The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ) fosters evidence-based storytelling on the histories, cultures, societies, and media of the Global South.
Our Faculty Grants – including the #IAS_NUQ Global South Research Grant and the #IAS_NUQ Conference and Workshop Grant – support NU-Q faculty scholarship and mediamaking with a focus on pressing issues in the Global South using multidisciplinary, multilingual, and multimodal approaches.
For more information on the #IAS_NUQ Faculty Grants program or other IAS opportunities, please get in touch with IAS staff Clovis Bergère, assistant director for research (clovis.bergere@northwestern.edu) or Marina Krikorian, research manager for programs and projects (marina.krikorian@northwesten.edu).
The #IAS_NUQ Global South Research Grant provides funding to NU-Q Faculty for research and creative scholarship that contributes to evidence-based storytelling in, on, and from the Global South. The emphasis is on collaborative, multidisciplinary, multilingual, multimodal projects that address one or more of our current research themes.
The Arab Spring's Islamists Longue Durée: A Revisit of Impact and Futures
The Arab Spring's Islamists Longue Durée: A Revisit of Impact and Futures was selected as the inaugural recipient of the #IAS_NUQ Global South Research Grants program in 2022. Jointly led by Northwestern University in Qatar Professor Khaled AL-Hroub and Abdullah Baabood, chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies and visiting professor at the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, The Arab Spring's Islamists Longue Durée was a collaborative research project centered on understanding political change in the Arab region with a focus on democratization and Islamism. The project consisted of two research workshops—one held in Doha in January of 2023 and one held in Tokyo—bringing together scholars with expertise in Islamism and the Arab region and practitioners with firsthand experience of Islamist party politics. This resulted in the publication of a bilingual refereed volume that aims to offer an authoritative and up-to-date vision of the field.
Disinformation, Journalistic Freedom, & Digital Literacy in the Philippines: A Learning Game Series
Disinformation, Journalistic Freedom, & Digital Literacy in the Philippines: A Learning Game Series was named as the second recipient of the #IAS_NUQ Global South Research Grants program in 2023. Led by Spencer Striker, associate professor of digital media design at Northwestern University in Qatar, and Katrina Paola B. Alvarez, assistant professor of game studies at De La Salle University, Disinformation, Journalistic Freedom, & Digital Literacy
in the Philippines is a collaborative, cross-platform learning game project designed for the purpose of teaching digital literacy and critical thinking to Filipino youth—enhancing their ability to make sense of disinformation, fake news, and the role of press freedom in the context of Filipino politics and society. The aim of the project is to promote digital literacy for Filipino students through a series of immersive, role-playing games that engage students with the complex issues of willful disinformation campaigns, inviting them to recognize bias, misinformation, propaganda, and persuasion techniques used by politicians in the Philippines.
As part of our ongoing commitment to advancing evidence-based storytelling about the Global South, this grant supports the organization of conferences and workshops, led by NU-Q Faculty and taking place on our campus. These amplify diverse voices and perspectives from the region and beyond on topics of key relevance to the mission of #IAS_NUQ and its current research themes.
Territories, Peoples, Nations — Rethinking Foundational Concepts in Political Theory from the Global South
This workshop explored how the theories, experiences, and stories of postcolonial societies and Indigenous peoples contribute to and reorient debates about territorial sovereignty, political community, and self-determination in political theory and philosophy. By foregrounding global struggles against colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism, as well as addressing ecological challenges like climate change, scholars at the workshop engaged in systematic normative reflection and empirical research.
Sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ) and the Critical Security Studies Qatar Hub funded by the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS), this event aimed to build a network of scholars in the Global South with diverse disciplinary perspectives.
