Conveners: Prof. Dr. Marjo Buitelaar (University of Groningen) & Dr. Richard van Leeuwen (University of Amsterdam). Date: 12 & 13 December 2019. Venue: University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Key note speakers: Professor Seán McLoughlin (University of Leeds) To be announced Respondent: Professor Simon Coleman (University of Toronto) Given the centrality of Mecca and the…

Registration is closed. In 2012, the noted scholar of literature and digital humanist Jerome McGann wrote than “traditional programs are graduating Ph.D. students with no programmatic training in the tools and resources that have already become a regular part of their scholarly and educational lives… If our curricula and students are to be taken seriously…

Co-organised by the Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (ACMES) and the Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies (NISIS) 24 May 2019, University of Amsterdam, 1:30-5pm Islamic and Middle Eastern studies are cognate academic disciplines, but scholars in both fields often go about their research in relative isolation from each other. Various reasons account for…

We are very pleased to announce that the following researchers will deliver a keynote lecture during the ENIS Granada Spring School ‘Patronage and Clientelism in the Muslim World’. Click here for more information about the theme of the Spring School and for the full program please click here. Doris Behrens-Abouseif  (SOAS, University of London) Behrens-Abouseif…