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CMES researchers took part in a leadership program within Lund University’s Strategic Research Areas. CMES researchers Pinar Dinc and Hossein Hashemi, representing The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW), took part in the Strategic Research Area (SRA) Leadership Development program at Lund University during the 2024–2025 academic year.Running from August 2024 to March 2025, the program ai

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researchers-participated-sra-leadership-development-program - 2025-11-29

Applications are now open for the CMES Travel Grant of Autumn 2025. Application deadline is 30 May 2025. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports research with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). CMES provides travel grants for conducting field work in the Middle East and conference/workshop participation

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-cmes-travel-grant-autumn-2025 - 2025-11-29

A recent CMES Research Seminar with Professor Christie S. Warren offered a look into the complex journey of rebuilding Syria after years of devastating conflict. How do you rebuild a nation that has been torn apart by more than a decade of war? This was the central question when Fulbright Professor Christie S. Warren visited CMES for a research seminar titled Reconstructing Syria.In her talk, Chri

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-seminar-christie-s-warren-reconstructing-syria - 2025-11-29

CMES Director Karin Aggestam has contributed to the yearbook of Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, writing about Israel, Palestine, and just peace. Karin Aggestam (2025), ”Israel, Palestina och den rättvisa freden [Israel, Palestine and Just Peace]”, Stockholm: Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds Box.The contribution is available to read here.Riksbankens Jubileumsfond is an independent foundation with the goal of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israel-palestine-and-just-peace - 2025-11-29

Anne Lene Stein (Lund University) visited CMES to share her work on an agonistic approach to ethnographic research in Palestine and Israel. On April 24, CMES hosted a seminar with Anne Lene Stein, a doctoral student in Political Science at Lund University. In her talk, Shattered Landscapes: An Agonistic Approach to Ethnography in Palestine and Israel, she shared insights from her ethnographic fiel

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-seminar-shattered-landscapes-agonistic-approach-ethnography-palestine-and-israel - 2025-11-29

CMES Researcher Sami Al-Daghistani has been granted Lund University’s GloHub seed funding for an international collaboration on Islamic Studies. The initiative brings together researchers from the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and scholars from Lund University, representing both the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) and the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES).As

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/glohub-seed-funding-sami-al-daghistani-islamic-studies-collaboration - 2025-11-29

Applications are now open for the CMES Workshop Proposal of 2025. Application deadline is 30 May 2025. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports and coordinates workshops with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). CMES funds 1-2 new workshops per year and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration between re

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-call-workshop-proposal - 2025-11-29

Read the April CMES Newsletter about upcoming events, recent research activities, and new publications. The CMES Newsletter offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research. It is distributed regularly to a diverse audience of scholars, both within Lund University and beyond. Each issue features:Message From the DirectorLatest Research NewsUpcoming EventsRecent Publication

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-51 - 2025-11-29

Rhys Machold visited Lund for a book talk on "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel". In collaboration with CMES, the Swedish South Asia Studies Network (SASNET) hosted a book talk with Dr. Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow) at Finngatan 16.The book Fabricating Homeland Security by Rhys Machold locates homeland security as a universalizing transnat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-talk-fabricating-homeland-security-police-entanglements-across-india-and-palestineisrael - 2025-11-29

CMES researchers Svante Lundgren and Pinar Dinc recently visited Yerevan, Armenia, for the launch of a new book and to engage in academic discussions. On 23 April, CMES researchers Svante Lundgren and Pinar Dinc participated in a panel discussion at Yerevan State University (YSU) for the launch of a new open access edited book by Pinar Dinc and Olga Selin Hunler (Acıbadem University), The Republic

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researchers-join-academic-exchanges-during-yerevan-visit - 2025-11-29

The Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health is dedicated to publishing high quality peer-reviewed research in the field of occupational and environmental health and safety. High accessibility of all research data is critical for scientific interaction. The more people this research reaches, the better. The journal has been committed to open science for many years. Unlike most OSH journa

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/open-acess - 2025-11-29

The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and open science. This year’s conference (2020) will be the fifteenth Munin Conference and will take place online 18–19 November. Read more at https://site.uit.no/muninconf/

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/welcome-15th-munin-conference-18-19-november-2020 - 2025-11-29

he EOSC Symposium 2020 brings together researchers, data scientists, e-Infrastructures, Research Infrastructures, EOSC projects, EOSC Working Group members, and representatives of the EU27 Member States and associated countries to discuss the final steps towards the establishment of a first version of a fully-fledged European Open Science Cloud. Read more at https://www.eosc-nordic.eu/events/eosc-

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/eosc-symposium-2020 - 2025-11-29

Umeå University is dedicated to providing creative environments for learning and work. We offer a wide variety of courses and programmes, world leading research, and excellent innovation and collaboration opportunities. More than 4 100 employees and 34 000 students have already chosen Umeå University. We welcome your application! The Faculty of Medicine, which consists of 13 departments, is respon

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/postdoc-position - 2025-11-29

The global pandemic of the 2019-nCov requires the evaluation of policy interventions to mitigate future social and economic costs of quarantine measures worldwide. We propose an epidemiological model for forecasting and policy evaluation which incorporates new data in real-time through variational data assimilation. We analyze and discuss infection rates in the UK, US and Italy. Read more at https

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/epidemiological-modelling-approach-covid-19-data-assimilation - 2025-11-29

The Poly Implant Prothèse incident and breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma have pointed to the need for uniform registries for breast implants as key features to monitoring the outcomes of breast implant surgeries internationally. The purpose of this study was to identify and harmonize common data elements collected by breast implant registries across the International Collabo

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/toward-international-harmonization-breast-implant-registries-international-collaboration-breast - 2025-11-29

Registries of pancreatic surgery have become increasingly popular as they facilitate both quality improvement and clinical research. We aimed to compare registries for design, variables collected, patient characteristics, treatment strategies, clinical outcomes, and pathology. Read more at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039606020304554?via%3Dihub

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/transatlantic-registries-pancreatic-surgery-united-states-america-germany-netherlands-and-sweden - 2025-11-29

Registry-based trials have emerged as a potentially cost-saving study methodology. Early estimates of cost savings, however, conflated the benefits associated with registry utilisation and those associated with other aspects of pragmatic trial designs, which might not all be as broadly applicable. In this study, we sought to build a practical tool that investigators could use across disciplines to

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/registry-based-trials-potential-model-cost-savings - 2025-11-29

Placing research software into Open Science - Initial results from an RDA Sweden and EOSC Nordic collaboration. The concept of Open Science is mostly focused around Open Data and Open Access for published material, with Open Software usually left in the shadow. But in order to ensure transparent and reproducible science, it is essential that also software used in research be adequately documented,

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/webinar-25-september-1300-1400-zoom - 2025-11-29

This paper examines social class differences in fertility, using longitudinal micro-level data for a regional sample in Sweden, 1922-2015. Using discrete-time event history models, we estimated the association between social class and parity-specific duration to next birth, adjusting for household income in separate models. Social class was associated with fertility quite independently from income

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/social-class-and-fertility-long-run-analysis-southern-sweden-1922-2015 - 2025-11-29