Featured Events
Call for Papers: New Approaches to Interdisciplinarity in MENA Studies
02/08/2021 11:50pm
Irish Network for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (INMENAS)
The Irish Network for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (INMENAS) invites submissions from postgraduate students currently engaged in scholarly work in and on the MENA region to present their work at its first annual Postgraduate Symposium, which will take place online on the 12 and 13 of November 2021.
Call for Papers: Gramsci in the Middle East and North Africa
13/09/2021 11:00pm
LSE Middle East Centre
Abstracts are invited for an upcoming conference on Gramsci in the Middle East and North Africa. In thinking about our contemporary moment in historical context, Antonio Gramsci has emerged as a popular theorist in work focused on resistance, revolution, popular movements, capitalism, political economy, memory, temporality, transnationalism and internationalism. This conference aims to bring together scholars working with Gramsci on any of these themes, with the ultimate aim of publishing a Special Issue on Gramsci in the Middle East and North Africa.
Monday 12th October 2020
Quo Vadis: Welfare State in the post Arab Spring 2.0.
10/10/2020 9:00am - 13/10/2020 4:00pm
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
The objective of the panel is to allow 15-20 scholars to come together to hold in-depth discussions of papers on welfare state in the MENA region, that may lead at the end of the panel to publications, research projects, etc. If you are interested in the topic, don't hesitate to consult the call for papers (panel 18) here https://bit.ly/2U4ggDG and submit your paper before February 14.
10/10/2020 9:00am - 13/10/2020 4:00pm
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
The objective of the panel is to allow 15-20 scholars to come together to hold in-depth discussions of papers on welfare state in the MENA region, that may lead at the end of the panel to publications, research projects, etc. If you are interested in the topic, don't hesitate to consult the call for papers (panel 18) here https://bit.ly/2U4ggDG and submit your paper before February 14.
Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (Book Launch)
12/10/2020 5:00pm
https://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/events/2020/anticolonial-afterlives
This is an event to launch Sara Salem's latest book Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony. The book explores Egypt's first postcolonial project through an imagined conversation between Antonio Gramsci and Frantz Fanon, two foundational theorists of anti-capitalism and anti-colonialism, thinking through questions of decolonisation, capitalism, resistance, and mastery.
12/10/2020 5:00pm
https://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/events/2020/anticolonial-afterlives
This is an event to launch Sara Salem's latest book Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony. The book explores Egypt's first postcolonial project through an imagined conversation between Antonio Gramsci and Frantz Fanon, two foundational theorists of anti-capitalism and anti-colonialism, thinking through questions of decolonisation, capitalism, resistance, and mastery.
Black Monuments Matter
05/10/2020 9:00am - 31/03/2021 5:00pm
The Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Zamani Project at the University of Cape Town
The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Zamani Project at the University of Cape Town are pleased to present the online exhibition "Black Monuments Matter". Black Monuments Matter recognises and highlights African contributions to world history by exhibiting World Heritage Monuments and architectural treasures from Sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, this exhibition sweeps away ideas based on racist theories and hopes to contribute to both awareness of African identity and pride of African Heritage.
05/10/2020 9:00am - 31/03/2021 5:00pm
The Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Zamani Project at the University of Cape Town
The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Zamani Project at the University of Cape Town are pleased to present the online exhibition "Black Monuments Matter". Black Monuments Matter recognises and highlights African contributions to world history by exhibiting World Heritage Monuments and architectural treasures from Sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, this exhibition sweeps away ideas based on racist theories and hopes to contribute to both awareness of African identity and pride of African Heritage.
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