Conferences and symposia

SELECTED TALKS

• • 2021, October 14th. Symposium Left-wing populism: history, theory and practices. LIEGE UNIVERSITY.  « Are social sciences doomed to romanticize urban poverty? Left-wing populism and axiology. »
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  • 2020, November 19^th. Symposium Le Savoir de l’Action. Quand le terrain se met en recherche. UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS (UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT). « L’écueil de la romantisation du terrain d’enquête. La position de l’acteur-chercheur comme moteur de réflexivité. »
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  • 2018, September 13^th. International symposium Dialogues on Urban Development to Combat Climate Change. SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF ALEXANDRIA. « On the Formalization of informal mobilities in Alexandria. »

INVITED TALKS

• • 2019, June 13^th. International conference The Role of Public Service in Lebanese Spaces of Migration. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UCL). « The Manufacture of Illegitimacy : an inquiry into the invisibilization of Beirut’s informal mobilities »
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  • 2018, April 25^th. Annual congress of UITP; workshop on informal mobilities in the MENA region. UNION INTERNATIONALE DES TRANSPORTS PUBLICS, Dubaï.  « Elite projections and informal mobilities »
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  • 2017, October 26^th. Symposium Transports publics et Infrastructures au Liban. ORDRE DES INGÉNIEURS ET ARCHITECTES (OIA), Beirut. « Grassroots mapping and civic action : fighting the trope of the ‘unmappable’ »
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  • 2017, November 17^th. 6th International conference Social and Sustainable Cities. FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG FOUNDATION BEIRUT (FES). « Informal mobilities, paratransit, shared private transport? Why terminologies matter and what they reveal about the framing of mobilities in Lebanon »
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  • 2017, October 2^cd. International conference Public Transport in the MENA: Amman, Beirut, Cairo. AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO (AUC). « Understanding Uberization through the private bus network in Lebanon »