TARII has organized and will participate in a panel at the DOT 2022 meeting in Berlin, Germany. The specific date, time, and location of the panel will be updated here once available.
Panel Abstract:
On the occasion of the opening of its research facilities in Baghdad, TARII (The Academic Research Institute in Iraq) will lead a panel of a group of scholars and leading administrators affiliated with European research centers located in the Middle East or with deep networking ties to researchers in the region. We will discuss the role of overseas research centers in promoting the Humanities and Social Sciences in the past, present, and future. The panelists will present their respective institutions’ histories and present activities with an outlook to the future of their leadership structures, funding, and training and promotion of next-generation researchers. A particular emphasis will be on local and regional networking, national orientation versus international diversity, and benefit for the host countries. The goal of this panel is to consider the persistence of national research structures and whether they continue to make sense in times of budget reductions and growing demands for international collaboration, and to weigh the resulting questions in the light of a commitment that Western sponsored research should benefit local communities and empower them with regard to diversity and the promotion of justice and democracy in the public sphere. In this, debates are particularly relevant that concern difficult historical memories and the challenges that today’s societies are facing. Participants taking part in the panel next to TARII represent German, French, Dutch, Belgian, and Danish research institutes.
List of Participants:
Peter Wien (TARII)
Margarethe van Ess (DAI Baghdad)
Ulrike Freitag (ZMO Berlin)
Matthieu Rey (IFPO Beirut)
Harald Rosenbach (Max Weber Stiftung)
Kiki Santing (Dutch-Flemish Institute, Cairo)
Birgit Schaebler (OI Beirut)
Ingolf Thuesen (Danish Institute, Damascus)
Eckart Woertz (GIGA Hamburg)
