The inter-university programme Aula Mediterrània aims to foster studies on the Mediterranean with as wide and interdisciplinary a perspective as possible. Started in 2014, it is the result of the collaboration between the IEMed and the academic world.

The Aula Mediterrània programme also includes an Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on an academic level. Check all the conferences.

First conference of the series of lectures:

October 23 · 18:30
Water diplomacy in the Middle East
Conference by Aysegül Kibaroglu, Professor, Political Science and International Relations department, MEF University, Istanbul. Introduced by: Laura Huici, Professor of Public International Law and Adjunct Director of the Master, UB.
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Conferences co-organized by IBEI

November 7 · 18:30
Security challenges and authoritarian resilience in the Mediterranean Levant in a regional and international perspective: the case of Jordan
Conference by Peter Seeberg, Associate Professor, Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense. Introduced by: Stefania Panebianco, IBEI Affiliated Professor & Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi di Catania.
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April 16 · 18:30
The Maghreb as a battle ground of the intra-Sunni cold war
Conference by Youssef Cherif, Deputy Director of Columbia Global Center in Tunis. Introduced by: Eduard Soler i Lecha, IBEI Affiliated Professor & CIDOB Senior Researcher.
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Conferences with the participation of researchers linked to IBEI

23 January· 18:30
Political Islam: fractures, evolution, dilemmas
Conference by Stéphane Lacroix, Associate Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po, Paris. Introduced by: Lurdes Vidal, IBEI Affiliated Professor & director of the Arab and Mediterranean World department at IEMed.
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7 May · 18:30
The Impact of Refugees on the Urban Planning of Local Communities in Palestine
Conference by Abdelrahman Alamarah Tamimi, managing director of the Palestinian Hydrology Group for Water and Environmental Resources Development (PHG), The Palestinian Authority, Ramallah. Introduced by: Juan Carlos Triviño, IBEI Postdoctoral Researcher Juan de la Cierva-Formación & researcher, GRITIM-UPF.
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Practical information

All sessions are open and take place at 18.30h at IEMed (Girona, 20. Barcelona). They are live-streamed on the IEMed streaming video channel.

Languages: The lectures will be in Catalan, Spanish, English or French, depending on the speaker. There will only be simultaneous translation for the lecture of Thursday 28th May.

Attendance is free, previous registration here.

Those who attend 40% of the sessions can request an attendance and achievement diploma delivered by the IEMed, jointly issued with the master’s programs participating in the lectures. Anyone wishing to request the diploma should complete the registration form and sign the attendance sheets before the start of each session.