MRM 2011

Goals of the MRM

Reaching its Twelfth Session, the Mediterranean Research Meeting:

• is committed to foster theoretical and empirical research and dialogue among scholars from countries across the Mediterranean, and with Mediterranean issue concerns;
• stresses its aim to reach as wide as possible coverage of all Mediterranean areas, with topics relating to the Middle East, North Africa, Southern and South-Eastern Europe, their mutual relationships and their relations with Europe;
• focuses attention on legal, historical, economic and socio-political issues;
• aims to enable  junior scholars to meet more senior scholars in an interactive environment, and to promote further research collaboration;
• encourages the publication and dissemination of this research in edited volumes, thematic issues of learned journals, and Mediterranean Programme  RSCAS-EUI Working Papers.

For information on previous sessions of the Mediterranean Research Meetings, please visit the home page of the MRM.

Workshops

1. Social Policy and Religion in the Middle East: Questioning Existing Paradigms
   directed by:
   Rana Jawad
   John Gal
2. The Many Faces of Islamic Feminism
   directed by:
   Mervat Hatem
   Omaima Abou-Bakr
3. Informal Challenges to the MENA Formal Politics
   directed by:
   Bezen Coskun
   Michalengelo Guida
4. Gender and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa
   directed by:
   Zahia Smail Salhi
   Amel Grami
5. Riots: Protest from the margins or the margins of protest?
   directed by:
   Ratiba Hadj-Moussa
   Sophie Wahnich 
6. Breakdowns of Democracy Re-visited: Transitions from Liberal-Democratic to Authoritarian Regimes around the Mediterranean Littoral
   directed by:
   Fred Lawson
   Abdelwahab Shaker
7. State Economy and State of the Economy in the Mediterranean Area: the contribution of taxation to the development of Europe - Middle East relations
   directed by:
   Marco Greggi
   Yoseph Edrey
8. The World Financial and Economic Crisis and its impact on the MENA region
   directed by:
   David Cobham
   Ghassan Dibeh
9. Migration and Dual Citizenship in Northern Africa and the Balkans
   directed by:
   Perrin Delphine
   Iordachi Constantin
10. Transnational family making: children, young people and migration
    directed by:
    Maria-Carmen Pantea
    Flavia Piperno
11. Neo-liberal reforms, local elites, and accountability in public service provision in the MENA region
    directed by:
    Sylvia I. Bergh
    S. Ulas Bayraktar
12. Pre-Modern Attachment to Lands in the Islamic Middle East, North Africa
    directed by:
    Steve Tamari
    Okasha El Daly
13. What is New about "Neo-Liberal" Urbanism? Middle Eastern Cities in Comparative Perspective
    directed by:
    Najib Hourani
    Mona Fawaz
14. Productivity and Innovation in the MENA Region
    directed by:
    Juliane Brach
    Rigas Arvanitis
15. Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: Toward the Invention of Tradition?
    directed by:
    Hachemaoui Mohammed
    Parks Robert P.

Contacts

Scientific Co-ordination

E-mail: academic.medmeet@eui.eu

RSCAS Conference organisation

Logistics and general organisation
Monique Cavallari and Elisabetta Spagnoli
Email: Logistics.MedMeet@eui.eu