Interested? Please click here to register.  The ENIS Spring School ’25 aims to examine the complex processes through which models and visions for the future of society are (re)negotiated (imagining the future) in Muslim communities. This process of (re)negotiation must be understood in the context of the profound disparities that characterize the regions of the…

NISIS organizes a study day in collaboration with the Clingendael Institute on ‘The Political Relevance of Islamism in the Contemporary Middle East’ . Confirmed speakers: Younes Saramifar, assistant professor of Inhumanities at the faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Joud Alkorani, assistant professor Islam, Politics and Society at the Radboud University Nijmegen; Mohamed-Ali…

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…