The Cobble And The Frame Blog
This is a synthesis of the panel “Researchers’ Responsibility, Impact, and Effect” given by at the IPS Responsible Research Workshop 2016 (other reports are listed here). The panel was composed of Dr Mayssoun Sukarieh...
This is a synthesis of the panel “Researchers Examined” given by at the IPS Responsible Research Workshop 2016 (other reports are listed here). The panel was composed of Mr Mahmoud Zeidan (Nakba Archive Project,...
The Institute of Palestine Studies organised a research workshop titled “Towards Engaged and Responsible Research: The Case of the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Lebanon” on the 5th and 6th of May 2016 in Beirut....
This is a short summary of a presentation I gave at the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) in Beirut on the 18 January 2016. The original presentation was rather long, I have...
Yi-Fu Tuan’s article is a long and developed essay which aims at proposing the conceptual bases of a humanistic perspective in geography. The humanistic approach in geography has often been alledged to be closer...
This presentation took place on the 24th of March 2016 in the context of an initiative recently launched by Beirut’s French Institute in the Near-East (IFPO), called “The Possibility of Beirut, Utopian Projections and...
This is a synthesis of the panel “From Humanitarian Global Strategy to Engaging the Local Context” given by at the AUB City Debates 2016 (other reports are listed here). The panel was composed of...
This is a synthesis of the panel “Living Refuge” given by at the AUB City Debates 2016 (other reports are listed here). The panel was composed of Pr Anita Fabos (Clark University, United States...
This is a synthesis of the panel “Refugee Policies Paradigms and Limitations” given by at the AUB City Debates 2016 (other reports are listed here). The panel was composed of Dr Romola Sanyal and...
This is a synthesis of the keynote “From War Zones to Safe Cities: Humanitarianism, Militarization, and Displacement” given by Pr Jennifer Hyndman (York University, United Kingdom) and discussed by Dr Nikolas Konstantopoulos (American University...
This is a synthesis of the panel “Rescaling and Counter-Hegemonies” given by at the AUB City Debates 2016 (other reports are listed here). The panel was composed of Dr Seth Schindler (University of Sheffield,...
This is a synthesis of the panel “Regionalization as Policy Panacea?” given by at the AUB City Debates 2016 (other reports are listed here). The panel was composed of Dr Sylvia Bergh (Erasmus University,...
This is a synthesis of the keynote “Post2015 – Urban and Regional Planning Challenges for International Aid” given by Pr Susan Parnell (African Centre for Cities, South Africa) and discussed by Pr Mona Harb...
This is a synthesis of the keynote “Crisis, Policy-making and “crisis urbanism”: A policy mobility perspective” given by Pr Eugene McCann (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and discussed by Pr Patrick Le Galès (Science Po...
From the 2nd to the 4th of March 2016 the American University of Beirut’s Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, the Institut Français du Proche Orient and the Embassy of Canada, with support of the...