Registration is closed. On Wednesday 30 October, there will be a workshop on Digital Humanities during the NISIS Autumn School. In this workshop, participants can get familiar with the programming language Python. The full program can be found below. For the workshop, participants must bring their own laptops, but no installations are required beforehand. In order to…

NISIS members Mònica Colominas Aparicio, Mahmood Kooriadathodi, and Judith Naeff, were recently awarded a veni grant. Veni grants are awarded by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) to excellent researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. The grant allows researchers to develop their ideas for a period of three years. We would like to congratulate Mònica Colominas…

We have put together some of the footage taken by Aleksi Hämäläinen during the Spring School in Granada, Spain this year. Enjoy the video! For more pictures and impressions of the Spring School and other NISIS events, please see our Past Events page.  

The Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH) currently has a vacant postdoctoral position as part of the ERC-funded Synergy Project The European Qur’an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion 1150-1850 (EuQu), at the UvA led by prof. Gerard Wiegers. ASH is one of the six research schools under the aegis of the Amsterdam Institute…