Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South
@iasnuq.bsky.social
The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @nuqatar.bsky.social produces & promotes evidence-based storytelling focused on histories, cultures, societies, & media of the Global South.
Join us at MESA 2025!
The Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies (SHAMS) is excited to host our first meeting in conjunction with MESA 2025.
🗓️ Saturday, Nov 22, 2025
⏰ 8:45 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
📍 The Westin DC Downtown – Meeting Room 6
Register here: bit.ly/43E287r
The Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies (SHAMS) is excited to host our first meeting in conjunction with MESA 2025.
🗓️ Saturday, Nov 22, 2025
⏰ 8:45 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
📍 The Westin DC Downtown – Meeting Room 6
Register here: bit.ly/43E287r
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Join us at MESA 2025!
The Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies (SHAMS) is excited to host our first meeting in conjunction with MESA 2025.
🗓️ Saturday, Nov 22, 2025
⏰ 8:45 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
📍 The Westin DC Downtown – Meeting Room 6
Register here: bit.ly/43E287r
The Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies (SHAMS) is excited to host our first meeting in conjunction with MESA 2025.
🗓️ Saturday, Nov 22, 2025
⏰ 8:45 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
📍 The Westin DC Downtown – Meeting Room 6
Register here: bit.ly/43E287r
Stay tuned!
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Stay tuned!
Day 1 of the Media History Workshop at the Pullman Hotel Doha!
Hosted by #IAS_NUQ and the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program at @nuqatar.bsky.social, the workshop explores the evolution of media forms through sessions on print, audio, and visual culture.
Hosted by #IAS_NUQ and the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program at @nuqatar.bsky.social, the workshop explores the evolution of media forms through sessions on print, audio, and visual culture.
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Day 1 of the Media History Workshop at the Pullman Hotel Doha!
Hosted by #IAS_NUQ and the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program at @nuqatar.bsky.social, the workshop explores the evolution of media forms through sessions on print, audio, and visual culture.
Hosted by #IAS_NUQ and the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program at @nuqatar.bsky.social, the workshop explores the evolution of media forms through sessions on print, audio, and visual culture.
We’re starting shortly!
Join us for a CIRS Lunch Talk with Dr. Marlene Schäfers as she examines commemoration as care and explores how remembrance becomes part of Kurdish political life.
🗓️ November 13, 2025
🕐 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
📍 CIRS Conference Room OA35, @guqatar.bsky.social
Join us for a CIRS Lunch Talk with Dr. Marlene Schäfers as she examines commemoration as care and explores how remembrance becomes part of Kurdish political life.
🗓️ November 13, 2025
🕐 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
📍 CIRS Conference Room OA35, @guqatar.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We’re starting shortly!
Join us for a CIRS Lunch Talk with Dr. Marlene Schäfers as she examines commemoration as care and explores how remembrance becomes part of Kurdish political life.
🗓️ November 13, 2025
🕐 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
📍 CIRS Conference Room OA35, @guqatar.bsky.social
Join us for a CIRS Lunch Talk with Dr. Marlene Schäfers as she examines commemoration as care and explores how remembrance becomes part of Kurdish political life.
🗓️ November 13, 2025
🕐 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
📍 CIRS Conference Room OA35, @guqatar.bsky.social
During her visit, @andreamedrado.bsky.social met with undergraduate fellows, postdoctoral scholars, and global fellows, leading workshops that explored critical approaches to artificial intelligence and the Global South, while also mentoring students on connecting theory to practice.
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
During her visit, @andreamedrado.bsky.social met with undergraduate fellows, postdoctoral scholars, and global fellows, leading workshops that explored critical approaches to artificial intelligence and the Global South, while also mentoring students on connecting theory to practice.
@nuqatar.bsky.social welcomed renowned communication scholar @andreamedrado.bsky.social to campus last week for engaging discussions, workshops, and the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South, hosted by #IAS_NUQ.
View the recorded lecture here: bit.ly/4qNcPyd
View the recorded lecture here: bit.ly/4qNcPyd
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
@nuqatar.bsky.social welcomed renowned communication scholar @andreamedrado.bsky.social to campus last week for engaging discussions, workshops, and the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South, hosted by #IAS_NUQ.
View the recorded lecture here: bit.ly/4qNcPyd
View the recorded lecture here: bit.ly/4qNcPyd
Join us for #IAS_NUQ Panel titled “Everyday Technologies: Media in Middle East History” hosted in collaboration with the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program at @nuqatar.bsky.social.
🗓 Sunday, November 16, 2025
🕝 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social
🗓 Sunday, November 16, 2025
🕝 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Join us for #IAS_NUQ Panel titled “Everyday Technologies: Media in Middle East History” hosted in collaboration with the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program at @nuqatar.bsky.social.
🗓 Sunday, November 16, 2025
🕝 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social
🗓 Sunday, November 16, 2025
🕝 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social
Join us in the events hall @nuqatar.bsky.social for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South!
Can’t make it in person? Join the livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/bNPz1w5...
Can’t make it in person? Join the livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/bNPz1w5...
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Join us in the events hall @nuqatar.bsky.social for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South!
Can’t make it in person? Join the livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/bNPz1w5...
Can’t make it in person? Join the livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/bNPz1w5...
Applications are now open for the 2026-27 #IAS_NUQ Global Fellowship!
Application deadline: January 15, 2026.
Searching for an interdisciplinary research community that is focused on the Global South? Spend your sabbatical at #IAS_NUQ!
Apply here: bit.ly/2026-27globalfellows
Application deadline: January 15, 2026.
Searching for an interdisciplinary research community that is focused on the Global South? Spend your sabbatical at #IAS_NUQ!
Apply here: bit.ly/2026-27globalfellows
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Applications are now open for the 2026-27 #IAS_NUQ Global Fellowship!
Application deadline: January 15, 2026.
Searching for an interdisciplinary research community that is focused on the Global South? Spend your sabbatical at #IAS_NUQ!
Apply here: bit.ly/2026-27globalfellows
Application deadline: January 15, 2026.
Searching for an interdisciplinary research community that is focused on the Global South? Spend your sabbatical at #IAS_NUQ!
Apply here: bit.ly/2026-27globalfellows
Join us for the final #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium of the semester!
Asri Saraswati will present “Navigating Cold War Cultural Politics: Literary Aesthetics of Indonesian Sojourn Writers.”
🗓️ Tuesday, Nov 18
🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 Room 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social
More info: bit.ly/asri_collo
Asri Saraswati will present “Navigating Cold War Cultural Politics: Literary Aesthetics of Indonesian Sojourn Writers.”
🗓️ Tuesday, Nov 18
🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 Room 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social
More info: bit.ly/asri_collo
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Join us for the final #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium of the semester!
Asri Saraswati will present “Navigating Cold War Cultural Politics: Literary Aesthetics of Indonesian Sojourn Writers.”
🗓️ Tuesday, Nov 18
🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 Room 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social
More info: bit.ly/asri_collo
Asri Saraswati will present “Navigating Cold War Cultural Politics: Literary Aesthetics of Indonesian Sojourn Writers.”
🗓️ Tuesday, Nov 18
🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 Room 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social
More info: bit.ly/asri_collo
In one week!
Join us for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @andreamedrado.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) on “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation, and Justice.”
🗓️ Nov 5, 2025
🕕 5:00 – 7:30 p.m.
📍 Events Hall, @nuqatar.bsky.social
Join us for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @andreamedrado.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) on “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation, and Justice.”
🗓️ Nov 5, 2025
🕕 5:00 – 7:30 p.m.
📍 Events Hall, @nuqatar.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
In one week!
Join us for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @andreamedrado.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) on “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation, and Justice.”
🗓️ Nov 5, 2025
🕕 5:00 – 7:30 p.m.
📍 Events Hall, @nuqatar.bsky.social
Join us for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @andreamedrado.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) on “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation, and Justice.”
🗓️ Nov 5, 2025
🕕 5:00 – 7:30 p.m.
📍 Events Hall, @nuqatar.bsky.social
Call for Applications: ICA 2026 Preconference!
🗓 June 3, 2026
📍 University of Cape Town, South Africa
Deadline: January 9, 2026 (11:59 p.m. Qatar time)
Learn more & apply: bit.ly/icaprecon26
🗓 June 3, 2026
📍 University of Cape Town, South Africa
Deadline: January 9, 2026 (11:59 p.m. Qatar time)
Learn more & apply: bit.ly/icaprecon26
October 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Call for Applications: ICA 2026 Preconference!
🗓 June 3, 2026
📍 University of Cape Town, South Africa
Deadline: January 9, 2026 (11:59 p.m. Qatar time)
Learn more & apply: bit.ly/icaprecon26
🗓 June 3, 2026
📍 University of Cape Town, South Africa
Deadline: January 9, 2026 (11:59 p.m. Qatar time)
Learn more & apply: bit.ly/icaprecon26
Applications are now open for the 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School: Transformations, Cultures, Heritage, and Possibilities across Asia!
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: December 10, 2025
Apply here: bit.ly/4hcgBgk
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: December 10, 2025
Apply here: bit.ly/4hcgBgk
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Applications are now open for the 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School: Transformations, Cultures, Heritage, and Possibilities across Asia!
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: December 10, 2025
Apply here: bit.ly/4hcgBgk
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: December 10, 2025
Apply here: bit.ly/4hcgBgk
We’re excited to share that Mariam Karim, #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar, recently published in Communication, Culture & Critique @icahdq.bsky.social .
October 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We’re excited to share that Mariam Karim, #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar, recently published in Communication, Culture & Critique @icahdq.bsky.social .
We’re thrilled to share that Chaos Corp: Troll Farm Simulator just won a W3 Award for Best Mobile Game!
October 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
We’re thrilled to share that Chaos Corp: Troll Farm Simulator just won a W3 Award for Best Mobile Game!
We had a full house yesterday at our #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium featuring Sara Mourad.
Through personal narrative, archives, and cultural texts, Sara explored the absence of the father figure in postwar Lebanon, connecting gender, politics, and memory.
Through personal narrative, archives, and cultural texts, Sara explored the absence of the father figure in postwar Lebanon, connecting gender, politics, and memory.
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We had a full house yesterday at our #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium featuring Sara Mourad.
Through personal narrative, archives, and cultural texts, Sara explored the absence of the father figure in postwar Lebanon, connecting gender, politics, and memory.
Through personal narrative, archives, and cultural texts, Sara explored the absence of the father figure in postwar Lebanon, connecting gender, politics, and memory.
Save the date!
Join us for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @andreamedrado.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) on “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation, and Justice.”
🗓️ Nov 5, 2025
🕕 5:00 – 7:30 p.m.
📍 Events Hall, @nuqatar.bsky.social
bit.ly/46VQFAC
Join us for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @andreamedrado.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) on “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation, and Justice.”
🗓️ Nov 5, 2025
🕕 5:00 – 7:30 p.m.
📍 Events Hall, @nuqatar.bsky.social
bit.ly/46VQFAC
October 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Save the date!
Join us for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @andreamedrado.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) on “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation, and Justice.”
🗓️ Nov 5, 2025
🕕 5:00 – 7:30 p.m.
📍 Events Hall, @nuqatar.bsky.social
bit.ly/46VQFAC
Join us for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @andreamedrado.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) on “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation, and Justice.”
🗓️ Nov 5, 2025
🕕 5:00 – 7:30 p.m.
📍 Events Hall, @nuqatar.bsky.social
bit.ly/46VQFAC
Save the date!
#IAS_NUQ x C²DH will present a panel on “Digital Public History in a Global Context” exploring how AI and digital tech are reshaping how we study, preserve, and engage with the past.
🗓️ Wednesday, October 22
🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social
#IAS_NUQ x C²DH will present a panel on “Digital Public History in a Global Context” exploring how AI and digital tech are reshaping how we study, preserve, and engage with the past.
🗓️ Wednesday, October 22
🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Save the date!
#IAS_NUQ x C²DH will present a panel on “Digital Public History in a Global Context” exploring how AI and digital tech are reshaping how we study, preserve, and engage with the past.
🗓️ Wednesday, October 22
🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social
#IAS_NUQ x C²DH will present a panel on “Digital Public History in a Global Context” exploring how AI and digital tech are reshaping how we study, preserve, and engage with the past.
🗓️ Wednesday, October 22
🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social
Thank you to our outstanding speakers, @nuqatar.bsky.social colleagues, and the attendees for making the day a success.
September 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Thank you to our outstanding speakers, @nuqatar.bsky.social colleagues, and the attendees for making the day a success.
Last week, we hosted the Key Moments in Media and Culture Conference at @nuqatar.bsky.social, where scholars reflected on history, memory, mediation, and affect, asking how events become remembered as “key moments.”
September 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Last week, we hosted the Key Moments in Media and Culture Conference at @nuqatar.bsky.social, where scholars reflected on history, memory, mediation, and affect, asking how events become remembered as “key moments.”
Join us for an #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium with Sara Mourad (American University of Beirut) on “In Search of the Missing Father.”
🗓️ Wednesday, October 8, 2025
🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social
Event details: bit.ly/4gQCYHV
🗓️ Wednesday, October 8, 2025
🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social
Event details: bit.ly/4gQCYHV
September 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Join us for an #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium with Sara Mourad (American University of Beirut) on “In Search of the Missing Father.”
🗓️ Wednesday, October 8, 2025
🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social
Event details: bit.ly/4gQCYHV
🗓️ Wednesday, October 8, 2025
🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social
Event details: bit.ly/4gQCYHV
Minawi examined Ottoman–Ethiopian relations and imperial rivalries through the lens of the Deir Es-Sultan rooftop monastery in Jerusalem, offering a fresh perspective on geopolitics, empire, and resistance.
Thank you to all who joined!
Thank you to all who joined!
September 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Minawi examined Ottoman–Ethiopian relations and imperial rivalries through the lens of the Deir Es-Sultan rooftop monastery in Jerusalem, offering a fresh perspective on geopolitics, empire, and resistance.
Thank you to all who joined!
Thank you to all who joined!
Applications are now open for #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholars!
Deadline: December 1, 2025
We’re seeking two fellows to pursue comparative & transnational research on the histories, cultures, societies & media of the Global South.
Apply here: bit.ly/ias_postdoc
Deadline: December 1, 2025
We’re seeking two fellows to pursue comparative & transnational research on the histories, cultures, societies & media of the Global South.
Apply here: bit.ly/ias_postdoc
September 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Applications are now open for #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholars!
Deadline: December 1, 2025
We’re seeking two fellows to pursue comparative & transnational research on the histories, cultures, societies & media of the Global South.
Apply here: bit.ly/ias_postdoc
Deadline: December 1, 2025
We’re seeking two fellows to pursue comparative & transnational research on the histories, cultures, societies & media of the Global South.
Apply here: bit.ly/ias_postdoc
We kicked off our fall events with a full house at the #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar Colloquium featuring Chafic Najem, who introduced digital carceral mobilities, explaining how smuggled phones in Lebanon’s prisons enable connection under surveillance.
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We kicked off our fall events with a full house at the #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar Colloquium featuring Chafic Najem, who introduced digital carceral mobilities, explaining how smuggled phones in Lebanon’s prisons enable connection under surveillance.