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TALKS &
WORKSHOPS |
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Invited Talks
and Workshops |
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2010 |
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"Climate Change
and Water
Resources in the
Middle East and
North Africa"
Presentation for
"Running Dry:
Teacher Training
Program on Water
in the Middle
East," Hagop
Kevorkian Center
for Near Eastern
Studies, New
York University,
July 27-29,
2010. |
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Co-organized
grant-funded
workshop on
"Climate
Adaptation in
the Middle East:
Challenges and
Opportunities,"
Dubai
Initiative,
Harvard Kennedy
School of
Government, May
3-4. |
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"Re-mapping the
Nation,
Critiquing the
State: Narrating
Land Reclamation
for Egypt's New
Valley," Faculty
Fellows
Lectures, Center
for the
Humanities,
University of
New Hampshire,
April 28. |
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"Greening
Authoritarianism?
Environment and
Politics in
Egypt," New
Hampshire
International
Seminar,
University of
New Hampshire,
April 6. |
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"Greening
Authoritarianism:
Networks,
Narratives, and
Environmental
Politics in
Egypt," New
England Middle
East Politics
Workshop,
Harvard
University,
March 19-21.
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"The Politics of
Dirty Water: The
Linkages between
Water Quality
and Security"
(with Neda
Zawahiri and
Erika Weinthal),
Water and
Security
Workshop,
International
Studies
Association
Annual Meeting,
New Orleans, LA,
February 16. |
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2009 |
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"Climate
Adaptation and
Water Resources:
Policy
Challenges for
the Middle
East," The Dubai
Initiative, Belfer Center
for Science and
International
Affairs, Harvard
University,
December 9,
2009. |
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International
Institute for
Strategic
Studies (IISS)
Transatlantic
Dialogue on
Climate Change
and Security,
Roundtable
Discussion on "Conflict and
Competition over
Changing Water
Resources,"
Arundel House,
London, UK, July
23, 2009. |
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"Greening
Authoritarianism:
Environment and
Politics in
Egypt and the
Gulf," Dubai
Initiative, Belfer Center
for Science and
International
Affairs, Harvard
University,
April 8. |
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"Climate Change,
Water Resources,
and the Politics
of Adaptation in
the Middle
East," Harvard
University
Middle East
Politics
Workshop, March
17. |
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Discussant for
panel "The
Political
Economy of the
Middle East:
Enduring
Challenges and
New
Breakthroughs."
Workshop on
Democracy and
Development in
the Middle East,
Princeton
University,
Princeton, NJ.
April 3-4.
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2008 |
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"Institutional
Change and
Authoritarian
Governance:
Water Reform in
Egypt," for
workshop on
"Approaches in
Comparative
Environmental
Politics," UC
Berkeley, March
26. |
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"Transnational
Networks and the
Political
Geography of
Water Projects
in Egypt,"
prepared for
workshop on "Mapping
Transnational
Networks in the
Middle East:
Local Logics and
Global
Processes," 9th
Mediterranean
Research
Meeting,
European Union
Institute, Montecatini
Terme, Italy,
March 12-15.
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Conference
Presentations
and
Participation |
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2009 |
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Discussant for
panel "Water and
Politics in
Egypt," Middle
East Studies
Association
Annual Meeting,
Boston, MA,
November 21-24
2009. |
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"Climate Change,
Water Resources,
and the Politics
of Human
Security in the
Middle East and
North Africa,"
with Erika Weinthal and
Avner Vengosh.
Paper presented
at the Annual
Meeting of the
International
Studies
Association, New
York City,
February 15-18. |
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2008 |
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"Institutional
Change and
Authoritarian
Governance:
Water Reform in
Egypt,"
Presented at
panel on "Comparative
Environmental
Politics,"
International
Studies
Association
Annual Meeting,
San Francisco,
March 26-29,
2008. |
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Discussant for
panel on
"Transnational
Connections:
Geopolitics,
Political
Economy, and
Middle East
Studies,"
International
Studies
Association
Annual Meeting,
San Francisco,
March 26-29. |
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2007 |
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"Environmental
Narratives,
National
Imaginaries, and
the
Transformation
of Nature in the
Middle East,"
with Murat Arsel.
Middle East
Studies Annual
Meeting,
Montreal,
Canada, November
17-20. |
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Co-organized
panel with Murat Arsel on
"Politicizing
Environmental
Change in the
Middle East,"
Middle East
Studies 41st
Annual Meeting,
Montreal,
Canada, Nov.
17-20. |
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"Re-mapping the
nation:
environmental
narratives and
massive water
projects in
Egypt," the
American Society
for
Environmental
History, Baton
Rouge, LA,
February
28-March 3. |
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2006 |
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"Transnational
networks, state
power, and
massive water
projects", the
Middle East
Studies
Association
Annual Meeting
Boston, MA,
November 20-24. |
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"Building
Environmental
Capacities Under
Authoritarian
Rule: Egypt in
Comparative
Perspective."
International
Studies
Association-Northeast,
Boston, MA, Nov.
9-11. |
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2004 and
prior |
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"Globalization,
State Capacity,
and Corporate
Environmentalism
in Developing
Countries,"
Midwest
Political
Science
Association
Conference,
Chicago, IL,
April 15-18,
2004. |
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"State,
Business, and
Environmental
Reform: Cross-Sectoral
Findings from
Egypt," Middle
East Studies
Association
Annual Meeting,
Washington,
D.C., November
2002. |
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"The Political
Economy of
Coastal Tourism
in Egypt," First
Mediterranean
Social and
Political
Research
Meeting,
European
University
Institute,
Florence, Italy,
March 22-26,
2000. |
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"Regulatory
Politics and
Protected Areas
in Egypt,"
International
Studies
Association, Los
Angeles, CA,
March 14-18,
2000. |
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"The Business of
Environmental
Politics,"
Middle East
Studies
Association
Annual Meeting,
Chicago, IL,
November 1998. |
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Jeannie Sowers ● Assistant Professor of Political
Science ● University of New Hampshire
310B
Horton Social Science Center ● Durham, NH 03824
Phone: (603) 862-1752 ● Fax:
(603) 862-0178 ● E-mail:
jeannie.sowers@unh.edu
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