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November 11, 2026
#IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar Colloquium

Printing the Arab Literary Nahda in the Caribbean

Global Postdoctoral Scholar Angela Haddad will present "Printing the Arab Literary Nahda in the Caribbean" on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in room 1-300 at Northwestern Qatar. Her talk examines how Arab migrants in the Caribbean transformed Nahdawi discourses as they encountered local histories of colonization, enslavement, and U.S. political occupation.
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October 19, 2026 - October 20, 2026
#IAS_NUQ Conference x C2DH

Public History in the Middle East

The "Public History in the Middle East" conference, organized by #IAS_NUQ, Qatar National Library, C²DH, and the Khayrallah Center, brings together scholars to explore how history is preserved and shared through digital archives, museums, and community initiatives. Taking place at the Qatar National Library from October 19–20, 2026, the event aims to foster new approaches to documenting the region's past and strengthening institutional collaboration. Following the conference, a closed workshop on October 21 will further examine the methods and ethics of making history more participatory and accessible
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September 30, 2026
NU-Q Lecture on the Global South

Politics of Suturing: Infrastructural Labor and Survival in Platform Work

This lecture by Cheryll Soriano explores the concept of "suturing," which describes how platform workers in the Global South bridge the gaps between limited infrastructure and the requirements of digital platform work to survive. By examining how workers rely on community networks to manage risks, the talk highlights the often-unseen labor sustaining digital economies and its implications for public policy and platform governance
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September 20, 2026 - September 24, 2026
Executive Education

Generative AI Tools for Digital Content Design

A 5-day masterclass taught by Professor Spencer Striker
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September 16, 2026
#IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium

Cultural Kaleidoscopes: Rethinking Art Market Formation in the Global South

Larissa Buchholz's colloquium talk at #IAS_NUQ explores the development of contemporary art markets in the Global South, shifting the research focus from institutions and intermediaries to the role of collectors and buyers. By drawing on comparative fieldwork in China, Mexico, and Qatar, she introduces the "cultural kaleidoscope" framework to analyze how domestic, regional, and global influences interact to create distinct market cultures.
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September 2, 2026
#IAS_NUQ Roundtable

Black Radical Traditions: Cedric Robinson and the Global South

The "#IAS_NUQ Roundtable: Black Radical Traditions: Cedric Robinson and the Global South" will be held on September 2, 2026, at Northwestern Qatar. Moderated by Greg Burris, the event features main speaker Elizabeth Peters Robinson and a panel of scholars exploring the legacy of Black radical theorist Cedric J. Robinson and his relevance to resistance and liberation in the Global South.
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April 26, 2026 - April 30, 2026
Executive Education

Fast FWD Online @ NU-Q

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April 26, 2026 - April 30, 2026
Executive Education

AI Tools for Digital Content Design

Online Masterclass
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April 10, 2026 - April 11, 2026
Global Media Symposium

Fresh Global Media Players: Disrupting the Digital Ecosystem?

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February 11, 2026 - February 12, 2026
Executive Education

Mastering AI Tools for Marketing and Outreach

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February 4, 2026
The Dean's Global Forum

Dean's Global Forum - Sheikh Jassim

The Dean’s Global Forum is a series of lectures that features eminent leaders from academe, the media, the arts, and public affairs, in conversations with Dean and CEO Marwan M. Kraidy.
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January 28, 2026
2026 #IAS_NUQ

Global Undergraduate Fellow Presentations

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January 18, 2026 - April 12, 2026
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Hiwar Scholars Seminar: Spring 2026

The Hiwar Scholars Seminar is a platform to host individuals who can speak to the Northwestern Qatar community on issues that affect them – from journalism to geopolitics
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January 13, 2026
The Dean's Global Forum

Dean's Global Forum - Alondra Nelson

The Dean’s Global Forum is a series of lectures that features eminent leaders from academe, the media, the arts, and public affairs, in conversations with Dean and CEO Marwan M. Kraidy.
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December 1, 2025
Media Majlis Museum

Pre-Closing Event x Afikra

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November 20, 2025
Executive Education

Building and Leading Successful Teams

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November 18, 2025
#IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium

Navigating Cold War Cultural Politics

Literary Aesthetics of Indonesian Sojourn Writers
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November 16, 2025
#IAS_NUQ Panel

Everyday Technologies: Media in Middle East History

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November 5, 2025
The NU-Q Lecture on the Global South

Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation and Justice

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October 31, 2025
Sustainability and Community Engagement Initiative

Desert Cleanup

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October 28, 2025
Journalism and Strategic Communication Program

The Cost of Convenience: Investigating Algorithms in On-Demand Apps

In collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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October 22, 2025
#IAS_NUQ Panel

Digital Public History in a Global Context

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October 15, 2025
Admissions Event

Marhaba NU-Q

Fall 2025 Open House
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October 1, 2025
Executive Education

Fast FWD @ NU-Q

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September 17, 2025
#IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium

A Global History of a Rooftop in Jerusalem

Ottoman-Ethiopian Relations and the Geopolitics of Imperialism from Palestine to the Horn of Africa (1880–1917)
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September 10, 2025
#IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar Colloquium

Illicit Media: Smuggled Technologies and the Politics of Carceral Communication

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September 1, 2025 - September 2, 2025
Rawabet Conference Series

Shaping The AI-Empowered Future of Knowledge, Scholarship, and Creativity

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August 31, 2025 - November 16, 2025
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Hiwar Scholars Seminar: Fall 2025

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July 12, 2025
#IAS_NUQ

IAMCR 2025

InterAsian Digitalities: Rethinking Theories and Methods
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June 11, 2025
#IAS_NUQ

#ICA25 Preconference

Echoes and Overlaps in Arab and African Thought on Media and Culture
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May 14, 2025
#IAS_NUQ

Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies (SHAMS)

Launch Event
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April 16, 2025
#IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar Colloquium

Digital ID Dependency: The Political Economy of the National Identification System in Nepal

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April 13, 2025
Hiwar Scholars Seminar

A Hyderabadi Begum in Ottoman Lands: An Indian Muslim Woman’s Search for Islamic Sisterhood, 1909-1910

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March 16, 2025
Hiwar Scholars Seminar

The Stories We Carry: Exploring Grief, Truth, and Belonging

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March 9, 2025
Hiwar Scholars Seminar

Afghan Women and Refugees: Resilience Amid Challenges

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February 26, 2025 - February 27, 2025
Symposium

Symposium: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Libraries and Librarianship

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February 19, 2025
#IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium

Postdevelopment, Decoloniality and CDSC’s Ecocentric Challenge

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February 16, 2025
Hiwar Scholars Seminar

Global Perspectives on AI, Platforms & Cultural Production

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February 13, 2025

From the Footholds of Media Studies: Debating Infrastructures Past and Present

Between Promises and Ruptures: Infrastructural Realities of our Built World Workshop Keynote Speech
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February 12, 2025
The NU-Q Lecture on the Global South

How (Not) to Decolonize: Theorizing Media and Communication from the Global South

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February 12, 2025 - February 13, 2025
Workshop

Between Promises and Ruptures: Infrastructural Imaginaries and Realities of our Built World

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February 10, 2025

The Media as we knew it: Digital Dislocations and the Rise of OTT Video

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February 9, 2025
Hiwar Scholars Seminar

Artificial Intelligence in Education

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February 9, 2025 - February 10, 2025
Rawabet Conference Series

Journalism in the Global South: Expanding Epistemological Frameworks

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February 5, 2025
#IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium

Digitality, Mobility, and Sociality in Context: A Decolonial-Exploratory Study of Youth in South Africa

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January 29, 2025
2025 #IAS_NUQ

#IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellow Presentations

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January 26, 2025
Hiwar Scholars Seminar

Adventures in Troll-land: Uncovering Operation 'Arab Eye'

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January 15, 2025
#IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium

Lawyering AI: Foregrounding Everyday Experiences with AI and the Law

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January 7, 2025
The Dean's Global Forum

Jassim Al Khori

The Dean’s Global Forum is a series of lectures that features eminent leaders from academe, the media, the arts, and public affairs, in conversations with Dean and CEO Marwan M. Kraidy.
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January 7, 2025
The Dean's Global Forum

The University and the Arts - Josh Kun

The Dean’s Global Forum is a series of lectures that features eminent leaders from academe, the media, the arts, and public affairs, in conversations with Dean and CEO Marwan M. Kraidy.
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