Event Type: Faculty

Showing 33 “Faculty” posts

  • Trade Sanctions

    April 24, 2025

    How effective are trade sanctions?

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  • Labour Market Fluidity, Skill Accumulation and the Insurance Effects from Taxes

    April 24, 2025

    This paper uses the Canadian tax reform in the year 2000 to study how changes in the income tax schedule affect workers' career choices and welfare.

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  • Working Women In Liberian Media: Uncovering Histories through Television Archives and Personal Stories (1980-1991)

    March 24, 2025

    The discussion surrounding African women and the media is complex, addressing topics like media representation, gendered labor, and women as producers and consumers.

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  • Multispecies ecologies of homemaking in the UAE

    February 5, 2025

    What does it mean to inhabit urban space with others?

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  • The Political Future of Indian Muslims

    February 5, 2025

    The talk will focus on Dr. Mujibur Rehman's book, Shikwa-e-Hind.

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  • Uniting the Planet: A History of Internationalism in Astronomy

    October 20, 2024

    Jörg Matthias Determann is Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar.

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  • Book Launch: Resistance as Negotiation by Uday Chandra

    October 8, 2024

    "Tribes" appear worldwide today as vestiges of a pre-modern past at odds with the workings of modern states.

    Poster for a book launch event titled Resistance as Negotiation on Tuesday, October 22, 5:00–6:00 PM, featuring book cover image and details of the author, moderator, and discussant. Reception to follow.

  • When NGOs Refuse Money Towards a Typology and Developing a Database

    October 1, 2024

    Logan Cochrane is an Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy.

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  • Researching Silence: Landscapes and Archives

    October 1, 2024

    Munira Khayyat is a Clinical Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University.

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  • Istanbul as a Multicultural Imperial Capital

    October 1, 2024

    Mostafa Minawi is an Associate Professor of History and the Founder of the Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies initiative at Cornell University.

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