NISIS

Excited to see you there this Thursday!: The NISIS / KU Leuven Conference on Islamophobia and the Muslim Question!👏 Coming this March, this event is in collaboration with KU Leuven and titled ‘Islamophobia and the Muslim Question”. Register here: https://nisis.sites.uu.nl/2025/12/12/conference-islamophobia-and-the-muslim-question-historical-questions-contemporary-representations/

🌙 Happy Eid from your colleagues at NISIS! 🌙

We wish all our practicing members and friends a blessed period of celebration.

🎬 Join us for an inspiring evening with NISIS!

On Thursday, April 23, NISIS hosts its third film screening in collaboration with a group of French documentary makers. The evening begins with networking drinks, where NISIS Junior members can connect with Senior members from across the field.

As a unique research school uniting nine Dutch universities, NISIS fosters interdisciplinary exchange through workshops, seminars, conferences, and seasonal schools. With Utrecht University hosting NISIS until the end of 2026, we’re celebrating our vibrant portfolio of events by bringing our community—and the wider public—together.

Students and scholars of Islamic studies are warmly invited to meet, exchange ideas, and watch the documentary Harar, the Forgotten Islamic City. The film offers a rare glimpse into the lives of Harar’s inhabitants, capturing a historic Islamic city whose days may be numbered.

✨ Come for the conversation, stay for the film.

Deadline today!

Prepare yourselves for one of the standout events in Islamic Studies research this academic year — the ENIS Spring School ’26, “Islamicate Concepts: Between Particularism and Universalism.” 👏😍

Taking place in Freie Universitaet Berlin during 14-17 April 2026, this Spring School is dedicated to examining how concepts seen as universal are now understood as historically shaped, raising questions about their use in Islamicate contexts.

Registration is now open and will close on Monday, March 13th 2026. For additional information and application details, click here: https://nisis.sites.uu.nl/2025/12/19/enis-spring-school-26-islamicate-concepts-between-particularism-and-universalism/ Who knows — this could turn into one of the most memorable experiences of your studies! 😮 Don’t let this opportunity pass you by. 🎉

Prepare yourselves for one of the standout events in Islamic Studies research this academic year — the ENIS Spring School ’26, “Islamicate Concepts: Between Particularism and Universalism.” 👏😍

Taking place in Freie Universitaet Berlin during 14-17 April 2026, this Spring School is dedicated to examining how concepts seen as universal are now understood as historically shaped, raising questions about their use in Islamicate contexts.

Registration is now open and will close on Monday, March 13th 2026. For additional information and application details, click here: https://nisis.sites.uu.nl/2025/12/19/enis-spring-school-26-islamicate-concepts-between-particularism-and-universalism/ Who knows — this could turn into one of the most memorable experiences of your studies! 😮 Don’t let this opportunity pass you by. 🎉

📢 Open Call: Little Man, What Now?

We’re sharing this interdisciplinary open call from Simulacrum, the art history and critical theory journal of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

The upcoming issue, titled Little Man, What Now?, invites writers and artists to reflect on life under precarity, bureaucracy, and permanent crisis — not as a problem to be solved, but as a question to be activated.

They are looking for daring, interdisciplinary contributions (essay, free text, poetry, or visual work) that:
• Situate the theme within art historical and cultural historical frameworks
• Or explore it as a contemporary emotional condition shaped by political, economic, and ecological crises

🗓 Deadline: March 2, 2026
📄 Written submissions: max. 2000 words (.doc/.docx)
🖼 Visual submissions: .pdf
📧 Send to: [email protected]

Simulacrum is a quarterly thematic magazine reflecting on arts and culture, offering a high-quality platform for students and experts alike.

For more information, visit their website.

Prepare yourselves for one of the standout events in Islamic Studies research this academic year — the ENIS Spring School ’26, “Islamicate Concepts: Between Particularism and Universalism.” 👏😍

Taking place in Freie Universitaet Berlin during 14-17 April 2026, this Spring School is dedicated to examining how concepts seen as universal are now understood as historically shaped, raising questions about their use in Islamicate contexts.

Registration is now open and will close on Monday, March 2nd 2026. For additional information and application details, click here: https://nisis.sites.uu.nl/2025/12/19/enis-spring-school-26-islamicate-concepts-between-particularism-and-universalism/ Who knows — this could turn into one of the most memorable experiences of your studies! 😮 Don’t let this opportunity pass you by. 🎉

On Thursday April 23, NISIS organizes its third film screening in collaboration with a group of French documentary makers. This time, the evening starts with networking drinks, where NISIS Junior members can meet Senior members. NISIS is an unparalleled research school in the Dutch academic landscape, that unites nine different universities and offers high quality interdisciplinary workshops, seminars, conferences and seasonal schools. The Utrecht University is hosting NISIS until the end of 2026. We want to celebrate our portfolio filled with inspiring events by inviting our community and the broader public to an evening where students in the field of Islamic studies can meet senior scholars and watch the documentary ‘Harar, the forgotten Islamic city’. This documentary offers insight into the inhabitants of Harar, as their days seem numbered.

Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford), one of the leading scholars of modern Islamic thought and empire, will deliver a lecture on his new book, Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam.

This event is organised by the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES) and forms part of the event series connected to the project: Colonial exceptionalism or co-imperialism?, led by Dr. Robin de Bruin and PhD researcher Nuri Kurnaz. The event is funded by ARTES research cluster Power and Governance.

Lecture: Faisal Devji, Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam - University of Amsterdam

https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/events/2026/02/lecture-faisal-devji-waning-crescent-the-rise-and-fall-of-global-islam.html