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Call for Applications: 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School

  • 1.  Call for Applications: 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School

    Posted 10-29-2025 08:58

    The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ) is accepting applications for the 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School: Transformations, Cultures, Heritage, and Possibilities across Asia, taking place May 11–14, 2026, in Hanoi, Vietnam.

    The Southern Digitalities Summer School is designed to develop critical skills for early-career scholars of media and communication working on digital transformations across a broad range of Asian contexts, spanning West, South, Central, East, Southeast Asia, and beyond. At the heart of the summer school is the concept of Southern digitalities-a notion that invites us to rethink how we theorize digitalities i.e. the condition of living in digital cultures by taking seriously digital experiences, cultures, and technology in the Global South, a nexus made up of diverse and interconnected digital encounters, practices, and frictions, rather than a neatly defined geography.

    Co-organized by the Center for Digital Cultures and Societies (University of Queensland), the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South (#IAS_NUQ), Northwestern University in Qatar, and the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts (Vietnam National University), the summer school builds critical skills for early-career scholars researching digital transformations across Asia.

    Instructors

    1. Marwan M. Kraidy (Northwestern University in Qatar)
    2. Nicholas Carah (University of Queensland, Australia)
    3. Cheryll Ruth Soriano (De LaSalle University, Philippines)
    4. Hatim El-Hibri (George Mason University, USA)
    5. Clovis Bergère (Northwestern University in Qatar)
    6. Giang Nguyen-Thu (University of Queensland, Australia)

    Deadline: December 10, 2025

    For details and to apply, please check out our website here: https://bit.ly/summerschool26

    For questions, please reach out to us at ias@qatar.northwestern.edu.



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    Clovis BERGERE
    Assistant Director for Research
    Northwestern University in Qatar
    Doha
    Qatar
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