Series

WHAT's NEW?! Spring Lecture Series

WHAT's NEW?! is a lecture series organised by LUCIS and the department of Middle Eastern Studies. The lecture series focuses on current research on Islam and the Middle East.

Every Thursday from 4 February until 28 April 2016* LUCIS and the department of Middle Eastern Studies invite a researcher to deliver a lecture on current research on Islam and the Middle East. 

Venue: Lipsius 228
Time: 17.15 hours

* with the exception of 17 March and 7 April

 

Programme

• 04 Feb
  Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture (2016) Modernity in the Ninth Century: the Controversy around Abū Tammām Beatrice Gründler
• 11 Feb
  Lecture Unionists and Kemalists: Refugees, Killers and Nation Builders Erik-jan Zurcher
• 18 Feb
  Lecture State Sharia and Its Limits Michael Feener
• 25 Feb
  Lecture The Spiritual Highway (Lagos) Marloes Janson
• 03 Mar
  Lecture The Role of Islam in Parenting Judi Mesman
• 10 Mar
  Lecture Checking the Archive: the Khan and the Historian Paolo Sartori
• 24 Mar
  Lecture Saints of the Indus André Wink
• 31 Mar
  Lecture Moving Out: Agnostics and Atheists in Egypt Karin van Nieuwkerk
• 14 Apr
  Lecture Social Media and the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions Thomas Poell
• 21 Apr
  Lecture A Cross-Cultural Romance in Arabic Studies (1609) Dorrit van Dalen
• 28 Apr
  Lecture Negotiating Citizenship(s) during the Ottoman Tanzimat in Damascus