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# The Global (De)Centre

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- [A (De)Glossary of Migration Studies](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/a-deglossary-of-migration-studies/) - Authors: Daniela Paredes Grijalva, Federico Besserer, Nick Dreher, Alka Kumar, David Cook-Martín, Luciana Denardi, Jens Schneider, Rosa Aparicio, and Thomas Lacroix What do we really mean when we say borders, displacement, or citizenship? - and who gets to decide what these words mean? The (De)Glossary of Migration Studies is a collective experiment and practice to
- [Border | (De)Glossary of Migration Studies](https://globaldecentre.org/deglossary/border-deglossary-of-migration-studies/) - by Federico Besserer June 2026 Borders have become one of the most significant concepts for understanding the contemporary world. In recent decades, and with renewed intensity in the present, they have occupied a central place in public debate and scholarly analysis. The Mexico–United States border, particularly the Tijuana–San Diego region, has been one of the
- [Silindile N. Mlilo](https://globaldecentre.org/members/silindile-n-mlilo/) - Senior Research Associate, Global Migration Institute, Toronto Metropolitan University Silindile Mlilo is a migration scholar, practitioner, and consultant with extensive experience in migration governance, xenophobia monitoring, social cohesion, and youth-focused policy across Africa and Asia. She is a Senior Research Associate at the Bridging Divides program, based at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)'s Global Migration Institute,
- [Strengthening our Network from Argentina: Three New PhDs in the GDC Community](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/strengthening-our-network-from-argentina-three-new-phds-in-the-gdc-community/) - We are delighted to share that three colleagues affiliated with Argentine institutions have successfully defended their PhD theses in the last two years. Their achievements reflect the GDC’s commitment to fostering rigorous, decentered, and collaborative knowledge production across regions and disciplines.These newly minted doctors bring fresh perspectives to key areas such as transnational governance, migration,
- [María Belén López](https://globaldecentre.org/members/belen-lopez/) - IDAES-UNSAM and UNaB (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Her research focuses on environmental, gender, care, health, and migration issues and responses in contaminated, marginalized and degraded contexts, especially in Latin America. She explores these issues from a methodological perspective that combines participatory action research (PAR), inspired by Fals Borda, with feminist and intersectional approaches. She co-coordinates the Epistemology
- [Mayke Kaag](https://globaldecentre.org/examples/news/mayke-kaag/) - Leiden University and University of Amsterdam Mayke Kaag is Professor of the Anthropology of Politics and Governance in Africa at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) on behalf of the African Studies Centre Leiden, Leiden University. She is also Professor of the Anthropology of Islam in Africa and its Diaspora at the
- [Kangsan Lee](https://globaldecentre.org/members/kangsan-lee/) - Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Korea University, South Korea Kangsan Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Korea University, South Korea. Before joining Korea University, Lee was an Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy and Business, Organizations, and Society at New York University Abu Dhabi and
- [Brian Murahwa](https://globaldecentre.org/members/brian-murahwa/) - Postdoctoral Fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand Brian Murahwa is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand. An interdisciplinary urban researcher, his interests lie at the intersection of theory and practice in the fields
- [Carlo Handy Charles](https://globaldecentre.org/members/carlo-handy-charles/) - Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor (Canada), a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, and a Fellow at the CNRS French Collaborative Institute on Migrations in Paris Carlo Handy Charles is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan--Ann Arbor,
- [Nora El Qadim](https://globaldecentre.org/members/nora-el-qadim/) - Associate Professor of political science at the University Paris 8, a fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations and a fellow of the Institut universitaire de France Nora El Qadim is an Associate Professor of political science at the University Paris 8, a fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations and a fellow of the Institut universitaire
- [GDC Strategic Planning Meeting 2025: A Vision Come True](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/gdc-strategic-planning-meeting-2025-a-vision-come-true/) - The GDC began in 2015 as an idea—an international network of scholars committed to producing new knowledge through diverse epistemologies and methodologies. From the start, collaboration with a wide range of partners was at its core. Now, ten years later, more than 20 members from Asia, North America, Europe, and South America gathered in Boston
- [GDC Migration Group at IMISCOE 2024 and Next Steps for 2025](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/gdc-migration-group-at-imiscoe-2024-and-next-steps-for-2025/) - We did it! The GDC Migration Working Group was present at the IMISCOE 2024 workshop with two sessions. We are grateful to everyone who made this participation possible, as it required a lot of prior planning. Although we initially envisioned a closed meeting between the Migration Working Group (GDC) and the Standing Committee on Reflexivities
- [How do I decentre that? | Borders & Belonging Podcast](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/how-do-i-decentre-that-borders-belonging-podcast/) - Decentring research means challenging Western paradigms, amplifying diverse perspectives, and rethinking power dynamics and knowledge production. This is easier said than done, especially in migration studies, where control, security, and economic views dominate the debate. But understanding the lived realities of migrants must be more than just a question—it's a critical shift we can no longer ignore. Guests: Sharon Stein, Associate Professor,
- [GDC I Conference 2023: Sharing Dreams and Building Community](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/gdc-i-conference-2023-sharing-dreams-and-building-community/) - In June 2023, the Global (De)Centre hosted its first conference, a two-day virtual gathering designed to inspire dialogue, spark collaborations, and collectively envision the future of the GDC. The conference, held on June 5-6, brought together participants from diverse backgrounds to connect and explore how their work aligns with the mission of the GDC. Over
- [Decolonizing Decoloniality series](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/decolonizing-decoloniality-series/) - DECOLONIZING DECOLONIALITY: A VIEW FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD We hear calls from around the world to decolonize, diversify, and decenter knowledge production and dissemination. But what does this really mean in different contexts, who is participating, and whose interests are served? For the last two years, the GDC has been hosting a series
- [Fang He](https://globaldecentre.org/members/fang-he/) - Assistant Professor of History at Southwest University in China Fang He is an Assistant Professor of History at Southwest University in China, specializing in transnational history with a focus on gender, Asian America, and US immigration. Her research centers on the roles of gender, sexuality, and the body to better understand U.S. inclusion, exclusion, and
- [Stephanie Seungmin Kim](https://globaldecentre.org/members/stephanie-seungmin-kim/) - Director Sleepers Summit PhD in Curating Contemporary Art from Royal College of Art Co-Leader Global Humanities Project Stephanie Seungmin Kim, PhD, is an art curator, gallerist, writer and speaker. She is the founder of the Stephanie Kim Gallery NY, Iskai Contemporary Art, a curatorial research centre London, and Sleepers Summit Korea. Stephanie directed over 80 international
- [Nasser Mohamedhoesein](https://globaldecentre.org/members/nasser-mohamedhoesein/) - PhD student at VU University Amsterdam Nasser Mohamedhoesein is especially interested in creating inclusive learning environments where all students, regardless of their ethnicity, gender, or beliefs, are treated with equity and respect and receive the support they need to succeed. With this approach as a teacher, he was rewarded the Teacher of the Year Award
- [Josepha Milazzo](https://globaldecentre.org/members/josepha-milazzo/) - Postdoctoral Researcher in Geography of the University of Corsica and an Associate Researcher in the TELEMMe Laboratory Josepha Milazzo holds a PhD in Geography from the Aix-Marseille Université and from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Geography of the University of Corsica and an Associate Researcher in the TELEMMe
- [Eric Akuamoah-Boateng](https://globaldecentre.org/members/eric-akuamoah-boateng/) - Master of philosophy in Religion student at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.Eric's research interests are in Religion and migration, Church and society.
- [Renato de Almeida Arão Galhardi](https://globaldecentre.org/members/renato-de-almeida-arao-galhardi/) - PhD candidate in Social and Political Sciences from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City Renato is a Brazilian sociologist and current PhD candidate in Social and Political Sciences from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, where he researches the phenomenography of migration experiences through the lived experiences of deported Mexican men in Tijuana. He is
- [Muhammad Ahsan Qureshi](https://globaldecentre.org/members/muhammad-ahsan-qureshi/) - Doctoral candidate in Social Sciences (D.Soc.Sc.) at Tampere University. Qureshi research project maps out the picture of Islam (and, as an extension, the ‘other’ Muslim) imagined within Finnish societal discourse on a proposed mosque project. His study employs the Foucauldian concept of power to highlight how episteme derived and constructed out of preconceived notions, molds
- [Maria Vigorito](https://globaldecentre.org/members/maria-vigorito/) - Student in History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Maria Vigorito participated in the research group LeAfrica (Laboratory of African Studies), as well as in the organization of two Asian Studies events, held at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF). They are currently
- [Alka Kumar](https://globaldecentre.org/members/alka-kumar/) - Research fellow at CERC Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University Alka Kumar uses narrative approaches, including creative writing and collaborative and participatory methods, as alternative research methods for migration knowledge production. Her current project Stories of Impact focuses on migration journeys and re-settlement experiences of refugee women from Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, in Ontario, Canada. The project is funded through
- [Andreja Siliunas](https://globaldecentre.org/members/andreja-siliunas/) - PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University. Andreja Siliunas has a wide range of research interests, including nationalism and transnationalism, networks, social policy, organizations, and the sociology of art. Her dissertation examines how transnational relationships impact the production of national narratives. It is a case study of public art objects installed throughout
- [Anahi Alviso-Marino](https://globaldecentre.org/members/anahi-alviso-marino/) - Teaching faculty at the Urban School of SciencesPo and a research fellow (ingénieure d’études) and co-coordinator at the collective “Penser l’urbain par l’image,” Ecole des Ponts ParisTech. Anahi Alviso-Marino conducts research on the sociological lives of objects made by visual artists from cities of the Arabian Peninsula, focusing more recently on the biographic trajectories of public
- [Amin Moghadam](https://globaldecentre.org/members/amin-moghadam/) - Research Lead for Cities and Migration at CERC Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan UniversityAmin Moghadam's current research explores ways in which the dynamics of space production in global cities intersect with the politics of housing and home making by emphasizing the role they play in migration trajectories and transnational practices, as well as in processes
- [Patricia Lepratti](https://globaldecentre.org/members/patricia-lepratti/) - PhD student in Social Sciences at National University of San Martin, Argentina Patricia Lepratti is a PhD student in Social Sciences at National University of San Martin and a scholarship holder at National Scientific and Technical Research Council - Argentina. Throughout her academic career she has integrated different social sciences knowledge as Anthropology, Geography, History
- [Debora Gerbaudo](https://globaldecentre.org/members/debora-gerbaudo/) - PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at National University of San Martin (UNSAM-IDAES), Argentina Debora Gerbaudo has a BA in Social Anthropology from the Buenos Aires National University (UBA) and a MA in Social Sciences from the National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS-IDES) where she studied migrant youth and their transnational political practices in the global
- [Faten Khazaei](https://globaldecentre.org/members/faten-khazaei/) - Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom Faten Khazaei was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Goldsmiths University of London’s Department of Sociology and holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland. Her doctoral research was funded under Doc.Ch Excellence scheme of the Swiss National Science
- [Luciana Denardi](https://globaldecentre.org/members/luciana-denardi/) - Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina Luciana Denardi holds a PhD on Social Anthropology from the National University of San Martín, Argentina. She is a young researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)– Argentina and member of the Program for the Strengthening of Research and Cooperation with
- [Daniela Paredes Grijalva](https://globaldecentre.org/members/daniela-paredes-grijalva/) - PhD candidate in cultural and social anthropology at the University of Vienna Daniela Paredes Grijalva received her BA from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador and her MA in Cultural and Social Anthropology from the University of Vienna, where she is currently enrolled as a doctoral student. She is a DOC-ÖAW Fellow and
- [Laavanya Kathiravelu](https://globaldecentre.org/members/laavanya-kathiravelu/) - Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo Laavanya Kathiravelu's research is at the intersections of international migration, race and ethnic studies and contemporary urban diversity, particularly in Asia and the Persian Gulf. Her first book
- [Elham Shahsavar](https://globaldecentre.org/members/elham-shahsavar/) - Ph.D. candidate in social anthropology at York University in Toronto My research interests focus on the intersection of materiality, affect, and belonging. Using a transnational feminist lens, I interrogate the process of subject-making in relation to the art and artisanal market of Isfahan. This project is supported by SSHRC and has received the Michael Smith
- [nick dreher](https://globaldecentre.org/members/nick-dreher/) - PhD candidate in Policy Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) in CanadaNick Dreher is also a researcher with CERC Migration and Integration and the Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity, and Hospitality in Global Perspective partnership. His research explores the relationships and power dynamics between international organizations and local actors in the development and implementation of policies
- [Sanderien Verstappen](https://globaldecentre.org/members/sanderien-verstappen/) - Assistant Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna Sanderien Verstappen is assistant professor with tenure track in social and cultural anthropology with a focus on visual anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Her long-term research interests include mobility studies, urban studies, social inequality, and the politics of belonging. At the University
- [Brianna Castro](https://globaldecentre.org/members/brianna-castro/) - Assistant Professor of Sociology and Climate Studies at Vanderbilt University Brianna Castro (Ph.D., Harvard University) is a sociologist committed to equitable adaptation and conservation in a changing climate. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Climate Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, USA. Her research specializes in climate change adaptation and migration.
- [Monica Sassatelli](https://globaldecentre.org/members/monica-sassatelli/) - Monica Sassatelli is Associate Professor in Cultural Sociology at the University of Bologna, Department of the Arts. Her research and teaching concentrate on cultural events and institutions, cultural policies and creative industries, more recently with a focus on visual arts. She is also interested in methodological innovation, particularly the use of drawings and comics in
- [Cresa Leonard Pugh](https://globaldecentre.org/members/cresa-leonard-pugh/) - Cresa is a PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University and is currently writing her dissertation on the politics of cultural theft. Her project examines artifacts looted from the Benin Kingdom (modern day Nigeria) by British forces in the 19th century that are now housed in Western museums and asks how debates
- [Rikke Gram](https://globaldecentre.org/members/rikke-gram/) - Rikke Gram is a Research Fellow at IMIS (Institute for Migration and Intercultural Studies) at the University of Osnabrück, working on the project Cultural Production in the Migration Society. She has an MA in History and International Development Studies from Roskilde University and in European Ethnology from Humboldt University. She is an associate member of
- [Ezequiel Saferstein](https://globaldecentre.org/members/ezequiel-saferstein/) - Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research at the Interdisciplinary School of High Social Studies, National University of San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ezequiel Saferstein holds a PhD in Social Sciences and a BA in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires and a MA in Sociology of Culture and Cultural Analysis
- [Anna Triandafyllidou](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/anna-triandafyllidou/) - Toronto Metropolitan University Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) in Canada. She held previously a Robert Schuman Chair at the European University Institute, where she directed the research area on Cultural Pluralism, at the EUI’s Global Governance Programme. She is the Editor in Chief
- [Claire Ellis](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/claire-ellis/) - Toronto Metropolitan University Claire Ellis is a PhD student in Policy Studies, Migration Stream, at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). Her doctoral research examines the nature and scope of Canadian border policies in relation to irregular migration and the impact of border control instruments on the rights and experiences of refugees. She currently works at Toronto
- [Kwok Kian Chow](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/kwok-kian-chow/) - Global (De)Centre Having retired from institutions, Kwok Kian Chow (KC) provides art collection and museum advisory and is an active member of the GDC. A museum leader with more than 20 years of experience, KC was senior curator of National Museum Singapore, director of Singapore Art Museum, director and senior advisor of National Gallery Singapore,
- [Nadia von Maltzahn](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/nadia-von-maltzahn/) - Orient-Institut Beirut Nadia von Maltzahn is a researcher at the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB), where she has been Deputy Director (2018-2020) and Research Associate (2013-2018). She holds a DPhil and an MSt in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a BA Honours in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from King’s College, Cambridge.
- [Simon Kofi Appiah](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/simon-kofi-appiah/) - University of Cape Coast Kofi Appiah is a Catholic priest and a senior lecturer at the Department of Religion and Human Values, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He holds a doctorate in theological ethics from the University of Tübingen, Germany, a Post-Graduate Diploma in psychology from the University of London, and Graduate Eligibility Status of
- [Federico Besserer](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/federico-besserer/) - Metropolitan Autonomous University Federico Besserer is professor of Antropology at the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- [Frans Lelie](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/frans-lelie/) - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Frans Lelie is an editor of ideas, texts & film. She is the project manager of the project Becoming a Minority. BaM is focusing on the former majority group in Western European cities that is in effect becoming a numerical minority too. This is a new, but rapidly growing phenomenon. Under which
- [Jens Schneider](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/jens-schneider/) - Universität Osnabrück Dr. Jens Schneider Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) Universität Osnabrück My special interest in the New Global (De)Centre are different knowledges and perspectives on identity formation, construction and theories. Having done research on identity-related issues in Chile, Brazil and Germany, I look forward to expanding the scope and by this,
- [Maurice Crul](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/maurice-crul/) - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Maurice Crul is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His chair covers a broad range of topics on education and diversity. In the last twenty-five years Maurice Crul mostly worked on the topic of education and children of immigrants, first within the Dutch context and in the last fifteen
- [Peggy Levitt](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/peggy-levitt/) - Wellesley College Peggy Levitt is Chair of the sociology department and the Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies at Wellesley College and co-Director of Harvard University’s Transnational Studies Initiative. Her most recent book, Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display, was published by the University of California
- [Liliana Gómez](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/liliana-gomez-2/) - Universität Kassel │ Kunsthochschule Kassel │ documenta Institut I writes on media histories and theories of art and culture in modern and contemporary times and on the interplay between the arts, social and cultural transformations in a decolonial perspective. So far, she has looked at the interrelationships between culture, arts, and archives and at their institutional entanglements,
- [Call for Decentering Pedagogy Tools](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/call-for-decentering-pedagogy-tools/) - Open and click to see full text in Portuguese / Korean / Indonesian / Spanish / German / French / English: An Arts and Pedagogy Working Group within the GDC Network has been meeting regularly since late 2020, mostly to listen to each other’s dreams and nightmares, problems and tactics, ideas and reservation around the
- [Moving Biography Summer School Program](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/moving-bio-summer-school/moving-biography-summer-school-program/) - PROGRAM DOWNLOAD LIST OF ABSTRACTS AND SHORT BIOS HERE: Moving Bio abstracts and bios per Working Group. Wednesday, 1 June 2022 Arrival of participants 19.30 Welcome dinner at Three O Nine hotel (rooftop) Thursday, 2 June 2022 (OIB) 09.10 Transfer from the hotel to the OIB (by taxi) 09.30 – 11.00 Introduction (Peggy
- [Plenary Session II: A Conversation on Social and Literary Biographies in Palestine and Egypt with Marilyn Booth and Salim Tamari](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/moving-bio-summer-school/plenary-session-ii-a-conversation-on-social-and-literary-biographies-in-palestine-and-egypt-with-marilyn-booth-and-salim-tamari/) - Second plenary session as part of the Summer School Moving Biography, all welcome Friday, 3 June 2022, 5-6.30pm AUB, IFI Auditorium Plenary session II (moderated by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi): A Conversation on Social and Literary Biographies in Palestine and Egypt with Marilyn Booth (Oxford) and Salim Tamari (Birzeit), hybrid. Reflections on Biography Marilyn Booth (University of Oxford)
- [Moving Biography Participants](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/moving-bio-summer-school/moving-biography-participants/) - Working Group A Anahi Alviso-Marino / Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/University Gustave Eiffel, France / Project: Mapping Monument Stories (Find abstract and short bio here: Mapping Monument Stories) Débora Gerbaudo Suárez / PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology, National University of San Martin / Project: Local Identity and Transnational Citizenship. Community-Based Participation among Paraguayan Youth and the Second
- [Plenary Session III: On Weaving and Deciphering the Biographies of Artists, by Jessica Gerschultz](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/moving-bio-summer-school/plenary-session-iii-on-weaving-and-deciphering-the-biographies-of-artists-by-jessica-gerschultz/) - Third plenary session as part of the Summer School Moving Biography, all welcome Monday, 6 June 2022, 2.30-4pm Sursock Museum Auditorium Plenary session III (moderated by Kirsten Scheid): A talk by Jessica Gerschultz (University of Kansas) On Weaving and Deciphering the Biographies of Artists Jessica Gerschultz (University of Kansas) How might the transformative act of weaving
- [Tarif Khalidi: The Biographical Tradition in pre-Modern Arabic Literature ](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/moving-bio-summer-school/tarif-khalidi-the-biographical-tradition-in-pre-modern-arabic-literature/) - First keynote lecture in the run up to the Summer School Moving Biography Wednesday, 30 March 2022, 6-7.30pm (UTC+3) Orient-Institut Beirut Abstract This is an attempt to examine in the broadest terms the biographical tradition in pre-Modern Arabic Literature from approximately the eighth century to approximately the fifteenth centuries A.D. It will endeavor, first, to
- [Plenary Session I: Books/Biographies in the Making, by Daniel Schönpflug and Sherene Seikaly](https://globaldecentre.org/examples/news/plenary-session-i-books-biographies-in-the-making-daniel-schonpflug-and-sherene-seikaly/) - First plenary session as part of the Summer School Moving Biography, all welcome Thursday, 2 June 2022, 5-7.30pm Orient-Institut Beirut Plenary session I (moderated by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi): Books/Biographies in the making, two talks by Daniel Schönpflug (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) and Sherene Seikaly (UC Santa Barbara, virtual), followed by a reception at the OIB. Biography: Struggling with the Success of
- [Contemporary Innovations in Arab Biography: A Conversation](https://globaldecentre.org/examples/news/contemporary-innovations-in-arab-biography-a-conversation/) - Second keynote lecture in the run up to the Summer School Moving Biography Thursday, 21 April 2022, 4-6pm (UTC+3) American University of Beirut, IFI Auditorium, Green Oval A Conversation between Jean Said Makdisi and Lina Saneh Majdalani In this conversation moderated by Kirsten Scheid, Jean Said Makdisi and Lina Majdalani reflect on their approaches to
- [Moving Biography: An Introduction](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/moving-bio-summer-school/moving-biography-introduction/) - LAWHA/Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB), the American University of Beirut (AUB), and the Global (De)Centre (GDC) are convening an international Summer School, entitled Moving Biography, that will take place in Beirut/Lebanon from 1 to 8 June 2022. Our Summer School will explore the various etymologies and connotations that the term “biography” carries in different languages and their
- [Moving Biography: International summer school June 1–8, 2022 | Beirut, Lebanon](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/moving-biography-international-summer-school-june-1-8-2022-beirut-lebanon/) - Moving Biography is a one-week interdisciplinary summer school bringing together different perspectives, to question disciplinary assumptions and decenter life writing. Convening an interdisciplinary group of students and faculty, Moving Biography is organized around a combination of plenary talks, working sessions, and workshops. Participants will have the chance to present their ongoing research in small groups
- [Growing up (and old) with Chinese philosopher Li Zehou](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/growing-up-and-old-with-chinese-philosopher-li-zehou/) - By Kwok Kian Chow: Think of how the switching between languages, cultures and epistemologies can itself be an integral part of reading and writing, and extend this to a thinker’s broadest philosophical opus, in concepts, articulations and communications — that is the work of Chinese philosophy great Li Zehou (1930-2021), says former Singapore Art Museum
- [GDC webinar by André Keet - transcript](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/gdc-webinar-by-andre-keet-transcript/) - Africanising/Decolonising Ourselves: The Implications for Advancing Critical University Studies – Africa (ACUSAfrica) André Keet's GDC webinar envisions a conversation between the notions of Africanising and decolonising the university; and how this may look like in the South African and African context. It further locates these discussions within an African interpretation of Critical University Studies, understood
- [A DeCentered Conversation with May Al-Dabbagh](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/a-decentered-conversation-with-may-al-dabbagh/) - A DeCentered Conversation with May Al-Dabbagh In this conversation Peggy Levitt talks with GDC member May Al Dabbagh about the meaning of decentering from the Gulf region and about how she developed “Self Tracing” as a research method and pedagogy tool. May Al-Dabbagh is an assistant professor at New York University Abu Dhabi and has
- [Sonja Mejcher-Atassi](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/sonja-mejcher-atassi/) - American University of Beirut Sonja Mejcher-Atassi is an associate professor of Arabic and comparative literature in the Department of English and an associated faculty in the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages at the American University of Beirut. She is the recipient of the 2021 Humboldt Foundation’s Reimar Lüst Research Award for International Scholarly
- [Samira Chatila](https://globaldecentre.org/members/samira-chatila/) - Samira Chatila is a double doctoral student studying (1) Comparative and International Development Education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and (2) Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research interests include forced migration, integration policies (state and institutional levels), and Global South studies.
- [Anne Munene](https://globaldecentre.org/members/anne-munene/) - Anne Munene is a Research Assistant in the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET) at Nelson Mandela University. She is also pursuing her Ph.D. studies here at the School for Education Research and Engagement (SERE) in the Faculty of Education. Her research interests include living histories in post-conflict societies, pedagogy, Southern feminist theories,
- [Lauren Clingan](https://globaldecentre.org/members/lauren-clingan/) - Lauren Clingan is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Princeton University. Her research on gender and femininity uses economic sociological and intersectional feminist lenses. Her dissertation explores Emirati experiences of state feminism and changing gender relations. Lauren received her BA in Social Research and Public Policy from NYU Abu Dhabi.
- [Mark Louie L. Lugue](https://globaldecentre.org/members/mark-louie-l-lugue/) - Mark Louie L. Lugue studies and teaches art history at the Department of Art Studies of the University of the Philippines Diliman. He has coordinated for various publications and exhibitions on art and culture, many of which dwell on the heritage of the university. Most recently, he was managing editor of Adhika: Vision & Legacy
- [Sam Dinger](https://globaldecentre.org/members/sam-dinger/) - Sam Dinger is an ethnographer, translator, and PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at New York University and a part-time faculty instructor in NYU's Gallatin School for Individualized Study. His research brings together theories and questions from urban sociology, Middle Eastern studies, and the anthropology of ethics to explore how the violence of war
- [Victor Miguel Castillo de Macedo](https://globaldecentre.org/members/victor-miguel-castillo-de-macedo/) - Victor Miguel Castillo de Macedo is PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology in the National Museum of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His dissertation deals with the memories and the production of a notion of ex-combatant between former revolutionaries of the 1965's Dominican Revolution in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In 2017 he worked as Visiting
- [Carlos Quijon](https://globaldecentre.org/members/carlos-quijon/) - Carlos Quijon, Jr. (b. 1989) is an art historian, critic, and curator based in Manila. He is a fellow of the research platform Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia (MAHASSA), convened by the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories project. He writes exhibition reviews for Artforum and his research is part
- [Millena Farias](https://globaldecentre.org/members/millena-farias/) - Ph.D. Candidate - Graduate Program in Social History at the Department of History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She has a B.A. (2013) and an M.A. (2015) in History from Fluminense Federal University (UFF). Since June 2016, she is an Adjunct Professor of the History of Brazil, teaching Contemporary History of
- [Laura Lobato-Baars](https://globaldecentre.org/members/laura-lobato-baars/) - Laura Lobato-Baars is an anthropologist, writer and interpreter/translator from Brazil. She received her BA in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and is currently in her final year as an MA candidate at the Social Anthropology program of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. There, she is a member of
- [Tesfalem H. Yemane](https://globaldecentre.org/members/tesfalem-h-yemane/) - Tesfalem is a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds, School of Sociology and Social Policy. Building on Joseph Nye’s concept of ‘soft power’, he examines the destination preferences of Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers who arrive in the UK and their post-arrival experiences. Tesfalem studied Political Science at the University of Asmara, Eritrea and
- [Magdalena Perzyna](https://globaldecentre.org/members/magdalena-perzyna/) - Magdalena Perzyna has an LLB from Osgoode Hall and recently completed her MA in Immigration & Settlement Studies at Ryerson University (2020) in Toronto, Canada. Her Major Research explored settler colonial nation-building by looking at discursive similarities between the ways in which irregular asylum seekers and Indigenous protesters are depicted in the popular news media.
- [Joanna Jurkiewicz](https://globaldecentre.org/members/joanna-jurkiewicz/) - Joanna Jurkiewicz, Research Fellow at the Institute for Migration and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück. She studied sociology and art history and worked in several cultural institutions e.g. Deichtorhallen Hamburg. As a part of the Project “KultMIX. Cultural Production in the Migration Society” at IMIS she is doing field research on the
- [Marcela Andrade](https://globaldecentre.org/members/marcela-andrade/) - Marcela Andrade received his BA in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Ceará and MA in Anthropology from the Fluminense Federal University. She is enrolled as PhD Student in Social Anthropology at the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, which is also a member of the Laboratory of Anthropology and History (LAH/PPGAS/MN)
- [Adrian Foucher](https://globaldecentre.org/members/adrian-foucher/) - Adrian Foucher is a PhD candidate in Geography at Tours University in France. He has a long standing-interest in humanitarian action : both practices and philosophy. His doctoral research questions the notion of humanitarian state and, for doing so, focuses specifically on the Syrian refugees settlement in Turkey. His work is mostly based on in-depth
- [Elisa Floristán Millán](https://globaldecentre.org/members/elisa-floristan-millan/) - Elisa Floristán Millán was graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. During her degree, she was focused on Mental Heath activism, doing field work in 'Flipas Gam Collective' in Madrid. Together with her interest in Mental Health research, triggered by a post graduate course titled "Salud mental en contextos de violencia
- [Zakia Essanhaji](https://globaldecentre.org/members/zakia-essanhaji/) - Zakia Essanhaji is a sociologist interested in issues of intersectional feminism, politics of knowledge production and diversity and inclusion. She obtained a master in Urban Studies and a research master in the Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts from the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). Her master thesis focused on how diversity policies within universities
- ["Meeting at the Edge of Fear": Decolonizing the university world](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/meeting-at-the-edge-of-fear-decolonizing-the-university-world/) - A lecture by Raewyn Connell "Meeting at the Edge of Fear": Decolonizing the university world. The title comes from a poem by Saleha Obeid Ghabesh, about solidarity between women across time and space. Raewyn considers the nature of the dominant knowledge formation, several kinds of alternative knowledge formations, and issues in the process of decolonizing
- [Janine Dahinden](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/janine-dahinden/) - University of Neuchâtel I am a Professor of Transnational Studies and director of the MAPS (Maison d’analyse des processus sociaux) at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. I am interested in understanding processes of mobility, transnationalisation and boundary making, and their concomitant production of inequalities linked to ethnicity, race, class, religion or gender. My research is
- [“Developing Stamina for Decolonizing our Networks." Workshop with Prof. Sharon Stein](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/video/developing-stamina-for-decolonizing-our-networks-workshop-with-prof-sharon-stein/) - Watch the recording of our workshop with Prof. Sharon Stein from the University of British Columbia that took place on January 14th 2021. “Developing Stamina for Decolonizing our Networks.” The GDC has set a high bar for itself with our goal of building a truly international network characterized by relations of trust, reciprocity, and openness.
- [Blog: ‘Who remains?’ (Part 1): Before we even start our research…](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/blog-who-remains-part-1-before-we-even-start-our-research/) - Blog: ‘Who remains?’ (Part 1): Before we even start our research… It seems inevitable to apply the question of institutional racism to our own institutional structures within the field of migration, integration and racism research in Germany. Experiences, ideologies and biases of those conducting the research ultimately also influence the topics as well as the
- [Rending the “Cosmopolitan Canopy”: COVID-19 and Urban Public Space](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/rending-the-cosmopolitan-canopy-covid-19-and-urban-public-space/) - By Philip Kasinitz Those of us lucky enough to be able to work from home now joke about what the blurring of the line between public and domestic space means for our everyday lives: attending “zoom” meetings in sweat pants (or no pants); the little glimpses of the private lives of our colleagues and bosses
- [A DeCentered Conversation with Felisa Tibbetts](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/a-decentered-conversation-with-felisa-tibbetts/) - A DeCentered Conversation with Felisa Tibbetts In this conversation with Peggy Levitt, Felisa discusses her approach to decentered pedagogy and practice and her use of political biographies in her classroom. By asking students to reflect on how their own political experiences and socialization shaped their current commitments and tools, they get a clearer, more grounded
- [Laura Haddad](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/laura-haddad/) - Institute for Social Geography and Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabrück University, Germany I am a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Geography and Member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University. I have been working on the mutual effects of Western discourse on Muslims
- [Xinona](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/video/xinona/) - Kaheró:ton's tale of Indigenous resistance to post-colonial oppression takes place in an alternate universe. Or does it?
- [May Al-Dabbagh](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/may-al-dabbagh/) - New York University Abu Dhabi & New York University May Al-Dabbagh is an assistant professor at New York University Abu Dhabi and has an associated appointment as a global network assistant professor at New York University. She conducts research on gender and work in the Gulf using a combination of social psychology, public policy, and
- [Reflections on factory, faculty and fun](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/gdc-short-essays/reflections-on-factory-faculty-and-fun/) - By Ali Konyali: It was not until I started my PhD trajectory at the Erasmus University Rotterdam that I realized how unreliable research findings can really be. Trying to be empathetic coupled with reflections of my own position, my research results were mostly based on an analysis of data collected through respondents who were categorized
- [The View from Global Britain](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/gdc-short-essays/the-view-from-global-britain/) - By Adrian Favell: (a small Island off the North West of Europe, sailing North-by-North-West towards an unknown destination) Later, when he reviewed the strange sequence of events that led to the breakdown of order and the reversion of the high rise residence to a state of near primitive excess and violence, Dr Gove concluded that
- [Canonical Enfleshment and Enmeshment](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/gdc-short-essays/canonical-enfleshmentand-enmeshment/) - By Kirsten Scheid, American University of Beirut: Approaching art history’s as a toolkit for processes of becoming In January 2013, a Beirut-based newspaper reported that restoration was to begin on one of the Louvre Museum’s “most iconic works,” the Victory of Samothrace. The report was, in fact, more than half a century late. Already in
- [Migration, Culture, and Migrating Culture(s)](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/gdc-short-essays/migration-culture-and-migrating-cultures/) - By Jens Schneider: From Universal Human Condition to Universal Culture? Human beings have always migrated and human beings have always had ‘culture’, both are intrinsic to the human condition and were precondition for the human conquer of the world.This essay discusses what happens when culture(s) migrate? This question is, of course, particularly interesting when culture(s)
- [Migrating People and Migrating Culture](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/gdc-short-essays/migrating-people-and-migrating-culture/) - By Philip Kasinitz, City University of New York: Some extremely disorganized stray reflections. In the year of Brexit, the second year of Trump, after several years that have seen the increased prominence of Wilders, Le Pens(pere and fille), Orban etc. one thing seems sadly clear: Borders are Back.
- [Curiosity transcends boundaries and foments African epistemologies](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/gdc-short-essays/curiosity-transcends-boundaries-and-foments-african-epistemologies/) - By Michael P.K. Okyerefo, University of Ghana/Nelson Mandela University This paper contributes to de-centering western dominance and re-centering African Social thought.It argues that the real bedrock that is the ferment of African epistemologies is curiosity, the human person’s insatiable quest for answers to eternal questions, an art which transcends boundaries, the boundaries of culture, class,
- [To belong, or not to belong; that is the question](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/gdc-short-essays/to-belong-or-not-to-belong-that-is-the-question/) - By Ismintha Waldring: Growing up in Amsterdam in the 1980’s, I went to primary and secondary school with kids who had their origins all over the world. I had friends without a migration background, and I had friends whose parents had come from one of the former Dutch colonies –like mine-, or as so-called “guest
- [The necessity of de-centering the obvious to include the other](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/gdc-short-essays/the-necessity-of-de-centering-the-obviousto-include-the-other/) - By Halleh Ghorashi, 2019: This essay is based on decades of research I conducted on the conditions of refugees in the Netherlands, yet I believe that it can provide insights that go beyond the limits of the Dutch context.In this piece, I elaborate on the importance of distinguishing two phases in the lives of refugees
- [Olga Sezneva](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/olga-sezneva/) - University of Amsterdam Olga Sezneva: I am an urban and cultural sociologist working at the University of Amsterdam. I also have strong interest in artistic research, as well as in education. The research themes I am engaged with are migration and urban development, cultures of sharing, language and epistemology, and critical pedagogy. My research concentrates
- [‘Is It Normal?!’](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/is-it-normal/) - ‘Is It Normal?!’ By Olga Sezneva An online discussion organized by the French Institute in Russia, Urbanism & Participation Lab at the European University of St. Petersburg, and a postgraduate program in urban design, Building City Now!. The discussion critically interrogates the lost sense of normality and the normal to which we collectively want to
- [Steven Vertovec](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/steven-vertovec/) - Max Planck Institute Steve Vertovec is Managing Director at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Honorary Professor of Sociology and Ethnology at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and Supernumerary Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford. Previously he was Professor of Transnational Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University
- [High-skilled immigrants are stuck in limbo. Can we help them ‘work remotely?’](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/high-skilled-immigrants-are-stuck-in-limbo-can-we-help-them-work-remotely/) - High-skilled immigrants are stuck in limbo. Can we help them ‘work remotely?’ by Lucia Nalbandian and Anna Triandafyllidou COVID-19 border closures and backlogs have stranded people with seemingly bright futures in Canada. Many of these individuals have sold their homes, quit their jobs, packed their bags and uprooted their families, expecting to come to Canada
- [Can crisis be an opportunity for Canada’s migrant farmworkers?](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/can-crisis-be-an-opportunity-for-canadas-migrant-farmworkers/) - Can crisis be an opportunity for Canada’s migrant farmworkers? By Lucia Nalbandian & Anna Triandafyllidou The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that among Canada's truly “essential” workers are many low-skilled temporary migrant workers: those who find it nearly impossible to access permanent residency, and later, citizenship.
- [“Coronavirus Curriculum”](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/coronavirus-curriculum/) - “Coronavirus Curriculum” By Felis Tibbits Students at Teachers College (TC) of Columbia University are collaborating with the UNESCO office in Beijing to develop a “Coronavirus Curriculum.” The aim of this curriculum packet is to use the advent of the pandemic to explore issues central for critical global citizenship. For what is now self-evident to all
- ["Gold Standard" A comic by graphic artist Sonny Liew](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/gold-standard-a-comic-by-graphic-artist-sonny-liew/) - "Gold Standard" A comic by graphic artist Sonny Liew Soft truths to keep Singapore from stalling. Gold Standard provides a good account of how covid has highlighted the presence of the huge population of low-pay migrant workers in Singapore, heretofore hardly present in the consciousness of the local community at large. The high number of covid
- [Michalinos Zembylas](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/michalinos-zembylas/) - Open University of Cyprus and Nelson Mandela University, South AfricaMichalinos Zembylas is Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus and Honorary Professor, Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. He has written extensively on emotion and affect in relation to social justice
- [Felisa Tibbitts](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/felisa-tibbitts/) - Utrecht University and Teachers College of Columbia University Felisa Tibbitts is UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Higher Education and Chair in Human Rights Education at the Human Rights Centre of Utrecht University (Netherlands). She is also a Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University (South Africa) and lecturer in the Comparative and International Education Program
- [Bo-Seon Shim](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/bo-seon-shim/) - Yonsei University Bo-Seon Shim was born in Seoul, Korea and studied sociology at Seoul National University for his B.A. and M.A. degree and received his Ph. D. from sociology department, Columbia University. His research has focused on sociology of arts and culture. His doctoral dissertation investigated the transformation of nonprofit arts organization and cultural movement
- [Yasemin Soysal](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/yasemin-soysal/) - University of Essex Yasemin Soysal is Professor of Sociology, and member of the Center for Migration Studies and the Center for Human Rights, University of Essex. Her research brings transnational and global perspectives to the study of the historical development and contemporary reconfigurations of the nation-state, citizenship, and human rights, with specific interest in the
- [Adrian Favell](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/adrian-favell/) - University of Leeds and Sciences Po, Paris Adrian Favell, Chair in Sociology and Social Theory, University of Leeds, England. Also chercheur associé of the Centre d’études européennes et de politique comparée, Sciences Po, Paris, France, and professorial research associate of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, UEA, Norwich, England. The core
- [Vinicius Kauê Ferreira](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/vinicius-kaue-ferreira/) - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Vinicius Kauê Ferreira is a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate Program of Social History of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is affiliated scholar at the Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain (IIAC) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He holds both a PhD and
- [Michi Knecht](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/michi-knecht/) - University of Bremen Michi Knecht is professor at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research of the University of Bremen, Germany. At U Bremen, she co-founded the Bremen NatureCultures-Lab (BNCL: http://naturenkulturen.de/) and the interdisciplinary research platform Worlds of Contradiction (WOC, link coming soon). Her main interest lies with knowledge production and epistemological practices, and she
- [Handerson Joseph](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/handerson-joseph/) - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Handerson Joseph é Doutor em Antropologia Social pelo Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro com Doutorado Sanduíche pela École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) e pela École Normale Supérieure (ENS) em Paris. É Professor Adjunto da Universidade Federal do Amapá (UNIFAP), do Curso de
- [Cláudio Pinheiro](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/claudio-pinheiro/) - Rio de Janeiro Federal University Cláudio Costa Pinheiro, Professor of Asian and African Studies, at the Institute of History, Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ), Brazil and the Chairman of Sephis Programme (South-South Exchange Programme for the Research on the History of Development). PhD in Social Anthropology (UFRJ), Postdoc Delhi University in History. He has
- [Olívia M. Gomes da Cunha](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/olivia-m-gomes-da-cunha/) - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Olívia M. Gomes da Cunha is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Program in Social Anthropology, Nacional Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, her dissertation on vagrancy and identification science in Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century was awarded and published by Arquivo Nacional in 2002. She was
- [An interview with Mohsin Hamid](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/audio/an-interview-with-mohsin-hamid/) - Why does migration frighten so many of us? HARDtalk speaks to writer Mohsin Hamid whose novels have explored cultural, economic and religious tensions between East and West. Globalisation is a trend based on movement - of money goods, ideas and people - across continents and national borders. In a world of glaring inequality, it has stirred a powerful backlash manifested in the rise of nationalism and identity politics. This clash of human impulses is fertile territory for the Pakistani novelist.
- [The First Patient in My Bedroom - by Sariya Idriss](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/the-first-patient-in-my-bedroom-by-sariya-idriss/) - The First Patient in My Bedroom: On Therapeutic Intimacy and Mirroring during the Pandemic by Sariya Idriss "There is no “framework” behind which to hide, and I could not appear unflappable at will. I reasoned that pretending immunity to the pandemic’s global impacts wouldn’t be therapeutic, anyway. I confront the screen and this newfound vulnerability."
- [The Migrant-Citizen Nexus in View of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Can We De-Migranticize Responses?](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/the-migrant-citizen-nexus-in-view-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-can-we-de-migranticize-responses/) - The Migrant-Citizen Nexus in View of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Can We De-Migranticize Responses? by Janine Dahinden How can the migrant-citizen nexus help us make sense of Europe’s nationalist reaction to COVID-19 and its consequences? Using the lens of the migrant-citizen nexus, I present some alternatives to these nationalism-based policies and measures. I focus on the
- [Patrick Flores](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/patrick-flores/) - University of the Philippines Patrick D. Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines, which he chaired from 1997 to 2003, and Curator of the Vargas Museum in Manila. He was one of the curators of Under Construction: New Dimensions in Asian Art in 2000
- [Elif Keskiner](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/elif-keskiner/) - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Elif Keskiner has completed her undergraduate studies in Political Science and International Relations in Bogazici University, Turkey. Elif Keskiner is the senior researcher in the BaM project. As a sociologist, she is trained both in quantitative and qualitative methods and she has significant experience in international comparative research. She received her PhD
- [Deconstructing and Reconstructing](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/deconstructing-and-reconstructing/) - Deconstructing and Reconstructing Embracing Alternative Ways of Producing, Classifying and Disseminating Knowledge
- [Ali Konyali](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/ali-konyali/) - University of Osnabrück Ali Konyali currently works at the Sociology and Social Geography department of the Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien ( IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück. M.A., seit 2016 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im DFG-Projekt "Konfigurierungen von ›Islam‹ und ›Muslimen‹ auf lokaler Ebene in Deutschland" am IMIS Ali was a PhD candidate working within
- [Imtiaz Ahmed](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/imtiaz-ahmed/) - University of Dhaka Imtiaz Ahmed is Professor of International Relations and Director, Centre for Genocide Studies at the University of Dhaka. Professor Ahmed was educated at the University of Dhaka, Carlton University, Ottawa, and the Australian National University, Canberra. He is also currently Visiting Professor at the Sagesse University, Beirut. Professor Ahmed is the recipient
- [Suspension: Mobilities, Aspirations, and Socio-Political Stagnation in China](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/suspension-mobilities-aspirations-and-socio-political-stagnation-in-china/) - 17-18 September 2018 St Hugh's College, Oxford, UK Convened by: Biao Xiang, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA); Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Fellow of St Hugh’s College
- [Mary Tupan-Wenno](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/mary-tupan-wenno/) - Center for Diversity Policy Mary Tupan-Wenno is the executive director of ECHO, Center for Diversity Policy in Utrecht, The Netherlands. She has been working for ECHO since 1999. Her professional involvement on diversity and inclusion developments in (higher) education started when she was working for the government.Before ECHO she worked for the Dutch Ministry of
- [Ismintha Waldring](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/ismintha-waldring/) - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam My name is Ismintha Waldring. I was born in Surinam but have spent my life in the Netherlands since I was 2 years old. I went to primary and secondary school in Amsterdam and studied Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Leiden. My Master research was on diversity management and
- [Rosa Aparicio](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/rosa-aparicio/) - Ortega y Gasset University Rosa Aparicio is Senior Researcher at the Ortega y Gasset University Institute of Madrid and the current chair of the Spanish National Board for Immigrant Integration. Rosa Aparicio es doctora en Ciencias Políticas y Sociología y Diplomada en Psicología Clínica. Es catedrática de Sociología en la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y
- [Carola Suárez-Orozco](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/carola-suarez-orozco/) - UCLA Carola Suárez-Orozco: I am a Professor of Human Development and Psychology at UCLA. My areas of research include educational achievement among immigrant origin youth, immigrant family separations, the role of mentors in facilitating youth development, the effects of unauthorized status on developing youth, gendered experiences of immigrant youth, the experiences of immigrant origin youth
- [Ali Qadir](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/ali-qadir/) - Tampere University Dr. Ali Qadir is Associate Professor of Sociology in the New Social Research Program and the Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland. His research and teaching focus on global governance, decoloniality, and Islam. He has published widely in these fields since his doctoral thesis exploring the postcoloniality of Muslim higher education in
- [Liliana Suárez-Navaz](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/liliana-suarez-navaz/) - Autonomous University at Madrid Liliana Suárez-Navaz is an anthropologist with a long research experience in migration, ethnic relations, and citizenship from a transnational & postcolonial perspective; she has carried fieldwork in America (California, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador), Southern Europe (Spain, Romania) and Africa (Senegal, Melilla-Nador). Author of the books Rebordering of the Mediterranean: Boundaries and Citizenship
- [Silvina Merenson](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/silvina-merenson/) - Nacional University of San Martín Dra. Silvina Merenson is Professor of Anthropology, Graduate and Postgraduate Programs in Social Anthropology, Nacional University of San Martín and Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council – Argentina. Currently she is co-director of Center for Anthropological Studies at Nacional University of San Martín. Silvina was Post-doctoral fellow at
- [Marina de Regt](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/marina-de-regt/) - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Marina de Regt is affiliated to the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Marina de Regt received her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in 2003. Her PhD dissertation was based on her long-term involvement in development projects in Yemen (1991-1998). From 2007-2011 she was coordinator of
- [Miriyam Aouragh](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/miriyam-aouragh/) - University of Oxford Dr. Miriyam Aouragh is Leverhulme fellow at Communication And Media Research Institute. She grew up in Amsterdam as a second generation Moroccan and has a background in cultural anthropology/non-Western sociology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Since 2011 she follows, and writes about, the complex revolutionary dynamics in the Arab world with special interest in
- [Pal Nyiri](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/pal-nyiri/) - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Pal Nyiri is a professor of global history from an anthropological perspective at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He studied chemistry and Asian Studies in the Soviet Union, Hungary, and the U.S. before obtaining doctorates in history (Moscow State University) and sociology (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). Before coming to the VU,
- [Xiang Biao](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/xiang-biao/) - University of Oxford Xiang Biao is Professor of Social Anthropology and Fellow of St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Having grown up in southeast China and educated in Beijing, I was most influenced by the tense debates in 1980s China. I became interested in ethnographic research because of its attention to complexities that
- [Kirsten Scheid](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/kirsten-scheid/) - American University of Beirut Kirsten Scheid: I am an associate professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut. As a socio-cultural anthropologist, I write about imagination technologies, artistic materialities, affect, and social change. I also write about art historiography in cross-cultural encounters and have served
- [Philip Kasinitz](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/philip-kasinitz/) - City University of New York Philip Kasinitz is Presidential Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has chaired the doctoral program in Sociology from since 2001-2011 and 2014-the present. Kasinitz graduated Boston University in 1979 and earned his doctorate from New York University in 1987. He specializes in immigration, ethnicity, race relations, urban
- [GDC Summer School in Budapest, Hungary](https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/gdc-summer-school-in-budapest-hungary/) - The double movement of nationalism and globalization demands that we look closely at how nations and migration are purposely produced by state policies, institutions, and categories aimed at creating “stable” units and unstable flows. This requires a new transnational perspective on global processes.
- [André Keet](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/andre-keet/) - University of the Free State André Keet is Director of the International Institute for Studies in Race, Reconciliation and Social Justice, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa André Keet joined the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in 1996 and was appointed as Director of the National Centre for Human Education and Training
- [Michael Okyerefo](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/michael-okyerefo/) - University of Ghana Michael Okyerefo is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Sociology, University of Ghana. His affiliation to The New Global (De)Centre stimulates his keen interest in alternative epistemologies, which is reflected in one of the graduate programmes he teaches, African Social Thought. As a graduate of the Universities of Ghana, Vienna, and
- [Alexander von Humboldt Lecture](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/video/alexander-von-humboldt-lecture/) - “Decentering’ research on transnational Mobilities, integration and diversities? Explorations of small locations at the ‘outskirts of Europe’. Alexander von Humboldt Lecture, Universities of Nijmegen/Wagendingen, 11.11.2019, Netherlands​
- [Distance from Home](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/video/distance-from-home/) - Data-Driven DJ by Brian Foo (brianfoo.com) is a series of music experiments that combine data, algorithms, and borrowed sounds. This song was generated using refugee data from the United Nations from 1975 to 2012. The quantity, length, and pitch of the song’s instruments are controlled by the volume of refugee movement and distance traveled between their countries of origin and asylum.
- [Sorry](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/video/sorry/) - Filmmaker Abdelkarim El-Fassi, who produced the video, explains: “I’ve never felt this uncomfortable while directing a video. Sure, it’s totally unethical and pedagogically irresponsible, and yet as a society we’ve practiced this on the macro-level for years. We’ve been talking certain communities into feelings of collective guilt for years. This has to stop, otherwise the problem will fester on for generations to come. I don’t want my nephew Hamza, who can be seen in the film, to be held accountable for matters that have nothing to do with him. He is a third generation Dutch-Moroccan. There is no justification whatsoever for him being treated differently from his white peers.”
- [Outgrowing](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/video/outgrowing/) - A mural by Brazilian artist Mona Caron in Taiwan, featured by Wallriors festival.
- [Handerson Joseph: Política de imigração haitiana](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/video/handerson-joseph-politica-de-imigracao-haitiana/) - UFSB / CBPN - Pesquisador Joseph Handerson, Política de imigração haitiana
- [2018 Gordon White Lecture, Sussex University, UK](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/video/2018-gordon-white-lecture-sussex-university-uk/)
- [Lecture University of California Santa Cruz, 2017](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/video/lecture-university-of-california-santa-cruz-2017/)
- [Should progressive politics be nationalist?](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/audio/should-progressive-politics-be-nationalist/) - Kymlicka’s main thesis is that we need nationalism to foster a sense of social solidarity, but that it needs to be combined with multiculturalism to avoid becoming exclusionary or stir prejudice. Bauböck is sceptical that promoting the nation can help reconcile social solidarity with support for opennesses and diversity, what he calls “the progressive’s trilemma”. Instead, he argues that we must look for political community across, below and above the nation state.
- [The Changed Conditions of Critical Thinking](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/video/the-changed-conditions-of-critical-thinking/) - Halleh Ghorashi | TEDxAUCollege
- [No Borders](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/audio/no-borders/) - When we talk about migration, we assume the existence of borders. But what are borders? And should there be any? This is the topic of this episode with Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. Bridget Anderson is well-known for her defence of No Borders, as well as her 2013 book Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control.
- [Faire Silence](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/audio/faire-silence/) - Le regard et le non-dit : les formes du silence dans une enquête sur le milieu académique : colloquium at the EHESS-Marseille par Vinicius Kauê Ferreira.
- [Marina de Regt: COVID-19 in a war zone](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/marina-de-regt-covid-19-in-a-war-zone/) - COVID-19 in a war zone by Marina de Regt "While my friends worry about me, I worry about them, and about all the other Yemenis who are longing for peace, security and a somewhat stable life."
- [How Lebanon's political parties are using coronavirus to seize back control](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/how-lebanons-political-parties-are-using-coronavirus-to-seize-back-control/) - How Lebanon's political parties are using coronavirus to seize back control by Jamil Mouawad "Perhaps as never before, now is the right time - akin to many calls worldwide to imagine the world anew - to focus on the culture of hope, and look at both crises, health and economic, not as the end but
- [Mobilities, neo-nationalism and the lockdown of Europe: will the European Union survive?](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/mobilities-neo-nationalism-and-the-lockdown-of-europe-will-the-european-union-survive/) - Mobilities, neo-nationalism and the lockdown of Europe: will the European Union survive? An essay by Adrian Favell & Ettore Recchi, pondering the future of the EU. "Imagine the re-nationalised world we may be about to inherit. We have been quarantined in our designated national unit, and we have been told that all international travel is
- [Xiang Biao: What Can Researchers Do To Help](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/xiang-biao-what-can-researchers-do-to-help/)
- [At times of a pandemic: transnational solidarity not national borders](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/at-times-of-a-pandemic-transnational-solidarity-not-national-borders/) - At times of a pandemic: transnational solidarity not national borders by Anna Triandafyllidou National borders have become more visible and less permeable than ever, and citizenship appears to have resurfaced as the ultimate marker of community, belonging and solidarity. But is this truly the case? Or are we also witnessing the rise of transnational solidarity
- [Los Angeles Diary](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/los-angeles-diary/) - Los Angeles Diary An interactive artwork by Geoff McFetridge "Weeks into the current situation, waves of weirdness continue to erode the familiar rythm of my world." An interactive artwork by Geoff McFetridge
- [Switzerland: Corona fördert Nationalismus](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/switzerland-corona-fordert-nationalismus/) - In der Corona-Krise werden die Grenzen der Nationalstaaten wieder so sichtbar, wie schon sehr lange nicht mehr. Die Staaten machen die Schotten dicht und versuchen, ihre jeweils eigenen Wege aus der Krise zu finden. Internationale Solidarität steht inzwischen nicht einmal mehr im Kleingedruckten.
- [In a country of 1.3 billion, space isn’t just scarce – it’s taboo](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/in-a-country-of-1-3-billion-space-isnt-just-scarce-its-taboo/) - In a country of 1.3 billion, space isn’t just scarce – it’s taboo. Try squaring that with a pandemic An essay by Tanmoy Goswami In India, many live in less space than is recommended for prison cells. And to most of us, having our own room is unimaginable – if not taboo. Social distancing as
- [London Migration Film Festival](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/london-migration-film-festival/) - London Migration Film Festival Online in the time of Covid - the online programme is available for six weeks from April 20 2020 London Migration Film Festival is coming to you at this time with a platform hosting a retrospective of some of our favourite films presented in our programme over the past four years.
- [Milano builds 35 km of new cycle paths beginning in May](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/milano-builds-35-km-of-new-cycle-paths-beginning-in-may/) - Milano builds 35 km of new cycle paths beginning in May L’utilizzo della bicicletta a Milano dovrà essere incentivato e fare un salto di qualità, continua Granelli: “Per questo stiamo mettendo in campo un’azione straordinaria di realizzazione di percorsi ciclabili e di Zone 30. Stiamo predisponendo atti e progetti per mettere in strada circa 35 km
- [Portugal’s response towards migrants in stark contrast with other countries](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/portugals-response-towards-migrants-in-stark-contrast-with-other-countries/) - Portugal’s response towards migrants in stark contrast with other countries Juntos vamos ficar bem Portugal sets an example of how important it is that countries extend their critical services to all residents - regardless of where they were born. Now, more than ever, the health of each nation depends on everyone who is living in it -
- [Coronavirus: Middle East states crack down on media freedom](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/coronavirus-middle-east-states-crack-down-on-media-freedom/) - Coronavirus: Middle East states crack down on media freedom By Megan O'Toole 'It will have ramifications for democracy and for a sense of accountability in the times that are going to come – and the times that are going to come are going to be very bad as well' – Miriyam Aouragh, University of Westminster
- [Ghen Cô Vy - Corona virus Song | Together we #EndCoV"](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/ghen-co-vy-english/) - Comment on YouTube: Riku Morwing: I'm a hospital cleaner in Finland. Listening to this song on bad days. Thank you and Godspeed Vietnam!
- [Ghen Cô Vy - Vietnamese](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/ghen-co-vy-vietnamese/) - How Vietnam beats Covid-19 Ghen Co Vy is a compound of the original song’s title ‘Ghen’ (Jealousy) and the Vietnamese pronunciation of ‘CoV,’ which is short for coronavirus. The huge popularity of the music video, which had been initially produced as a public service announcement to propagate best practices against COVID-19, has certainly been a
- [Agency in “forced” returns? A self-reflection exercise](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/agency-in-forced-returns-a-self-reflection-exercise/) - Agency in “forced” returns? A self-reflection exercise by Maria Shaidrova There is no better way to understand the turbulences of migration trajectories than to experience them yourself. I was studying the repetitive risk-taking among returnees in Nigeria when I was “returned” myself to a Covid-19 affected Holland. I am still wondering whether I indeed “had”
- [NYT essay by Jessica Lustig](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/nyt-essay-by-jessica-lustig/) - What I learned when my husband got sick with corona virus When the husband of New York Times Magazine deputy editor Jessica Lustig is infected with the virus, her life changes in a matter of hours. In this essay, she describes the impact her husband’s diagnosis has had on the family life she, her 18 year-old daughter
- [Spanish taxi driver & hospital staff](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/spanish-taxi-driver-hospital-staff/) - Spanish taxi driver & hospital staff Danny Chen: "Such a heart warming clip. Taxi driver in Spain who has been taking patients to the hospital free of charge got a call to pick up a patient from the hospital. Instead, when he arrived he was greeted by a standing ovation from hospital staff and what
- [Sanitizing around the world](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/sanitizing-around-the-world/) - Sanitizing around the world 24 Pictures Of Deep Cleaning Around The World
- [](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/coronavirus-and-mobility-forum-compas/) - Coronavirus and Mobility forum Compas Facilitated by Professor Biao Xiang. How can a mobility perspective shed light on the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, and what can we learn about mobilities throughout the pandemic and for the future?
- [Protest against racism during Covid-19](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/protest-against-racism-during-covid-19/) - Protest against racism during Covid-19 Dit is waarom ik op de Dam stond: 'Later vertel ik dit aan mijn kinderen'. People explain why they attended a demonstration against racism and police violence at Dam Square in Amsterdam, despite the Covid-19 crisis.
- [The corona crisis from a gender perspective](https://globaldecentre.org/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/the-corona-crisis-from-a-gender-perspective/) - The corona crisis from a gender perspective Swiss Association for Gender Studies (SAGS) is opening up a debate. COVID-19 has strongly gendered effects. This entry offers an overview of some of these effects and their possible short- and long-term consequences. This overview is far from being exhaustive, but rather serves as a starting point for
- [Halleh Ghorashi](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/halleh-ghorashi/) - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Halleh Ghorashi is born in Iran and came to the Netherlands in 1988. She is sinds 2012 Full Professor of Diversity and Integration and Head of the epartment of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Between 2005 and 2012 she held the prestigious position of PaVEM-chair in Management of Diversity and
- [Claire Hsu](https://globaldecentre.org/founding-members/claire-hsu/) - Asia Art Archive Claire Hsu is Co-founder and Executive Director of Asia Art Archive (AAA), an independent non-profit organisation founded in 2000 dedicated to the collection, creation, and sharing of knowledge around recent art in Asia. She received a BA in Chinese and History (1998), and an MA in History of Art (2000) from SOAS, University

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## Portfolio

- [Project title 10](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-10/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 1](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-1/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 5](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-5/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 4](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-4/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 3](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/5062/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 2](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-2/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 15](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/product-description-comes-here-lorem-ipsum-dolor-sit-amet-consectetur-adipiscing-elit-sed-non-rutrum-ligula/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 12](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-12/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 14](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/5051/) - Desctiption Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur. Vestibulum semper convallis elit, pellentesque blandit est congue et. Aenean ac elit fringilla lacus ornare accumsan. Duis metus libero, elementum vel lacus sed, faucibus vehicula elit. Nullam ultrices aliquet
- [Project title 13](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-13/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 11](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-11/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 9](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-9/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 8](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-8/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 16](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-16/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 6](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-6/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 17](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-17/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 18](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-18/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.
- [Project title 7](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolio/project-title-7/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non rutrum ligula. Fusce adipiscing odio eget urna scelerisque venenatis. Vivamus gravida quis nisi et consectetur.

## Slides

- [Featured Product 7](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/featured-product-7/) - [product id=”6502″]
- [Featured Product 6](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/featured-product-6/) - [product id=”6505″]
- [Featured Product 5](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/featured-product-5/) - [product id=”6500″]
- [Featured Product 4](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/featured-product-4/) - [product id=”6510″]
- [Featured Product 3](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/featured-product-3/) - [product id=”6514″]
- [Featured Product 2](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/featured-product-2/) - [product id=”6507″]
- [Featured product 1](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/featured-product-1/) - [product id=”6518″]
- [Logo 8](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/logo-8/)
- [Logo 7](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/logo-7/)
- [Logo 6](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/logo-6/)
- [Logo 5](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/logo-5/)
- [Logo 4](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/logo-4/)
- [Logo 3](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/logo-3/)
- [Logo 2](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/logo-2/)
- [Logo 1](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/logo-1/)
- [Testimonial 4a](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/testimonial-4a/) - #click-custom-6a544067c58bf{color:#ffffff!important;} #click-custom-6a544067c58bf.testimonials .bubble{background-color: } #click-custom-6a544067c58bf.testimonials .bubble:after{border-top-color:;} "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquea. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco. Etiam sit amet fringilla
- [Testimonial 3a](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/testimonial-3a/) - #click-custom-6a544067c68fc{color:#ffffff!important;} #click-custom-6a544067c68fc.testimonials .bubble{background-color: } #click-custom-6a544067c68fc.testimonials .bubble:after{border-top-color:;} "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquea. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco. Etiam sit amet fringilla
- [Testimonial 2a](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/testimonial-2a/) - #click-custom-6a544067c7a3e{color:#ffffff!important;} #click-custom-6a544067c7a3e.testimonials .bubble{background-color: } #click-custom-6a544067c7a3e.testimonials .bubble:after{border-top-color:;} "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquea. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco. Etiam sit amet fringilla
- [Testimonial 1a](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/testimonial-1-2/) - #click-custom-6a544067c8944{color:#ffffff!important;} #click-custom-6a544067c8944.testimonials .bubble{background-color: } #click-custom-6a544067c8944.testimonials .bubble:after{border-top-color:;} "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquea. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco. Etiam sit amet fringilla
- [Team members 2](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/team-members-2/) - Sabine Woodward - EducatorEum iisque viderer ex, nec no quot porro euripidis. Mei gubergren ullamcorper id, nominati evertitur interesset ne qui, falli affert aliquando eu mel. Nec ignota epicuri definitionem an, te atqui corpora apeirian quo. Ne causae equidem postulant mea. Eum invidunt sadipscing at, ei modus aeterno scaevola mea. Edith Kinderhaber - EducatorEt est
- [Team members 1](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/team-members-1/) - Jane R. Clark - Senior EducatorEum iisque viderer ex, nec no quot porro euripidis. Mei gubergren ullamcorper id, nominati evertitur interesset ne qui, falli affert aliquando eu mel. Nec ignota epicuri definitionem an, te atqui corpora apeirian quo. Ne causae equidem postulant mea. Eum invidunt sadipscing at, ei modus aeterno scaevola mea. Robert Morisson -
- [Testimonial 4](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/testimonial-4/) - #click-custom-6a544067ce7c1{color:#ffffff!important;} #click-custom-6a544067ce7c1.testimonials .bubble{background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.3) } #click-custom-6a544067ce7c1.testimonials .bubble:after{border-top-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.3);} Multiple OptionsLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquea. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco. Emma E. Shook - CEO
- [Testimonial 3](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/testimonial-3/) - #click-custom-6a544067cf89a{color:#ffffff!important;} #click-custom-6a544067cf89a.testimonials .bubble{background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.3) } #click-custom-6a544067cf89a.testimonials .bubble:after{border-top-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.3);} User FriendlyLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquea. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco. Peter Jones - Director
- [Testimonial 2](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/testimonial-2/) - #click-custom-6a544067d0891{color:#ffffff!important;} #click-custom-6a544067d0891.testimonials .bubble{background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.3) } #click-custom-6a544067d0891.testimonials .bubble:after{border-top-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.3);} Creative SkillsLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquea. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco. Kenneth M. Garcia - Manager
- [Testimonial 1](https://globaldecentre.org/slide/testimonial-1/) - #click-custom-6a544067d1f56{color:#ffffff!important;} #click-custom-6a544067d1f56.testimonials .bubble{background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.3) } #click-custom-6a544067d1f56.testimonials .bubble:after{border-top-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.3);} Testimonial titleLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquea. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco. Susan Anthony - CEO

## Categories

- [News & Events](https://globaldecentre.org/category/news-and-events/)
- [News](https://globaldecentre.org/category/examples/news/)
- [Founding Members](https://globaldecentre.org/category/founding-members/) - This is a static category that indicates the original members of GDC. It is used to populate a post grid on the About Us page
- [Read listen and watch](https://globaldecentre.org/category/read-listen-and-watch/)
- [GDC Short Essays](https://globaldecentre.org/category/read-listen-and-watch/gdc-short-essays/)
- [Audio](https://globaldecentre.org/category/read-listen-and-watch/audio/) - Podcasts & more
- [Video](https://globaldecentre.org/category/read-listen-and-watch/video/)
- [Decentered views](https://globaldecentre.org/category/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/)
- [Decentered views on Covid-19](https://globaldecentre.org/category/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/on-covid-19/)
- [xamples](https://globaldecentre.org/category/examples/)
- [DeCentered Conversations](https://globaldecentre.org/category/read-listen-and-watch/decentered-views/decentered_conversations/)
- [Members](https://globaldecentre.org/category/members/) - Category that includes all people not listed as Founding Members.
- [Moving Bio Summer School](https://globaldecentre.org/category/news-and-events/moving-bio-summer-school/)
- [Steering Committee](https://globaldecentre.org/category/steering-committee/) - Organizes posts for members that are currently part of the steering committee. This categories is published as a post grid on the About Us page of the website
- [(De)Glossary](https://globaldecentre.org/category/deglossary/)

## Tags

- [biography](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/biography/)
- [data](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/data/)
- [creation](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/creation/)
- [Beirut](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/beirut/)
- [keynote](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/keynote/)
- [moving biography](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/moving-biography/)
- [Arabic literature](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/arabic-literature/)
- [pre-modern](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/pre-modern/)
- [Tarif Khalidi](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/tarif-khalidi/)
- [sira](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/sira/)
- [Biokhraphia](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/biokhraphia/)
- [life story](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/life-story/)
- [historiography](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/historiography/)
- [reading](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/reading/)
- [Palestine](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/palestine/)
- [Egypt](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/egypt/)
- [translation](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/translation/)
- [genre](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/genre/)
- [autobiography](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/autobiography/)
- [war](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/war/)
- [artist](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/artist/)
- [weaver](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/weaver/)
- [weaving](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/weaving/)
- [tapestry](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/tapestry/)
- [Ecole de Tunis](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/ecole-de-tunis/)
- [oral history](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/oral-history/)
- [memory](https://globaldecentre.org/tag/memory/)

## Portfolio Categories

- [Applications](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolios/applications/)
- [Featured](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolios/featured/)
- [Print](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolios/print/)
- [UI Design](https://globaldecentre.org/portfolios/uidesign/)

## Slideshows

- [Clients logos](https://globaldecentre.org/slideshows/clients-logos/)
- [Featured Products](https://globaldecentre.org/slideshows/featured-products/)
- [Team1](https://globaldecentre.org/slideshows/team1/)
- [Testimonials](https://globaldecentre.org/slideshows/testimonials/)
- [Testimonials 1](https://globaldecentre.org/slideshows/testimonials-1/)