On my final day in Lausanne I made a visit to le Collection de l’Art Brut, where lush crafts of ‘outsider art’ fill up the three storied building. A Bordeaux red display sign reads: “Art Brut is made by self-taught people who often live on the margins of society, either as rebellious souls or as…

Onder redactie van Vera Crienen, Martijn de Koning, Umar Ryad en Gerard Wiegers. Universitaire Pers Leuven 2024, 284 pp. Het beeld van moslims en België en Nederland beperkt zich doorgaans tot dat van migranten die zich vanaf de jaren 1960 in deze landen vestigden. Deze perceptie doet echter geen recht aan de rijke geschiedenissen van…

This event is interdisciplinary, interregional and transhistorical. A main aim is to break down disciplinary and regional boundaries. All students and scholars with an interest in the greater Middle East and related regions (from Andalusia to Central Asia) are encouraged to attend. In particular we would like to welcome, in addition to those working with…

Just like every year, NISIS organised a Spring School in collaboration with its European partners of the European Network for Islamic Studies (ENIS) this year. The 2024 edition of the ENIS Spring School, themed “Peripheral Islam: Muslims on the Geographical, Normative, Political and Religious Margins”, took place at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, from…