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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A talk "Personality cults in Modern Turkey: narratives, discourses and authoritarian politics", two films: "Seven Doors" (also on Turkey) and "No way to freedom: from Western Sahara to Gaza" plus the Conversation Series: Passion and politics. These are some of the events, hosted by CMES, that will take place during th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/updated-list-fall-events-cmes - 2026-08-09

Research in suspicious fields can be transformative in both amplifying and destructive ways. "Conducting fieldwork for a project about the materiality of suspicion in today's Egypt sounds topical, relevant and exciting, but fear can touch researchers as well as their subjects. In this essay, I work to understand my embodied experience in the field in a broader perspective by exploring how suspicio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/infused-suspicion-transformation-anthropologist-body-new-article-maria-frederika-malmstrom - 2026-08-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How can we understand today’s global collective body of anxiety? The fear of the other? War and hostility? Such topics will be explored in five separate conversations with prominent and innovative scholars, formed as dialogues where the audience is invited to actively participate. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arjun-appadurai-and-maria-frederika-malmstrom-about-passion-and-politics - 2026-08-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Read the newsletter hereSubscribe here2019-09-12

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-3-september-2019 - 2026-08-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES researcher Dalia Abdelhady recently published a book chapter on “Framing the Syrian Refugee: Divergent Discourses in Three National Contexts.” inThe Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises, edited by Cecilia Menjivar, Marie Ruiz, and Emmanuel Ness, Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Handbook of Migration Crises run

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/framing-syrian-refugee-divergent-discourses-three-national-contexts - 2026-08-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dalia Abdelhady has presented a paper on “Perception of Educational Inequality among the Children of Immigrants in Three Systems” (with Amy Lutz from Syracuse University) at the European Sociological Association meeting in Manchester, UK, August 20-23, 2019. She also presented a paper on “Perception of Social Mobility

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/perception-educational-inequality-among-children-immigrants-three-systems - 2026-08-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES affiliated researcher Kholoud Mansour has just published a chapter in the report "Rebuilding Syria: The Middle East's Next Power Game? The chapter is published 09/09/2019 by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies in their report, which is found here: REBUILDING SYRIA The Middle East’s Next Powe

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrians-abroad-future-refugees-and-their-return-home - 2026-08-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES researcher Maria F Malmström is holding a book talk at University of Oxford. About the book: "This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical light on the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, life and politics in the Arab world in the aftermath of these even

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-book-talk - 2026-08-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES affiliated researcher Marta Kolankiewicz just published a book about anti-Muslim violence in Sweden. "With in-depth analyses of cases of anti-Muslim violence in Sweden―a mosque fire, hate speech and of a series of assaults―Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial sheds light on issues central for understanding the ways in whi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/anti-muslim-racism-trial-muslims-swedish-judiciary-and-possibility-justice-routledge-research-race - 2026-08-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES researcher Madeleine Kassab recently presented her work at the conference IAVS_AISV-2019 12TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL SEMIOTICS: VISUAL SEMIOTICS GOES COGNITIVE at Lund University. What can cognitive semiotics bring to visual semiotics, and vice-versa? Visual semiotics has, most of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-2011-2013-comparison-between-al-jazeera-and-al-manar-channels - 2026-08-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES researcher Pınar Dinç is presenting at a conference in Geneva called "Place names in Turkey: Naming, Erasing, Re-naming: Political Uses of Place Names in Turkey". The politics of place naming in Turkey have historically been dense and controversial. Naming and/or renaming places are political acts that affect dai

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/dersim-anatolian-high-school-ataturk-neighborhood-tunceli-naming-renaming-and-contingent-openings - 2026-08-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES affiliated researcher Josepha Wessels will be presenting her work at the conference: "Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring". The conference is hosted by the project Mediatized diaspora (MEDIASP): Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europe, Department of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/artistic-expression-regime-critical-activism-and-social-networks-syrians-denmark-and-sweden - 2026-08-09

An evolutionary perspective should be taken into account to ensure long-term crop pollination. This is the conclusion of an article published by BECC and CEC-affiliated researchers at Lund University. The researchers build on recent findings that evolutionary processes, in response to landscape change, are happening faster than previously thought. The article presents a model that can help us unde

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/effects-landscape-change-evolution-pollinators - 2026-08-09

Sustainability Week is an annual event where Lund University and the Lund Municipality invite you to participate in sustainability activities. It is a week full of discussions and lectures, serious issues and hopeful visions for the future. Here you can find all the events of the week with participants from the Centre for Environment and Climate Science. Monday 8 April - Friday 12 AprilSearching f

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/our-events-sustainability-week-lund-2024 - 2026-08-09

Ullrika Sahlin, a CEC researcher specialising in Computational Science for Health and Environment (COSHE) research, recently completed a mission for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). EFSA's scientific experts learned how to express uncertainty in a clear way. EFSA was set up in 2002 in the wake of crises of confidence in food safety. Its mandate is to carry out scientific assessments of r

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/improving-food-safety-risk-assessment-eu - 2026-08-09

A computational science hub, COSHE, has been established at Lund University. The aim is to become a creative hub for computational science with a focus on interdisciplinary research in the fields of health, climate and the environment. COSHE works with machine learning, statistical learning methods, physical system modeling and quantum computing. The research groups behind COSHE already have parti

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/computational-science-hub-sharpen-research-environment-and-health - 2026-08-09

Toxins and chemicals are a major threat to our environment. The "third crisis" - the chemical crisis - is often forgotten when we talk about the climate and endangered species. Ahead of Biodiversity Day on 22 May, Maria Hansson, a researcher at Lund University, offers tips on how to create a non-toxic environment in your own garden, benefiting all its inhabitants, big and small. Synthetically prod

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/five-ways-create-toxin-free-garden - 2026-08-09

After a year of intensive work by many involved, the Swedish Climate Symposium with its close to 400 participants, has come to an end. Now an evaluation of the conference awaits, but the feeling is that most people experienced it as a successful event. To take the pulse during the symposium itself, we did a couple of short interviews with some of those who were there. Read the article which is pub

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/voices-swedish-climate-symposium - 2026-08-09

Have you noticed that when scientists are asked whether or not a particular extreme weather event is due to climate change, they usually respond with something like "It fits the pattern, but we can't say for sure that this particular event is worse because of climate change"? Weather attribution is a new phenomenon that is changing this. Climate scientist Wilhelm May at Lund University helps us ge

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/weather-attribution-climate-scientist-wilhelm-may-helps-us-get-grips-concept - 2026-08-09

One of the world's greatest challenges is to feed the world's population in a sustainable way. Organic farming is one option, but the downside is that it produces lower yields than conventional farming. Studies led by Lund University now show that the yield difference between organic and conventional farming is smaller than previously thought, but the yields are still significantly smaller than fo

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/organic-farms-potential-higher-yields - 2026-08-09