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CMESNewsletter #43March 2024 | | | | Message From the DirectorSpring greetings from the CMES team!Welcoming the spring, the CMES garden is now covered with beautiful flower beds! We are in the midst of the spring semester with many exciting activities. In March, Nowruz was celebrated with a feast of Persian delights for staff and Arabic language students. The reading course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is now in full swing drawing participants from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Looking ahead to April, we have two international events lined up. First, a topical policy-research dialogue will explore Europe’s changing perceptions and policies towards Iran. Second, an international workshop is held on post-conflict political generations of women and youth activists in the ‘second wave’ of the Arab Spring. CMES has recently announced several calls for project proposals and writing retreats. Please note the deadline for submission is 30 April. CMES is also organizing the Third Annual Swedish Middle East and North Africa Network (SWEMENA) Conference to be held on 22-23 August at Lund University. The call for papers, panels and roundtables has been announced with a set deadline for submission on 3 May. Finally, CMES continues to welcome new staff members. Krishna Kumar starts up his post-doctoral position on research data infrastructure. Anne Lene Stein is joining us to teach the course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Lisa Strömbom is here for a writing retreat until the end of the spring semester. For the latest updates, stay tuned on our website, social media and by subscribing to the Newsletter! | Karin AggestamCMES Director and MECW Coordinator
| | | | Nowruz Celebration at CMESOn 20 March, CMES hosted a Nowruz celebration for its staff and students with Persian food and a presentation by CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi. The event was organised by CMES' language training expert Rafah Barhoum. | | | | Source: Wikimedia Commons | | | | Krishna Kumar, Anne Stein and Lisa Strömbom | | CMES Welcomes New Staff MembersWe are delighted to welcome three new researchers to CMES! Krishna Kumar will join us as a postdoctoral research fellow working on a project to build research data infrastructure at CMES. Doctoral student Anne Lene Stein joins us as part of the teaching team on the Israel-Palestine Conflict course at the Centre. Lisa Strömbom is welcomed back for a writing retreat this semester. | | | | Conflict and Fire Poster Wins AwardCMES PhD student Wan Ni Lin recently won an award for "Best Poster" at the Svenska Rymdforskares Samarbetsgrupps (SRS) conference at Linnaeus University (20-21 March). The poster was made by Wan Ni and Lovisa Rosenquist Ohlsson and was titled "Can a relationship between conflict and fire be found using remote sensing?". Congratulations Wan Ni! | | | | Photo: M. Rais/Wikimedia Commons | | | | 30 May: Inside the Israeli-Palestinian ConflictCMES Public Seminar with Lund University Honorary Doctor and Foreign Correspondent Samir Abu Eid, Swedish Public Service Television. Co-organised with the Department of Political Science and the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund. At Eden's Auditorium (Allhelgona kyrkogata 14), 18:00-19:30. | | | | Photo: Michael Paul Gollmer/Wikimedia | | | |
13 June: AI in the Service of Socio-Politically Adapted Sustainable Dust-Storm Control in the Middle EastCMES research seminar with Hossein Hashemi (CMES and Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University), Amir Naghibi (CMES and Division of Water Resources Engineering, LU), Sara Brogaard (CMES and LUCSUS, LU), Ali Mansourian (CMES and Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, LU), and Pengziang Zhao (CMES and Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, LU). At CMES and on Zoom, 13:15-14:30. | | | | Looking for an Expert on the Middle East and North Africa?CMES researchers conduct research on a range of themes related to countries in the MENA region: democratization, migration and sustainable socio-economic development; environment and sustainable development; religion, identity and culture; and security and sustainable peace. To find out more, please visit our website's list of experts. | 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. | |
About This NewsletterThis is a newsletter from the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University. With the objective to provide an overview Middle Eastern studies undertaken at Lund University, this newsletter is intended to give updates on research, events, and other related news. It is also intended to form a window towards the society, showcasing important Middle Eastern research conducted at Lund University. Subscribe here Send the CMES Newsletter to a friend UNSUBSCRIBE |
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