Events

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When	Description	Location	Add to your calendar
21 October 2025	Toby Craig Jones - The USS Vincennes Shooting of Iran Air Flight 655	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
21 October 2025	Conversations in Global Philosophy: Intercultural and Reconstructive Humane Learning and Philosophy	Online Only	Add event
27 October 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Badr Tachouche	Online	Add event
28 October 2025	Quinn Slobodian - A Global History of Elon Musk	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
29 October 2025	Visiting Speaker Event with Professor Ismail Nashef	IAIS Building/LT2	Add event
3 November 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Michael Shenkar	Online Only	Add event
3 November 2025	Conversations in Global Philosophy: Why Plato Matters?	Online Only	Add event
10 November 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Godefroid de Callatay and Laura Tribuzio	Online Only	Add event
12 November 2025	Conversations in Global Philosophy: Putting Chinese Philosophy Back into the Canon	Online Only	Add event
17 November 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Edith Szanto	Online Only	Add event
18 November 2025	Noora Lori - Passport Power: Precarity and Privilege in the Gulf	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
24 November 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Safa Mahmoudian	Online Only	Add event
25 November 2025	Christian Henderson - Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf states in the global food system	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
1 December 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Pranav Prakash	Online Only	Add event
2 December 2025	Ali Karimi - Architecture Between Seasons	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
8 December 2025	CSI Monday Majlis: Alireza Doostdar	Online Only	Add event
9 December 2025	Mira Al Hussein - Political Naturalisation and the Conscription of Transit Citizens in the UAE	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
9 December 2025	Conversations in Global Philosophy: Intercultural Philosophy and Mesoamerican Traditions	Online Only	Add event
13 January 2026	Mona Damulji - The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil in Iran and Iraq	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
19 January 2026	CSI Monday Majlis: Gabriel Said Reynolds	Online Only	Add event
20 January 2026	Elham Fakhro - A discussion of The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
27 January 2026	Beeta Baghoolizadeh - Jinn and Haunted Memories of the Indian Ocean	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
3 February 2026	Marc Owen Jones - Dysinfluence: Transnational Deception Operations in the Middle East	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
10 February 2026	Conversations in Global Philosophy: The Linguistic Carnival of Thought	Online Only	Add event
10 February 2026	Ahmed Al Maazmi - Portuguese Black Serpents Meet Safavid Dragons: The Intellectual World of Indian Ocean Imperialism	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
17 February 2026	Laure Assaf - Transient territories: Arab youth and the making of urban subjectivities in Abu Dhabi	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
24 February 2026	Crystal Ennis - Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
25 February 2026	Visiting Speaker Event with Dr Zeina Maasri	IAIS Building/LT2	Add event
3 March 2026	Andrea Wright - Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
10 March 2026	Mattin Biglari - Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933–51	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
11 March 2026	Conversations in Global Philosophy: Indian Tantric Nondualism: Abhinavagupta's Solution to the Mind-Body Problem	Online Only	Add event
17 March 2026	Ashwak Hauter - TBD	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
7 April 2026	Conversations in Global Philosophy: Philosophy without Borders: A New Sourcebook in Global Philosophy	Online Only	Add event
21 April 2026	Conversations in Global Philosophy: Chinese Philosophy in Transcultural Contexts: The Method of Sublation in Global Thought	Online Only	Add event
11 May 2026	Conversations in Global Philosophy: The Philosophy of Zhuangzi	Online Only	Add event
2 June 2026	Conversations in Global Philosophy: Hospitality	Online Only	Add event
9 June 2026	Conversations in Global Philosophy: Poetic Thinking in Sufi Philosophy	Online Only	Add event