IGWS encourages its members to bring their own networks into collaboration with the institute within the framework of the IGWS intellectual project:

2005 Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.Organized by IGWS and the Shehr Comparative Urban Landscapes Network (IGWS Link: Martina Rieker)

2003 Religious Networks Between the Middle East and South Asia. Organized by the Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University, Cairo Dutch Institute, and IGWS. (IGWS Link: Mona Abaza)

2002 (Re)construction and Transnationalism in the Middle East and Africa. Organized by the (Re) Construction of War-Torn Communities in the Middle East and Africa Working Group (RWCMEA) and co-sponsored by IGWS. (IGWS Link: Ibrahim Elnur).