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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 1d

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 13d

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

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 2d

Deadline in one week!

Applications are still open for the 2026 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship.

Deadline: October 13, 2025 (11:59 p.m. Doha time)

For more details and to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/undergradfel...

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · Sep 2

Calling @nuqatar.bsky.social students to apply for the 2026 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship!

Deadline: October 13, 2025 (11:59 p.m. Doha time)

For more details and to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/undergradfel...

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 6d

Event details: bit.ly/iasxC2DH

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 6d

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#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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 8d

In one week!

🗓️ Wednesday, October 8, 2025
🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social

Event details: bit.ly/4gQCYHV

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 9d

Deadline in two weeks!

Applications are still open for the 2026 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship.

Deadline: October 13, 2025 (11:59 p.m. Doha time)

For more details and to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/undergradfel...

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · Sep 2

Calling @nuqatar.bsky.social students to apply for the 2026 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship!

Deadline: October 13, 2025 (11:59 p.m. Doha time)

For more details and to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/undergradfel...

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 10d

Our #keymoments conference featured a heartfelt conversation exploring a new epistemology for understanding media, history, memory, and affect. Stay tuned for what comes next!

#NUQProud

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 10d

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.”

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you to our outstanding speakers, @nuqatar.bsky.social colleagues, and the attendees for making the day a success.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 10d

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.”

1 2

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 18d

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!

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 18d

Highlights from the #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium featuring Mostafa Minawi!

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 24d

In two days!

🗓️ Wednesday, September 17
🕣 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social

Event details: bit.ly/4lMhj4m

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · Aug 27

Join us for an #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium with Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University.

🗓️ Wednesday, September 17
🕣 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 24d

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.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 24d

Applications close tomorrow!

Apply now for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School (Jan 6–8, Doha) on “Media Policy and Governance,” hosted by #IAS_NUQ at @nuqatar.bsky.social.

Deadline: September 15, 2025

Apply here: t.co/8l0ywMmG1j

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · Aug 18

Applications are now open for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School (January 6–8, Doha, Qatar) on "Media Policy and Governance," hosted by #IAS_NUQ at @nuqatar.bsky.social.

Deadline: Sept 15, 2025

Apply here: bit.ly/2026winterschool

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 27d

Applications for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School are still open. Apply by September 15!

For more details and to apply: t.co/8l0ywMmG1j

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · Aug 18

Applications are now open for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School (January 6–8, Doha, Qatar) on "Media Policy and Governance," hosted by #IAS_NUQ at @nuqatar.bsky.social.

Deadline: Sept 15, 2025

Apply here: bit.ly/2026winterschool

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 28d

Digital Carceral Mobilities: Mobility and Smuggled Mobile Technologies in Prisons (Mobile Media & Communication).

Read here: bit.ly/4mW2UUG

Digital carceral mobilities: Mobility and smuggled mobile technologies in prisons - Chafic Tony Najem, 2025

Contemporary carceral systems function through the restriction of physical movement and the regulation of information flows, so how do prisoners’ smuggled mobil...

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 28d

Prison Media Mobilization: Smuggled Technologies and Media Practices in Lebanese Carceral Spaces (Communication, Culture & Critique @icahdq.bsky.social).

Read here: bit.ly/3JTxhMZ

Prison media mobilization: smuggled technologies and media practices in Lebanese carceral spaces

Abstract. This article explores the use of smuggled digital technologies by prisoners in Lebanese carceral spaces. Since 2012, prisoners have smuggled cell

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 28d

We’re proud to share the scholarship of our #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar, Chafic Najem, who recently published two articles advancing critical conversations on media, technology, and carceral politics.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 29d

Happening today!

🕣 1:00 - 2:15 p.m.
📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social

More info: bit.ly/45ElCJ3

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happening today!

🕝 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
📍 Forum, @nuqatar.bsky.social

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · Sep 3

Curious about the 2026 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship?

Join us for Karak with #IAS_NUQ to ask questions, share ideas and learn how to turn your project into a fellowship proposal.

🗓️ September 9, 2025
🕝 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
📍 Forum, @nuqatar.bsky.social

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · Sep 8

In two days!

🗓️ Wednesday, September 10, 2025
🕣 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · Aug 21

Join us for the #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar Colloquium with Chafic Najem on “Illicit Media: Smuggled Technologies and the Politics of Carceral Communication.”

🗓️ Wednesday, September 10, 2025
🕣 1:00 - 2:15 p.m.
📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social

More info: bit.ly/45ElCJ3

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · Sep 4

Backed by the #IAS_NUQ Global South Research Grant, the game empowers players to decode digital deceit through immersive, experiential play.

Check out #IAS_NUQ Faculty Grants here: bit.ly/facultygrants