Events

The Institute holds the Gulf Conference and a seminar and lecture series featuring distinguished scholars and public figures from the Islamic world and the West.

The Street Gallery is a dedicated exhibition space within the Institute building and hosts a wide and varied exhibition programme.

If you have any questions, please email us.

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11 November 2025	Noora Lori - Passport Power: Precarity and Privilege in the Gulf	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
25 November 2025	Christian Henderson - Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf states in the global food system	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
2 December 2025	Ali Karimi - Architecture Between Seasons	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
9 December 2025	Mira Al Hussein - Political Naturalisation and the Conscription of Transit Citizens in the UAE	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
13 January 2026	Mona Damulji - The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil in Iran and Iraq	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
20 January 2026	Elham Fakhro - A discussion of The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
27 January 2026	Beeta Baghoolizadeh - Jinn and Haunted Memories of the Indian Ocean	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
3 February 2026	Marc Owen Jones - Dysinfluence: Transnational Deception Operations in the Middle East	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
10 February 2026	Ahmed Al Maazmi - Portuguese Black Serpents Meet Safavid Dragons: The Intellectual World of Indian Ocean Imperialism	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
17 February 2026	Laure Assaf - Transient territories: Arab youth and the making of urban subjectivities in Abu Dhabi	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
24 February 2026	Crystal Ennis - Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
3 March 2026	Andrea Wright - Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
10 March 2026	Mattin Biglari - Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933–51	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event
17 March 2026	Ashwak Hauter - TBD	CGS Virtual Seminar Series	Add event