Annual doctoral seminar lasting three to five days twice per year (one in Tunis and one in Algiers) for doctoral students from the Maghreb and Germany, in close collaboration between MARA (Marburg Research Academy/Philipps University Marburg), the École doctorale (Université de Tunis), the “Religion and Society” Laboratory (University of Algiers 2/Algeria), the DAAD and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. The doctoral school aims to identify potential future MECAM scholarship holders.
Scientific Coordination:
-Ichrak Ben Hammouda (Sorbonne Nouvelle / University of Manouba / Centre Marc Bloch)
-Mario Laarmann (Sorbonne University / Saarland University / Centre Marc Bloch)
Maghreb Global – Histoires croisées et perspectives interdisciplinaires
📅 Dates : 26–29 October 2026
- 26 October, 9:00-19:00, 📍Location: Faculté des Lettres, des Arts et des Humanités, Université de la Manouba (FLAHM) – salle Ahmed Brahim, Campus universitaire, Manouba 2010
- 27 October, 9:00-16:30, 📍 Location: Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis (FSHST) – salle Guermadi, Boulevard du 9 Avril 1938, Tunis 1007
- 28 October, 9:00-19:30, 📍 Location: FSHST – salle Guermadi, Boulevard du 9 Avril 1938, Tunis 1007 & IRMC – 20 rue Mohamed Ali Tahar, Tunis 1002
- 29 October, 9:00-20:00, 📍 Location: MECAM – Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb, 27 rue Florian, Borj Zouara (Bab Saadoun), 1029 Tunis & Librairie Carthage Fahrenheit 451 – Ave Habib Bourguiba, Centre culturel de Carthage, 2016 Carthage Dermech
MECAM is pleased to invite you to Maghreb Global – Histoires croisées et perspectives interdisciplinaires, taking place in Tunis as the first international conference of the Méditerranées: dialogues franco-tuniso-allemands project. This trinational initiative, running from 2026 to 2028, is led by Université de la Manouba (Tunis), Sorbonne Université (Paris), and the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin), with partial funding from the OFAJ (Office franco-allemand pour la Jeunesse), the UFA (Université franco-allemande), and the ATTC (Université de la Manouba).
On 26 October at 17:00, MECAM’s directors, Emna Beltaief and Julius Dihstelhoff, will deliver a keynote entitled “Re-centering the Maghreb: From Entanglements to a Global Horizon,” followed by a discussion. MECAM will also host the conference on 29 October.
We look forward to your participation!
Doctoriales ISGT-ESSECT-TBS 2023
The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) is pleased to invite you to the 3rd edition of the Doctoriales ISGT-ESSECT-TBS 2023 18 and 19 January 2024 at the Tunis Business School, in which MECAM will participate as a partner, on the theme of “The innovations brought by the Artificial Intelligence revolution to scientific research in theoretical, methodological and empirical terms”. These days will be animated by doctoral workshops aimed at providing doctoral students with tools to help them “Succeed better in their thesis thanks to artificially intelligent methodological approaches”.
The specific themes addressed during these days will be related to
– Repositioning scientific research in the face of the adoption of new epistemological and scientific paradigms incorporating technological advances in Artificial Intelligence;
– The extent of the use of new tools and methods offered by Artificial Intelligence for the benefit of scientific research, in particular, in terms of artificially intelligent bibliographic tools or in terms of analysis tools based on “Machine Learning” and “Deep Learning”; and
– ways of communicating and disseminating research work.
