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Who Belongs to a Country? National Representation and Identity at the FIFA World Cup 2022

Panelists: Zahra Babar, Gijs van Campenhout, Ross Griffin, Edward J. Kolla, and Peter Sprio Moderator: Danyel Reiche The panel discussion explored critical issues such as the recruitment and naturalisation of top foreign athletes, a practice that is making national dreams come true, but also stirring public debate around sports and national identity. Centering on Qatar's role in shaping the global conversation…

Daughters of the Dust

Film Synopsis:Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-The women of the Peazant family struggle with a decision which will remake their relationship with their heritage and with each other. Julie Dash’s groundbreaking 1991 film tells the story of generational change in…

La última cena – The Last Supper

Film Synopsis:On a Cuban sugar plantation in the 1790s, a count casts himself as Jesus Christ to re-enact the Catholic holy week with twelve of the men he is enslaving, until, on Good Friday, the enslaved people on the plantation revolt. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s masterpiece was part of the new Latin American Cinema of the…

Energy Aesthetics: New Directions in Studying the Cultural Life of Oil

Speakers: Anne Pasek, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment at Trent University Cajetan Iheka, Associate Professor of English at Yale University Caren Irr, Professor of English at Brandeis University Moderators: Victoria Googasian, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University- Qatar. Trish Kahle, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University- Qatar. Firat Oruc,…

It’s Getting Hot in Here: Changing Climate Change

On November 21, 2021, GU-Q students presented their research on international systems for managing global climate change at a hybrid CURA Lunch Talk titled, “It’s Getting Hot in Here: Changing Climate Change.”  Six first-year students represented the group work of their classmates and covered topics on: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), IPCC 6th…

CURA Workshop: Methodology and Bias: Reflections from Food Security Research in Ethiopia

On October 21, 2021, CIRS hosted a CURA workshop titled, “Methodology and Bias: Reflections from Food Security Research in Ethiopia” led by Professor Logan Cochrane, Associate Professor in the College of Public Policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. Via interactive exercises and group discussions, Cochrane guided thirteen GUQ and NUQ students to reflect…

Reducing Islamophobic Attitudes? The Effect of Mohamed Salah and the World Cup 2022

On October 18, 2021, CIRS hosted a webinar titled “Reducing Islamophobic Attitudes? The Effect of Mohamed Salah and the World Cup 2022” by Salma Mousa, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University and a Georgetown University in Qatar alumna (Class of 2012). The talk was part of the CIRS lecture series under the “Building…