Halfway through the year, the NOSTER Midyear Meeting focuses on career perspectives, both within and outside academia. As an academic community of emerging and senior scholars, NOSTER offers a valuable platform to plan and promote your (academic) careers. This year, the theme is “Getting Your Research Published”. We will explore the value of different types of publishing…

In: Journal of Muslims in Europe Author: Sara Bolghiran (Junior member of NISIS) Online Publication Date: 06 Dec 2024 You can read the article here, or check the website: Allahu Akbar: When the Imaginative, the Beautiful and the Ethical Meet in Muslim Futures in: Journal of Muslims in Europe Volume 13 Issue 3 (2024)

This Winter School revolves around the theme of “commensality,” which means being at the same table and eating together, with literal and metaphorical implications for respecting differences among those who share a meal. As a field of growing research in the arena of public health, scholars now connect commensality and sociability to individual and communal…

Historians of Islamic art have long been attentive to the sensory properties of material culture and architecture in the early modern period. The longstanding interest in perception coupled with more recent efforts to understand it as a multi-sensorial phenomenon has also nurtured breakthroughs in the study of aesthetics and major epistemological reorientations within the field….