The institute’s guest lecture series Badaro Talks started in 2023 and is named after the street on which the institute is located. The Badaro Talks lectures are held in Beirut at the institute’s premises and are streamed on Zoom and published on FIME’s YouTube channel when possible. In this series of guest lectures, experts from different fields talk about their own research or area of special expertise. Some of the lectures are organized in cooperation with other institutions operating in Beirut.
2026
- 12.2. Dr. Dima de Clerck: The Lebanese War (1975–1990) between “Civil” and “Global”, watch on YouTube
- 26.2. Dr.Idun Hauge: From Druze “Unicorn Horns” to a National Headdress: The Historical Trajectory of the Tantur as a Symbol, 1800–2000, watch on YouTube
2025
- 21.1. Suad joseph: Rescuing ‘Trauma’ in Chronic Violence: Framing Concepts for the Arab Region
- 28.1. Sabah Haider: Animating Memories of South Lebanon: Pakistani fedayeen in the PLO, 1971–1982
- 24.4. Nina Maaranen: Ancient Lives, Modern Discoveries: Life and Death in Saida in the 2nd mill BC, watch on YouTube
- 15.5. Yasmeen al-Eryani: The Houthis: Between Local Power Consolidation and an Evolving Regional Role, watch on YouTube
- 17.9. Joanna Töyräänvuori: Late Bronze Age System Collapse on the Eastern Mediterranean – Lessons from History, watch on YouTube
- 15.10. Chérine Yazbeck and Carmen Labaki: Beirut Port Blast Stories – Documentary Screening & Discussion, no recording available
- 18.11. Salwa Ismail: The Making of the Revolutionary Neighbourhood (al-hayy al-tha’ir) in the 2011 Syrian Uprising, no recording available
- 8.12. Pierre France: Wasta, Paper Industries, and the Maintenance State: Toward an Anthropological Study of Lebanese Bureaucracy (organized together with Anthropology Society in Lebanon, ASIL), no recording available
- 11.12. Moustapha Itani: Adaptive Communities, Complex Governance: Pastoralism at the Crossroads of Ecology and Rural Politics, no recording available
2024
- 15.2. SL Anne Meskanen: Taming the Russian Bear. Lessons from the Finnish Foreign Policy, Beirut
- 18.4. Assoc. Prof. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos: Insurgensea: Palestine’s nomadic solidarities, Beirut
- 28.11. Dr. Samuli Lähteenaho: The Beach multiple – coastal politics, environmentalism, and relational space in pre-collapse Lebanon, online
2023
- 24.8. Tiina Järvi: Ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp – studying Palestinian refugees’ lifeworld in Southern Lebanon
- 23.10. Nina Lyytinen and Vera Gergov: What Do Psychologists in Finland Discuss About?
