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What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024

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 Spring series of What’s New?! begins in February 2024. Lectures will take place on Thursdays from 5.15 to 6.15 pm, in Lipsius 1.48. All lectures will be followed by drinks. All welcome; registration required. For further information and to register, please click on the lecture titles below.

Programme

15 Feb
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?! Series Religious Discourse and Tribal Affiliation in Early Islamic Ifrīqiya Antonia Bosanquet
22 Feb
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?! Series Arabic Echoes and Persian Refrains: Devotional Poetry and Intersonicality in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century North India Simon Leese
29 Feb
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?! Series Imagining the Unimaginable: Finding the Islamic in Muslim Futures Sara Bolghiran
07 Mar
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?! Series The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642 Khodadad Rezakhani
14 Mar
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?! Series The Camel’s Hobble: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on the Practical Intellect Sarah de Mendonça Virgi
11 Apr
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?! Series Renaming Ambiguity: Modernist Dream Encounters in Islamic Indonesia Verena Meyer
18 Apr
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?! Series Sufis in Afghanistan: Contemporary Navigations of Religious Authority across Political Changes Annika Schmeding
16 May
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?! Series Revolutionary Historiography: How Leftist Debated the Historical Sociology of the Ottoman Empire in Cold War Turkey