Registration is closed. In 2012, the noted scholar of literature and digital humanist Jerome McGann wrote than “traditional programs are graduating Ph.D. students with no programmatic training in the tools and resources that have already become a regular part of their scholarly and educational lives… If our curricula and students are to be taken seriously…

Co-organised by the Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (ACMES) and the Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies (NISIS) 24 May 2019, University of Amsterdam, 1:30-5pm Islamic and Middle Eastern studies are cognate academic disciplines, but scholars in both fields often go about their research in relative isolation from each other. Various reasons account for…

Save the date for the NISIS Summer Party! On Friday 14 June 2019, from 16.00 – 19.00 hours we will celebrate that NISIS is as of 1 January 2019 hosted by Utrecht University and led by Christian Lange! More information will be announced soon.      

PhD candidate students and advanced MA students, whose research focuses on the study of Muslims, Muslim societies and Islam, in the broadest sense of the word, are invited to apply for participation. The application deadline is Friday, the 25th of January 2019. Applications can be sent to Prof. Christian Lange (Director NISIS): nisisspringschool2019@gmail.com. For further…