Co-Led Online Seminar Archive

A comprehensive list of the New University in Exile Consortium’s previous co-led online seminars are listed below, organized by the semester during which they were taught.

Fall 2023

• Climate Change, Conflict, and Underdevelopment, co-led by Mulu Gebreyohannes and Sied Mohamed
• Communication Across Languages, Cultures, and Nations: In Other Words, Translation, co-led by Nael Hijjo and Reem Adib Lulu
• Designing Feminist Research, co-led by Aslı Kotaman and Pelin Yalçinoğlu Kaplan
• Language, Gender, and Identity, co-led by Abdulgaleel Ahmed and Sameer Mohammed
• Literature and Social Issues in the Middle East, co-led by Shada Bokir and Mohammed Almahfali
• The Struggle for Quality and Transformation in Afghanistan’s Higher Education, co-led by M. Osman Babury and Fazlullah Akhtar

Spring 2023

• A Decade After: The Arab Spring, Its Makings, Transitions, and Visual Representations in Perspective, led by Hassan Almohammed
• Afghanistan Under the Taliban: The Past Year, co-led by Kazim Karimi and Shoaib Rahim
• Decolonizing and Globalizing LGBTQ+ Studies, co-led by Paweł Leszkowicz and Tomasz Kitliński
• Where is China Going and Why: The Party, State, and Global Order, co-led by Andrew J. Nathan and Teng Biao
• Women’s Lives in Iran: Between the Religious Traditional and New Horizons, co-led by Mohammad Rezaei and Naima Mohammadi

Fall 2022

• Communications across Languages, Cultures, and Nations – In Other Words, Translation, co-led by Nael Hijjo and Kais Kadhim
• Crisis of Democracy, co-led by Selin Bengi Gümrükçü and Omar Sadr
• Energy and Security, co-led by Mehmet Ari and Eyyup Celik
• Feminist Research Methodologies, co-led by Asli Kotaman and Pelin Yalçinoğlu Kaplan
• Media and Policy in the Era of Fake News, co-led by Anton Liagusha and Andriy Karakuts
• Where is China Going and Why: The Party, State, and Global Order, co-led by Andrew J. Nathan and Teng Biao

Spring 2022

• Language, Identity and Gender, co-led by Abdulgaleel Abdullah Mohammed and Sameer Abdulrazzaq Mused Mohammed
• Kleptocracy and Corruption in Rentier States, co-led by Gubad Ibadoghlu and Leila Alieva
• Contemporary Security Issues and Transatlantic Link, co-led by Mehmet Ari and Eyyup Celik
• Comparative Racisms, co-led by Güllistan Yarkin and Utku Balaban
• Decades of the Republic in Afghanistan, co-led by Shoaib Rahim and Kazim Karimi
• Decolonizing and Deconstructing the MENA/SWANA, co-led by Teoman Aktan and Mabruk Derbesh
• Cultural Heritage and Identities in the Middle East, co-led by Ahmed Fatima Kzzo and Nedal Haj Darwich

Fall 2021

• Feminist Research Methodologies and Digital Feminist Research, co-led by Asli Kotaman and Pelin Yalçinoğlu Kaplan
• Will China Democratize? Contending Forces in a Changing China, co-led by Teng Biao and Andrew Nathan
• Heritage, Politics and the Modern State, co-led by Mohamad Moustafa Alabsi and Rand Ackl

Spring 2021

• Archaeology, Museums, and Identities, co-led by Ahmed Fatima Kzzo and Nedal Haj Darwich
• Racism, Coloniality and Space, co-led by Utku Balaban and Güllistan Yarkin
• Democracy, Participation and Social Movements, co-led by Selin Bengi Gümrükçü and Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi

Fall 2020

• Law, Justice and Human Rights in China, co-led by Teng Biao and Jerome A. Cohen
• The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Rentier States, co-led by Gubad Ibadoghlu and Leila Alieva
• Marx’s Materialism, co-led by Saladdin Ahmed and Siyaves Azeri
• Academic Freedom in the MENA Region, co-led by Mabruk Derbesh and Teoman Aktan

Spring 2020

• Homelessness and Homemaking: On Different Meanings of the Home Space, co-led by Utku Balaban and Ayşe Küçükkırca

Fall 2019

• Identity and Conflict in the Middle East, co-led by Nazan Bedirhanoğlu and Elçin Aktoprak

Spring 2019

• The Social Structures of Neoliberal Authoritarianism: The Case of Turkey, co-led by Cem Özatalay and Bediz Yilmaz