Training Programme 2025-2026
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 2025-2026, including the course descriptions (by date).
This event, which will take place at Leiden University on October 17th, 2025, 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.
MAs, ResMAs, PhDs, Postdocs, Lecturers, Professors and independent scholars are all welcome!
Course load:(for Research MA-students only): 0,5 ECTS
The registration link will follow soon.
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 , 2025.
The Autumn School ‘Gender relations in pre-modern and modern Muslim contexts’ 2025 is a collaboration with the University of Amsterdam 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: 6 February 2026, Amsterdam.
Theme: ‘Funding Your Research’
For registrations, please send an e-mail to nisis@uu.nl.
The NISIS Workshop Day ‘Islamofobia’ is a collaboration with the KU Leuven. It will take place in March/ April, 2025.
The registration link for this event will follow soon.
The location and the theme of the ENIS Spring School ’26 are still under discussion. More information will follow soon.
The course “Advanced Readings in Arabic” is offered again during the academic year of ’25/ ’26. This year, the course will be given by Dr. Pieter Coppens at the VU Universiteit.
Please click here for the course description.