The CCDP and the University of Neuchâtel have the pleasure of inviting you to another event in this series showcasing the findings of the ERC consolidator grant:
The project, begun in 2017, is led by Prof. Jordi Tejel, Adjunct Professor with the Department of History at the University of Neuchâtel and CCDP Research Associate.
This online panel discussion will feature a presentation by Dr. Emir Galilee, Ben Gurion University of the Negev on “A Nomadic State of Mind: Mental Maps of Bedouins in the Negev and Sinai since 1948”, as well as a presentation from PhD student Laura Stocker, Université de Neuchâtel on "The 'Camel Dispute': Cross-border Mobility and Tribal Conflicts in the Iraqi-Syrian Borderland, 1929-1934."
Prof. Keith Krause, CCDP Director, will be chairing the event, and the event discussants will be Augusta Nannerini, and Marie Kostrz both from the Graduate Institute, Geneva.
Picture: Copyrights University of Neuchâtel https://www.unine.ch/border/
About the Speakers:
Dr. Emir Galilee is a Kreimann Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel & Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has authored, both individually and collaboratively, a number of papers, in both Hebrew and English, focused on the geography and history of nomadic and Muslim societies in Israeli and Arab landscapes in historical perspectives. His areas of interest include historical, social and cultural geography; the social-cultural geography of ethnic and religious groups; the historical and social geography of nomadic and indigenous groups; tribalism in the Middle East; Arab landscapes in historical perspective; geography and literature, hiking trails and minorities.
Laura Stocker is a doctoral student in the history department of the University of Neuchâtel and part of the ERC Research project 'Towards a Decentred History of the Middle East: Transborder Spaces, Circulations, Frontier Effects and State Formation, 1920-1946', led by Prof. Jordi Tejel. In her research, she focuses on the Bedouin communities of the 'Anaza and Shammar tribal confederations during the period of the formation of new nation-states in the Middle East from 1920 to 1945.
