This is a newsletter from Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University
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Middle East Forum Newsletter #8
February, 2020
Middle Eastern research news from Lund University | | | | | |
Message from the director | The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is an exceptionally dynamic area that has undergone great changes politically as well as economically during the latest decades.
The region is likely to continue to display rapid and sudden developments during coming decades. Demographically the region will almost double its population by 2050. Researchers and teachers at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies are heavily involved in externally funded capacity building projects in countries ranging from Algeria in the west to Kazakhstan in the east.
In March, within an EU-funded H2020 project, the Centre is arranging a spring school aiming at improving sustainability and resilience of Tunisian agriculture in view of climate change. In April, we are arranging a twinning conference between Lund University and 7 universities in northern Iraq to support development of research and education the conflict-ridden region. In a recently funded Swedish Institute project, researchers will develop academic collaboration with scholars from Turkey whose academic freedom are implicitly or explicitly violated. By use of seminars, at least 500 participants will be reached and it is expected that about 20,000 people will follow developed podcasts and vodcasts. Thus, Lund University, through the Centre´s activities, vigorously works for a societal impact in the Middle East and strives towards better understanding, explaining, and improving the human conditions in the area. | Ronny Berndtsson, acting director CMES | FASTER Spring school for Farmer Advisory Services Agents of ChangeMarch 16-20, 2020, Tabarka, Tunisia
The EU H2020 project FASTER, Farmers’ Adaptation and Sustainability in Tunisia through Excellence in Research, aims to reinforce research and knowledge transfer capacity of INRGREF (National Research Institute of Rural Engineering, Water and Forests) related to innovative land and water management in view of climate change and its implementation through the use of Farm Advisory Systems (FAS). | | | | A New Seminar and Vodcast Series at Lund University draws attention to the infringements of Academic Freedom in Turkey and provides a forum for those affected
Read about the project
| | | | | | | | Research on populism published as cartoonsHaving just marked two months since its launch, #rethinkingPopulism has already published 9 articles and an interactive map tracing the topography of research on populism and gender.
Continuing to pursue the project’s aim to contribute to a vigorous and constructive, yet widely accessible debate for a non-academic and younger public as well as populism researchers, #rethinkingPopulism has now produced the first in a series of cartoon-style info sheets on Populism & nativism in India: The politics of gender in the Hindutva movement, drawing on two articles that appeared on the project’s openDemocracy website.
| "Application of remote sensing techniques and machine learning algorithms in dust source detection and dust source susceptibility mapping" | | | | Mordet på Soleimani kan få stora konsekvenserVad är de regionala konsekvenserna efter mordet på den iranska generalen Qassem Soleimani och det upptrappade läget mellan USA och Iran? Spyros A. Sofos, forskare vid Centrum för Mellanösternstudier, kommenterar. Read more here | | | | She found a sanctuary in Lund - about CMES Pinar Dinc and her research and life journey
| | | | "Ground Validation of GPM IMERG Precipitation Products over Iran" | | | | How Iran’s Islamic Revolution Does, and Does Not, Influence Houthi Rule in Northern YemenNew article by CMES Mohammed Almahfali & James Root. | | | | After Baghdadi’s death, why did Islamic State fighters give a pledge to their new leader?New article by CMES guest researcher Orwa Ajjoub. | Adaptive Scatter Search to Solve the Minimum Connected Dominating Set Problem for Efficient Management of Wireless NetworksNew article by CMES guest researcher Shada Abdulaziz. | CMES Orwa Ajjoub recently gave a very appreciated lecture at UPF´s Get active event answering these questions: What does the killing of al-Baghdadi mean? What are its repercussions? Will it disrupt the group's activity? | | |
March 18, at 15-18
A Panel Discussion: Raison d'État in the “New” Turkey
Speakers:
Pınar Dinç, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University
“Turkey's Unchanging Raison d'État? Narratives on Dersim 1938”
Reyda Ergün, Faculty of Law, Kadir Has University,
“Raison d’État and the Regimes of Gender and Sexuality in Turkey under the AKP rule”
Burak Özçetin, Faculty of Communication, Bilgi University
“Seeing Like a State: Raison d'État, Media, and Democracy in Turkey under the AKP Rule”
More about the speakers Please register here: maria.lofstedt@cme.lu.se Facebook event
April 2, at 12-13
How sustainable are projects? Who are they sustainable for? What is sustainability? A project is often evaluated mid-term and at the end, to make sure that funding has been and is, used appropriately, and that the project objectives have been reached. But how sustainable are projects? Who are they sustainable for? What is sustainability?
Annika Rabo and Ulrik Mårtensson Facebook event
April 2, at 16-17 30
"Trajectories of change: agency VS structure in the Muslim Brotherhood after 2013"
Dr. Lucia Ardovini is a Research Fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Programme, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Facebook event
| MiddleEasternStudies@Lund blog Our blog is intended to showcase the diverse and timely work we do on the Middle East and on its impact globally, across all disciplines at Lund University. Blog readers will find commentary on current affairs, reviews of events, publications, films and all sorts of other outcomes of the research we do. | Scholarships of Swedish Research InstituteThe scholarships of the Swedish Research Institute are intended for those engaged in independent scientific work in a topic within the institute's activity areas mainly humanities and social sciences. The work should primarily be linked to Turkey but it can also be related to other parts of Eastern Mediterranean, or other culturally, historically or linguistically related regions. | Important application dates
Each year the Faculty of Social Sciences announce a number of recurring grants that are available to apply for certain categories of faculty staff. Also, please note the deadlines concerning applications to the faculty´s Teaching Academy and applications for readership. www.sam.lu.se/en/internal | SASNET co-organises a summer school on gender and riskThe summer School will take place in May 2020 at the LU Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety and offers training in developing gender-inclusive designs in response, recovery, and preparedness. Info on the course and how to apply | Do you want news about international opportunities?If you want to know more about international calls, grants and courses, subscribe to the newsletter of External Relations at Lund University. | LUCRIS helps you to reach out with your researchLUCRIS is Lund University’s central research information system. It consists of a user interface, LUCRIS, for entering and managing information, and a public portal, the Research Portal. Social Faculty internal pages about LUCRIS | New law on deviations from good research practice The new Act on Responsibility for Good Research Practice and the Examination of Research Misconduct entered into force on 1 January 2020. The law means that suspicions of deviation from good research practice concerning fabrication, falsification or plagiarism (FFP), which the law defines as serious deviation from good research practice, are to be dealt with by a national board. Read more at the Staff Pages | Mission is PossibleWant to know more about how research benefits our society? On the web page Mission is Possible there are articles about The Middle East in the Contemporary World and Lund University's other strategic research areas. And the printed version of the magazine "Mission is possible" is now available.
Please send an email if you are interested in a copy. | Improve your research presentation and participate in this year’s Researchers Grand PrixDo you want to be better at summing up what is important about your research and receive help and support to present your results? If so, perhaps you would like to take part in this year’s Researchers’ Grand Prix. It is a competition in which you are to present your research in a way that is as easily accessible and engaging as possible – in only four (4!) minutes. More info at Staff Pages | | | |
About the newsletterWith 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. |
If you have information that you want to be included in the next edition of the newsletter, please contact maria.lofstedt@cme.lu.se. | |
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