The head of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Project Office in Qatar, Houtan Homayounpour, was on campus on February 20, 2019, to discuss the current ongoing labor reforms led by…
The Secretary General of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, H.E. Hassan Al Thawadi, delivered the keynote speech at the opening ceremony of Georgetown University in Qatar’s (GU-Q) annual…
María Soledad Barbón, associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, presented her research at a Faculty Seminar titled “Staging the Incas in Colonial Lima” on…
Georgetown University in Qatar hosted the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University, Dr. Joel Beinin, for a Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series titled “Workers Movements and the Arab…
Stephen Chan, professor of politics and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London, met with students and faculty members for roundtable discussions and…
On February 13, 2019, The Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) Lunch Talk featured Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar speaking about her edited volume “Western Higher Education in Global Contexts.” Mohana, a…
Georgetown University in Qatar has opened registration for the spring session of their popular Community Classes, a six-week long program of courses that invites the public to explore a new…
In a CIRS Undergraduate Research Advancement program workshop on February 7, 2019, students were introduced to research methods, and their place in the overall research process by visiting expert, Dr.…
Two GU-Q teams took part in the Qatar Foundation (QF) Triathlon on February 1st, 2019, which included a 500m swim, 20km bike and 5km run. Both 3-person teams, representing the…
Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) recently hosted a public conference titled Towards a Re-mapping of Diasporic Circularities in the Indian Ocean World, which featured a multidisciplinary panel of local and…
The 8th annual Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Awareness Workshop, a joint effort of Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) and the Qatar Ministry of Defense’s National Committee for the Prohibition…
James Reardon-Anderson, professor of history, presented his research on the formation of national identity in Qatar at a Faculty Research Seminar on January 5, 2019. Speaking to an audience of…
