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 2 February 2017 to 20 April 2017 a researcher will deliver a lecture on current research on Islam and the Middle East.

Venue: Lipsius 227
Time: 17.15 hours

Programme

02 Feb
Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture A Forgotten Heyday of Arabic Culture: Literary Life in Mamluk Syria and Egypt (1250-1517 CE) Thomas Bauer
09 Feb
Lecture The New Silk Road of China: The Middle East Mohammadbagher Forough
16 Feb
Lecture Representation of Female War Martyrs in Contemporary Persian Novels Saeedeh Shahnahpour
23 Feb
Lecture Reradicaliseren als filosofie en strategie tegen extremisme Stijn Sieckelinck
02 Mar
Lecture Sino-Arab Cultural Exchanges under Cultural Policies of the Arab League
09 Mar
Lecture Commercialisation as Social Transformation: Ottoman Greeks in Amsterdam
23 Mar
Lecture The “Morality Crisis” on the Ottoman Home Front during the First World War
30 Mar
Lecture Quranic Women's Schools in China’s Little Mecca Francesca Rosati
06 Apr
Lecture The Sufi and the Idol: Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Autobiographies Ziad Elmarsafy
13 Apr
Lecture Turkey in crisis: U-turn or head-on? Onur Ada
20 Apr
Lecture What Can Zoroastrian Sources Tell Us About Early Islamic History? Christian Sahner