This is a newsletter from Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University |
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CMESNewsletter #22September 2021 | | | | Message from the DirectorNew CMES scholars and interdisciplinary research project!The autumn semester started off in the best possible way by harvesting ripe apples in CMES garden and hosting a kick-off meeting with new and old CMES scholars at Grand Hotel. CMES 2.0. is now put in motion with the launch of a new interdisciplinary three-year-research project on dust-storms and by welcoming new researchers and PhD students. With the easing of Covid-restrictions and with a careful renovation of the house, the Centre is slowly but surely buzzy again with a broad range of exciting research activities. Please consult CMES calendar where all the autumn seminars and events are posted. All are welcome to attend either at CMES or online via Zoom! Coming up in mid-October is Lund University’s Future Week on the theme of “breakthroughs". Do not miss CMES panel on future trendspotting in the Middle East with Lina Eklund, Rola El-Husseini Dean, Mo Hamza, Rouzbeh Parsi and Anders Persson. The panel will address a broad range of topics from climate change, migration, human rights, democratization to peace and regional security. The event is held in the beautiful Rausing Hall at Skissernas Museum on 20 October.
Stay tuned on CMES website and by subscribing to the Newsletter! | Karin AggestamCMES director and MECW coordinator
| | | | New MECW project on AI and dust-storm control in the Middle EastThe goals of this interdisciplinary project are to identify the climate- and human-induced sources of dust-storms and to determine and explain the factors affecting the dust-source areas such as climate variation, land-use change, social, political, and economic drivers, and water management in time and space using remote sensing and artificial intelligence techniques. The research team consists of: Hossein Hashemi (Water Resource Engineering), Seyed Amir Naghibi (Water Resource Engineering), Sara Brogaard (LUCSUS), Ali Mansourian (Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) and Pengziang Zhao (Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science) | | | | Panel on Resistance Against Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Turkey CMES researcher Pinar Dinc chaired a panel during the ECPR's General Conference in the section "A Decade of Crises and Resilience in Southern Europe". She also presented a paper "Contesting Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Turkey", co-authored with Imren Borsuk (Freie Universität Berlin), Sinem Kavak (Lund University), and Pinar Sayan (Beykoz University). | Papers on Little Palestine in Berlin and Migrants and Digestive Pathologies in Sweden and FranceCMES Researcher Fanny Christou presented two papers at the 2021 Migration Conference in London: "Social and solidarity economy through the analysis of the Little Palestine in Berlin: integration, citizenship and identity in diaspora" and "Migrants and Digestive Pathologies in a Pandemic Context: A comparison between the French and the Swedish healthcare systems and migration policies". | October 20: Trendspotting Breakthroughs in the Middle EastCMES Public Seminar with Lina Eklund (LU Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science), Rola El-Husseini Dean (LU Political Science), Mo Hamza (LU Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety), Rouzbeh Parsi (Swedish Institute for International Affairs), Anders Persson (Linneus University) and Karin Aggestam (LU Political Science). The event is organized as part of LU's Future Week. | | | | Find Out More About Middle East Research at Lund UniversityLund University conducts Middle Eastern research of international quality and with a societal relevance across and between faculties. To find out more about the Middle East research being conducted at LU in Science, Medicine, Engineering, Humanities and Theology, and Social Sciences, please visit our website. | |
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