Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South

More on the book and the #DigitalAfrica series here:👇

Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa This open access edited collection offers the first-ever book-length volume on feminist digital citizenship in Africa. It offers multiple, theoretically grounde…

🗓️ Thursday, Feb 26
🕐 1:00 p.m. (GMT+2)
📍 DMS Lab, AC Jordan Building, A17
🔗 Zoom link available for remote attendance

The book is available here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/feminist-...

To attend the launch online, please email ias@qatar.northwestern.edu.

We are thrilled to share the launch of Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa, which includes a chapter by our very own Clovis Bergère.

The book launch will take place next week in an online conversation with the editors and chapter authors.

That’s a wrap for #IAS_NUQ at @websummit.bsky.social 2026!

Over 3 days, we contributed to main stage talks, podcasts, and on-site conversations exploring media, technology, multimodality, and knowledge production from the Global South.

Thank you to everyone who engaged with our work!

Another successful day at @websummit.bsky.social. Grateful for the conversations and connections!

Check out our lineup for tomorrow here: bit.ly/4kfljLF

Day 2 of #IAS_NUQ at @websummit.bsky.social!

Khatimat Abilova & Olzhasbek Zhakenov with @schezsafla.bsky.social
🕛 2:15 – 2:45 p.m.
📍Podcast Studio, Pavilion E428

Shakeeb Asrar on Design Journalism in the Age of AI
🕞 3:30 – 4:00 p.m.
📍Main Stage, E428

Full program: bit.ly/4kfljLF

Day 1 at @websummit.bsky.social!

View the full program here: bit.ly/4kfljLF

Catch us at the @nuqatar.bsky.social booth everyday from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m!

Read more: bit.ly/4klSrBx

On stage. In conversation. In celebration.

Moments from the #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellow Presentations, shared with mentors, peers, family, and the wider @nuqatar.bsky.social community.

Congratulations to the 2025 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellows!

Happening today!

🗓️ January 28, 2026
⏰ 4:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
📍 Events Hall at @nuqatar.bsky.social

We’re one week away from the annual #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellow Presentations!

Register for the event, as we have limited spots remaining.

Register here: bit.ly/iasprezi

Deadline in two days!

There’s still time to apply for the #IAS_NUQ Global Fellowship.

For details and to apply, please check out our website: t.co/jwQBO0YIGj

We kicked off 2026 with the #IAS_NUQ Theory and Method Winter School.

Three days of master classes and conversations on media policy and governance at @nuqatar.bsky.social.

Organized by #IAS_NUQ with support from @carnegie.org.

Stay tuned!

Don’t miss the opportunity to support our talented undergraduate scholars and celebrate their projects produced over the past year.

RSVP here: forms.gle/vp4SQdP6cvR2...

Save the date!

Join us for the #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellow Presentations, where our 2025 fellows will showcase their projects engaging with themes across the Global South.

🗓️ Jan 28, 2026
⏰ 4:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
📍 Events Hall at @nuqatar.bsky.social

ICA 2026 Preconference Echoes and Overlaps in Arab and African Thought on Media and Culture: Forging New Directions for Research

Your last reminder that the @iasnuq.bsky.social @nuqatar.bsky.social is hosting a fabulous pre-conference, "Echoes and Overlaps in Arab and African Thought on media and Culture" @icahdq.bsky.social #ICA26 in Cape Town, South Africa, on June 3, 2026.

www.qatar.northwestern.edu/research/ias...

We’re thrilled to welcome our 2026 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellows!

15 students. 15 diverse projects. One year of research, storytelling, and discovery across the Global South.

A great kickoff at our first onboarding session, and we can’t wait to see what they create.

Watch highlights from the NU-Q Global South Lecture featuring renowned communication scholar Andrea Medrado, hosted by #IAS_NUQ. In her talk, “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation and Justice,” Medrado unpacked the tensions of digital technologies like AI.

#IAS_NUQ’s InterAsian Digitalites initiative introduces new “TransAsian Digitalities” framework, in long-standing First Monday journal special issue

#IAS_NUQ introduced a new framework for examining digital life beyond Western-centric epistemic genealogies in “From interAsian to transAsian digitalities", a special issue of First Monday.
Read more: https://www.qatar.northwestern.edu/news/articles/2025/12-transdigitalities-FirstMonday.html

Deadline in two weeks!

Apply here: t.co/rKIoTFSnWk

One week left to apply!

Applications for the #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar program close on December 1, 2025.

Apply here: bit.ly/ias_postdoc

Join us at MESA 2025!

The Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies (SHAMS) is excited to host our first meeting in conjunction with MESA 2025.

🗓️ Saturday, Nov 22, 2025
⏰ 8:45 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
📍 The Westin DC Downtown – Meeting Room 6

Register here: bit.ly/43E287r

Northwestern Qatar researchers to advance Middle East scholarship at 2025 MESA Annual Meeting

Eight Northwestern Qatar scholars will lead a distinctive presence at the 2025 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, taking place November 22–25, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Learn more: https://www.qatar.northwestern.edu/news/articles/2025/11-mesa-conference-2025.html

Huge news from @nuqatar.bsky.social folks— I will have more to say about the formidable In'utu Imbuwa's journey to the #Rhodes through mentorship from faculty, staff, and postdocs, particularly @yasemin-c.bsky.social and Clovis Bergere at @iasnuq.bsky.social Heartfelt congrats, In’utu!!!

#NUQProud

In’utu Imbuwa '25 named 2026 Rhodes Scholar

We are thrilled to share that In’utu Imbuwa, a 2023 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellow, has been named a Rhodes Scholar for next year.

We are beyond proud of In’utu!

Learn more: bit.ly/48kAPl5

Happening today!

Happening today!

Stay tuned!

Day 1 of the Media History Workshop at the Pullman Hotel Doha!

Hosted by #IAS_NUQ and the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program at @nuqatar.bsky.social, the workshop explores the evolution of media forms through sessions on print, audio, and visual culture.

We’re starting shortly!

Join us for a CIRS Lunch Talk with Dr. Marlene Schäfers as she examines commemoration as care and explores how remembrance becomes part of Kurdish political life.

🗓️ November 13, 2025
🕐 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
📍 CIRS Conference Room OA35, @guqatar.bsky.social