CMES Seminar Series
CMES Public and Research Seminars
Across the semester, you are warmly invited to attend both Seminar Series. Until further notice, all meetings are held on Zoom. We hope to return to hybrid and physical seminars once the infection rate of COVID-19 has decreased.
Autumn program 2021
CMES Public Seminar
CMES Public Seminar focuses on current “hot” topics in the Middle East. National and international experts are invited to share their insights and analyses on various subjects relevant to the region.
“Breakthroughs” - Future Week at Lund University
CMES panel on Trendspotting Breakthroughs in the Middle East
15 December
Open House on Finngatan 16
Snapshot Presentations of Middle East research - Come and Mingle with CMES scholars
CMES Research Seminar
CMES Research Seminar is the main collective seminar at the Centre. LU researchers and invited national and international leading scholars present ongoing research and analyses of a broad range of exciting topics of relevance for the Middle East.
Refugee Decision-making in the First Countries of Asylum
Mo Hamza, Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, Lund University
Post-2011 Arab Diasporas: Transnational and Translocal Activism
Sarah Ann Rennick, Deputy Director of the Arab Reform Initiative in Paris
The Dersim Genocide in Turkey
Pinar Dinc, CMES, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows: Exigency and Sectarian Politics in Lebanon
Rola El-Husseini Dean, CMES, Political Science, Lund University
When the Assyrian tragedy became Seyo. A study of Swedish-Assyrian politics of memory
Svante Lundgren, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
Digital communication and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Weaving interventionist and transactional modes of knowledge production in peace research
Lisa Strömbom, Political Science, Lund University
New MECW-project: AI in the service of socio-politically adapted sustainable dust- storm control in the Middle East
Hossein Hashemi, Water Resource Engineering, Seyed Amir Naghibi, Water Resource Engineering, Sara Brogaard, LUCSUS, Ali Mansourian, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Pengziang Zhao, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science.
Learning, Belonging, Resisting: Palestinian Youth in Lebanese Higher Education
Torsten Jansson, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
Convenors
Karin Aggestam
Karin [dot] aggestam [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se
Ronny Berndtsson
Ronny [dot] Berndtsson [at] tvrl [dot] lth [dot] se