Research events
Listed below are forthcoming research events in the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies. See also the events for all of SSIS.
Any SSIS staff or postgrads may always attend. Anyone else should contact the department or the centre in question.
Please also see individual research centre sites for other events.
View past seminars.
| When | Time | Description | Add to your calendar |
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| 29 January 2020 | 17:30 | From the Maghrib to the Mashriq through al-Andalus and Norman Sicily. The sacrifice of she-camels among the Fatimids and SafavidsProfessor Maribel Fierro is the Al-Qasimi Professor of Islamic Studies. Full details | Add event |
| 30 January 2020 | 9:00 | Analysing ambiguity: understanding and managing complexity in the professional environmentSuggested participants: Mid/senior level managers, SMEs in any business sector, those seeking promotion to management levels or new to management, HR SMEs, Data scientists/analysts. Full details | Add event |
| 5 February 2020 | 13:00 | Introduction to GISA geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to allow researchers to capture, store, manipulate, analyse, manage, and present spatial or geographic data. This workshop will introduce attendees to the introductory principles of GIS and how to use Python QGIS for research purposes. Full details | Add event |
| 7 February 2020 | 15:30 | Q-Step Seminar Series: Guest Speaker Dr Levi Wolf, University of BristolAbstract TBC. Full details | Add event |
| 4 March 2020 | 13:00 | Data Analysis with R for Social ScientistsBuilding upon the basic introduction offered to R in workshop 4, this workshop will cover exploratory data analysis, quantitative data analysis, and visualising data using R, as well as introducing the various libraries that a user needs to be familiar with in order to carry out such tasks. Full details | Add event |
| 10 March 2020 | 14:00 | Hope and Despair: Presidents, Prime Ministers, Populists, Polarization and Mass Democratic Accountability in Challenging TimesThe Executive Approval Project (EAP) is a global collaborative data and research project whose goal is to measure public approval of political leaders to help understand why some executives are despised and removed while others remain popular and reelected.. Full details | Add event |
| 18 March 2020 | 15:30 | Understanding the relationships between risk factors, intersectional identities and criminal career trajectories: A multilevel approachResearchers have called for developmental criminologists to better understand how criminal career patterns and 'risk factors' relate to intersectional identities.. Full details | Add event |
| 6 May 2020 | 15:30 | Establishment Relations and Fatherhood Wage Premiums: New Insights from Finnish Administrative DataFathers often earn more than their childless counterparts, although effects can vary among groups of men. Most of this literature uses micro data and attributes these wage effects to individual selection. We instead draw on relational inequality theory (RIT) to argue the importance of establishment relations behind group differences in net fatherhood wage premiums.. Full details | Add event |
| 11 May 2020 | 14:00 | Introduction to Bayesian analysisThis workshop offers an introduction to Bayesian analysis in R. We will talk about the theoretical underpinnings of Bayesian analysis and the practical considerations for conducting such analyses in R.. Full details | Add event |
| 12 May 2020 | 14:00 | Bayesian analysis with JAGS/Topics in Bayesian analysisOne of the advantages of Bayesian analysis is its great flexibility with respect to the functional form of the model. To take full advantage of this flexibility, the analyst need to know how to write code for Stan, JAGS, BUGS or a similar sample.. Full details | Add event |
| 18 - 20 June 2020 | 4th International Conference on Kurdish Studies 18-20 June 2020CALL FOR PAPERS: The Centre for Kurdish Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK, invites submission of papers for the 4th International Kurdish Studies Conference to be held on 18-20 June 2020. Thematic areas covered by the conference include (but are not restricted to) Kurdish literature, women’s participation in politics, cultural production, history, political international relations, governance, civil society, civil rights, diplomacy, conflict and democratization, forced displacement, internal and external interference (Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Iran), internal colonialization and rewriting Kurdish history. Original research based on empirical data and/or new theoretical approaches are prioritised. Full details | Add event |