with Laura Stauth (Ghent University)
Date: 20/05/2025
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Venue:Room 1.2, Faculty of Arts, Rozier 44, 9000 Gent
Contact: middleeast@ugent.be
book presentation with Dr. Laura Menin (University of Sussex)
Date: 29/04/2025
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Venue: Auditorium 1 Jan Broeckx, Faculty of Arts, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
Contact: middleeast@ugent.be
with Prof. Dr. Fokelien Kootstra
The project aims to develop an online, accessible, long-term database of the inscriptions documented in the AlUla valley, in Saudi Arabia, by the RCU. The inscriptions include texts from as early as the 6th century BC up to modern Arabic graffiti.
Date: 18/03/2025
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Venue: Room 1.2, Faculty of Arts, Rozier 44, 9000 Gent
Contact: middleeast@ugent.be
with Prof. Dr. Nir Shafir (UC – San Diego)
In the seventeenth century, Muslims in the Ottoman Empire became embroiled in a polarizing cultural war over the permissibility of everyday practices like worshipping at saints’ graves, smoking tobacco, and an odd medical procedure called “chickpea cauterization.” This talk traces this widespread religious and political polarization to the rise of a new “communication order,” focusing, in particular, on the advent of “pamphlets”: short, mobile, and polemical tracts, all copied by hand. The talk paints a new picture of the entire ecosystem of books in the manuscript culture of the early modern Ottoman Empire and how it fell into supposed disorder as middling readers stoked polemics, falsified authorship, and fashioned new reading publics.
Date: 12/12/2024
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Venue: Room 1.2, Faculty of Arts, Rozier 44, 9000 Gent
Contact: middleeast@ugent.be
with Mohamed Maslouh (Ghent University)
Date: 14/11/2024
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Venue: Room 1.2, Faculty of Arts, Rozier 44, 9000 Gent
Contact: middleeast@ugent.be
with Prof. Dr. Aymon Kreil (Ghent University)
Date: 24/102024
Time: 4pm to 6pm
Venue: Room 1.2, Faculty of Arts, Rozier 44, 9000 Gent
Contact: middleeast@ugent.be
Caram lecture: Becoming Stranger – Ambivalent distance and proximity
OPHELIE MERCIER (Middle East Studies, UGent)
Discussant: Prof. Liza Franke (UGent)
Venue: Faculty Room, campus Boekentoren, Blandijnberg 2, Ghent University
To attend online, contact: Carmen.Dhondt@UGent.be