Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies

Training Programme 2024-2025

For an overview of the training programme for this academic year, please see our Time and EC Schedule here.

Below you can find an overview of the courses offered in 2024-2025, including the course descriptions (by date).

This event, which will take place on October 4th, 2024, is interdisciplinary, interregional and transhistorical. A main aim is to break down disciplinary and regional boundaries. All students and scholars with an interest in the greater Middle East and related regions (from Andalusia to Central Asia) are encouraged to attend. In particular we would like to welcome, in addition to those working with the languages of the Middle East, also those who work on e.g. medieval European language texts and objects that relate to the Middle East.

In 2024, the roundtable theme will be “The Societal Impact of Studying and Teaching the Medieval Middle East.” Please let us know if you would be interested in participating or nominating one of your colleagues for this roundtable!

MAs, ResMAs, PhDs, Postdocs, Lecturers, Professors and independent scholars are all welcome!

Course load:(for Research MA-students only): 1 ECTS

Register here to attend and/or present: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOMDD8KLHG085obYLklKVdkbL2Ns6zuFkIOB8l7xkqDRW-Lw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Presentations are invited on all relevant topics. There is no theme for presentations. Abstracts of max. 300 words can be sent to the organisers ,Josephine van den Bent, j.m.c.vandenbent@uva.nl and Edmund Hayes e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl) by Sept 7th , 2024.

The Autumn School ‘Shiism and Sectarian Identities from Pre-Modern to Modern Islam’ 2024 is a collaboration with Leiden University and takes place at Leiden University from 29 till 31 October 2024.

Please click here for the Call for Papers. For registrations, please click here.

Halfway through the year, the Midyear Meeting focuses on career perspectives within and/or outside academia. As an academic community of emerging and senior scholars, NOSTER offers a valuable platform to plan and promote your (academic) career.

Next Midyear Meeting: 7 February 2025, location t.b.a.
More info will soon become available.
For registrations, please send an e-mail to nisis@uu.nl.

The NISIS Workshop Day ‘Islamism’ is a collaboration with the Clingendael Institute. It will take place on Thursday 20 March or Thursday 27 March, 2025. More information about this event  will follow soon.

The ENIS Spring School will take place in Tunis, Tunisia, during the last week of May 2025. It will be a collaboration with the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb, MECAM. Link to call for papers and registrations will be published a.s.a.p.

The course “Advanced Readings in Arabic” is offered in the first semester of the academic year. This year, the course will be given by Dr. Pieter Coppens at the VU Universiteit.

Please click here for the course description.