{"id":21725,"date":"2022-06-19T12:21:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T11:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/?page_id=21725"},"modified":"2022-09-08T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T12:48:12","slug":"past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Past events"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Launching event March 22, 2021<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>On March 22nd, 2021, EGYCLASS members gathered for the first time, in a hybrid online\/in-person event in Cairo, for the kick-off meeting of the network. It was attended by about 40 persons. Check <a href=\"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/EGYCLASS-Kick-Off-website.mov\">this<\/a> video.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Annual Conference December 5-7, 2021<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Egyclass held its <strong style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px;\">first annual conference<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;\"> in Cairo in December 2021. It consisted in a Public event, held at the CEDEJ on December 5<\/span><sup style=\"text-align: justify; font-weight: normal;\">th<\/sup><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;\"> and titled <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px;\">\u201cStudying the Social Classes in Egypt\u201d<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;\">. It was attended by more than one hundred people, both on line and in person. The program is available <\/span><a style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;\" href=\"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Egyclass_program_5_dec_ok.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;\">.<br \/>\n<\/span>On December 6<sup style=\"text-align: justify; font-weight: normal;\">th<\/sup><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;\">, an important roundtable gathering eminent guest speakers was organized by OIB and CEDEJ on the theme <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px;\">\u201cStatistics and the social classes\u201d<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;\">. We were honoured to welcome: Hanan Girgis (Executive Vice President of Baseera, the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion research), May Gadallah (Statistics Manager at Economic Research Forum, Associate Professor at Cairo University), Ahmed Atif (Data Scientist, Founder &amp; CEO at Daftar Ahwal Data Research Institute), Luca Fedi (Employment specialist, International Labour Organization), Yahia Shawkat (co-founder and research coordinator of 10 Tooba, Built Environment Deprivation Index).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second part of the conference was dedicated to <strong style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px;\">internal workshops<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;\"> during which members of the network met and discussed different topics:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday December 6, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Axis 1\u00a0: Socio-history of classifications (coord: Malak Labib and Pierre France)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">2:00\u00a0\u20133:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Roundtable with participants\u00a0: how the issues of social classifications\/ social representations arise in their own works\u00a0?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">3:00 \u2013 4:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Malak Labib\u00a0: Literature review around social classifications and their history<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">4:00\u00a0\u2013\u00a05:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Figures and representations\u00a0: how to link questions of social classifications and representations\u00a0?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Axis 2\u00a0: Mapping the social classes (coord: Deena Khalil and Agn\u00e8s Deboulet)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">2:00\u00a0\u20132:15<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Introduction to Axis-2 members<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">2:15 \u2013 3:15<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Defining Axis 2, its goals, and preliminary thoughts on social classes in Egypt and their spatial distribution, reflecting on Cairo versus the rest of Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Short summaries of on-going researches on class and spatial issues are welcome<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">3:15\u00a0\u2013\u00a04:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Florian Bonnefoi: The link between Spatial and Social Mobility<\/p>\n<p>Mina Ibrahim\u00a0: Trams, Parishes, and Language Schools: Class Struggles in Cairo\u2018s Shubra\u201c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Axis 3 : Ethnography (coord: Nada El Kouny, Chaymaa Hassabo and Aymon Kreil)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">2:00-3:30<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Presentation of the book project\u00a0<em>Making it Work: Economies of the Male body in Egypt\u00a0<\/em>(eds. Karen Ahlberg and Carl Rommel)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">3:45\u00a0\u2013\u00a05:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Presentation of the book <em>Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation: How to Make Sense of Change <\/em>(eds. Y. Berriane, A. Derks, A. Kreil and D. L\u00fcddeckens) (Aymon Kreil, Daniele Cantini, Giedre Sabaseviciute)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Axis 4: Elites and Dominant Classes (coord. Giedre Sabaseviciute and Marine Poirier)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">2:00\u00a0\u20132:15<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Introduction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">2:15 \u2013 2:30<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Marine Poirier: Defining the Elite: from Charles Wright Mills to Pierre Bourdieu.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">2:30-4:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Cosmopolitanism, Social Reproduction and Distinction.<\/p>\n<p>Aymon Kreil: The Reproduction of Symbolic Capital: A Reading of Niloofar Haeri.<\/p>\n<p>Farah Ramzy: French School as Elite Schools: Change and Continuity in a Schooling Model (A Reading of Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Ab\u00e9cassis).<\/p>\n<p>Noha Roushdy: Revisiting the Notion of \u201cCosmopolitan Elite\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Smierciak: Cosmopolitan Capital in Egypt\u2019s Political Economy: From \u2028Mubarak to Sisi. \u2028Discussion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">4:15-5:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Roundtable discussion: Elites in the Globalized World.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Thursday December 7, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Axis 2\u00a0: Mapping the social classes (coord: Deena Khalil and Agn\u00e8s Deboulet)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"102\">9:15\u201310:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"502\">Salma Khamis\u00a0: Housing the Middle Classes in Egypt &#8211;\u00a0Tracing Cooperative Housing in Egypt<\/p>\n<p>Ga\u00e9tan Du Roy: Social services, religious reformism and clientelism in informal neighbourhoods, the case of the <em>zabbalin<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"102\">10:15\u201311:15<\/td>\n<td width=\"502\">Spatializing Egypt\u2019s classes: Mapping, indicators, and CAPMAS statistics<\/p>\n<p>Short presentations from Yahia Shawkat ; Agn\u00e8s Deboulet; All members are welcome to display examples<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"102\">11:30-13\u00a0:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"502\">New research questions and methodological orientations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Axis 3 : Ethnography (coord: Nada El Kouny, Chaymaa Hassabo and Aymon Kreil)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">9:00-10:30<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Common analysis of three interviews of the project <em>Les soucis du citoyen<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">10:30-12:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Brainstorming about outcomes and future activities of the axis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Axis 4: Elites and Dominant Classes (coord. Giedre Sabaseviciute and Marine Poirier)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">9:00- 9:50<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Elite Groups in Academic Literature on Egypt: What Makes Them \u201ca Class\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Businessmen<br \/>\nAmr Adly: A Note on Business and the Dominant Classes in Egypt.<br \/>\nMarine Poirier: State-Business Relationship: a Reading of Sarah Smierciak (2021), \u2028Safinaz El Tarouty (2015) and Eric Gobe (1999). \u2028Discussion \u202809:50-10:20 Military<br \/>\nSixtine Deroure and Manon Laroche: Military Elites, a Reading of Angela Joya and Zeinab Abul-Magd.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">10:35-12:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Bureaucrats<br \/>\nNeil Ketchley: Empirical Ways of Studying Bureaucratic Elites.<br \/>\nMohamed Fahmy Menza: The Formation of the Alternative\/Neo-Politically \u2028Relevant Elite. A Reading of Hanna Batatu and Salwa Ismail.<br \/>\nGiedre Sabaseviciute: Class and Elite in Bureaucracy: A Reading of Nazih Ayubi \u2028and Robert Springborg.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"103\">12:00-13\u00a0:00<\/td>\n<td width=\"500\">Roundtable discussion. Organisation of the workflow for the next phase of the project<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Group meetings (2021-2022)<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launching event March 22, 2021 On March 22nd, 2021, EGYCLASS members gathered for the first time, in a hybrid online\/in-person event in Cairo, for the kick-off meeting of the network. It was attended by about 40 persons. Check this video. 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