Events
Conference
Sustainable tourism in the Mediterranean in the post-COVID situation
Conference by Maria Gavari Barbas, director of the Interdisciplinary Research Team on Tourism (EIREST), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and introduced by Laura Huici Sancho, associate professor in Public International Law and International Re...
Conference
Nationalism, Islam and democracy
Conference by Umut Özkirimli, senior research fellow at IBEI and associate senior researcher at CIDOB. Moderated by by Ana Ballesteros Peiró, Phd in Arab and Islamic Studies and associate senior researcher at CIDOB.
Conference
Choke, push-back and disperse: displacement as a political technology of migration governmentality
Conference by Martina Tazzioli, lecturer in Politics and Technology, Goldsmiths University of London and Juan Carlos Triviño, senior researcher at GRITIM-UPF.
Conference
The relevance of the secular and the religious in EU’s external action
Conference by Sarah Wolff, reader in European Policy and International Relations and director of the Center for European Research, Queen Mary University of London. Moderated by Jordi Quero, professor at CEI International Affairs.
Conference
Highly Qualified Migrations from Southern Europe in Times of Crisis: Gain or Waste of Brains?
Conference by Yvonne Riaño, associate professor at the Institute of Geography of the Université de Neuchâtel. Moderated by Thales Speroni, postdoctoral researcher at CER-Migracions.
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The Politics of Climate Change and Migration: a Sociological Interpretation
Conference by Gerard Delanty, professor of Sociology and Social Political Thought (University of Sussex) and Juan Carlos Triviño, senior researcher, (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
Conference
Tunisia: democracy or authoritarianism?
Debate about Tunisia with two of the collaborators of afkar/ideas magazine.
Conference
Young people with a Migratory Background in the Mediterranean
Conference by Francesca Lagomarsino, associate professor (Università di Genova) and Romina Tavernelli, researcher and co-director of the Master’s degree (Universitat de Barcelona).
Conference
The New / Old Cold Wars: Geopolitics and North Africa and the Middle East in the Age of Arab Revolts
Conference by H. A. Hellyer, senior associate fellow (Royal United Services Institute) and Lurdes Vidal Bertran, director of the Arab and Islamic World (IEMed).
Conference
The Future of Credit Guarantee Schemes in the Mediterranean: Opportunities for a Strengthened Role
The EMGN dedicates its second Annual Conference to discuss ways to consolidate the Credit Guarantee Schemes, their mission, and their impact on the Mediterranean economies.
Presentation
The Politics of Maritime Infrastructures across the Mediterranean
Mediterranean connections have so long defined the relationships across the seas. Since the 20th century, these maritime connections have entailed intimate interweaving of war and trade, of businesses, of colonies and postcolonies, and of concerns ar...
Cultural activity
Presentation “Balas para todas” by Natalia Sancha
Presentation of the book "Balas para todas. Seis mujeres periodistas en Oriente Medio y el Magreb”, coordinated by Natalia Sancha (Larrad Ediciones, Madrid, 2021).
Presentation
The establishment of the Catalan fishing community in Marseille after 1725
Conference by Daniel Faget, associate professor of Modern History and Jaume Dantí i Riu, full professor in Modern History.
Cultural activity
Mediterranean, a sea of music
Presentation of the album and video clip "Mediterrània. Un Mar de Música" by the group Capella de Ministrers in the Auditorium of the Palau Robert in Barcelona.
Conference
Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Change in the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean is one of the main climate change hotspots in the world. Accelerated climate change effects have caused direct and already visible environmental challenges that, based on projections, are expected to worsen in the upcoming decades.
Workshop
Scaling Up Financial Inclusion of MSMEs for a Sustainable Recovery in the Mediterranean
Following two previous webinars dedicated respectively to the impact of the COVID-19 on financial inclusion and youth financial inclusion in the Mediterranean, the alliance is organising a third edition untitled “Scaling Up Financial Inclusion of M...
Webinar
Defining a Trans-Mediterranean Cybersecurity Agenda
In this webinar, a prestigious lineup of speakers present the role of the law in fighting corruption and the challenges it faces in the political context, as well as the steps needed to ensure proper implementation.
Presentation
Death in the works of Alia Mamdouh
Conference by Alia Mamdouh, Iraqi journalist and writer and Anna Gil-Bardají, professor in the department of Translation and Interpreting and director of the Master’s degree.
Presentation
Transnational is not Diasporic: the Australian-Lebanese community. National belonging in the age of globalization
Conference by Paul Tabar, director of the Institute for Migration Studies and Ricard Zapata, full professor at the department of Political and Social Sciences.
Cultural activity
Young people transforming the Mediterranean. Awards ceremony for the «A Sea of Words» contest
The winners of the last two editions of the Euro-Mediterranean literary contest "A Sea of Words", co-organized by IEMed and the Anna Lindh Foundation, will meet in Barcelona on November 30 to attend an award ceremony.