Programme

10h00 - 10h30 | Welcoming Session
- José Manuel Pureza (CES/UC) «Understanding the Arab Spring: the Need for a Multidisciplinary Approach»

10h30 - 12h15 | Session 1: Arab Uprisings: The Role of History and the Media | Chair: Cristina Sala (CES/UC)
- Jacob Høigilt «Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies ?Power to the People? National Print Media in the New Arab Political Order»
- José Manuel Pureza (CES/UC) «Social Media: an Emancipatory Tool»
- Tarik Sabry (Arab Media Centre, University of Westminster) «Historicism, the Aporia of Time and the Arab Revolutions»

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12h15 - 14h30 Lunch
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14h30 - 15h30 | Session 2: Civil Resistance and the Demand for Democracy in the Arab World | Chair: Sofia José Santos (CES/UC)
- Karlos Pérez (Hegoa, Institute of Studies on Development and International Cooperation, University of the Basque Country) «Perspectives of Civil and Non Violent Popular Resistance»
- Martina Rieker (Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, The American University in Cairo) «Freedom, Autonomy and Participation: Revisiting the Democratic Toolkit in Egypt and Beyond»

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15h30 - 15h45 Coffee Break
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15h45 - 17h15 | Session 3: Shaping the International Arena: Politics and Discourses | Chair: Teresa Cravo (CES/UC)
- Nizar Messari (Al Akhawayn University) «No Inside, no Outside or Indignation as World Politics»
- Francisco Javier Peñas (Autonomous University, Madrid) «International Regimes and the Regional Conditions for the Arab Revolutions»
- Victor Santiago Pozas (University of the Basque Country) «Building up Discourses on Conflict and Peace»