Emilie Mansour is a Sorbonne PhD in Literature and Comparative Studies “Women in Wartime Beirut (1975-1990). A Geocritical Approach to the Beirut Decentrists”, currently Research Associate at the Women & Gender Studies, American University of Beirut, investigating the place of an artist citizen and the intersections of literature, bodies, memory and urban landscapes during extremely fast and violent changes.

 Talks

  • Alternatives Arts Practices - Tashkeel (Dubai) - January 2020

  • Women Writers in Wartime Beirut - American University of Beirut (Beirut) - October 2019

  •  Soutenance de thèse : “Les femmes dans Beyrouth en guerre (1975-1990). Une approche géocritique des Beirut Decentrists” - Maison de la Recherche Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III (Paris) - February 2019

  • “Creativity in Times of Conflict” Conference “Upholding Gendered Peace at a Time of War: Academics and Activists Speak Out on the Shifting Places of Women in the Arab World” - Lebanese American University (Beirut) - Conference organized by Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (LAU), with Women in War, Beit El-Hanan, and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Rule of Law Program MENA Region, Danish Centre for Research and Information on Gender, Equality, and Diversity (KVINFO), and Organisation internationale de la Francophonie - June 2015

  • “Geocritical Explorations of the Beirut Decentrists Literary Spaces” - Beirut: Bodies in Public - Panel “Corporeality and Biopolitics” - American University of Beirut (Beirut) - in association with Performance Philosophy and supported by King’s College London - October 2014

  • “La recherche de nouveaux territories dans les textes des Beirut Decentrists” - International conference “Déclinaison des espaces féminins de l’après-conflit” in Limoges University organized by EA1807 (Espaces Humains et Interactions Culturelles) - December 2013

 Papers