This lecture has been cancelled We are happy to announce that Prof. Abbas Amanat from Yale University will present a lecture entitled “Tahereh Qorrat al-‘Ayn (1817-1852): A Messianic Proto-feminist’s Encounters with Modernity” on 7 October 2021 in Utrecht. Tahereh Qorrat al-ʿAyn was a poet, women’s right activist and key figure of the Iranian religious reform…

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SENSIS is organizing a panel at the 2019 MESA meeting (Thursday, 14 November, 5:30pm), entitled “Towards a Sensory History of Middle Eastern Societies: Paradigms and Emerging Trends”. The panel summary reads: “While, as some have claimed, a ‘sensorial revolution’ is long underway in the humanities and social sciences at large (Howes 2005: 39), Middle East…

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, AMSTERDAM (NLD), 13-15 DECEMBER 2018 Funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences & the Netherlands eScience Center Hosted by the “Bridging the Gap” project, Utrecht University (NLD), and the Digital Islamic Humanities Project, Brown University (RI, USA) Keynotes: Elias Muhanna and Eric Atwell…

Members of the KNAW, leading academics from all disciplines, are selected on the basis of their research accomplishments. The KNAW has around 500 members. Membership is for life. On Monday, 17 September 2018, the new members of the Academy, including Prof. Dr. Christian Lange, will be installed in a public ceremony in the municipal library,…

This project (to start 1 January 2018), run jointly with co-applicants Amr Ryad (Leuven) and Melle Lyklema (Utrecht), will support research in SENSIS in the area of Arabic Digital Humanities. For details, see the Digital Humanities tab on this website, and also https://www.esciencecenter.nl/project/bridging-the-gap Together with Ryad, Lange will co-host a conference on the topic at…