Trump and US-Iran Relations: Renewed Unilateralism? - CIRAM

Cette conférence est organisée par le Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l'Afrique et le Moyen-Orient (CIRAM).

Elle sera présentée en anglais

Conférencière : Paola Rivetti, professeure, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. 

Résumé biographique et publications: Dr Rivetti is an Assistant Professor in Politics of the Middle East and International Relations. She was awarded the 2018 Early-Career Researcher of the Year Prize by the Irish Research Council and in 2018, she received the DCU President's Award for Early-Career Researcher.  

Dr Rivetti holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Siena and an MA in Political Science and IR from the University of Turin. She was an adjunct at the Catholic University of Milan between 2009 and 2011, a research fellow at the University of Turin in 2010 and 2011, and then an IRC postdoctoral fellow in DCU between 2011 and 2013. She held visiting positions at Boğaziçi University, Laval University, University of Montreal (UdeM), University of Palermo. 

Dr Rivetti's research interests focus on the government of societies and polities in the Middle East and North Africa from a comparative perspective; and on social and political mobilisations. She also works on migration in and from the region. She authored numerous scientific as well as non-academic publications on these topics, published in several languages (Persian, English, French, Spanish, Italian). She carried out extensive field research in the region. To learn more about Dr Rivetti's research, see her interviews with Cool Science & Curious Minds (episode 6) and Spotlight on Research.
Dr Rivetti also worked and published on the topics of precarity in academia and academic freedom both in the Middle East and North Africa, and in the EU and US. She is also involved in non-academic reaching-out activities, engaging both the media and public speaking. In 2018, she was invited to do a TED talk by Trinity College Dublin. 
Rivetti is a member of the Advisory board of the Cambridge Centre for Palestine Studies, and for the IRC-funded project “What works? Sharing best practices in how civil society organisations use the internet in organising and building for socio-economic rights” (PIs Aileen O'Carroll, Maynooth University, and David Landy, Trinity College Dublin). Dr Rivetti leads the Erasmus Plus International Credit Mobility (ICM) Exchange with Bethlehem University and is part of the ITN-Marie Curie funded doctoral training network Around the Caspian. In 2016-2017, she held an IRC-funded New Horizons Grant and between 2014 and 2017, she was involved in the FP-7 funded international research project on youth cultures in the MENA region Sahwa. In the past, her research was funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and Giovanni Goria Foundation. She was the General Secretary of the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO) between 2013 and 2016. Before joining DCU, she also collaborated with NGOs in the field of asylum-seekers assistance. 
Dr Rivetti published articles in: International Journal of Middle East Studies, Democratization, ‘British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of European Integration, Middle Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Politics, Alternatives: Global Local Political; Foreign Policy-Middle East Channel; Anthropology of the Middle East; Middle East Report online, among the others. She is co-editor of Islamists and the Politics of the Arab Uprisings: Governance, Pluralisation and Contention(Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Continuity and change before and after the Arab uprisings: Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt (Routledge, 2015). She also contributed analysis and reports to several international non-academic online and in press outlets, and media (Expresso Portugal, RTE, News Talk Radio, Ghalamro, Presidential Power, LeftEast, QCode Mag, il Lavoro Culturale, Zapruder, Irish Humanities Association, Effimera, Global Project, Il Manifesto, Dinamo Press, Jadaliyya, Middle East-Asia Project, ProMosaik).