We are pleased to announce that the call for applications for the ENIS Spring School 2020 is now open. The Spring School takes places at the Universitá di Catania, Italy and the theme of the school is ‘Contesting Authority: Knowledge, Power and Expressions of Selfhood’. See ‘Events’ for more information about the theme of the…

Registration for the Spring School is now closed. For more information about the Spring School, please read the call for applications and the course description. Due to the virus, the Spring School that was scheduled to take place in Catania, Italy has been cancelled. The Spring School will nevertheless take place online from 22 to…

Last week, Utrecht hosted this year’s NISIS Autumn School. We heard some sparkling keynotes: Cornelis van Lit and Jo van Steenbergen spoke about digital/computational methods, and did so in rather opposite terms (Cornelis: “You can do it!” vs Jo: “It’s great, but beware of DH amnesia!”). Mirjam Shatanawi, Mona Abdel-Fadil and Bettina Gräf addressed different…

We are pleased to announce that the registration for the seminar ‘Islam and Diversity’ is now open. In collaboration with NISIS, Maastricht University will host a one-day seminar titled ‘Islam and Diversity’ to bring together distinguished scholars, and PhD and master’s students who work on topics related to Islam and Muslim societies. The seminar is…