Gulf Conference
The Centre for Gulf Studies hosts the world's longest-running conference series on the Gulf region and Arabian Peninsula, begun in 1979, at which PhD students, emerging scholars and established researchers present their research findings.
34th Exeter Gulf Conference - 27-28 June 2024
"Life Worlds of Energy and Environment in the Gulf "
You can view the programme below and download the programme to view speaker abstracts.
27th June 2024
9:00 – 10:00, Conference Registration & Coffee
10:00 – 11:45, Panel 1A – Chair: Kanwal Hameed
- Pascal Menoret, University of Oxford (UK), “Pipeline Protest and the Political Imagination”
- Faezeh Ghasemi, Independent Researcher & Journalist (Iran), “An Examination of Labor Strikes of Iran’s Oil Industry in the 2020s”
- Kaveh Ehsani, De Paul University (USA), “Oil Capitalism and the Right to the City of Iran”
12:00 – 13:00, Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:45, Panel 1B – Chair: Marc Valeri
- Anna Oustry, Sciences Po (France), “Strategic Labour Market Reforms and Green Energy Transition in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)”
- Amir Imani, Independent Researcher (Iran), “Balancing Act: Unravelling the Environmental. Consequences of Sanctions on Iran’s Energy Industry and the Pursuit of Sustainable Oil Extraction Technologies”
- Ismail Numan Telci, Sakarya University (Turkey), “Renewable Energy Transition in the Gulf: Challenges and Prospects in a Fossil-Fuel Dominant Region”
14:45 – 15:00, Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:45, Panel 1C – Chair: Adam Hanieh
- Wang Danyu, Shanghai International Studies University (China), “The Impact of Oil spills on Daily Life in the Gulf: From the Perspective of Marine Environment”
- Noor AlShaikh, Bahrain & Alaa AlSheabi, UCL (UK), “Sacrifice Zones on Oil Frontiers: Indigenous Struggles for Environmental Justice in the Bahraini Villages of Sitra and Ma’ameer”
17:00– 18:30, Keynote – Chair: Laleh Khalili
- Gökçe Günel, Rice University (USA), A Hydrogen Hub
19:00, Conference dinner
28th June 2024
10:30 – 12:00, Panel 2A – Chair: Claire Beaugrand
- Scott Erich, Virginia (USA), “The Oil Age from the Deck of a Fishing Boat”
- Natalie Koch, Syracuse University (USA), “Green nationalism from above: Authoritarian state power and the greening of UAE nationalism”
12:00 – 13:00, Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:45, Panel 2B – Chair: Sabiha Allouche
- Marwa Koheji, New York University Abu Dhabi (UAE), “Air-conditioning and the Sensing of an Oil Modernity in Bahrain”
- Florence Wolstenholme, QMUL (UK), “’Just a real estate project?’: The role of the built environment in constituting ‘offshore’ Dubai”
- Natasha Iskander, NYU (USA), “Concrete Futures in the Gulf and Beyond”
14:45 – 15:00, Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30, Panel 2C – Chair: Allan Hassanian
- Maia Holtermann-Entwistle & Sharri Plonski, QMUL (UK), “’If Africa loses, we all lose’: Racial genealogies in the UAE’s green development projects in Africa”
- Arbella Bet-Shlimon, University of Washington (USA), “Producing a Crisis, c. 1961: Iraqi and Kuwaiti Sovereignties, Extraction, and the Environment”