The “Inequalities, Peace and Conflict in Turkey” workshop aims to shed light on the patterns and mechanisms of inequalities and their impact on societal conflicts in Turkey. We invite papers that tackle the issues of inequalities, peace, and conflict in Turkey from a broader perspective, including social, economic, political and spatial features. Inequalities, Peace and Conflict in Turkey Date and

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-papers-workshop-inequalities-peace-and-conflict-turkey - 2025-08-25

This week on the brand new blog CMES researchers Pinar Dinc, Orwa Ajjoub and Spyros A. Sofos contribute texts that attempt to shed light on the questions arising from the increased volatility in the region. Dinc and Sofos provide their takes on the implications of the US military withdrawal from Northern and Northeastern Syria in Syria, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (also k

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-blog - 2025-08-25

USA:s tillbakaträdande från de kurdiska områdena i norra Syrien och Turkiets invasion där gör kurderna, araberna, turkmenerna, assyrierna, armenierna och andra som bor i regionen väldigt sårbara. Det menar Turkietexperten Pinar Dinc, på Centrum för Mellanösternstudier vid Lunds universitet.   Svårt läge i Rojava. Photo: Wikimedia Read the full article here 2019-10-11

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/svart-lage-i-rojava-efter-turkiets-attack-cmes-pinar-dinc-rojava-situation-swedish - 2025-08-25

A talk "Personality cults in Modern Turkey: narratives, discourses and authoritarian politics", two films: "Seven Doors" (also on Turkey) and "No way to freedom: from Western Sahara to Gaza" plus the Conversation Series: Passion and politics. Fall events at CMES These are some of the events, hosted by CMES, that will take place during the fall.Stay tuned on our Facebook-page for the latest news.20

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/updated-list-fall-events-cmes - 2025-08-25

Research in suspicious fields can be transformative in both amplifying and destructive ways. "Conducting fieldwork for a project about the materiality of suspicion in today's Egypt sounds topical, relevant and exciting, but fear can touch researchers as well as their subjects. In this essay, I work to understand my embodied experience in the field in a broader perspective by exploring how suspicio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/infused-suspicion-transformation-anthropologist-body-new-article-maria-frederika-malmstrom - 2025-08-25

How can we understand today’s global collective body of anxiety? The fear of the other? War and hostility? Such topics will be explored in five separate conversations with prominent and innovative scholars, formed as dialogues where the audience is invited to actively participate. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is holding a conversation series on passion in relation to contemporary global p

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arjun-appadurai-and-maria-frederika-malmstrom-about-passion-and-politics - 2025-08-25

Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Middle East Forum Newsletter #3 September, 2019 Read the newsletter hereSubscribe here2019-09-12

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-3-september-2019 - 2025-08-25

CMES researcher Dalia Abdelhady recently published a book chapter on “Framing the Syrian Refugee: Divergent Discourses in Three National Contexts.” inThe Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises, edited by Cecilia Menjivar, Marie Ruiz, and Emmanuel Ness, Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Handbook of Migration Crises runs the gamut of situations that are constructed as crises in migration contexts ar

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/framing-syrian-refugee-divergent-discourses-three-national-contexts - 2025-08-25

Dalia Abdelhady has presented a paper on “Perception of Educational Inequality among the Children of Immigrants in Three Systems” (with Amy Lutz from Syracuse University) at the European Sociological Association meeting in Manchester, UK, August 20-23, 2019. The European Sociological Association meeting She also presented a paper on “Perception of Social Mobility among the Children of Immigrants i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/perception-educational-inequality-among-children-immigrants-three-systems - 2025-08-25

CMES affiliated researcher Kholoud Mansour has just published a chapter in the report "Rebuilding Syria: The Middle East's Next Power Game? Rebuilding Syria: The Middle East's Next Power Game? The chapter is published 09/09/2019 by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies in their report, which is found here: REBUILDING SYRIA The Middle East’s Next Power Game?Syrians Abroad: The F

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrians-abroad-future-refugees-and-their-return-home - 2025-08-25

CMES researcher Maria F Malmström is holding a book talk at University of Oxford. "The Streets Are Talking to Me" About the book: "This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical light on the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, life and politics in the Arab world in the aftermath of these events." Organized by the Global South Ethnographies:

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-book-talk - 2025-08-25

CMES affiliated researcher Marta Kolankiewicz just published a book about anti-Muslim violence in Sweden. Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial "With in-depth analyses of cases of anti-Muslim violence in Sweden―a mosque fire, hate speech and of a series of assaults―Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial sheds light on issues central for understanding the ways in which racism is approached in court. It also illustrates

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/anti-muslim-racism-trial-muslims-swedish-judiciary-and-possibility-justice-routledge-research-race - 2025-08-25

CMES researcher Madeleine Kassab recently presented her work at the conference IAVS_AISV-2019 12TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL SEMIOTICS: VISUAL SEMIOTICS GOES COGNITIVE at Lund University. Media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013; a comparison between Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar channel What can cognitive semiotics bring to visual semiotics, and vice-versa? Vis

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-2011-2013-comparison-between-al-jazeera-and-al-manar-channels - 2025-08-25

CMES researcher Pınar Dinç is presenting at a conference in Geneva called "Place names in Turkey: Naming, Erasing, Re-naming: Political Uses of Place Names in Turkey". Dersim Anatolian High School in Ataturk Neighborhood of Tunceli: Naming, renaming, and contingent openings in Turkey The politics of place naming in Turkey have historically been dense and controversial. Naming and/or renaming place

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/dersim-anatolian-high-school-ataturk-neighborhood-tunceli-naming-renaming-and-contingent-openings - 2025-08-25

Video kan användas på olika sätt i undervisningen. Belt och Lowenthal (2021) ger en översikt av litteraturen om hur video kan användas i undervisningen och vad vi vet om hur det påverkar inlärningen. Här sammanfattas denna artikel.  Foto: Nicole Geri via Unsplash.com De praktiska slutsatser författarna kommer fram till är de följande:  Videoföreläsningar bör delas upp i kortare delar och de blir m

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/att-anvanda-video-i-undervisningen - 2025-08-25

Corona och den följande nedstängingen av universitet över hela världen har betytt att vi alla behövt lära oss undervisa på distans i ett högt tempo. Pedagoger över hela världen har samlat erfarenheter och utvärderat hur det fungerat och talar ofta om samtiden som ”det nya normala” och avser då en situation där både lärare och studenter förväntar sig att undervisning tar tillvara kunskaper och färd

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/det-nya-normala-en-litteraturoversikt - 2025-08-25

Lunds universitet kommer att anslutas till Statens servicecenter under våren 2018. Läs mer på SSC-bloggen:http://anslutningssc.blogg.lu.se/

https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/anslutning-till-statens-servicecenter - 2025-08-25

Utbildningen genomförs under september månad I oktober 2018 börjar Lunds universitet använda Statens servicecenters (SSC) Primula för lönehantering, istället för universitetets Primula. I samband med övergången genomförs systemutbildningar i SSC Primula.Det kommer att finnas två systemutbildningar att söka i Kompetensportalenen utbildning på tre timmar riktad mot dig som innehar behörighetsrollen

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Riktar sig till dig som arbetar med HR- och ledningsstöd För dig som arbetar med HR- och ledningsstöd vid Lunds universitet finns en ny webbsida som ger stöd i samband med att Statens servicecenter tar över lönehanteringen på Lunds universitet och att Primula öppnar den 8 oktober 2018. Sidan innehåller information om Lunds universitets interna rutiner och processer.Du hittar sidan här (nytt fönste

https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/ny-webbsida-ger-stod-vid-overgangen-till-ssc-primula - 2025-08-25

Bonaglia and coworkers publish a paper on Baltic Sea denitrification and DNRA in "Limnology and Oceanography". Read more..

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/bonaglia-and-coworkers-publish-paper-baltic-sea-denitrification-and-dnra - 2025-08-25