Building on the online network, the Centre organises regular discussion-based seminars inviting academics to present their work. Papers are circulated in advance and are briefly presented at the start, followed by questions and comments from the audience.
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Past Events and Podcasts
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Strikes, Riots and Laughter: Egypt's 1918 Peasant Insurrection Wednesday 2 May | Alia Mosallam, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
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Tuesday 16 January | Soraya El Kahlaoui, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study
- Redefining the Political: The Ultras Football 'Movement' in Egypt
Tuesday 17 October | Rabab El-Mahdi, American University in Cairo
Tuesday 30 May 2017 | Hugh Roberts, Tufts University
Tuesday 2 May 2017 | Thomas Pierret, University of Edinburgh
Tuesday 7 March 2017 | Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS; Latif Tas, SOAS
Tuesday 11 October 2016 | Amina Boubia, Sciences Po Centre for International Studies- Reassembling the Spatial: Place-and-World Making as Social Movement Practice in Jordan and Palestine
Tuesday 26 April 2016 | Christopher Parker, Ghent University
- Why Some Contentious Movements Fail: The Case of the Syrian Opposition
Tuesday 15 March 2016 | Dr Jasmine Gani, University of St Andrews
- Bahraini Activism in Exile: Legacies and Revolutionary Ruptures
Wednesday 3 June 2015 | Claire Beaugrand, Institut Français du Proche Orient
Wednesday 20 May 2015 | Dr Frédéric Vairel, University of Ottawa
Tuesday 19 May 2015 | Dr Frédéric Vairel, University of Ottawa
Wednesday 25 February 2015 | Dr Marie Duboc, University of Tübingen
Wednesday 21 January 2015 | Dr Fadi Bardawil, University of North Carolina - Workers in the Arab Uprisings: Social Movement Theory, Political Economy and Class
Wednesday 5 November 2014 | Professor Joel Beinin, Stanford University
- High-Risk Activism and Popular Struggle against the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank
Tuesday 4 November 2014 | Professor Joel Beinin, Stanford University
Tuesday 20 May 2014 | Dr Charles Anderson, Western Washington University
Tuesday 6 May 2014 | Dr Maha Abdelrahman, University of Cambridge
Wednesday 12 February 2014 | Professor Salwa Ismail, SOAS