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
- Marwan M. Kraidy (Northwestern University in Qatar)
- Nicholas Carah (University of Queensland, Australia)
- Cheryll Ruth Soriano (De LaSalle University, Philippines)
- Hatim El-Hibri (George Mason University, USA)
- Clovis Bergère (Northwestern University in Qatar)
- 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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