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CMESNewsletter #24November/December 2021 | | | | The CMES building in a wintry Lund and CMES staff at a holiday lunch. | Message from the DirectorSeason's Greetings from the team at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies!We are soon reaching the end of 2021. It has been a very exciting and productive year at CMES despite all the challenges and uncertainties from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Unfortunately we had to cancel our CMES Open House in December due to the pandemic, but will reschedule the event in the spring of 2022. The CMES staff is amazing and persevere in high spirit in their research endeavours! The implementation of CMES 2.0. is now in full swing and new recruitment of both senior and junior scholars has been made as part of new research projects and PhD programs. CMES is also very happy to note the new professorial recruitments in Islamology. We look forward to welcoming professor Oliver Scharbrodt and visiting professor Yafa Shanneik to Lund University in the spring and to collaborate with them in the near future. We are also very pleased to welcoming back Dalia Abdel Hady and Rola El-Husseini Dean for CMES writing retreats in the spring. The CMES seminar program for the spring 2022 is nearly set and contains a broad range of exciting and diverse research presentations on the Middle East. First out is a seminar on Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa with professor Michelle Pace at Roskilde University. Also do not miss to watch on Lund University’s Youtube channel CMES distinguished panel on trendspotting future challenges in the Middle East, in case you missed it live at Skissernas Museum. Wishing you all Happy Holidays and a peaceful New Year!
For the latest CMES news, stay tuned on our website and by subscribing to the Newsletter! | Karin AggestamCMES director and MECW coordinator
| | | | CMES Hosting 2023 Olof Palme Visiting Professor Raphael Cohen-AlmagorThe 2023 Olof Palme visiting professorship has been awarded to Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Professor in Political Studies at University of Hull, UK, by the Swedish Research Council. During his time in Sweden, professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor will be based at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University. The Olof Palme professorship is awarded to an internationally prominent researcher focused on topics important to the pursuit of peace in a broad context within the areas of social sciences, humanities, theology and science of law. Read more on the Swedish Research Council's website | | | | Middle East Trendspotting Panel Available on Lund University's YouTube Channel
In October, CMES organized a trendspotting panel with five scholars with Middle Eastern expertise. Their contributions are now available on YouTube (in English with English subtitles). | | | | Isak Svensson's Lecture on Jihadist Peace Available OnlineTogether with the Association of Foreign Affairs (UPF Lund), CMES co-organized an event with Professor Isak Svensson from the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. The event was chaired by CMES Director Karin Aggestam. The lecture, "Jihadist Peace - Is peacemaking possible in Islamist armed conflicts", is now available to view online. | Lectures on Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Forest Fires in TurkeyCMES researcher Pinar Dinc recently gave two invited lectures for the Iran Academy: "Consolidating and Contesting Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Turkey: Towards a Framework” and “Forest fires and conflict nexus in Turkey’s Kurdistan”. Iran Academia, the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, was founded in 2012 in order to provide a space for students whose right to education is violated inside Iran. The lectures are available online, please visit Iran Academia's website (in Farsi) to register. | December 17: Final PhD SeminarLaleh Foroughanfar's final PhD seminar will be held on Friday December 17 at 13:15 at Lund University (possibly on Zoom depending on pandemic restrictions). Her PhD thesis, The Street of Association: Exploring Diasporic Everyday Urbanism in Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö, will be discussed by Dr. Nishat Awan (Tu Delft). For more details and to read the manuscript, please get in touch with Laleh. | | | | 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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