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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A full house for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South! Yesterday, we welcomed @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social for “Politics of Suturing: Infrastructural Labor and Survival in Platform Work,” who examined how platform workers in the Philippines navigate infrastructural gaps and climate disruption.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happening today! Joining us in person? Make your way to the Projection Theater at @nuqatar.bsky.social. A reception will follow in the Atrium. Joining us remotely? The lecture will be livestreamed on YouTube. Tune in live here: bit.ly/4xwu0WT

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NU-Q Lecture on the Global South: Cheryll Soriano

Platform work has become a defining feature of digital economies ac...

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join us this Wednesday for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social, professor of communication at De La Salle University. 🗓️ Wednesday, Sep 30 🕛 12:15 – 1:30 p.m. 📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social Read the full story here: bit.ly/4xwtWq7

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In two weeks! Join us for an #IAS_NUQ Global Fellow Colloquium with Larissa Buchholz, associate professor of communication studies and sociology at @northwesternu.bsky.social. 🗓️ Wednesday, October 7 🕛 12:15 – 1:15 p.m. 📍 Room 1-300, @nuqatar.bsky.social Event details: bit.ly/46JAtTA

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Join us next week for the NU-Q Lecture on the Global South with @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social, professor of communication at De La Salle University. 🗓️ Wednesday, Sep 30 🕛 12:15 – 1:30 p.m. 📍 Projection Theater, @nuqatar.bsky.social Read the full story here: bit.ly/4xwtWq7

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Earlier this month, #IAS_NUQ brought together scholars from across disciplines for a closed workshop and a public roundtable, “Black Radical Traditions: Cedric Robinson and the Global South,” reflecting on Robinson’s legacy and the global dimensions of Black radical thought.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Applications are now open for the 2027 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship! Open to sophomores and juniors at @nuqatar.bsky.social at the time of application. Deadline: October 19, 2026 (11:59 p.m. Doha time). For more details and to apply, visit our website: bit.ly/undergradfellowship27

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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

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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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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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...

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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."

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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.

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Northwestern Qatar @nuqatar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

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.”

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

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.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

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

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76th Annual ICA Conference - 2026

Communication and Inequalities in Context

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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.”

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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

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Communication and Inequalities in Context

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

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.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

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.”

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

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.”

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

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!

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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!

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Another successful day at @websummit.bsky.social. Grateful for the conversations and connections! Check out our lineup for tomorrow here: bit.ly/4kfljLF

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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!

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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!

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Happening today! 🗓️ January 28, 2026 ⏰ 4:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. 📍 Events Hall at @nuqatar.bsky.social

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We’re one week away from the annual #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellow Presentations! Register for the event, as we have limited spots remaining. Register here: bit.ly/iasprezi

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Deadline in two days! There’s still time to apply for the #IAS_NUQ Global Fellowship. For details and to apply, please check out our website: t.co/jwQBO0YIGj

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

We kicked off 2026 with the #IAS_NUQ Theory and Method Winter School. Three days of master classes and conversations on media policy and governance at @nuqatar.bsky.social. Organized by #IAS_NUQ with support from @carnegie.org. Stay tuned!

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Save the date! Join us for the #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellow Presentations, where our 2025 fellows will showcase their projects engaging with themes across the Global South. 🗓️ Jan 28, 2026 ⏰ 4:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. 📍 Events Hall at @nuqatar.bsky.social

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Your last reminder that the @iasnuq.bsky.social @nuqatar.bsky.social is hosting a fabulous pre-conference, "Echoes and Overlaps in Arab and African Thought on media and Culture" @icahdq.bsky.social #ICA26 in Cape Town, South Africa, on June 3, 2026. www.qatar.northwestern.edu/research/ias...

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ICA 2026 Preconference

Echoes and Overlaps in Arab and African Thought on Media and Culture: Forging New Directions for Research

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

We’re thrilled to welcome our 2026 #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellows! 15 students. 15 diverse projects. One year of research, storytelling, and discovery across the Global South. A great kickoff at our first onboarding session, and we can’t wait to see what they create.

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Northwestern Qatar @nuqatar.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Watch highlights from the NU-Q Global South Lecture featuring renowned communication scholar Andrea Medrado, hosted by #IAS_NUQ. In her talk, “Favel IA: South-to-South Dialogues on Digital Colonialism, Participation and Justice,” Medrado unpacked the tensions of digital technologies like AI.

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