ACTIVITIES

INMENAS CONVERSATIONS 

 

Conversation with Dr Aslı Vatansever, author of the book At the Margins of Academia. Exile, Precariousness, and Subjectivity (2020) about academic precarity, political repression, and the possibility for resistance.

 

Conversation with Ghiwa Sayegh and Dr Sophie Chamas from the Body and Gender Research Journal Kohl, about their work, political and ethical preoccupations, and about running a journal during precarious times.

 

 

INMENAS EVENTS

 

8 September 2022: Screening of the award-winning documentary Not Just Your Picture. The Story of the Kilani Family, directed by Anne Paq and Dror Dayan, with the participation of Anne Paq. Co-organised by the Irish Network for MENA Studies, the Early Childhood Research Centre (ECRC) at Dublin City University, and Academics for Palestine.

 

20 June 2022: World Refugee Day’s two-event celebration.

A conversation with Dr Mastoureh Fathi and Dr Naomi Masheti, chaired by Dr Amin Sharifi Isanloo and Matteo Moraschini. Respondent: Prof. Maggie O’Neill. Co-organised by the Irish Network for MENA Studies and the Department of Sociology and Criminology at University College Cork. 

A Conversation with Rehan Ali and Marwa Zamir, hosted by Andrew Clarke and Dr Rita Sakr. Co-organised by the Irish Network for MENA Studies, Maynooth University’s Sanctuary committee, the Department of English at Maynooth University and supported by Office of the VP for Equality and Diversity at Maynooth University.

 

24 March 2022: The legacy of 9/11: Community policing in Ireland and Turkey,  with Dr Hayal Akarsu, Dr Vicky Conway, Prof John Doyle, Prof Christian Kaunert, chaired by Dr Erika Biagini. Co-organised by the Irish Network for MENA Studies, the International Master in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies (IMSISS), the Jean Monnet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism (EUCTER), the DCU’s Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction (IICRR).

Reflections on the roundtable are available here

Full recording of the roundtable is available here

 

27 January 2022: How to mainstream gender, race and racism when teaching social sciences, with Dr Nita Mishra and Dr Krisna Ruette-Orihuela, chaired by Dr Paola Rivetti and Dr Valesca Lima. Co-organised by the Irish Network for Middle East and North African Studies (INMENAS), Women in Research Ireland (WIRI) and the Gender Study Group of the Development Studies Association of Ireland (DSA).

Full recording of the roundtable is available here

 

12 and 13 November 2021: New Approaches to Interdisciplinarity in MENA Studies. INMENAS Postgraduate Symposium. 

Participants: Abolfazl Ahangari, Andrew Clarke, Areej Jamal, Asma Abdi, Atefeh Ramsari, Behzad Zerehdaran, Blanca Camps-Febrer, Cailin Kwoh, Chelsea L. Wilkinson, Esther Schoorel, Gaia Poccetti, Leila McGurk, Mahmoud Abdou, Mai Alshareef, Mairéad Smith, Maryam Lashkari, Matthew Heinrichs, Meriam Mabrouk, Mohaddeseh Ziyachi, Sean McCafferty, Serena Nilsson, Mohamad Tarek Alsaid, Tareq Sydiq, Zahra Moravvej. 

Chairs: Prof. Claudia Saba, Dr David Lancy, Dr Dónal Hassett, Prathmesh Waghmare , Prof. Stephanie Dornschneider, Prof. Vincent Durac. 

Including a special session, The Secrets of Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Grant Applications, run by Dr Rita Sakr.

Organising committee: Reema Hassan, Sahar Ahmed, Chelsea Wilkinson, Amin Sharifi Isanloo, Claudia Saba, Paola Rivetti

 

15 and 16 November 2020: Emerging perspectives on the Middle East and North Africa from Ireland. INMENAS Online Networking Event.

Keynote opening speech by Prof. Ronit Lentin, Two cemetries: Waking from my Zionist dream.

Participants: Nada Ahmed, Nisan Alıcı, Joshua Molloy, Prathmesh Waghmare, Reem Mujadedi, Niloufar Omidi, Sahar Ahmed, Amin Sharifi Isaloo, Paola Rivetti, Shareef Abdulmohammed, Sardar Aziz, Holly O’Farrell, Erika Biagini, Mairead Smith, Hasret Cetinkaya, Silvia Gagliardi, Vincent Durac, Rola Abu Zeid-O’Neill, Ibrahim Natil, Yaser Alashqar, Fabrizio Cuccu, Antonella Acinapura, Martin Worthington, Emmet Jackson, Mohamed A. H. Ahmed, Reema Hassan, Rita Sakr, Chelsea Wilkinson, Ross Griffin, Roberto Mazza, Idriss Jebari, Dónal Hassett, Tylor Brand.

Organising committee: Amin Sharifi Isaloo, Fabrizio Cuccu, Ibrahim Natil, Paola Rivetti, Rita Sakr, Sahar Ahmed, Vincent Durac.

The transcript of the keynote's opening speech is available here

 

 

                                          

 

 

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