Eerder bij LUCISOn Tuesday 15 May, LUCIS, the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), and the Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines (LUICD) organised a day-long seminar about the (engaged) art and culture of Tahrir Square. Time: 10.15-16.00 hrs. Location: room C102 in the 'Oude Sterrewacht' (old observatory), Kaiserstraat 63, Leiden.
Op vrijdag 11 mei 2012 vond een table ronde plaats over 'L’Encyclopedie de l’Islam (EI3) au défi de l’anthropologie, de la sociologie et des études minoritaires' (uitgegeven door Brill). Léon Buskens (directeur LUCIS), Maurits van den Boogert (Brill), Gudrun Krämer (Freie Universität Berlin) en Marie Miran-Guyon (Centre d'études africaines, CEAf) organiseerden deze bijeenkomst over de plaats van de sociale wetenschappen in de EI3. Locatie: EHESS, Parijs.
On Thursday 3 May, Diede Farhosh-van Loon gave a SMES/LUCIS lecture entitled "The Role of Poetry in Ayatollah Khomeini's Life". This lecture was part of the SMES/LUCIS Lecture Series Spring 2012.
On Wednesday 2 May, the International Institute for Asian Studies ( IIAS ) and LUCIS organised an event to celebrate the launch of the book 'Women from Traditional Islamic Educational Institutions in Indonesia: Negotiating Public Spaces', by Dr Eka Srimulyani. Time: 15.30-17.30 hrs. Venue: IIAS (conference room), Rapenburg 59, Leiden.
On Tuesday 1 May, LUCIS hosted a lecture by Vali Nasr, a leading Iranian-American scholar on Islam and the Middle East and advisor to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. His lecture will address Iran’s political influence in the Middle East, and various aspects of the Shiite communities, in the light of the Arab Spring. Time: 15.00-17.00 hrs. Location: room C1.04 in the 'Oude Sterrewacht' (old observatory) in Leiden.
Op donderdag 26 april organiseerde De Nieuwe Liefde een avond over Allah. Locatie: Da Costakade 102, Amsterdam (grote zaal). Aanvang: 20.00 uur.
On Thursday 26 April, Tsolin Nalbantian gave a SMES/LUCIS lecture entitled "The Fashioning of Armenian Authority in Cold War Lebanon 1956-1958". This lecture was part of the SMES/LUCIS Lecture Series Spring 2012.
On Thursday 19 April, Caroline Roset gave a SMES/LUCIS lecture entitled "Linguistic Fieldwork on Darfur Arabic". This lecture was part of the SMES/LUCIS Lecture Series Spring 2012.
On Thursday 12 April, Jan Gerrit Dercksen gave a SMES/LUCIS lecture entitled "Trade, migration and Change? The case of the Assyrian merchants' colony in the Central Anatolian city of Kanesh, ca. 1850 BC". This lecture is part of the SMES/LUCIS Lecture Series Spring 2012.
Op dinsdag 10 april 2012 vond de presentatie van 'Dwars op de Tijdgeest': Hoe ik Nederland aantrof toen ik terugkwam van Froukje Santing plaats. Dit boek verscheen op 29 februari 2012. De presentatie had de vorm van een interview waarbij de auteur werd geinterviewd door Wim Hofstee .
On Thursday 5 April, Sabine Schmidtke gave a SMES/LUCIS lecture entitled "Doctrinal developments among Yemeni Zaydis during the 6th/12th and 7th/13th centuries". This lecture is part of the SMES/LUCIS Lecture Series Spring 2012. Time 17.00-19.00 hours. Location: Lipsius building, lecture room 005 (Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden). Open to all!
On Tuesday 3 April, our LUCIS spring fellow 2012 gave his fifth and final lecture in the LUCIS spring fellow lecture series 2012, entitled: 'Islam in Europe: A Challenge to Islam and Europe'.
On Monday 2 April, our LUCIS spring fellow 2012 gave his fourth lecture, out of five, in the LUCIS spring fellow lecture series 2012, entitled: 'Islam in Europe: A Challenge to Islam and Europe'. Time: 15.00-17.00 hours. Location: room 227 in the Lipsius building, Leiden.
On Thursday 22 March, Christian Lange gave a SMES/LUCIS lecture entitled "Sufi Views of Paradise and Hell". This lecture was part of the SMES/LUCIS Lecture Series Spring 2012.
The new master study association Hikma invites everyone interested in the Middle East to its first event, in which the programme of the association will be presented and in which dr. Tsolin Nalbantian will talk about the role of Palestine in the uprisings in the Arab world. Date and time: Wednesday 21 March, 18.00–20.00 hrs. Venue: Lipsius building, room 227.
On Monday 19 March, our LUCIS spring fellow 2012 gave his third lecture, out of five, in the LUCIS spring fellow lecture series 2012, entitled: 'Islam in Europe: A Challenge to Islam and Europe'. Time: 15.00-17.00 hours. Location: room 227 in the Lipsius building, Leiden. The other lectures are scheduled on 2 and 3 April.
On Thursday 15 March, Martin Baasten gave a SMES/LUCIS lecture entitled "The Alphabetical of Rabbi Akiva: Mystical Exegesis in Medieval Judaism". This lecture is part of the SMES/LUCIS Lecture Series Spring 2012. Time 17.00-19.00 hours. Location: Lipsius building, lecture room 005 (Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden). Open to all!
On Monday 12 March, our LUCIS spring fellow 2012 gave his second lecture, out of five, in the LUCIS spring fellow lecture series 2012, entitled: 'Islam in Europe: A Challenge to Islam and Europe'.
On Thurday 8 March, Leif Manger gave a SMES/LUCIS lecture entitled “Complexities, Multiple Modernities, Political Constellation: Comparative reflections on Muslim communities in border areas between 1) North and South Sudan, 2) Tajikistan, China and Afghanistan, and 3) China and Myanmar.” This lecture was part of the SMES/LUCIS Lecture Series Spring 2012.
On Thurday 1 March, Ruediger Seesemann gave a SMES/LUCIS lecture entitled "When meat fails to cook: A new approach to the study of Sufism in West Africa. This lecture was part of the SMES/LUCIS Lecture Series Spring 2012.
