Webinar SeriesWelcome to the ASMEA Webinar Series. Throughout the year we will host discussions with seasoned scholars and practitioners on a variety of topics affecting the Middle East and Africa. These webinars are free and open to the public. Registration is required. Attendees who require a "Certificate of Attendance" can contact Emily Lucas at [email protected] after the event. View past webinars here. Upcoming webinars:
Just Another Coup? What’s at Stake in NigerJoin ASMEA and Prof. William Miles, Northeastern University, for the webinar "Just Another Coup? What’s at Stake in Niger" on May 3, 2024 at 12:00 pm (Eastern Time). Register Now
Prof. Miles’s expertise on Niger goes back to the 1970s, when he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer and learned Hausa. He has been returning to West Africa periodically, most recently last summer when he was evacuated on a French military transport flight following Niger’s coup d’état of July 26, 2023. He has participated in State Department seminars for four US ambassadors to Niger and has conducted Trans-Saharan Counter-Terrorism Partnership programming assessments for USAID in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Mauritania. His consultations for other government agencies include the Department of Defense and Marine Corps, as well as the Niger military-Indiana National Guard state partnership program. Miles’s Hausaland Divided: Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger (Cornell University Press, 1994) was cited in the Encyclopedia Brittanica Book of the Year for having made a "significant contribution to learning" in the History of Mankind field. His ethnographic memoir, My African Horse Problem, was published in 2008 by University of Massachusetts Press. His latest solely authored book, Scars of Partition (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), examines contemporary legacies of French-British colonial partition in borderlands of the Global South. Journals publishing his Africanist research include African Studies Review, Africa Today, American Political Science Review, Journal of Modern African Studies, and ASMEA’s own Journal of the Middle East and Africa. Prof. Miles’ newest article (“Niger’s Long Cycle of Poverty and Coups”) is appearing in the May issue of Current History. He will gladly share PDF upon request. "Northeastern professor in Niger takes shelter after soldiers stage coup in West African nation" Northeastern Global News Ilan Troen on Israel/Palestine in World Religions: Whose Promised Land?Join ASMEA and Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) for this webinar led by Ilan Troen on Israel/Palestine in World Religions: Whose Promised Land? on May 7, 2024 at 12:00 pm (ET). Register HereIlan Troen is the founding director of the Schusterman Center and chair of its publications committee. He is emeritus of both the Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies (Brandeis, 2017), and the Lopin Chair of Modern History (Ben-Gurion University, 2007). He is the immediate past president of the Association for Israel Studies. He has served as dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and as director of the Ben-Gurion Research Institute and Archives in Sede Boker, Israel. Please find his CNN opinion piece "My grandmother was killed in a pogrom. Then my daughter was, too" here. |
William F.S. Miles (Ph.D., The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1983) is Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University in Boston. In 2022-2023 he was a Fulbright Global Scholar in Israel (Tel Aviv University), Morocco (Université Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat), and India (Jindal Global University).