On January 28 2021 the third session of the NISIS Masterclass “The Past and Future of Islamic Studies” will be hosted by the NISIS Junior Council. The Masterclass will take place via Zoom, and will start at 9.00 AM (local time in Amsterdam). This time, we are ploughing through a new and emerging field in and…

The Innovative Training Network “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) and the European Network for Islamic Studies (ENIS) organise the MIDA/ENIS Summer School 2021   Spoken images of/in Islam: Languages and Translations in Texts and Images   Online 5-9 July 2021 Call: 6 November 2020 Deadline: 1 April 2021 Host institution: Università degli Studi di Catania   The main objective of…

On the 1st of October, 2020, the second session of the NISIS Masterclass Series “The Past and Future of Islamic Studies” will be hosted by the NISIS Junior Council. In this session, we continue to face Islamic studies at a cross-roads. This time we look at Islamic art and media. Throughout the years, scholars in…

On 12 February 2021, the Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) and NISIS will collaborate to host an online workshop about “Muslim Worlds/World Literatures.” The event is organized by Dr. Alberto Godioli (OSL, RUG) and Prof. Christian Lange (NISIS, UU). As suggested by the plurals in the title, the event aims to question univocal views of…