Next Event: November 19, 12pm ET

BOOK PANEL: Offshore Citizens. Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf (Cambridge University Press 2019)

Noora Lori’s book, Offshore Citizens: Permanent “Temporary” Status (Cambridge University Press 2019) examines the forces shaping citizenship policy in the United Arab Emirates. The Gulf States rely on a complex matrix of residence rules to manage their huge and diverse pool of migrant labor. Using archival and ethnographic materials, this study challenges accepted citizenship taxonomies and asks important questions about a relationship between the state and its subjects. 

Offshore Citizens was awarded the 2020 Best Book Prize from the Migration and Citizenship section of the American Political Science Association. Lori completed her dissertation at Johns Hopkins University and is an assistant professor of international relations at Boston University.

To register on zoom https://tinyurl.com/y4yf2ful

Participants:  Noora Lori (Boston U) Oxana Shevel (Tufts U, commentator).  Organized by Peter Rutland (Wesleyan U).

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (FALL 2020):

Webinar Panels are currently being planned for the dates listed below. We will add details as information about panels is finalized. 

October 8th: "The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Contextualizing the New Violence in a Long-standing Dispute". Panelists: Nina Casperson, Thomas de Waal, Laurence Broers. Organized by Jean-François Ratelle. October 15th: Panel on the Rothschild Book Prize Winner "Yellow Star, Red Star" by Jelena Subotic. Panelists: Jelena Subotić (Georgia State U, US), Emil Kerenji (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, US), Jelena Đureinović (U of Vienna, Austria). Organized by Florian Bieber

November 5th: “The Day After: Russian-European Relations in the wake of the US presidential election.” Participants: Kimberly Marten (Barnard College, US), Julie Newton (U of Oxford, UK), Dmitri Trenin (Carnegie Moscow Center, Russia). Moderated by Alexander Cooley (Harriman Institute, Columbia U, US). Organized by Zsuzsa Csergo and Peter Rutland.

November 19th: Offshore Citizens. Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf (Cambridge University Press 2019) book panel. Participants: Noora Lori, Oxana Shevel (commentator). Organized by Peter Rutland.

December TBD: Special Event. Organized by Florian Bieber. 

in the meantime, check out an archive of our past events below!