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CMES Researcher Lina Eklund and the collaboration Decentralised Damage Mapping Group have been granted a prestigious award by the European Space Agency. The European Space Agency's Earth Observation Excellence Award is presented annually to early-career researchers, in recognition of outstanding contributions to scientific advancement and innovation using Earth observation data. This year, the awa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-wins-european-space-agencys-earth-observation-excellence-award - 2025-12-25

Professor Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi (University of Oslo) visited CMES for a research seminar on Iran's mothers of "martyrs". What does mothering and grieving mean to those who mother not just on the margins but to those who are pressured, forced and/or assumed to speak and embrace the language of martyrdom in times of sorrow? On March 10, during a CMES Research Seminar, Professor Kristin Soray

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-seminar-irans-mothers-martyrs-public-dissent-times-sorrow - 2025-12-25

CMES researchers took part in a leadership program within Lund University’s Strategic Research Areas. CMES researchers Pinar Dinc and Hossein Hashemi, representing The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW), took part in the Strategic Research Area (SRA) Leadership Development program at Lund University during the 2024–2025 academic year.Running from August 2024 to March 2025, the program ai

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researchers-participated-sra-leadership-development-program - 2025-12-25

Applications are now open for the CMES Travel Grant of Autumn 2025. Application deadline is 30 May 2025. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports research with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). CMES provides travel grants for conducting field work in the Middle East and conference/workshop participation

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-cmes-travel-grant-autumn-2025 - 2025-12-25

A recent CMES Research Seminar with Professor Christie S. Warren offered a look into the complex journey of rebuilding Syria after years of devastating conflict. How do you rebuild a nation that has been torn apart by more than a decade of war? This was the central question when Fulbright Professor Christie S. Warren visited CMES for a research seminar titled Reconstructing Syria.In her talk, Chri

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-seminar-christie-s-warren-reconstructing-syria - 2025-12-25

CMES Director Karin Aggestam has contributed to the yearbook of Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, writing about Israel, Palestine, and just peace. Karin Aggestam (2025), ”Israel, Palestina och den rättvisa freden [Israel, Palestine and Just Peace]”, Stockholm: Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds Box.The contribution is available to read here.Riksbankens Jubileumsfond is an independent foundation with the goal of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israel-palestine-and-just-peace - 2025-12-25

Anne Lene Stein (Lund University) visited CMES to share her work on an agonistic approach to ethnographic research in Palestine and Israel. On April 24, CMES hosted a seminar with Anne Lene Stein, a doctoral student in Political Science at Lund University. In her talk, Shattered Landscapes: An Agonistic Approach to Ethnography in Palestine and Israel, she shared insights from her ethnographic fiel

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-seminar-shattered-landscapes-agonistic-approach-ethnography-palestine-and-israel - 2025-12-25

CMES Researcher Sami Al-Daghistani has been granted Lund University’s GloHub seed funding for an international collaboration on Islamic Studies. The initiative brings together researchers from the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and scholars from Lund University, representing both the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) and the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES).As

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/glohub-seed-funding-sami-al-daghistani-islamic-studies-collaboration - 2025-12-25

Applications are now open for the CMES Workshop Proposal of 2025. Application deadline is 30 May 2025. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports and coordinates workshops with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). CMES funds 1-2 new workshops per year and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration between re

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-call-workshop-proposal - 2025-12-25

Read the April CMES Newsletter about upcoming events, recent research activities, and new publications. The CMES Newsletter offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research. It is distributed regularly to a diverse audience of scholars, both within Lund University and beyond. Each issue features:Message From the DirectorLatest Research NewsUpcoming EventsRecent Publication

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-51 - 2025-12-25

Rhys Machold visited Lund for a book talk on "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel". In collaboration with CMES, the Swedish South Asia Studies Network (SASNET) hosted a book talk with Dr. Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow) at Finngatan 16.The book Fabricating Homeland Security by Rhys Machold locates homeland security as a universalizing transnat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-talk-fabricating-homeland-security-police-entanglements-across-india-and-palestineisrael - 2025-12-25

CMES researchers Svante Lundgren and Pinar Dinc recently visited Yerevan, Armenia, for the launch of a new book and to engage in academic discussions. On 23 April, CMES researchers Svante Lundgren and Pinar Dinc participated in a panel discussion at Yerevan State University (YSU) for the launch of a new open access edited book by Pinar Dinc and Olga Selin Hunler (Acıbadem University), The Republic

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researchers-join-academic-exchanges-during-yerevan-visit - 2025-12-25

On 20th October, Lund University has organized a workshop on post-growth for organisations and their role in manoeuvring change processes, how to organise for a post-growth economy and society, and the emerging scholarship in the field. The need for alternatives to current production, consumption, and lifestyle patterns is widely acknowledged among decision-makers, researchers, and civil society.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/workshop-iiiee-addressed-post-growth-business-and-welfare - 2025-12-25

Björn Wickenberg and Kes McCormick, researchers from IIIEE and SLU, attending a major conference on Earth System Governance. In 2023, the Earth System Governance Conference is hosted by Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The Earth System Governance Conference features a focus on bridging sciences and societies for sustainability transformations – highlighting inter-disciplinarity and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-earth-system-governance-conference - 2025-12-25

​​​​​​​The IIIEE in collaboration with Viable Cities has launched a new online course on cities, climate and change with a focus on developing transformative skills and capacities. This course explores how we can design, create and achieve climate neutral and sustainable cities. We embrace the “mission to the moon” approach for tackling greenhouse emissions from cities putting an emphasis on pathw

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/cities-climate-and-change-new-online-course-iiiee - 2025-12-25

The Knowledge platform Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy continues the quest to bring researchers and Mission cities together to explore the paths forward for climate-neutrality. After focusing on the mobility and transportation sector in spring, we now turn our attention towards the role of carbon storage as a means to support cities to become climate-neutral. We kick-started November by

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/climate-neutral-cities-2030-next-steps-carbon-storage - 2025-12-25

IIIEE will be co-hosting a webinar and high-level panel discussion on Energy Efficiency, on the 17th of November, and Lena Neij will be the moderator, Can we transform the energy system without energy efficiency?  The growing challenges of today's society calls for a wider discussion on energy efficiency. A key question is if we can transform the energy system without energy efficiency.  The IIIEE

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/high-level-panel-energy-efficiency - 2025-12-25

IIIEE researchers Anna Elfström and Josefine Henman presented research findings on rebound effects and social risks of lifestyle changes in line with the 1.5° target at the Lund University conference "Knowledge for Sustainable Development - How to make impact". On November 7, Lund University's organized the annual conference focusing on sustainability research. This year’s theme was "Knowledge for

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/conference-presentation-rebound-effects-and-social-risks-lifestyle-changes - 2025-12-25

A recent grant from Formas will support a new transdisciplinary project exploring “Re-” activities of reuse, repair, refurbishing and recycling in practice. Jessika Richter, IIIEE, together with Hervé Corvellec, the Department of Service Studies at Lund University, and Anna Seravalli, School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University, will undertake a new research project exploring the organizi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-research-project-reuse-repair-and-recycling-consumers-good-and-their-components - 2025-12-25

Malmö, Helsingborg and Lund, all aiming to be climate-neutral cities by 2030, will together with the IIIEE conduct pilot studies focusing on citizen dialogue and climate investment plans. The Mission cities Helsingborg, Lund, and Malmö have all been granted funding for pilot studies concerning accelerating climate-neutrality. The knowledge platform Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy, which

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/three-new-pilot-studies-accelerating-climate-neutrality - 2025-12-25