Casa Asia - Madrid: 10th September 2009
Public Lecture: Iran: the Islamic Republic in Crisis?

Source: Casa Asia

The controversial presidential elections in June 2009 uncovered a political crisis without precedent in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In this public lecture, Luciano Zaccar, director of TEIM Election Watch, endeavoured to shed some light on the country's immediate political future and its behaviour in the international system.

The event was held on 10/09/2009 at 7.00pm at the headquarters of Casa Asia in Madrid (Tagore Auditorium - 3rd Floor, Miraflores Palace, Carrera de San Jerónimo, 15, Madrid)

La Cristalera Residence, Miraflores de la Sierra (Madrid): 7th?9th September 2009
Summer School: How to understand, analyse and monitor elections in the Arab and Islamic countries?

TEIM Election Watch and the UAM Cultural Activities Office organised this course headed by Bernabe Lopez Garcia, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, UAM, and Luciano Zaccara Director of the TEIM Election Watch, UAM.
The course took place between the 7th and 9th of September 2009 in La Cristalera Residence, in Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid
To view the programme (in Spanish), click here

Casa Asia - Barcelona: 1st July 2009
Roundtable: Debating the future of Iran

Source: Casa Asia

Luciano Zaccara, director of TEIM Election Watch, and Nazanin Amirian, Iranian political analyst, analysed the causes and consequences of the 'green revolution', as well as possible future scenarios for Iran and its citizens after the crisis sparked by the results of the June 12 presidential elections.
The event was held on 01/07/2009 at 7.30pm at the headquarters of Casa Asia (Samarkand room, Av Diagonal 373, Barcelona)

Tangier: 24th-26th June 2009
Summer School: Democratic alternatives to the crisis in the Mediterranean context
Within the summer school, TEIM Election Watch participated in the seminar "Political legitimacy and participatory democracy: the role of electoral systems in Mediterranean countries."

Representing TEIM Election watch, were the following participants:

Carlos de Cueto (Universidad de Granada)
Amaia Goenaga (TEIM Election watch)
Said Kihrlani (TEIM Election watch)
Raquel Ojeda (TEIM Election watch ? Jaen University)

For more information (in Spanish), click here

Rabat: 29th May 2009
Book presentation: "Las elecciones marroquíes de 1960 a hoy"
Presentation of Bernabe Lopez Garcia's book "Las elecciones marroquíes de 1960 a hoy," edited by the editorial Az-Zaman and translated into Arabic by Badia Harrazi, in the National Library in Rabat, Morocco. This is a review of half a century of elections, from the 1960 municipal elections held by Mohammed V up to the 2007 legislative elections.
Bernabe Lopez Garcia is a scientific and academic advisor as well as Director of TEIM Election Watch.

Exeter: 28th May 2009
Public Lecture: A time for decision - Iran's presidential elections 2009
Lecture by Luciano Zaccara, director of the TEIM Election Watch, at the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies (CPIS) of the University of Exeter, England.
Presentation and comments by Michael Axworthy, director of the CPIS.

St. Andrews: 17th March 2009
Public Lecture: Elections and Politics in Iran: the limits of change
Lecture by Luciano Zaccara, director of the TEIM Election Watch, at the Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Presentation and comments by Ali Ansari, director of the IIS

Barcelona: 9th March 2009
Workshop Discussion: Elections in Israel - Two peoples with their backs turned
Workshop discussion in Barcelona organised by the CIDOB Foundation and the College of Political Scientists and Sociologists of Catalonia, on the February 10th Israeli elections.
Representing TEIM Election Watch, was the following participant: Daniel Shenhar, a researcher specialising in Israel.

For more information (in Spanish),click here

10th and 17th of April 2008
Public Lectures: Iran ? A political evaluation of the elections
Lectures by Luciano Zaccara, director of the TEIM Election Watch, at Casa Asia in Barcelona (10/04) and Madrid (17/04).

For more information (in Spanish): www.casaasia.es

Barcelona: 9th April 2008
Workshop: Why observe elections? Electoral observation in the Mediterranean and Arab-Muslim world.
Workshop organised by the CIDOB Foundation, the Office for the Promotion of Peace and Human Rights of the Generalitat of Catalonia and TEIM Election Watch at the headquarters of CIDOB, Barcelona.

Representing TEIM Election Watch, were the following participants:
Luciano Zaccara, Rafael Bustos, Ana Ballesteros and Amaia Goenaga.
For more information (in Spanish): http://www.cidob.org/

Teheran: 13th March 2008
Public Lecture: 2007 - A year of elections in the Arab and Islamic countries
Public lecture by the director of TEIM Election Watch, Luciano Zaccara at the Middle East Research Centre, organised by the Iranian International Studies Association, Teheran, Iran

Lisbon: 3rd February 2008
XI Meeting of FIMAM - Forum of Researchers on the Arab and Muslim World
Organised by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal.
With the participation of over 60 researchers FIMAM in Spain, Portugal and Italy.
Representing TEIM Election Watch, were the following participants:
Luciano Zaccara, who presented the following communication: "Evaluating the TEIM electoral observation project
Carmen Rodriguez, who presented the following communication: "Electoral and party systems in Turkey"
Amaia Goenaga, Ana Ballesteros, Marta Saldana.

Alicante: 13th November 2007
Symposium: Elections and political transition in the Arab Mediterranean and its surroundings
Organised by the Electoral Observatory of the Southern Mediterranean, directed by Ignacio Alvarez-Ossorio, Alicante University.

With the participation of:
Aixelà Yolanda, Ignacio Alvarez-Ossorio, Javier Barreda, Iñaki Gutierrez de Teran, Ayman Zubay.

Representing TEIM Election Watch, were the following participants:
Luciano Zaccara, director of the TEIM Election Watch and Iran observer
Rafael Bustos, scientific coordinator of TEIM Election Watch and Algeria observer
Leyla Hamad, Yemen observer
Carmen Rodriguez, Turkey observer

Complete programme available in Word format

Barcelona: 26th September 2007
Seminar: Analysis of the Moroccan Elections
Seminar organised by the CIDOB Foundation, the Association of Political Scientists and Sociologists of Catalonia and the TEIM Election Watch in Barcelona, on 26th September with the participation of:
Joan Vintró, Mohamed el Ayadi, Laura Feliu, Victoria Veguilla, Manuel Gómez-Acebo, Antonio Baquero.

Representing TEIM Election Watch, were the following participants:
Bernabe Lopez Garcia, academic and scientific advisor to TEIM Election Watch and Morocco observer
Luciano Zaccara, director of TEIM Election Watch
Said Kirhlani, Morocco observer

Further information (in Spanish):
http://www.cidob.org/es/noticias/mediterraneo/los_progresos_en_transparencia_de_las_elecciones_marroquies
Complete programme in pdf format

14th September 2007
Presentations of TEIM Election Watch in Japan
As part of a stay as visiting professor at Aichi University, Rafael Bustos, scientific coordinator of the TEIM Election Watch, presented the Election Watch project on September 14 to a multidisciplinary group of researchers from Aichi University and other Japanese academic and research centres. A PowerPoint presentation was done using a direct internet connection to the Election Watch website's pages in English. On 17th September he did another presentation, this time at the French Cultural Centre in Tokyo to a group of Japanese political scientists, with whom he had the opportunity to discuss and comment on certain theoretical and methodological aspects of election observation. Finally, Rafael Bustos published an article in Aichi University's magazine, Civilization 21, containing an excerpt of the speech he gave on September 14th in Toyohashi. It will be published shortly.