Training Programme 2026-2027
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 2026-2027, including the course descriptions (by date).
This event is interdisciplinary, interregional and transhistorical. Information about exact date will follow soon. 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 , 2026.
The NISIS Workshop Day ‘Beyond the Majority: Agency, Identity, and Memory among Non-Majority Communities in Muslim-Majority Contexts’ is a collaboration with the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG). It will take place on 15 April 2027.
A link to register for this event will follow soon.
The ENIS Spring School ’27: ‘Shades of Green: Exploring the Environment in Islamic Studies’ will take place in Madrid, Spain, in the first half of April 2027.
The CfP and a registration link for this event will follow soon.
The course “Advanced Readings in Arabic” is offered again during the academic year of ’26/ ’27. This year, the course will be given by Dr. Harald Viersen at the Radboud University(RU), Nijmegen.
Please click here for the course description.
