AGAPS Graduate Student Workshops
The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) holds periodic virtual workshops to 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 has their chapter discussed in depth by a senior scholar.
The AGAPS graduate student workshops are open to all graduate students 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 next workshop will be posted here.
AGAPS Graduate Student Workshop 2024
AGAPS Graduate Student Workshop 2021
| 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 | |