{"id":23389,"date":"2022-06-19T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T11:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/egyclass-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:05:10","slug":"egyclass-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/egyclass-2\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Social Class in Egypt (EGYCLASS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/a-network-on-social-classes\/egyclass-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21769\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21769 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Egyclass-300x217.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Egyclass-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Egyclass.png 362w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Network on Social Classes (coord: Marie Vannetzel)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EGYCLASS is an International Research Network that aims at providing a comprehensive analysis of social classes in Egypt, building on existing links and scientific exchanges between leading researchers in sociology, anthropology, political science, history and economics.<\/p>\n<p>The network associates more than 70 individual researchers and 6 institutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CEDEJ (Egypt\/France),<\/li>\n<li>the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the American University in Cairo (Egypt),<\/li>\n<li>the Orient Institute Beirut (OIB, Germany),<\/li>\n<li>the Society and Culture in Motion research cluster (SCM, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany),<\/li>\n<li>the Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality (CARAM, Ghent University, Belgium)<\/li>\n<li>and the Department of Social Anthropology of Oslo University (Norway).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Activities are organized around 4 axes:<\/p>\n<p>Axis 1: Socio-history of classifications (coord: Malak Labib and Pierre France)<\/p>\n<p>Axis 2: Space and class (coord: Deena Khalil and Agn\u00e8s Deboulet)<\/p>\n<p>Axis 3: Ethnography of social classes (coord: Nada El Kouny, Chaymaa Hassabo and Aymon Kreil)<\/p>\n<p>Axis 4: Elites and dominant classes (coord: Giedr\u0117 \u0160abasevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117\u00a0and Marine Poirier)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Coming soon<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>June (date to be defined) IFAO \u2013 Egyclass Axis 1: \u201cRepenser l\u2019histoire de l\u2019\u00c9gypte r\u00e9publicaine\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A conference organized by Malak Labib<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Spring (date to be defined): Axis 3 Writing Residency<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>January (date to be defined): Talk on Education<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Past Events<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>November 9-10 \u2013 Cultural Capital and Class Recognition, CEDEJ, Cairo.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Axis 4 Workshop organized by Marine Poirier, Giedr\u0117 \u0160abasevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Daniele Cantini and Marie Vannetzel. Program available <a href=\"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/EGYCLASS-Cultural-Capital-Program-ok.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September 26-27 \u2013 Side-Event to the Forum Insaniyyat, Tunis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Collective work to elaborate Commented Bibliographies around social classes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>June 22-24 \u2013 15th Congress of SESAMO (Societ\u00e0 per gli studi sul Medio Oriente), Napoli.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Panel \u201cClass, a Useful Category for Ethnography? Case Studies from Egypt and Morocco\u201d, organized by Aymon Kreil and Yasmine Berriane. Program available here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monthly Group Meetings <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several monthly meetings online were organized throughout the year, with two kinds of workshops: presentations of work in progress and seminars dedicated to reading and discussing texts together.<\/p>\n<p>January 24 \u2013 Axis 3 \u2013 Marriage Strategies, reading seminar.<\/p>\n<p>February 7 \u2013 Axis 3 \u2013 \u00a0Class Education, reading seminar.<\/p>\n<p>March 7 \u2013 Axis 3 \u2013 Why do we need the concept class?, presentation by Farha Ghannam.<\/p>\n<p>April 14 \u2013 Axis 1 \u2013 History and sociology of professions in Egypt, presentations by Elisabeth Longuenesse and Sylvia Chiffoleau.<\/p>\n<p>May 2 \u2013 Axis 3 \u2013 Class, Workers, Upheaval, reading seminar.<\/p>\n<p>May 16 \u2013 Axis 1 \u2013 Sociological Profiles of the Middling Citizen (al-muw\u0101\u1e6din al-bas\u012b\u1e6d): The Toolbox of Egyptian Sociology during the Nasser Years (1952-1970), presentation by Antoinette Ferrand.<\/p>\n<p>May 23 \u2013 Axis 2 \u2013 Data sources and methods for studying the space-class nexus in Egypt, presentations by Deena Khalil and Corten Perez-Houis.<\/p>\n<p>June 13 \u2013 Axis 3 \u2013 Class distinctions inside the households, presentations by Dalila Ghodbane, Noha Mokhtar and Lina El-Shamy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>December 5-7: Conference \u201cStudying the Social Classes in Egypt\u201d, CEDEJ-IFAO, Cairo.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Public event: program available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Egyclass_program_5_dec_ok.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rountable OIB-CEDEJ: \u201cStatistics and the social classes\u201d: program available here.<\/p>\n<p>Internal workshops by axes: program available here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monthly Group Meetings <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>July 5 \u2013 Axis 3 \u2013 \u201cHumum al-Mowatin\u201d, presentations by Assia Boutaleb and Daniele Cantini.<\/p>\n<p>September 6 \u2013 Axis 3 \u2013 Modernity and the New Middle Classes, reading seminar.<\/p>\n<p>October 4 \u2013 Axis 3 \u2013 Around the book Heiman et al. <em>The Global Middle Classes<\/em>, presentation by Samuli Schielke.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>March 22: Lauching Event, KMT House, Cairo.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Kick-off meeting of the network, Check\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/EGYCLASS-Kick-Off-website.mov\">this<\/a>\u00a0video.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Network on Social Classes (coord: Marie Vannetzel) EGYCLASS is an International Research Network that aims at providing a comprehensive analysis of social classes in Egypt, building on existing links and scientific exchanges between leading researchers in sociology, anthropology, political science, history and economics. 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