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CMES researchers Maria Malmström and Mark Levine facilitated a workshop on sound, trauma and politics in the Middle East during the week-long experimental Listening Academy workshop in July 2021. The Listening Academy was organized as part of the Listening Biennial, an international exhibition and event program presented at Errant Sound in Berlin during the summer of 2021. The Listening Academy pr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sound-trauma-and-politics-middle-east - 2026-01-08

CMES researcher Maria Malmström has authored the article "The Desire to Disappear in Order Not to Disappear: Cairene Ex-Prisoners after the 25 January Revolution", recently published online in The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. The article is part of a special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology guest edited by Myriam Lamrani. To access the special issue, "Beyond Revolution: Reshapi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cairene-ex-prisoners-after-25-january-revolution - 2026-01-08

CMES researcher Joel Abdelmoez has authored the chapter "Deviants, Queers, or Scissoring Sisters of Men? Translating and Locating Queer and Trans Feminisms in the Contemporary Arabic-Speaking World” published in the Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminisms in Contemporary Performance (2021, edited by Tiina Rosenberg, Sandra d'Urso and Anna Winget). Joel's chapter deals with the increased vis

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/queer-and-trans-feminisms-contemporary-arabic-speaking-world - 2026-01-08

Together with Amy Lutz (Syracuse University), CMES researcher Dalia Abdelhday has authored the article "Perceptions of success among working-class children of immigrants in three cities", available online in the journal Ethnicities. This article examines the subjective understanding of success among members of three groups of children of immigrants from Mexico, North Africa and Turkey, in Dallas,

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/perceptions-success-among-working-class-children-immigrants - 2026-01-08

Together with İmren Borsuk (Berlin Forum Transregionale Studien & Stockholm University), Sinem Kavak (Lund University) and Pınar Sayan (Beykoz University), CMES researcher Pınar Dinç has edited the book "Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey: Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation". This book offers new clarity on three important political concepts: authoritarianism, neoliber

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/authoritarian-neoliberalism-and-resistance-turkey - 2026-01-08

CMES Newsletter about recent research activities and publications The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars. Click here to read the latest issue Click here to sign up for the Ne

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter - 2026-01-08

As part of the Future Week at Lund University, CMES organises a panel with five Middle East scholars who will discuss future trends in the region on topics ranging from climate change, migration, human rights, protracted conflict, democratization to peace and regional security. The public event takes place on 20 October at Skissernas Museum. All are warmly welcome! The CMES panel on trendspotting

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/trendspotting-middle-east - 2026-01-08

Together with Neşe Kınıkoğlu (İstanbul Medeniyet University), CMES researcher Torsten Janson has authored the article "Sacred (re)Collections: Culture, Space and Boundary Negotiation in Turkish-Islamic Memory Politics", available online in the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. This article discusses how state-organized, memory-cultural production drawing on religious signifiers con

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/culture-space-and-boundary-negotiation-turkish-islamic-memory-politics - 2026-01-08

Together with Khaoula Khemiri (University of Tunis El Manar), Sihem Jebari (National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water and Forestry), and Khlifa Maalel (Laboratory of Modelling in Hydraulics and Environment), CMES Deputy Director Ronny Berndtsson has authored the article "Is Climate or Direct Human Influence Responsible for Discharge Decrease in the Tunisian Merguellil Basin?", avail

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/discharge-decrease-tunisian-merguellil-basin - 2026-01-08

A spatio-temporal historical dataset at micro-level for geocoded individuals in five Swedish parishes, 1813–1914, has been created by Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie. The publication can be found at: http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201746, and author information is available at: Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie.The datasets provide a detailed spatio-temporal desc

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/historical-spatio-temporal-dataset-1813-1914-published-nature-scientific-data - 2026-01-08

Professor Torben R. Christensen has contributed as lead author to a major international assessment of the status of Arctic climate and environment, "Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic" (SWIPA). The authors were interviewed for a short film now available. The SWIPA report was released on 25th April 2017 at a conference in Washington "Bringing knowledge to action" organised by the Arctic

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/torben-r-christensen-featured-short-film-about-arctic-climate-and-environment - 2026-01-08

EASAC has issued a new report on the multifunctional role of forests. Among other things, the report debunks the idea about the climate neutrality of bioenergy. EASAC - European Academies 'Science Advisory Council - has published a new report dealing with the multifunctional role of forests, focusing on biodiversity and climate. Among other things, the report debunks the myth of bioenergy's climat

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/new-report-easac - 2026-01-08

Hakim Abdi, who recently defended his PhD thesis at the department, has published a popular science article on The Conversation website. Hakim Abdi recently finished his PhD studies the department. Now he has published a popular scientific article on the The Conversation website.Articles published on The Conversation are often picked up by major newspapers around the world.Among the challenges tha

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/chad-country-most-vulnerable-climate-change-heres-why - 2026-01-08

Jörgen Olofsson, Markku Rummukainen and Minchao Wu were recently featured or cited in various media. Researcher interviewed about strategies to achieve climate targetsResearcher Jörgen Olofsson, was interviewed in the daily Dagens ETC about a new book containing 100 strategies to achieve climate targets by 2050. “I’ve only skimmed through the list, but I see that, for example, the production and c

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/staff-swedish-media - 2026-01-08

Anders Lindroth was interviewed by the magazine Dagens ETC about the climate impact of forests, and about why the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is increasing. Anders Lindroth, Professor Emeritus at the Department, was recently interviewed by Dagens ETC. In one article about about the effect of forests on the climate, he says “In principle, it would be best for the climate simply not to cut do

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/anders-lindroth-interviewed-dagens-etc - 2026-01-08

Swedish forests are important carbon sinks today, despite emissions from deforestration. The choice of management is paramount for the impacts on climate change and some of the concepts used in the climate discussion today needs to be thought over and based on research. This is the essense of an article published by Professor Anders Lindroth and Professor Christina Moberg, in DN Debatt on 11 Septe

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/dn-debatt-clear-cutting-forests-generate-large-greenhouse-gas-emissions - 2026-01-08

Sverige hyllades länge som en normativ ledare för jämställdhet inom EU, inte minst tack vare den feministiska utrikespolitiken (FUP) som lanserades 2014. Men hur har bilden av Sverige förändrats efter att FUP avvecklades 2022? I en ny artikel i Journal of Women, Politics & Policy undersöker Ole Elgström och Malena Rosén Sundström hur andra EU-länder uppfattar Sveriges arbete med jämställdhet – båd

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/normativt-ledarskap-forsvagat-elgstrom-rosen-sundstrom-om-fups-fall - 2026-01-08

Under veckan genomfördes återigen det uppskattade förhandlings- och rollspelet inom kursen European Governance, en central del av första terminen på programmet Masters in European Affairs (MEA) vid Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Lunds universitet. I årets upplaga samlades masterstudenter i roller som stats- och regeringschefer, ministrar, Europaparlamentariker och EU-kommissionärer för att simu

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/framgangsrikt-eu-rollspel-engagerade-masterstudenter-i-lund - 2026-01-08

I en ny artikel publicerad i Cooperation and Conflict undersöker Roxanna Sjöstedt, tillsammans med Erik Noreen (Uppsala universitet), dynamiken i så kallade pluralistiska säkerhetsgemenskaper i relation till hanteringen av externa hot. Med fokus på de nordiska länderna i samband med covid-19-pandemin och de geopolitiska spänningar som orsakats av Rysslands invasion av Ukraina, finner artikeln att

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/sakerhetisering-i-en-sakerhetsgemenskap-samarbete-och-konflikt-i-norden - 2026-01-08

Ted Svensson är medförfattare till ett forum i Cooperation and Conflict som hedrar Jens Bartelson och kritiskt diskuterar hans bidrag till det nordiska studiet av internationella relationer de senaste 30 åren. Forum: On Jens/Becoming Bartelson - Halvard Leira, Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Maria Birnbaum, Peter Haldén, Ted Svensson, Oliver Kessler, 2025Jens Bartelson | Statsvetenskapliga institutionenTed

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/ted-svensson-med-flera-hedrar-jens-bartelson-i-cooperation-and-conflict - 2026-01-08