Past Conferences
2025-2026 Conference Season
Seeing Sudan: Politics Through Art
From September 18-20, 2025, a historic gathering of academics, artists, and activists drew attention to Sudan and generated critical insights into resilience in the face of violence and displacement.
2024-2025 Conference Season Highlights
A.I. Uprising: Opportunities and Challenges for the Future of Work and Its Impact on the Environment
Hosting academics, CEOs, policymakers, and radical thinkers, this conference examined ways of harnessing AI’s potential without leaving humanity behind.
Reimagining Palestine
Bringing together leading academics to explore the future of Palestine, this conference leveraged Doha’s strategic position to offer a unique vantage point on the complex realities of the region.
2023-2024 Conference Season Highlights
The Hiwaraat Series launched in the 2023-2024 Academic Year with seven timely and topical conferences offering insights from top practitioners, scholars, and activists.
Gender in Foreign Policy
Addressing gender-informed approaches to foreign policy and diplomacy, AI in policy and practice, and gender in conflict situations, this conference offered a special focus on Gaza, Afghanistan and Sudan.
On Palestine Symposium
Moderated by Mehdi Hassan, this symposium featured leading voices on Palestine, and was organized around three thematic areas: justice and accountability, global media narratives and the shaping of public opinion, and avoiding traps in imagining a political future.
Global Energy Cultures: How Energy Shapes Our Everyday Lives
Organized in collaboration with Msheireb Museums, this conference delved into the pivotal role energy humanities plays in shaping and imagining just and equitable practices for energy systems around the world.
Sustaining the Oasis: Envisioning the Future of Water Security in the Gulf
Hosted by GU-Q and Georgetown University Earth Commons, and featuring keynote speaker Malcom Gladwell, this gathering addressed water stewardship, climate change, and building a blueprint for water security in the Gulf region.
Afghanistan Regional Symposium: Confronting the Impasse
Since 2021, Afghanistan has been at an impasse with the world, resulting in political isolation and civilian suffering. Insightful panels covering the Afghan peace process, climate change and food security challenges, education, and humanitarian concerns fostered a nuanced understanding of ongoing challenges and paved the way for impactful solutions.
Global Histories and Practices of Islamophobia
This conference brought together professionals, academics, government officials, artists, and students to explore the global, historical, theological, and political dimensions that drive practices of Islamophobia.
The Invasion of Iraq: Regional Reflections
Taking a regional perspective, politicians, civil servants, academics, and journalists reflected on the profound consequences of the 2003 invasion of Iraq that continue to reverberate across the globe twenty years later.
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