Call for AGAPS Graduate Student Workshop
The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) is proud to announce a call for applications to its 2024 graduate student workshop, to take place on the weekend of 8-9 June 2024[*] via Zoom. The workshop will provide PhD students working on the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula the opportunity to present their research, engage in conversations with their peers and senior scholars, and benefit from feedback on a substantive chapter of their dissertation. Each graduate student will have their chapter discussed in depth by a senior scholar.
The AGAPS graduate student workshop is open to all graduate students currently in the writing/revisions stage of their PhD dissertations, writing in English. Students working in all disciplines and chronological periods are encouraged to apply, as are scholars looking at connections between the Gulf, Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of the world.
Applications for the workshop are due on 15 February 2024. Applicants should submit the following material to comm@agaps.org.
- Cover sheet (including name; email address; PhD institution, department, and year in program)
- Curriculum vitae (not exceeding two pages)
- List of three scholars in Gulf and Arabian Peninsula studies whom you wish to engage with your work
- Statement/abstract describing your dissertation project and tentative title, as well as the nature of the proposed chapter, not to exceed 750 words
Decisions will be communicated in early March 2024. Accepted participants should plan to submit their completed chapters for circulation by 15 April 2024.
[*] dates are subject to change to accommodate time zone and weekend variations among the final participants.
AGAPS Graduate Student Workshop 2021
On July 28 and 29, 2021, AGAPS held its first successful graduate student workshop in which participants received feedback on their dissertation research from senior scholars as well as other workshop participants.
A summary of the workshop schedule along with the names of participants is displayed below.
| Time (UTC) | Wed, July 28 | Time | Thurs, July 29 |
| 3:00 | Opening Remarks & Introductions Fahed Al-Sumait President, AGAPS | 3:00 | Betul Dogan-Akkas De-Constructing Hegemony: Qatar’s Regional Isolation and Counter-Hegemonic Discourse Discussant: Dr. Gregory Gause |
| 3:30 | Danya Al-Saleh “Who will man the rigs when we go?” Transnational Demographic Fever Dreams between Qatar and Texas Discussant: Dr. Natalie Koch | 4:00 | Tom Walsh Sectarianism, Sectarian Identity, and Sectarianisation Discussant: Dr. Fanar Haddad |
| 4:30 | Tim Rottleb Becoming an international education hub: worlding Dubai through offshore campus development Discussant: Dr. Natalie Koch | 5:00 | Main Break |
| 5:30 | Main Break | 5:30 | Cynthia Gharios The future of food: Reimagining agriculture technology in the United Arab Emirates Discussant: Dr. Michael Herb |
| 6:00 | Deina Rabie Life after Oil: Negotiations of Language and Gendered Mobilities among Emirati Women in the United Arab Emirates Discussant: Dr. Neha Vora | 6:30 | Concluding Remarks Fahed Al-Sumait President, AGAPS |
| 7:00 | Joud Alkorani Dubai Detours: Being Muslim after the Islamic Revival and Arab Spring Discussant: Dr. Ahmed Kanna | Workshop End | |