By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 15 October 2019 Three experts on Turkey from CMES will visit Stockholm and SUITS, the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies, in December. CMES at SUITS The researchers are:Pinar DincOmer TuranSpyros Sofos2019-10-15

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-suits-stockholm - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 14 October 2019 The “Inequalities, Peace and Conflict in Turkey” workshop aims to shed light on the patterns and mechanisms of inequalities and their impact on societal conflicts in Turkey. We invite papers that tackle the issues of inequalities, peace, and conflict in Turkey from a broader perspective, including socia

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-papers-workshop-inequalities-peace-and-conflict-turkey - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 11 October 2019 This week on the brand new blog CMES researchers Pinar Dinc, Orwa Ajjoub and Spyros A. Sofos contribute texts that attempt to shed light on the questions arising from the increased volatility in the region. Dinc and Sofos provide their takes on the implications of the US military withdrawal from Norther

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-blog - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 11 October 2019 USA:s tillbakaträdande från de kurdiska områdena i norra Syrien och Turkiets invasion där gör kurderna, araberna, turkmenerna, assyrierna, armenierna och andra som bor i regionen väldigt sårbara. Det menar Turkietexperten Pinar Dinc, på Centrum för Mellanösternstudier vid Lunds universitet.   Svårt läge

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/svart-lage-i-rojava-efter-turkiets-attack-cmes-pinar-dinc-rojava-situation-swedish - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 7 October 2019 A talk "Personality cults in Modern Turkey: narratives, discourses and authoritarian politics", two films: "Seven Doors" (also on Turkey) and "No way to freedom: from Western Sahara to Gaza" plus the Conversation Series: Passion and politics. Fall events at CMES These are some of the events, hosted by CM

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/updated-list-fall-events-cmes - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 7 October 2019 Research in suspicious fields can be transformative in both amplifying and destructive ways. "Conducting fieldwork for a project about the materiality of suspicion in today's Egypt sounds topical, relevant and exciting, but fear can touch researchers as well as their subjects. In this essay, I work to un

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/infused-suspicion-transformation-anthropologist-body-new-article-maria-frederika-malmstrom - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 27 September 2019 How can we understand today’s global collective body of anxiety? The fear of the other? War and hostility? Such topics will be explored in five separate conversations with prominent and innovative scholars, formed as dialogues where the audience is invited to actively participate. The Center for Middl

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arjun-appadurai-and-maria-frederika-malmstrom-about-passion-and-politics - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 12 September 2019 Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Middle East Forum Newsletter #3 September, 2019 Read the newsletter hereSubscribe here2019-09-12

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-3-september-2019 - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 11 September 2019 CMES researcher Dalia Abdelhady recently published a book chapter on “Framing the Syrian Refugee: Divergent Discourses in Three National Contexts.” inThe Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises, edited by Cecilia Menjivar, Marie Ruiz, and Emmanuel Ness, Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Handbook of Mig

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/framing-syrian-refugee-divergent-discourses-three-national-contexts - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 11 September 2019 Dalia Abdelhady has presented a paper on “Perception of Educational Inequality among the Children of Immigrants in Three Systems” (with Amy Lutz from Syracuse University) at the European Sociological Association meeting in Manchester, UK, August 20-23, 2019. The European Sociological Association meeti

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/perception-educational-inequality-among-children-immigrants-three-systems - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 11 September 2019 CMES affiliated researcher Kholoud Mansour has just published a chapter in the report "Rebuilding Syria: The Middle East's Next Power Game? Rebuilding Syria: The Middle East's Next Power Game? The chapter is published 09/09/2019 by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies in their rep

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrians-abroad-future-refugees-and-their-return-home - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 10 September 2019 CMES researcher Maria F Malmström is holding a book talk at University of Oxford. "The Streets Are Talking to Me" About the book: "This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical light on the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, life and politics

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-book-talk - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 9 September 2019 CMES affiliated researcher Marta Kolankiewicz just published a book about anti-Muslim violence in Sweden. Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial "With in-depth analyses of cases of anti-Muslim violence in Sweden―a mosque fire, hate speech and of a series of assaults―Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial sheds light on issu

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/anti-muslim-racism-trial-muslims-swedish-judiciary-and-possibility-justice-routledge-research-race - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 September 2019 CMES researcher Madeleine Kassab recently presented her work at the conference IAVS_AISV-2019 12TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL SEMIOTICS: VISUAL SEMIOTICS GOES COGNITIVE at Lund University. Media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013; a comparison between Al-Jazeera

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-2011-2013-comparison-between-al-jazeera-and-al-manar-channels - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 4 September 2019 CMES researcher Pınar Dinç is presenting at a conference in Geneva called "Place names in Turkey: Naming, Erasing, Re-naming: Political Uses of Place Names in Turkey". Dersim Anatolian High School in Ataturk Neighborhood of Tunceli: Naming, renaming, and contingent openings in Turkey The politics of pl

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/dersim-anatolian-high-school-ataturk-neighborhood-tunceli-naming-renaming-and-contingent-openings - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 2 September 2019 CMES affiliated researcher Josepha Wessels will be presenting her work at the conference: "Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring". The conference is hosted by the project Mediatized diaspora (MEDIASP): Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europ

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/artistic-expression-regime-critical-activism-and-social-networks-syrians-denmark-and-sweden - 2025-08-13

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 2 September 2019 CMES researcher Mohammed Almahfali, is presenting his work at the conference "Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring" in Copenhagen. Photo: Hello I'm Nik on Unsplash Mohammed´s presentation: "Discourse of Yemeni TV broadcasters and the Dilemma of Regime C

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/discourse-yemeni-tv-broadcasters-and-dilemma-regime-criticism-2015-2019 - 2025-08-13

Published 13 June 2017 An article on SASNET's researcher Admir Skodo, written by Elina Vidarsson, has been published in the Swedish online magazine Sydasien (South Asia). Read the article (in Swedish). The article is on Admir’s research, which draws on conceptual history, critical theory of race, historical sociology, and global history in order to examine how the concept of the Afghan refugee/imm

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/article-concept-afghan-refugee - 2025-08-13

Published 20 June 2017 The Himalayan Studies Conference V will be held 1-4 September 2017 at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. The conference is organized by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) and hosted by the Tibet Himalaya Intiative at CU Boulder. Participation is restricted to members of the ANHS. Keynote speakers for HSC V will be the author Manjushree Thapa, whose

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/himalayan-studies-conference-colorado - 2025-08-13

Published 20 June 2017 Kathmandu University, Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute invites applications for a part-time, nine-month, teaching position in Sanskrit starting on August 15, 2017 at its campus in Boudhanath, Nepal. The instructor will teach two undergraduate courses in Sanskrit each semester: Sanskrit I and III in Fall, and Sanskrit II and IV in Spring. Total teaching

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-sanskrit-instructor-kathmandu-university - 2025-08-13