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

We’re proud to share the scholarship of our #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar, Chafic Najem, who recently published two articles advancing critical conversations on media, technology, and carceral politics.

Happening today! 🕣 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. 📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social More info: bit.ly/45ElCJ3

Happening today! 🕝 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. 📍 Forum, @nuqatar.bsky.social

In two days! 🗓️ Wednesday, September 10, 2025 🕣 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. 📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social

Thrilled to see @nuqatar.bsky.social faculty Spencer Striker’s satirical game Chaos Corp: Troll Farm Simulator featured by WISE Qatar! Read more: bit.ly/41wYrzm

Curious about the 2026 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship? Join us for Karak with #IAS_NUQ to ask questions, share ideas and learn how to turn your project into a fellowship proposal. 🗓️ September 9, 2025 🕝 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. 📍 Forum, @nuqatar.bsky.social Save the date!

Calling @nuqatar.bsky.social students to apply 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...

Join us for an #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium with Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University. 🗓️ Wednesday, September 17 🕣 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. 📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social

Join us for the #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar Colloquium with Chafic Najem on “Illicit Media: Smuggled Technologies and the Politics of Carceral Communication.” 🗓️ Wednesday, September 10, 2025 🕣 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. 📍 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social More info: bit.ly/45ElCJ3

Save the dates! We’re excited to share our Fall 2025 event rundown at #IAS_NUQ @nuqatar.bsky.social . From groundbreaking research to global conversations, this semester is packed with events you won’t want to miss. For more details, visit: qatar.northwestern.edu/events

Applications are now open for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School (January 6–8, Doha, Qatar) on "Media Policy and Governance," hosted by #IAS_NUQ at @nuqatar.bsky.social. Deadline: Sept 15, 2025 Apply here: bit.ly/2026winterschool

We are excited to share that #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow (2025) Sagnik Dutta has published an article in Big Data and Society as part of a special issue on the everyday life of data colonialism.

We’re proud to share the launch of “Precarious Workers in the Gig Economy” by Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih, 2024 #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow, published by @springernature.com. Written in part during her fellowship with #IAS_NUQ, the book explores gig work, precarity and resistance in Indonesia.