Talk at 'Royal Higher Institute for Defence': Marieke Brandt

Thursday, 17th April 2025

ISA Senior Research Associate | Marieke Brandt

We are pleased to announce that ISA Senior Research Associate, Dr. Marieke Brandt was invited by the Centre for Security and Defence Studies of the Royal Higher Institute for Defence in Brussels to give a talk on 'Red Sea under Siege: Navigating Houthi Havoc and Strategic Responses.

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Marieke Brandt is a senior researcher at the ISA, with a primary focus on the anthropology and social and intellectual history of Yemen. She spent five years in Yemen, where she studied Arabic and worked in development and humanitarian aid, providing services to benefit local communities. Since returning to academia in 2011, she has focused on the bottom-up exploration of Yemen’s Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement. This endeavour required extensive preliminary research through both on-site and digital ethnographic fieldwork, as well as the inclusion of emic source material ranging from medieval manuscripts and handwritten genealogies to contemporary media. Since 2013, deteriorating conditions in Yemen limited ethnographic fieldwork to the digital realm, leading her to refine digital anthropological methods and engage in their theoretical reflection.

She has received several prestigious fellowships, and her research has resulted in a substantial und internationally excellent publication record. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in journals such as Middle Eastern Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Medieval Worlds, Anthropology of the Middle East, Journal of Arabian Studies, and Anthropos. Many of her publications have been translated into Arabic, underscoring their significance for Yemeni audiences. Her monographs and edited volumes have been reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The Middle East Journal, Review of Middle East Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Arabian Studies, and others.

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Date:
17^th April 2025 | 5:00 - 6:30 PM

Location:
Conference Room at Campus Renaissance
rue Hobbema 8/Hobbemastraat 8
1000 Brussels

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Talk at 'Royal Higher Institute for Defence': Marieke Brandt

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