10/05/2024
Development at Work: Postcolonial Imaginaries, Global Capitalism, and Everyday Life at a Factory in Tunisia – A Conversation with André Weißenfels
André Weißenfels is a researcher focusing on the political economy of West Asia and North Africa as well as community decision-making processes, and “the social.” He has worked as a research associate at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin and was a PhD fellow at the Gradu...
11/06/2022
Day 7 (and last) of the with a morning workshop on challenges for early career researchers in Morocco and Tunisia and an afternoon presentation of the 2021 MENA Youth Study by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Tunisie and MECAM - Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb with invited researchers Imed Melliti, Fadma Ait Mous and Khadidja Boussaid
09/06/2022
Day 6 of the - regards croisés sur les transformations socio-spatiales au Maroc et en Tunisie par les chercheurs invités de l'Université Hassan II de Casablanca au MECAM - Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb, les chercheurs du Laboratoire Gouvernance de l'Université de Tunis et de l' Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC)
08/06/2022
Day 5 of the - back in Tunis, at MECAM - Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb to meet Prof. Fadma Ait Mous and other visiting researchers from Université Hassan II de Casablanca working on 'inequalities and mobilities': from academic speed-dating to the book launch of Johannes Frische and a Tunisian/Moroccan tea contest!
07/06/2022
Day 4 of the and last day in Nabeul - with debates on the articulation of inequalities as injustice, shifting borders in contemporary Tunisia, and ethnographic sensibilities as method MECAM - Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb
06/06/2022
Day 3 of the in Nabeul - intensive peer-review sessions on border economies, migrant mobilities, (urban) governance and female work/labour in Tunisia MECAM - Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb
06/06/2022
Dans la cadre de la seront présentés et discutés les premiers résultats de la MENA Youth Study 2021 de la Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Tunisie et de UNIVERSITÄT LEIPZIG et ceci le vendredi 10 juin de 15-18 heures à l'Hotel Majestic, Tunis MECAM - Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb
05/06/2022
Day 2 of the Traveling Academy in Nabeul - with participants arriving from Ben Guerdane, Tunis, Sfax and Glasgow - and an introduction to the city's multi-faith history, built heritage and artistic traditions by the Association de la Sauvegarde de la Ville de Nabeul (ASVN) and Montassar Maamouri MECAM - Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb
04/06/2022
Start of the MECAM Traveling Academy "Disparities, Youth and Socio-Spatial Reconfigurations in Tunisia and Morocco" in Tunis today in over 45°... MECAM - Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb