq: Using Human Stories in the Classroom" - Judy Richonne

Panel II (11:30 AM – 1:15 PM)
A Decade in Review
Panel Chair: Zakyi Ibrahim

  • "The Politics of Corruption" - Tareq Y. Ismael
  • "Children of the Occupation: A Decade After the Invasion" - Jacqueline S. Ismael and Shereen T. Ismael
  • "The Dilemma of Corruption and Development" - Baasil Hussain

Welcome
Jochen Burgtorf
Chair, Department of History

Panel III (3:00 PM – 4:30 PM)
Iraq: Domestic Politics
Panel Chair: Mahmood Ibrahim

  • "Diplomacy of the 'Kurdish Territorial Nation" - Ghada Talhami
  • "Ten Years of Challenges to Democracy" - Hussain Aziz Shaban
  • "Reflections on Iraqi Federalism" - Sherzad Ameen

Friday, 19 April 2013

Panel IV (9:30 AM – 11:30 AM)
Iraq, The United States and Regional Dynamics
Panel Chair: Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi

  • "Change or More of the Same? Obama and Iraq" - Janice Terry
  • "The American Withdrawal from Iraq: Challenges and Consequences" - Bassim Aljanabi
  • "Iran-Turkey Competition and the Changed Character of Turkey's Involvement in Iraq" - S. Gülden Ayman
  • "Iraq: Post-Occupation Instability and Regional Politics" - Ibrahim G. Aoudé

Panel V (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM)
Towards a Theorization of Contemporary Iraqi Film and Media Studies
Panel Chair: Terri Ginsberg

  • "The State of Iraqi Film and Media Studies: A Critical Overview" - Terri Ginsberg
  • "Beladuna: A History of Oil, Politics, and Iraq's First Documentary Filmmakers" - Mona Damluji
  • "Remembering the Remaking of Iraq" - Stevka Hristova
  • "The Iraq Cartoons of Brazilian Artist Carlos Latuff: From Invasion to Withdrawal" - Orayb Aref Najjar

Closing Remarks: Tareq Y. Ismael