Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South
@IAS_NUQ
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The Institute for Advanced Study @NUQatar produces & promotes evidence-based storytelling focused on histories, cultures, societies, & media of the Global South
Doha, Qatar
Joined November 2021
RT @acss_org: 📢 Call for Applications!.The @IAS_NUQ 2026 Theory and Method Winter School will be held on January 6–8, 2026 in Doha, Qatar,….
qatar.northwestern.edu
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He traces how a dispute over the Deir Es-Sultan rooftop monastery reveals Ottoman–Ethiopian ties & wider imperial rivalries across Africa & the Middle East. Event details:
qatar.northwestern.edu
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"A stylish woman in a beige coat walking confidently past a moving train at a modern train station.". Create images and videos in seconds with Grok Imagine.
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Join us for an #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium with @MostafaMinawi from @Cornell. 🗓️ Wednesday, September 17.🕣 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. 📍 1-300, @NUQatar
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Join us for the #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar Colloquium with @chafnajem on “Illicit Media: Smuggled Technologies and the Politics of Carceral Communication.”. 🗓️ Wednesday, September 10, 2025.🕣 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. 📍 1-300, @NUQatar . More info:
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Supported by @carnegiecorp and led by @MKraidy, with @Ali_Christopher, Carola Richter, and Sami Atallah, the program is designed for graduate students and early-career scholars to explore media policy, systems, and governance in the Arab region and the Global South.
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@sagnikdutta first presented this research at their Global Fellow Colloquium at @NUQatar, and we’re thrilled to see it make an impact in global scholarly conversations. Read the full article:
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Scholars have used the term data colonialism to designate the extractive, asymmetrical relationship between Big Tech corporations and countries in the global So...
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We are excited to share that #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow (2025) @sagnikdutta has published an article in Big Data and Society as part of a special issue on the everyday life of data colonialism.
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We’re proud to share the launch of “Precarious Workers in the Gig Economy” by Diatyka Yasih, 2024 #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow, published by @SpringerNature. Written in part during her fellowship with #IAS_NUQ, the book explores gig work, precarity and resistance in Indonesia.
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And with that, we wrap up our third and final conference of the summer!. From ACSS to ICA to IAMCR, it’s been an inspiring season of critical conversations, global connections, and powerful storytelling from and about the Global South. Stay tuned for highlights!
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We closed the day with @chafnajem's presentation, “Digital Carceral Mobilities: Mobility and Smuggled Mobile Technologies in Prisons.”. The panel was chaired by @Viscloo.
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Clovis examined how youth in Guinea use dance as a mode of protest and meaning-making, challenging dominant narratives and offering new theoretical insights from within. His presentation called for placing embodied practices at the center of how we theorize the social.
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The session brought together critical reflections on how digital platforms shape and are shaped by everyday cultural expression, identity, and belonging.
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Earlier today, #IAS_NUQ Faculty Advisor @heatherjaber chaired the panel "Online Spaces as Contemporary Cultural Playgrounds" at #IAMCR2025.
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We are live in the SHHK Foyer with our booth until 3:00 p.m. today!. This is your last chance to stop by and get to know more about our research, programs, and projects.
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Don't forget to join us later today for #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar @chafnajem's presentation titled "Digital Carceral Mobilities: Mobility and Smuggled Mobile Technologies in Prisons.". 🕑 2:00 p.m. 📍 SHHK – HSS Seminar Room 6.
Join Northwestern University in Qatar faculty and researchers at the 2025 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference as they lead critical conversations on media and communication. Clovis Bergère, director of #IAS_NUQ, will also chair a
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We will be starting our last day at #IAMCR2025 with #IAS_NUQ director Clovis Bergère (@Viscloo). He will present "Decentering Dance as Social Theory: Polysemic Bodies, Protests, and the Securitization of Youth in Guinea.". 🕥 10:30 a.m. 📍 The Hive, LHS-TR+52. See you there!.
Join Northwestern University in Qatar faculty and researchers at the 2025 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference as they lead critical conversations on media and communication. Clovis Bergère, director of #IAS_NUQ, will present on youth
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