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20SEP 2025
Middle East
Radio Feature: The Middle East and Global Society
On July 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Thomas Demmelhuber was invited to give a guest lecture in the series “The Middle East in Transition: Contemporary Historical Perspectives” at the Institute for the Studies of the Culture and Religion of Islam at Goethe University Frankfurt. He spoke about the interaction between the Middle East and global society. […]
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19JUL 2025
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IPSA 2025 in Seoul
Over 3500 participants attended the annual congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in Seoul, among them parts of the Institute’s faculty. Lars Lott presented a paper on the connection between autocratization and its effects on universalism and the provision of social policies and public goods at the panel entitled “Autocratization and Sustainability,” sponsored […]Over 3500 participants attended the annual congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in Seoul, among them parts of the Institute’s faculty. Lars Lott presented a paper on the connection between autocratization and its effects on universalism and the provision of social policies and public goods at the panel entitled “Autocratization and Sustainability,” sponsored […]
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02JUN 2025
Middle East
FAU Doctoral Candidate Student speaks at KAPSARC School of Public Policy Conference in Riyadh
Laura Schuhn, doctoral candidate at the Chair of Middle East Politics and Society, presented the results of her research last week at the regional 2025 NASPAA conference at the KAPSARC School for Public Policy (KSPP) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In her doctoral project, Laura Schuhn examines how citizens and civil society in Saudi Arabia use […]
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06NOV 2024
Middle East
Autocratization, Emotions and Identity in Saudi Arabia
Last September, Antonia Thies, doctoral candidate in the DFG Research Training Group on ‘Sentimentality in Literature, Culture, and Politics’ embarked on her second of three field researches to the Gulf, this time to Saudi Arabia. Embedded within the research activities of the Chair of Middle East Politics and Society, which is particularly devoted towards context- […]
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11MAY 2023
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“The Ukraine War and the Impact on the Middle East” – Lecture by Ross Harrison (Washington)
We cordially invite you to a lecture by Prof. Ross Harrison (Middle East Institute, Washington DC). Prof. Harrison is a renowned expert on US foreign policy in the MENA region. He is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute and also on the faculty in the Political Science department at the University of Pittsburgh.The lecture with the title „The […]
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04MAY 2023
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“Can Civil Society Hold the Democratic Line in Southeast Asia?” – Lecture from Meredith Weiss
We cordially invite you to a lecture by Prof. Meredith Weiss (Professor at State University of New York, SUNY). Meredith Weiss is a renowned expert on Southeast Asian politics. She is currently visiting Professor at the FAU to work with Prof. Bünte on a special issue on Civil Society in Southeast Asia. The lecture with the title „Can Civil […]
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