About the speakers
Prof. Jordi Tejel received a Ph.D. in History and Historical Sociology from the University of Fribourg and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris), respectively. He is currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at the University of Neuchâtel where he is leading a project titled "Towards a Decentred History of the Middle East: Transborder Spaces, Circulations, Frontier Effects and State Formation, 1920-1946".
Isabel Käser, received a Ph.D at the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London. She is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre, and her main research examines the historical and political trajectory of female participation in the PKK-led women's movement from the 1980s-today in the Kurdish Middle East.
Jerome Drevon received a Ph.D in International Relations from Durham University, UK. He is advisor on Non-State Armed Groups at the International Committee of the Red Cross and Research Associate at the CCDP. He is generally interested in the study of (mostly Islamist) non-state armed groups from the meso-level, including institutional, organizational, and networking perspectives. He is currently working on the institutionalization of non-state armed groups in the Syrian conflict.
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