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."
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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 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
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.
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
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Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies@bloomsburypol.bsky.social · 7mo agoNEW 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.
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
Northwestern Qatar@nuqatar.bsky.social · 6mo agoDay 2 of #NUQWebSummit2026 programming is about to kick off. Join us at #E428.
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!
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!
