We are pleased to invite you to our Wednesday Research Seminar. It will be held at Oasis on 28th February from 4pm via Microsoft team platform. Wednesday Research Seminar Series was launched in 2008 and has featured more than 345 presentations to date. The seminars provide a forum for researchers to share their work. Presenters include faculty from Middlesex University Dubai and other universities in the United Arab Emirates, as well as researchers from other global institutions. Prof. Ajit, and Mahine will deliver seminar on:

“Nobel Prize Winners in Peace, and Economics"

Souq Economics - Center for Economics Research
https://www.mdx.ac.ae/souq-economics-center-for-economics-research

Summary of the Seminar

Nobel Peace Prize

'Women - Life - Freedom' - the motto adopted by demonstrators in Iran

As 55 active conflicts continue to rage across the world, where governments continue to violate international law and international humanitarian law and where human rights continue to be violated, more so than ever before is there a need to amplify the voices of all those who continue to speak out.

The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. The prize also recognised the hundreds of thousands of people who have demonstrated against Iran’s theocratic regime’s policies of discrimination and oppression targeting women.

Nobel Prize in Economics

The Nobel Prize in Economics for 2023 was awarded to Professor Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”. This was the first time that gender economics was being honoured with the Nobel. In the 55 years since the Nobel Prize in Economics as instituted there have been 93 laureates and only 3 have been women. Claudia Goldin has studied women’s participation in labour markets, gender earnings gap, and the role of marriage and parenthood in women’s earnings by carrying out a meticulous examination of 200 years of historical data.

Presenter Bios

Ajit Karnik is Professor of Economics at the School of Business at the Dubai Campus of Middlesex University. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai and has been an Indo-American Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (USA), Overseas Visiting Fellow at St John’s College (Cambridge University, UK), Fulbright Scholar at the Haas Business School, University of California (USA) and Smuts Fellow at Wolfson College (Cambridge University, UK). His research interests include Public Economics/Finance, Economic Growth, Political Economy, and Elections. He has published in journals such as: Sage Open, Applied Economics, Tourism Analysis, Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, Research in Comparative and International Education, Empirical Economics and Journal of Sport Economics among others. He has supervised 12 Ph.D. theses, 5 M.Phil. dissertations, 85 MBA dissertations, and 40 other Master’s dissertations.

Mahine Rizvi Ahmad is a senior lecturer in International Relations in the School of Law and Politics at Middlesex University Dubai. She is a founding member of the Institute of Sustainable Development, Ambassador Women Empowerment Principles UN Women and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK. Mahine’s learning and teaching interests include Global Geopolitics, Politics of Globalisation, Migration and Citizenship, Global Governance and Sustainable Development and Migration Policy and Approaches. Her research interests cover gender and international relations, gender and development and Third World feminism.

Look forward to seeing you at the seminar!

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