This year, we offer an exciting lineup of online webinars, in person conferences, guest lectures, online panels, and more. Here are some of the events we have in store for 2023. This page will be updated as more events are added. As always, please check the Events section of the website for more details on each event.
Arab-Latin American Relations in a Global Context
February 1, 2023
Online Webinar
This event is the Book launch and discussion of Professor Kevin Funk’s “Rooted Globalism: Arab-Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries.”'
The Women’s Movement and the Challenge of Political Islam in Turkey
February 8, 2023
Zoom lecture
Professor Yeşim Arat was a member of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University, Istanbul from 1983-2022, and is a member of the Science Academy of Turkey. Professor Arat works on questions of women’s political participation, gender-based violence and problems of democratization in Turkey.
The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022
March 7, 2023
In person University of Oklahoma and Zoom
Professor James Galbraith discusses how policies to combat a supposed inflation crisis engineered economic insecurity for the US and global population.
MENA in the US-China-Russia Rivalry
March 16, 2023
Online Webinar
First in the series of reverberations of the Great Power Competition on MENA countries.
The Economics of Insecurity in Ethiopia
March 23, 2023
Zoom guest lecture
Professor Christina Tekie Collins discusses the multiple dimensions of insecurity in Ethiopia with a focus on warfare, socio-economic issues and models of economic development
Iranian Revolutions: Past, Present, and Future
March 28, 2023
In person and streaming online, University of Oklahoma
Guest lecture by Professor Sohrab Behdad on understanding social movements in Iran from a historical perspective
Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War
Date: April 3, 2023
In person and streaming online, University of Oklahoma
Guest lecture by Professor Stacey Philbrick Yadav on the tragic dynamics of the Yemeni conflict and the prospects for peace and justice in that country.
Shooting the Messenger: Journalism and Warfare in MENA
April 4, 2023
In person
Beirut, Lebanon
A discussion of the increasing censorship and targeting often lethally of journalists in MENA countries and its impact on journalists and the representation and knowledge of Middle Eastern events.
Resurgence of Militarism: Views From the Global South and Implications For the United States
April 6, 2023
In-person at George Washington University Elliott School
Launch of Insecurity Monitor and International Organization Leadership Database, Public Panel, Keynote Speech
Refugees and the Principle of Non-Refoulement
September 21, 2023
Online Panel
The Webinar will discuss widespread violations of the principle of non-refoulement and how international cooperation around this issue can be strengthened, particularly in the MENA region.
