SFM Phase I Bi-Weekly Research Seminars | Center for Religious Studies

The Phase I of the project Striking from the Margins held 22 bi-weekly research seminars during its 2-year run from 2017, inviting distinguished scholars with varied backgrounds stimulating debate on the marginalization of religion, state and disintegration in the Middle East and beyond, thus providing a multidisciplinary approach.

SFM’s bi-weekly research seminars held in its Budapest seat, presented its research results and suggested analytical and comparative perspectives. The seminars were addressed by both CEU and external experts.

For further details please click on each seminar's title, which takes you to the recordings and descriptions of each lecture. Or if you are interested in finding the videos in one place, please visit the seminar's video library.

Bi-Weekly Research Seminars (BWRS): CEU, Budapest
Sidney Jones George Soros Visiting Practitioner Chair	Southeast Asians and the Syrian Conflict	9 February 2017
Prof. Happymon Jacob CEU Senior Global Challenges Fellow	Evolution, conflict patterns and management practices of the India-Pakistan border	23 February 2017
Prof. Don Kalb CEU Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology	State Collapse, Transformation, Fragmentation and 'Resource Bases' in Anthropology	23 March 2017
Dr. Harith Al-Qarawee Striking from the Margins	Religious Authorities and Militant Islamism in Iraq	6 April 2017
Dr. Harout Akdedian Striking from the Margins	The Rise of Radicalized Groups and the New Social Order in Syria	20 April 2017
Prof. Isam Al-Khafaji	Reconfiguring the State, Restructuring Communities	11 May 2017
Dr. Seteney Shami Director of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences	The Social Sciences in the Arab Region,: gaps, elisions and glosses	15 June 2017
Prof. Said Arjomand Institute for Global Studies Stony Brook, New York, USA	Weberian Methodology and Political Sociology	4 September 2017
Dr. Shamel Azmeh Visiting Fellow Dpt. Intern. Development LSE	Syria's Passage to Uprising and Conflict	21 September 2017
Dr. Bassam Haddad Associate Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University	The Rise, Transformation, and Prospects of “the”/“a” Syrian Uprising	5 October 2017
Dr. Laura Ruiz De Elvira Post-Doc in Political Sociology, IREMAM Marseille	Bashar Al-Asad's Political Engineering and the Rupture of the Social Contract (2000-2010)	19 October 2017
Dr. Renad Mansour	Iraq in Transition, Again: The Dilemmas of State-Building	18 January 2018
Prof. Ayse Çaglar	Migrants and Disempowered Cities	8 February 2018
Dr. Osman Bahadir Dincer	The Emergence of ‘Graded Citizenship’ in Syria	15 February 2018
Dr. Seda Altug	The minority question in Syria under the French mandate	22 February 2018
Dr. Gudrun Harrer	Restart or new divisions: Parliamentary Elections in Iraq	22 March 2018
Dr. Daniel Mekonnen	Comparing the Scrutiny of Syria and Yemen by the UN Human Rights Council	12 April 2018
Dr. Ute Falasch	Contesting Colonial Power from the Margins: Sufis in 18th Century Bengal	19 April 2018
Dr. Toby Matthiesen	Saudi-Arabia and Shiism	24 April 2018
Prof. Gilbert Achcar	Considerations on State and Revolution in the MENA Region	17 May 2018
Dr. Akeel Abbas	Iraqi Shiasm post-2003	31 May 2018
Dr. Balazs Kovacs (forumZFD Philippines)	Peace-building under Aquino: contesting the neo-patrimonial state in the Philippines from without and from within	20 September 2018