All Monthly Dialogue Series
Monthly Dialogue Series: Kai-Henrik Barth
Date: 6 December 2009 Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Location: Faculty & Staff Lounge, LAS Building, Education City
Kai-Henrik Barth speaks about "Nuclear Ambitions in the Gulf."
Monthly Dialogue Series: John Crist
Date: 10 November 2009 Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Location: Faculty and Staff Lounge, LAS Building, Education City.
John Crist speaks about "From Gandhi to Twitter: Global Trends in Protest"
Monthly Dialogue Series: Robert Wirsing
Date: 5 October 2009 Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Location: Faculty & Staff Lounge, LAS Building, Education City.
Robert Wirsing speaks about "The Af-Pak Misadventure: Where is America's 'Long War' Heading?...And Why?"
Monthly Dialogue Series: Alexis Antoniades
Date: 8 September 2009 Time: 8:00pm-9:30 pm
Location: Faculty & Staff Lounge, LAS Building, Education City.
Professor Alexis Antoniades spoke about "The Future Global Economy."
Monthly Dialogue Series: James Onley
Date: 04 May 2009 Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm.
Location: SFS-Qatar, Faculty and Staff Lounge, LAS Building, Education City.
Dr. James Onley speaks about "Agents of Empire: Britain's Local Representatives in the Gulf, 1750s-1950s".
Monthly Dialogue Series: Mark Farha
Date: 7 April 2009 Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Location: SFS-Qatar, Faculty and Staff Lounge, LAS Building, Education City.
Professor Mark Farha speaks about "Lebanon as the Mirror of Arab Politics".
Monthly Dialogue Series: Mehran Kamrava
Date: 10 March 2009 Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Location: SFS-Qatar, Faculty and Staff Lounge, LAS Building, Education City.
Mehran Kamrava spoke on "International Power Realignment in the Gulf."
Monthly Dialogue Series: Ibrahim Oweiss
Date: 10 February 2009. Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: SFS-Qatar Faculty and Staff Lounge, LAS Building, Education City.
Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss, Professor of Economics at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar speaks about "The Global Depression and the Gulf Economies".
Monthly Dialogue Series: Katja Niethammer
Date: 18 January 2009 Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: SFS-Qatar Faculty and Staff Lounge, LAS Building, Education City.
CIRS Post Doctoral Fellow, Katja Niethammer speaks about “Democrats and Autocrats, Shiites and Sunnis: Political Reform and Confessional Identities in Bahrain”.
Monthly Dialogue Series: Jo Ann Moran Cruz & Haifaa Khalafallah
Date: 03 December 2008 Time: 6:00pm
Location: SFS-Qatar Faculty Lounge
Dr. Cruz and Dr.Khalafallah discuss "Religion and Legitimization of Political Rule in the Islamic and Christian Worlds: Preliminary Findings".
Monthly Dialogue Series: James Reardon-Anderson
Date: 03 November 2008. Time: 6:00pm
Location: SFS-Qatar Library
The Monthly Dialogue entitled 'Rainfall and the American Civil War' was given by Professor James Reardon-Anderson, Dean, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar.
Monthly Dialogue Series: Renee Richer
Date: 15 September 2008 Time: 8:00pm
Location: SFS-Qatar Library
"Beauty and the Beast: Environment and Industry in Qatar" addressed environmental protection and industrial development in Qatar while focusing on the unique challenges and opportunities within Qatar. Illustrated with local examples, Beauty and the Beast brought to light the unexpected consequences of the current environmental framework.
Monthly Dialogue Series: Victoria Pedrick
Date: 22 April 2008 Time: 6:00pm
Location: SFS-Qatar Library
Dr. Victoria Pedrick lectured and led a dialogue on 'A Hunger for Trees: Myths of Desecration in Nature.'
Monthly Dialogue Series: Elzbieta Gozdziak
Date: 2 March 2008 Time: 06:00pm-08:00pm
Location: SFS-Qatar Library
Dr. Elzbieta Gozdziak, from the Institute for the Study of International Migration, spoke on child trafficking into the United States.
Monthly Dialogue Series: Gary Wasserman
Date: 11 February 2008 Time: 06:00pm
Location: SFS-Qatar Library
Prof. Gary Wasserman spoke on the role of lobbying groups in American foreign policy-making.
Monthly Dialogue Series: Sherene Seikaly
Date: 10 December 2007 Time: 6:00pm-08:00pm
Location: SFS-Qatar Library
Dr. Seikaly spoke on the vibrant Palestinian business scene in the decades running up to 1948.
Monthly Dialogue Series: Patrick Laude
Date: 28 November 2007 Time: 6:00pm-08:00pm
Location: SFS-Qatar Library
Prof. Laude spoke on three great Western Orientalists who successfully blended faith with scholarship.
Monthly Dialogue Series: Amira Sonbol
Date: 30 October 2007 Time: 06:00pm-08:00pm
Location: SFS-Qatar Library
Professor Sonbol discussed her research on Cairo women’s lives with an audience of over fifty guests.
CIRS Highlights
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Panel on Water, Energy, and Climate Change in the Gulf
International Scholars Discuss Climate Change Effects on the Gulf
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Call for Occasional Papers
CIRS is inviting submissions to its Occasional Paper Series
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