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. The ENIS Spring School ’25 was designed to trace the processes through which societal models of the future are developed in past and present and (re)negotiated, all…

This CfP is closed. You can no longer submit your abstract. 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…

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…