Seminars
Kuwait Programme
The Kuwait Programme organises research-focused seminars and breakfast seminars at LSE and in Kuwait. Below are forthcoming and past events organised by the Programme.
Forthcoming Events
Forthcoming events will be listed here.
Past events and podcasts
- The Quiet Emergency: Experiences and Understandings of Climate Change in Kuwait
3 November 2021 | Deen Sharp, LSE; Samia Alduaij, senior enviroment specialist; Abrar Alshammari, Princeton University; Kanwal Tareq Hameed, Exter University. - Seen But Not Heard: Youth Citizenship Identities and Participation in Kuwait
8 December 2021 | Rania Al-Nakib, Gulf University of Science & Technology; Sam Mejias, LSE; Abdullah al-Khonaini, Independent Researcher; Rana Khazbak, University of Nottingham. - Future Proofing Kuwait: Urban Policymaking in the 21st Century
10 March 2022 | Nuno F.da Cruz, LSE Cities; Dhari Alrasheed, Kuwait University; Hyun Bang Shin, LSE South East Asia Centre; Do Young Oh, Linyang University. - Transitioning from Tankers to Tablets? Accessing Inequalities in Kuwait's Digital Readiness
4 April 2022 | Fahed Al-Sumait, GUST; Ellen Helsper, LSE; Christina Navarro, GUST; Nouf Al-Saif, GUST.
- Kuwait goes to the Polls: Discussing the 2020 Parliamentary Elections
8 December 2020 | Abdullah al-Khonaini, Independent Researcher; Alanoud Al-Sharekh Ibtkar Strategic Consultancy; Michael Herb; Georgia State University; Daniel L. Tavana; Yale University. - Reforming the Gulf Rentier State: From Patronage to Cash Grants?
18 February 2021 | Steffen Hertog, LSE; Yousef Al-Ebraheem, KFAS. - Hitting the Glass Ceiling? Women's Political Participation in Kuwait
9 March 2021 | Zeynep Kaya, LSE; Lubna Al-Kazi, Kuwait University. - Stuck in the 20th Century? Kuwait’s Urbanisation, Transport, and use of Public Space
25 May 2021 | Asseel Al-Ragam, Kuwait University; Sharifa AlShalfan, Independent Researcher; Alexandra Gomes, LSE; Adeel Muhammad, University of Leeds; Reem Alfahad, Independent Researcher.
- How Modern Education Forged an Arab Nationalist Identity in Kuwait
26 February 2020 | Talal Al-Rashoud, Kuwait University - Assessing the Uncertain Progress of Economic Reforms in the Gulf
6 November 2019 | Robert Mogielnicki, Arab Gulf States Institute - Foodscapes for Health Research: Using a Spatial Lens to Measure and Characterise the Physical and Virtual Food Environments in Kuwait
30 October 2019 | Saad AlSharrah, Dasman Diabetes Institute
- We Can Help You: Case Study of the Grassroots Online Breastfeeding Support Services in Kuwait
24 July 2019 | Fatima Boujarwah, Kuwait University - Building the "New Kuwait": The Role of the Private Sector in the Post-Oil Dependent Political Economy
6 February 2019 | Sophie Olver-Ellis, LSE Kuwait Programme - The Rentierization of the Private Sector in the GCC
15 January 2019 | Hend Al-Sulaiti - The Doctor’s Hand in Kuwait’s Health Sector Supply Chain and Expenditure
12 December 2018 | Yousef Abdulsalam, Kuwait University
- From Tankers to Tablets: Is Kuwait Ready for a Digital Evolution?
28 August 2018 | Fahad Al-Sumait, Gulf University of Science & Technology. - Kuwait’s Digital Health Maturity: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Recommendations
31 July 2018 | Dari Alhuwail, Kuwait University. - Mixed Moralities: Cybersecurity in Kuwait, Egypt and the GCC
22 March 2018 | James Shires. - Resource Urbanisms: Asia’s divergent city models of Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Hong Kong
23 January 2018 | Philipp Rode, LSE Cities
- The Paris Climate Change Agreement and The GCC
25 April 2017 | Aisha Al-Sarihi, LSE Kuwait Programme - Dispelling Stereotypes: Women's Rights in the Gulf States
22 March 2017 | Lulu al-Sabah and Hatoon al-Fassi - The Evolving Role of the Gulf States in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
28 February 2017 | Suliman Al-Atiqi - Opportunities and Challenges for Young Female Entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia
7 February 2017 | Sara Alshareef - The Merchant Elite and Parliamentary Politics in Kuwait
17 January 2017 | Anastasia Nosova, LSE - The Effects of Saudi-Iranian Rivalry on the Regional Security Complex
29 November 2016 | Matteo Legrenzi - Oil and the Transformation of Urban Life in Kuwait
3 November 2016 | Farah Al-Nakib, American University of Kuwait - Politics in Modern Arab Art
18 October 2016 | Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi - Cities and the New Climate Economy: On the Role of Urban Form and Transport
27 September 2016 | Philipp Rode, LSE Cities - Politics After Islamism: The Changing Rhetoric of Conservatism in the Gulf
22 September 2016 | Ahmed Dailami
- The GCC 'Welfare State' in the Era of Low Oil Prices: Implications for the Prinvate Sector and Labour Markets
8 March 2016 | Steffen Hertog, LSE - The Arab World at the Crossroads: Collapse or Reform?
12 January 2016 | Shafeeq Ghabra - GCC intervention in Yemen: A Pathway to Peace and Security?
17 November 2015 | Michael Stephens - Rentier Islamism: The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf
11 November 2015 | Courtney Freer, LSE Kuwait Programme. - Britain's Inelegant Exit From Aden in 1967 and its Long-Term Impact on the Gulf Region
6 October 2015 | Dennis Sammut. - The Evolution of Kuwaiti Democracy
15 September 2015 | Marzouq Al-Ghanim, National Assembly, Kuwait.
- The Origins of Kuwait's National Assembly in Comparative Perspective
18 March 2015 | Michael Herb - Bahrain's Election Boycott: Lessons from Kuwait
20 January 2015 | Kristian Diwan Smith
- Oman's Foreign Policy Under Sultan Qaboos: Independent, But to What Extent?
22 May 2014 | Marc Valeri - The Macroeconomics of the Gulf
15 May 2014 | Rapheal Espinoza - The New Middle East Cold War
1 May 2014 | F. Gregory Gause, III - Diversified But Marginal: The GCC Private Sector as an Economic and Political Force
5 March 2014 | Steffen Hertog - Qatari Foreign Policy and the Changing Regional Order in the Middle East
26 February 2014 | Lina Khatib - Iranian Foreign Policy After the Election of Hassan Rouhani
27 November 2013 | Anoush Ehteshami - The Strategic Significance of Changing Trade Patterns Between Asia and the Gulf
20 November 2013 | Tim Niblock - UAE Foreign Policy Before and After the Arab Spring
23 October 2013 | Khalid Almezaini