News and Updates
Anouar Rahmani, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: AlgeriaFormerly hosted by City of Asylum. “The Salman Rushdie Attack: When a Literary Threat Becomes a Physical Scene” A lecture reflecting on the attack on Salman Rushdie and the terrifying moment when a decades-old threat against a…Continue reading→
Daria Vystavkina, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: UkraineLocation: Germany “Autoethnography in Times of Censorship” When societies become polarized and life unsafe, we fall silent. We balance between propaganda and what we witness, between public opinion and personal morality, between social conformity and our own…Continue reading→
Bengi Gumrukcu, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: TurkeyLocation: US “Opposition Parties Abroad: Divergent Tactics of Parties in the Diaspora” While existing literature on party politics primarily centers on nation states, the profound impacts of globalization and transnationalization in recent decades have prompted significant reforms…Continue reading→
Nasim Sohail, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: AfghanistanLocation: US “Academic Freedom – How Do We Know When We Are No Longer Free?” A proposed panel discussion featuring consortium scholars on the erosion of academic freedom in their home counties, and what American higher education…Continue reading→
Andrii Kostyriev, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: UkraineLocation: Lithuania “Social Media Age: The Rise or Decay of Democracy” The rapid expansion of social media has fundamentally transformed the architecture of political communication. Rather than functioning as channels of mass communication, digital platforms create personalized…Continue reading→
Juan Carlos Rosillo-Villena, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: Venezuela Formerly hosted by Coloumbia Global Center, Santiago. “Political Discourse, Democracy and Institutional Change in Latin America: Insights from the Progressive Experience” Latin America has experienced profound political transformations during the twenty-first century. This lecture explores how…Continue reading→
Muhammed Muharram, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: YemenLocation: Germany “Water as Archive: Re-imagining Exile, Memory, and Identity through the Blue Humanities from Yemen to the World” This talk approaches water not merely as geography, but as a living archive — a medium that holds…Continue reading→
Mawahib Hassan, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: SudanFormerly hosted by Columbia Global Center, Amman. “The Importance of Social Networks in the Survival and Adaptation of Displaced Sudanese in Turkey” This lecture presents findings from an ongoing research project examining the importance of social and…Continue reading→
Homeira Qaderi, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: AfghanistanLocation: US “Writing as Resistance: Women’s Fiction and the Struggle for Voice in Contemporary Afghanistan” This talk explores how contemporary Afghan women writers use fiction not only as a literary medium, but also as a vehicle for…Continue reading→
Abdulqawi Hazaea, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: YemenFormerly hosted by Columbia Global Center, Amman. “From Silence to Defiance: Yemeni Women’s Resilience, Resistance, and Peacebuilding in a Decade of War” This presentation examines the representation of Yemeni women’s resilience, resistance, and peacebuilding in contemporary literature…Continue reading→