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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South@iasnuq.bsky.social · last wk.

One week to go! We’re kicking off our fall events with “Black Radical Traditions: Cedric Robinson and the Global South,” an #IAS_NUQ roundtable. 🗓️ Wednesday, September 2 🕛 12:15 – 1:30 p.m. 📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social Event details: bit.ly/46paaSk

One week to go! We’re kicking off our fall events with “Black Radical Traditions: Cedric Robinson and the Global South,” an #IAS_NUQ roundtable. 🗓️ Wednesday, September 2 🕛 12:15 – 1:30 p.m. 📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social Event details: bit.ly/46paaSk

Mark your calendars! We are excited to share our fall 2026 lineup, bringing together scholars, researchers, and practitioners for a semester of conversations on the Global South. Explore the full lineup and learn more about each event on our website: bit.ly/4qlHKC9

We are thrilled to share that @nuqatar.bsky.social student Sabeeka Al-Kuwari recently had her class project, “Measured Bodies and Moving Men,” published in Africa Is a Country. Read the full piece here: bit.ly/4wsA16F

Measured bodies and moving men

In apartheid South Africa, Drum magazine showed Black readers what it meant to be modern. But not everyone got to be modern in the same way.

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A warm welcome to our newest Global Postdoctoral Scholars and Global Fellows! We are excited to have you join the #IAS_NUQ community and look forward to the ideas, collaborations, and conversations ahead. Meet the scholars: bit.ly/2026globalsc...

Northwestern Qatar@nuqatar.bsky.social · 3w ago

@nuqatar.bsky.social is proud to welcome seven new scholars to @iasnuq.bsky.social for the 2026–27 academic year.

Day 4 of #IAS_NUQ at #IAMCR2026! Our director, Clovis Bergère, presented "Bringing Africa Online: Imaginaries of Youth and the Early Days of Popular Computing in Guinea-Conakry."

We're kicking off day 2 of #IAS_NUQ at #IAMCR2026! Check out our website for the full lineup: bit.ly/iamcr26 You can also find us at our booth in the Arts and Science Building, University of Galway, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Stop by to learn more about our programs.

Day 1 of #IAS_NUQ at #IAMCR26! First up, our #IAS_NUQ faculty mentor @schezsafla.bsky.social presented "A Pivot to Podcasting: Audio and AI as a Method for Ethical Representation."

We are excited to be at #IAMCR26! This week, #IAS_NUQ joins scholars, researchers, and practitioners from around the world in Galway, Ireland, for conversations, presentations, and collaboration on media and communication research.

We are thrilled to celebrate the launch of African Digital Cultures: Platforms, Publics, and Infrastructures. Check it out here: bit.ly/4oGB948

African Digital Cultures: Platforms, Publics, and Infrastructures

Analyzing the innovative and popular uses of digital media technologies across many African countries, African Digital Cultures reveals how digitization, through its inherent computational and epistem...

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From Doha to Cape Town, Northwestern Qatar scholars joined #ICA2026, presenting research on media, AI, journalism, migration, culture, and social change. Across nearly 20 sessions, our community advanced global conversations on communication and inequalities. #GlobalSouth #NorthwesternQatar

Day 5 of #IAS_NUQ at #ICA26 continued with @mkraidy.bsky.social and Clovis Bergère presenting “Southern Digitalities: Rethinking the Digital from the Global South.”

Final day of #IAS_NUQ at #ICA26! Catch @mkraidy.bsky.social and Clovis Bergère today for “Southern Digitalities: Rethinking the Digital from the Global South.” 🕥 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. 📍 C1 1.43, CTICC1, Level 1

Day 4 of #IAS_NUQ at #ICA26 began with a panel on Global South epistemologies, extreme speech, and the politics of language, harm, and historical continuity.

We are back for day 4 of #IAS_NUQ at #ICA26! Catch Chafic Tony Najem in two sessions today: Prison Media Histories in the Arab World: Illicit Communication Practices as Counter-Infrastructures 🕛 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. 📍 C1 1.44, CTICC1, Level 1 Full program: bit.ly/4x8m3sa

76th Annual ICA Conference - 2026

Communication and Inequalities in Context

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Day 3 of #IAS_NUQ at #ICA26 continued with @mkraidy.bsky.social and Chafic Tony Najem on the panel “Temporality, Mediation, and Construction of Meaning.”

We’re kicking off day 3 of #IAS_NUQ at @icahdq.bsky.social 2026! Catch @mkraidy.bsky.social and Chafic Najem in the panel “Temporality, Mediation, and Construction of Meaning.” 🕛 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. 📍 Westin HE Victoria & Alfred, Harbour Edge Level Full program: bit.ly/4x8m3sa

76th Annual ICA Conference - 2026

Communication and Inequalities in Context

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That’s a wrap on our #ICA26 preconference. Across three panels, the conversations explored Arab and African thought on media and culture as sites of exchange, experimentation, and theory-making across the Global South.

Nermin Elsherif from Utrecht University opened the third and last panel of the day with her paper, “In Search of Hizb al-Kanaba: Mediated Publics and Political Alienation.”

Yasmeen Alyeldeen and Donia Tarek from the Canadian International College opened panel 2 with their paper, “Cairo’s Afro-Arab Intellectual Societies: Literary Salons and the Transnational Circulation of Ideas in the Early 20th Century.”

Kicking off our #ICA26 preconference at the University of Cape Town with opening remarks from Clovis Bergère, @mkraidy.bsky.social, and Nabil Echchaibi.

Day 1 of #IAS_NUQ at #ICA26! We are here in Cape Town and getting started with our #ICA26 preconference, “Echoes and Overlaps in Arab and African Thought on Media and Culture: Forging New Directions for Research.” Stay tuned!

This year, four films produced by our #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellows were selected for screening at the Global South Documentary Film Festival held in Amsterdam from March 26-29.

Last week, #IAS_NUQ joined scholars in Hanoi, Vietnam, for the 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School!

We are excited to introduce the fifth cohort of #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellows, featuring 15 outstanding student researchers from @nuqatar.bsky.social working on 15 projects across 11 countries. Read more: bit.ly/26fellows

The 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School kicks off next week in Hanoi, Vietnam!

Registration for the @icahdq.bsky.social 2026 preconference is now open! Echoes and Overlaps in Arab and African Thought on Media and Culture brings together scholars to rethink media and culture through Southern knowledge. Register by: May 27, 2026 To register: bit.ly/4cvAZXH

Join us this Thursday for the fourth seminar of the Beyond Extraction: Memory in Revolt series, featuring Mariam Karim, #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar. 🗓️ Thursday, April 16 🕜 1:30 p.m. (GMT+2) 📍 Zoom Register here to attend: bit.ly/4tchniA

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

Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies@bloomsburypol.bsky.social · 8mo ago

NEW in the #DigitalAfrica series 🖥️ 🌍 Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa: Agency, Rights and Resistance - ed. by Tanja Bosch & Tony Roberts Offers the first ever book-length volume on #feminist #DigitalCitizenship in #Africa. Read open access: https://bit.ly/3Lxc64q 📖

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.