After the great success of the World Congresses for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Mainz/Ger-many in 2002, Amman/Jordan in 2006, Barcelona/Spain in 2010, Ankara/Turkey in 2014 and Seville/ Spain in 2018, it is planned that the Sixth WOCMES will be …
Antonio Gramsci has emerged as a popular theorist in work focused on resistance, revolution, popular movements, capitalism, political economy, memory, temporality, transnationalism and internationalism. In the wake of 2011 there is a significant revival in Gramscian perspectives in Middle East …
Gramsci in the Middle East and North Africa”, LSE, 9-10 May 2022 Read more »
Virtual Research Methods for MENA Politics: scholars are invited to register to attend one (or more) of the online seminar sessions starting May 12. This is an effort to support scholars who are currently reconsidering how and when to do …
The Call for Proposals for the 2021-22 LSE Kuwait Academic Collaborations: http://www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-centre/research/kuwait-programme/kuwait-academic-collaborations/call-for-proposals. The collaboration projects have been set up to enable Kuwait-based researchers to work with LSE academics on research focused on Kuwait. Up to £75,000 is available for each …
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Impatient Cities of the Gulf: Post-oil Architecture in Flux edited by Roberto Fabbri, University of Monterrey (MX) and Iain Jackson, University of Liverpool (UK). Today’s general perception of Gulf cities is based on the assumption of a futuristic vision; a …
Enhancing Food Security in Qatar: Towards Productive, Innovation-Driven and Sustainable Local Food Production. 15 and 16 March 2020 at Qatar University Possible topics include: Food-water-energy nexus Managing and organizing innovation in agriculture Technology adoption and agriculture Policy, planning and food …
CFP: Enhancing Food Security in Qatar. March 15-16, 2020 Read more »
“Oceanic Circularities: The Indian Ocean in the Modern World” The Indian Ocean Working Group at Georgetown-Qatar is holding a multidisciplinary conference on 16-18 February, 2020. The CFP is pasted below: Over the past five millennia, plants, animals, people, languages, ideas, …
For interested members, note the 10/31 application deadline for PESI 2020: a four-day graduate level seminar on critical political economy for those studying and researching the Middle East, as well as to connect doctoral students and independent researchers with mid-career …
The American Political Science Association (APSA) has announced a call for proposals from political scientists interested in serving as co-leaders for the 7th annual MENA Workshop program. Pending availability of funding, the 2020 program will be conducted as a 7-day …