• Mapping the Mongol Steppe: Indigenous Cartography and Statecraft in 19th Century Qing China

    Speaker: Anne-Sophie Pratte, Georgetown University in Qatar Location: CIRS Conference Room, Georgetown University in Qatar On January 31, 2023, Anne-Sophie Pratte, Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University in Qatar, delivered a CIRS Dialogue titled “Mapping the Mongol Steppe: Indigenous Cartography and Statecraft in 19th Century Qing China.” Pratte argued that multiple historically meaningful “exchanges…

  • MENA Think Tank Roundtable: Improving Relevance and Impact at a Time of Mounting Global Uncertainty

    On February 4-5, 2023, CIRS hosted a roundtable discussion for a group of think tank representatives that operate in and produce policy research on the Middle East and North Africa region. Over the course of two days, representatives around the table discussed challenges, opportunities and possible areas for collaboration as a way forward. The roundtable…

  • CURA Research Skills Workshop: Designing a Research Question

    On February 9, 2023, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) hosted a research skills workshop titled “Designing a Research Question.” The workshop was presented in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South (#IAS_NUQ) at Northwestern University in Qatar (NUQ), under the auspices of the CIRS Undergraduate Research Advancement (CURA)…

  • Strategic Timing in the Appearance of News: Evidences from Scandals on U.S.Politicians

    Speaker: Lamis Kattan, Georgetown University in Qatar Location: CIRS Conference Room, Georgetown University in Qatar Dr. Lamis Kattan received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Ottawa in Canada. She is an applied micro-economist and her fields of research broadly fall under labor economics, political economy, public economics, and population economics. She joined Georgetown…

  • CURA Spotlight: Kyoko Matsukawa

    Speaker: Kyoko Matsukawa (Konan University) Moderator: Aashish Karn (Georgetown University in Qatar, Class of 2023) Location: CIRS Conference Room, Georgetown University in Qatar On March 5th 2023, CIRS organized its…

  • مجموعة العمل 1عن تاريخ العالم وممارسات الاسلاموفوبيا  08 AUG 2022 - 09 AUG 2022 17:00 - 19:30 في 8 و 9 أغسطس 2022، نظم مركز الدراسات الدولية والإقليمية أول اجتماع بحثي…

  • Global Histories and Practices of Islamophobia Workshop II

    On March 12 and 13, 2023, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) organized a second research meeting under its research initiative, Global Histories and Practices of Islamophobia. The…

  • CURA Spotlight: Min Zhou

    Speaker: Min Zhou (University of California, Los Angeles) Moderator: Dalva Raposo (Georgetown University in Qatar, Class of 2024) Location: Georgetown University in Qatar

  • CIRS Open House

    On August 21, 2023, the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) held an open house for GU-Q students, faculty, and staff to learn more about CIRS, the CIRS Undergraduate…