BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN URL:https://lectures.london/london-school-of-economics/the-ecological-cont inuation-of-empire-in-the-arab-world/calender.ics NAME:Lectures London X-WR-CALNAME:Lectures London TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:051bdf11-bb77-4ee4-8e82-b3b9910d8fa1 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260610T072417 DTSTART:20260611T173000 DTEND:20260611T190000 SUMMARY:The ecological continuation of empire in the Arab world LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Sh eikh Zayed Theatre\, Cheng Kin Ku Building) DESCRIPTION:Thursday 11 June 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerDr Marwa DaoudyDiscus santDr Jasmine K GaniChairProfessor Jeffrey ChwierothThis lecture by Marwa Daoudy\, held in honour of the renowned scholar Fred Halliday\, will expl ore the entanglement of colonialism\, capitalism\, and environmental explo itation that has shaped the modern global order in ways that continue to s tructure global inequality.Mainstream approaches in international relation s often obscure the violent histories of dispossession\, domination\, and extractive economies that drive contemporary political and ecological cris es\, producing racialized geographies of land\, resources\, labour and env ironment that endure.Drawing on Fred Halliday’s critique of narratives t hat portray the Arab world as inherently locked in conflict\, economic fai lure\, or cultural clashes\, this lecture situates climate and human vulne rabilities within the region’s (settler-) colonial\, extractivist or war -torn past and present in contexts such Algeria\, Palestine and Syria.Foll owing the lecture\, we will host a reception in celebration of what would have been Fred Halliday’s 80th birthday\, recognising his enduring contr ibution to the Department and the field of International Relations.Meet ou r speakers and chairMarwa Daoudy is an Associate Professor of Internationa l Relations and the Seif Ghobash Chair in Arab Studies at the Center for C ontemporary Arab Studies (CCAS)\, School of Foreign Service\, Georgetown U niversity. Her last book\, The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Cha nge and Human Security\, received the Harold and Margaret Sprout Prize fro m ISA. She is currently writing a book on Climate Justice in the Arab Worl d (which calls for rethinking security as justice. In this book\, she argu es that modernity\, global capitalism\, environmental destruction and epis temic erasure remain inseparable from colonial legacies and global capital ism that favour new forms of ecocide and green colonialism in the Arab wor ld.Jasmine Gani is Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory a t LSE. She specialises in anti-colonial theory and history\, and the polit ics of empire\, race and knowledge production. She is currently writing a book on ‘Racial Militarism’\, using a postcolonial framework to analys e the relationship between race\, militarism\, and the state in both imper ial metropoles and post-colonies.Jeffrey Chwieroth is Head of the Departme nt of International Relations and Professor of International Political Eco nomy. He is also co-investigator of the Systemic Risk Centre\, Associate o f the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment\, and Facul ty Affiliate at the Phelan United States Centre at LSE.More about this eve ntJoin us on campus or register to watch the event online at LSE Live. LSE Live is the home for our live streams\, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE\, wherever you are in the world. 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