AGAPS Announcements
The 10th anniversary of the Journal of Arabian Studies: issue 10.1 (June 2020) is available at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjab20/10/1?nav=tocList. It includes a comprehensive survey of the emergence and institutional development of the field of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, which the authors (JAS’s editors) …
AGAPS is excited to announce our biennial Book Award! Nominations are open for scholarly monographs published in English between May 1, 2019 and April 30, 2021. Please submit nominations by 15 May 2021!
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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Congratulations to the 2020 AGAPS Award Winners! The Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation AwardDr. Camille Lyans Cole, Yale UniversityEmpire on Edge: Land, Law, and Capital in Gilded Age Basra Graduate Paper AwardEmilio Ocampo Eibenschutz, Cornell University19th-Century British Imperialism and the Transregional Geopolitics …
Our new Twitter account will be posting regular updates about AGAPS and information on events and opportunities for scholars of the Gulf. Please give us a follow at https://twitter.com/AgapsOrg!
At 11:00 am ET on Sunday, October 11th, AGAPS will be hosting a Coffee Hour for grad students studying the Gulf, Indian Ocean, or Arabian Peninsula, broadly defined. Please join us!
Saturday, October 3rd 9am-11am EDT This year’s annual Business Meeting is to be held virtually using the Zoom link below. It is open to any member of our community, so you do not need to be registered at MESA to …
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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 …