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!

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

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 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

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

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!

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

@nuqatar.bsky.social welcomed renowned communication scholar @andreamedrado.bsky.social to campus last week for engaging discussions, workshops, and the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South, hosted by #IAS_NUQ. View the recorded lecture here: bit.ly/4qNcPyd

Join us for #IAS_NUQ Panel titled “Everyday Technologies: Media in Middle East History” hosted in collaboration with the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program at @nuqatar.bsky.social. 🗓 Sunday, November 16, 2025 🕝 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. 📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social

Join us in the events hall @nuqatar.bsky.social for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South! Can’t make it in person? Join the livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/bNPz1w5...

@andreamedrado.bsky.social delivering a thought-provoking and empirically rich @nuqatar.bsky.social Lecture on the Global South on #FavelIA @iasnuq.bsky.social a rich analysis of #AI, human agency, and social solidarity among some of the most marginal communities on earth!

Happening tomorrow! 🗓️ Wednesday, November 5, 2025 🕕 Reception: 5 – 6 p.m. | Lecture: 6 – 7:30 p.m. 📍 Events Hall, @nuqatar.bsky.social Event details: bit.ly/46VQFAC Can’t make it in person? Join the livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/bNPz1w5...

Applications are now open for the 2026-27 #IAS_NUQ Global Fellowship! Application deadline: January 15, 2026. Searching for an interdisciplinary research community that is focused on the Global South? Spend your sabbatical at #IAS_NUQ! Apply here: bit.ly/2026-27globalfellows

Join us for the final #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium of the semester! Asri Saraswati will present “Navigating Cold War Cultural Politics: Literary Aesthetics of Indonesian Sojourn Writers.” 🗓️ Tuesday, Nov 18 🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. 📍 Room 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social More info: bit.ly/asri_collo

Funded opportunity for graduate students and early career scholars!

In one week! Join us for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @andreamedrado.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) on “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation, and Justice.” 🗓️ Nov 5, 2025 🕕 5:00 – 7:30 p.m. 📍 Events Hall, @nuqatar.bsky.social

Call for Applications: ICA 2026 Preconference! 🗓 June 3, 2026 📍 University of Cape Town, South Africa Deadline: January 9, 2026 (11:59 p.m. Qatar time) Learn more & apply: bit.ly/icaprecon26

In two days! Event details: bit.ly/iasxC2DH

We’re excited to share that Harsha Man Maharjan, #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar, published a book chapter titled “Media Infrastructure, Natural Disaster, and the Emergence of Convergence Newsrooms in Nepal” in "Media Building" (@springernature.com). Read here: bit.ly/47ckf5d

Join us next week! 🗓️ Wednesday, Oct 22 🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. 📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social Event details: bit.ly/iasxC2DH

I am thrilled about this #SouthernDigitalities Summer School that @iasnuq.bsky.social is organizing in collaboration with the University of Queensland and Vietnam National University in Hanoi, and look forward to teaching, learning, and building knowledge together!

Applications are now open for the 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School: Transformations, Cultures, Heritage, and Possibilities across Asia! 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: December 10, 2025 Apply here: bit.ly/4hcgBgk

Deadline tomorrow! For more details and to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/undergradfel...

We’re excited to share that Mariam Karim, #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar, recently published in Communication, Culture & Critique @icahdq.bsky.social .

We’re thrilled to share that Chaos Corp: Troll Farm Simulator just won a W3 Award for Best Mobile Game!

We had a full house yesterday at our #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium featuring Sara Mourad. Through personal narrative, archives, and cultural texts, Sara explored the absence of the father figure in postwar Lebanon, connecting gender, politics, and memory.

Happening today!

Save the date! Join us for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @andreamedrado.bsky.social (@exeter.ac.uk) on “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation, and Justice.” 🗓️ Nov 5, 2025 🕕 5:00 – 7:30 p.m. 📍 Events Hall, @nuqatar.bsky.social bit.ly/46VQFAC

Deadline in one week! Applications are still open for the 2026 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship. Deadline: October 13, 2025 (11:59 p.m. Doha time) For more details and to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/undergradfel...

Save the date! #IAS_NUQ x C²DH will present a panel on “Digital Public History in a Global Context” exploring how AI and digital tech are reshaping how we study, preserve, and engage with the past. 🗓️ Wednesday, October 22 🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. 📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social

In one week! 🗓️ Wednesday, October 8, 2025 🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. 📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social Event details: bit.ly/4gQCYHV

Deadline in two weeks! Applications are still open for the 2026 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship. Deadline: October 13, 2025 (11:59 p.m. Doha time) For more details and to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/undergradfel...

Our #keymoments conference featured a heartfelt conversation exploring a new epistemology for understanding media, history, memory, and affect. Stay tuned for what comes next! #NUQProud

Last week, we hosted the Key Moments in Media and Culture Conference at @nuqatar.bsky.social, where scholars reflected on history, memory, mediation, and affect, asking how events become remembered as “key moments.”

Join us for an #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium with Sara Mourad (American University of Beirut) on “In Search of the Missing Father.” 🗓️ Wednesday, October 8, 2025 🕐 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. 📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social Event details: bit.ly/4gQCYHV

Highlights from the #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium featuring Mostafa Minawi!

Applications are now open for #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholars! Deadline: December 1, 2025 We’re seeking two fellows to pursue comparative & transnational research on the histories, cultures, societies & media of the Global South. Apply here: bit.ly/ias_postdoc

In two days! 🗓️ Wednesday, September 17 🕣 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. 📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social Event details: bit.ly/4lMhj4m

We kicked off our fall events with a full house at the #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar Colloquium featuring Chafic Najem, who introduced digital carceral mobilities, explaining how smuggled phones in Lebanon’s prisons enable connection under surveillance.

Applications close tomorrow! Apply now for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School (Jan 6–8, Doha) on “Media Policy and Governance,” hosted by #IAS_NUQ at @nuqatar.bsky.social. Deadline: September 15, 2025 Apply here: t.co/8l0ywMmG1j

Applications for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School are still open. Apply by September 15! For more details and to apply: t.co/8l0ywMmG1j