NewsOn Monday 11 June 2012, Léon Buskens will accept his professorship "Law and Culture in Muslim Societies" at Leiden University by delivering his inaugural lecture, entitled: "What is sharia? A plea for an anthropology of the ordinary". The lecture will be in Dutch. Time: 16.15 hrs. Location: Academy Building, Groot Auditorium (Rapenburg 73, Leiden). Please register via http://www.leidenuniv.nl/agenda/item/wat-is-sharia .
From Wednesday 29 August until Friday 31 August 2012, the Institute for Culture and History of the University of Amsterdam, in cooperation with the NWO Eurasian Empires Project organises a summer school on integration processes and identity formations in European and Asian empires. Deadline for application: Monday 7 May!
On the weekend of 28-29 April, Utrecht University, in cooperation with the European Research Council, hosts the firtst international colloquium of the Utrecht research project 'The here and the hereafter in Islamic Traditions'. The title of the first symposium is 'Locating hell in Islamic traditions'. Venue: Sweelickzaal, Drift 21, Utrecht.