Series

What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2025

What's New?! is a lecture series organised by LUCIS and the department of Middle Eastern Studies. The lectures focus on current research on Islam and the Middle East.

In this lecture series, experts in the field of Islam and/or the Middle East share insights on their research.

The Fall series of What’s New?! consists of six lectures from 15 October till 4 December. Lectures will take place on Thursdays from 5.15 to 6.15 pm, in Lipsius 1.48. All lectures will be followed by drinks. Everyone is welcome, but registration is required.

For further information and to register, please click on the lecture titles below.

Programme

15 Oct
Lecture Unveiling the Written Heritage of the Siak Sultanate: An Ethnographic Study on the Access and Interpretation of the Archives of Sultan Syarif Kasim II Iik Idayanti
16 Oct
Lecture “Dizzy with Wonder:” Early Cinema and the Birth of Movie-Fandom in Egypt, 1896-1935 Ifdal El Saket
23 Oct
When Turkish Islamism Meets Social Sciences: Essentialism Upgraded? Tunahan Yildiz
04 Dec
Lecture Was There Indeed a Decline of Ambiguity in Islamic Modernity? Deathbed Emotions as a Case Study Pieter Coppens
06 Nov
Lecture Truces and Rumours of Truces: Hamas's Pragmatism as Expressed Through Its Ceasefires Dr. Joas Wagemakers