Department of Geography

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Leverhulme Lecture: Extracting the Energy Transition: Lithium Imaginaries and Impossible Futures

Wednesday 25 October from 15:00 until 16:30

University of Sussex Campus

The Centre for Rights and Anticolonial Justice & the Sussex Energy Group would like to invite everyone to join this Leverhulme Lecture...


Middle East and North Africa PhD work-in-progress

Wednesday 18 October from 15:00 until 16:30

University of Sussex Campus

A range of current Sussex PhD students discuss their research on the Middle East and North Africa region.


Book launch: Jacob Norris, 'The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub'

Monday 24 April from 16:00 until 17:00

University of Sussex Campus

Jacob Norris discusses his new book 'The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub' with historian Dr Joanne Paul and literature scholar Dr Feras Alkabani


‘Beyond Sectarianism: Rural-Urban Relations and the Future of the Syrian Conflict’

Wednesday 29 March from 16:00 until 17:30

University of Sussex Campus

Dr Naboulsi explores rural-urban tensions in Syria and why they should be considered in future settlement of the conflict. Chaired by Dr Feras...


MENACS collective read: Marwan Hisham's "Brothers of the Gun"

Thursday 9 March from 16:00 until 17:30

University of Sussex Campus

A discussion of Marwan Hisham's book, "Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War".


Displacing History: Writing, Longing and (Un)Belonging - In Conversation with Isabella Hammad

Monday 17 October from 15:00 until 16:30

University of Sussex Campus

British-Palestinian author Isabella Hammad discusses her acclaimed novel The Parisian.


Mexican Mahjar: Transnational Maronites, Jews and Arabs Under the French Mandate

Thursday 4 November from 16:00 until 17:30

University of Sussex Campus

Global historian Camila Pastor discusses the entwined histories of Mexico and Syria/Lebanon during the interwar years


Algiers in the Mid-Twentieth Century: From Anti-Colonial Resistance to the Mecca of Third World Revolution

Wednesday 13 October from 17:00 until 18:30

Online

Elaine Mokhtefi will explore Algiers' revolutionary culture in the 1960s, from the War of Independence to the Pan-African Festival of 1969.


O Daughter of Babylon: Journey of an Iraqi Patriot

Wednesday 28 April from 16:00 until 17:30

Online

Book talk followed by conversation between Dr Ali Kassem (Sussex) and Dr Francis Clark-Lowes, editor of Riad El-Taher’s O Daughter of Babylon.


Publishing in MENA journals

Wednesday 17 March from 17:00 until 18:30

Online

Thinking of publishing your MENA-focused research in a reputable peer-reviewed journal?


Re-orienting the Intimate: Religious Conversion and Geopolitics in the time of ‘Love Jihad’

Wednesday 26 February from 13:00 until 15:00

Arts C333

Tea, coffee and cake available


Stranded in the Six-Day War

Wednesday 12 February from 13:00 until 15:00

Arts C333

Tea, coffee and cake available


Concurrent floods and droughts in the catchment of River Jing as reconstructed from historical archives

Wednesday 5 February from 13:00 until 14:30

Jub-143

The first of the 2020 Asia Centre Seminars!


The Best of Both Worlds: Lagos private schools and return within the Nigerian diaspora

Wednesday 5 February from 13:00 until 15:00

Arts C333

Joint seminar Sussex Africa Centre with SCMR and Geography


Politics of Exhaustion: struggles over (non-)movement in borderland Europe

Wednesday 29 January from 13:00 until 15:00

Arts C333

Co-hosted by Geography, IR and SCMR


The Asset Strippers and the Asset Hiders: On Machines, Memory and Mutability

Wednesday 11 December from 13:00 until 15:00

Dorset Place 201, University of Brighton

University of Brighton, Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories


Dwelling in liminalities: Life in the uninhabitable, undeserving and uncanny

Wednesday 30 October from 13:00 until 15:00

Arts C333

Abstract The paper explores the politics of life at the margins of Bucharest, Romania, and the emergence of homing infrastructures within...


Colonial forms, decolonial transformations:Lessons on decoloniality from secondary schools in urban Bolivia

Wednesday 16 October from 13:00 until 15:00

Arts C333

Abstract The vast majority of recent decolonial scholarship that circulates in westernized academia focuses either on critiques of coloniality, or...


De-exceptionalising the Domestic: methodological de-nationalism and domestic labour

Wednesday 2 October from 13:00 until 15:00

Arts C333

Joint Event with the Ethnicity, Race and Diverse Societies Research Network Abstract The doing of domestic work reflects, reproduces and entrenches...


Realizing critical theory in practice: two recent collaborations

Wednesday 25 September from 13:00 until 15:00

Arts C333

Realizing critical theory in practice: two recent collaborations.


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