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
- Bahraini Activism in Exile: Legacies and Revolutionary Ruptures
Wednesday 3 June 2015 | Claire Beaugrand, Institut Français du Proche Orient
- How Self-Limited Mobilisation Works: the case of Morocco
Wednesday 20 May 2015 | Dr Frédéric Vairel, University of Ottawa
- Of Regime and Movements: Authoritarian Reform and the 2011 Popular Uprisings in Morocco
Tuesday 19 May 2015 | Dr Frédéric Vairel, University of Ottawa
- The Non-Contentious Politics of Labour Protests in Egypt
Wednesday 25 February 2015 | Dr Marie Duboc, University of Tübingen
- Theorising Revolution, Anticipating Civil War: Class, State and Political Practice in 1960s Lebanon
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
- Will the Real Palestinian Peasantry Please Sit Down? Towards a New History of British Rule in Palestine, 1917–1936
Tuesday 20 May 2014 | Dr Charles Anderson, Western Washington University
- New Social Movements and the Question of Organisation During Revolutionary Processes
Tuesday 6 May 2014 | Dr Maha Abdelrahman, University of Cambridge
- The Politics of the Urban Everyday in the Arab Revolutions
Wednesday 12 February 2014 | Professor Salwa Ismail, SOAS