Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies

Agenda

Upcoming events

26 Jan 2026 - 30 Nov 2025, All day

RUG Winter School ’26: Commensality and Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Its Diasporas

This Winter School revolves on the theme of “commensality”, the prospect of coming together at the same table -or not-, with literal and ...

26 March 2026, 10:00 - 16:15

NISIS Conference in collaboration with the Catholic University of Leuven

“Islamophobia and the Muslim question: historical questions, contemporary representations” In contemporary public debates, Islam is often associated with ...

13 - 18 April 2026, All day

ENIS Spring School ’26: ‘Islamicate Concepts: Between Particularism and Universalism’

Concepts have long lost their innocence, not least due to post-modern and post-colonial critique. In the heydays of modernity, researchers tended to ...

Previous events

08/12/2025

Report workshop: “Syria One Year After the Revolution: The Role of Women and Minorities”

08/12/2025

Workshop ‘Syria, one year after the revolution: The role of women and minorities’

12/11/2025

2025 Juynboll Lecture by Ahmed El Shamsy | Wednesday November 12, 17:00 hrs

29/10/2025 -
31/10/2025

NISIS Autumn School ’25: “Gender relations in pre-modern and modern Muslim contexts”.

17/10/2025

3rd Annual Medieval Middle East Meeting – 17 October ’25

09/10/2025 -
10/10/2025

CfP for international conference: “Digitalizing Islamic Environmental Narratives: Exploring Faith and Ecology on Social Media.”

18/08/2025 -
29/08/2025

7th Leiden Summer School: ‘Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World’

14/07/2025 -
20/07/2025

Islamic Studies Summer School: Approaches to the study of Islam

27/05/2025 -
30/05/2025

CfP: ENIS Spring School ’25: ‘Imagining Futures: Dealing with Disparity’

22/05/2025 -
23/05/2025

Call for Papers: Sensing the Materiality of the Early Modern Islamic World

03/04/2025

NISIS/ Clingendael Workshop ‘The Political Relevance of Islamism in the Contemporary Middle East’

07/02/2025

NOSTER Midyear Meeting 2025: Getting Your Research Published

07/02/2025

Short report NOSTER Midyear Meeting by Martha Gabriela Sanchez – student assistant at NISIS

30/01/2025

Symposium announcement: “Dynamics of Family Life in Muslim Families with Migrant Background: Mapping Parenting Support Needs and Available Resources”

20/01/2025 -
24/01/2025

Winter School: Commensality and Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Its Diasporas

06/12/2024

Allahu Akbar: When the Imaginative, the Beautiful and the Ethical Meet in Muslim Futures

29/10/2024 -
30/10/2024

Report NISIS Autumn School ’24

04/10/2024

Annual Medieval Middle East Meeting (AMMEM)

04/10/2024

Second Annual Medieval Middle East Conference

31/07/2024

Call for Papers: Network Day ‘Islamic Humanities’