Ph.D. Seminar in Middle Eastern Studies

Previous activities

2008

• 27 February: Qur'an reading group
        PC Room, Øysteins gt. 3
  
  
• 5 March: Research Seminar, Anne Bang: "Global Cities"
       Seminarrom 2, Øysteinsgt. 3 [3. floor]
  
  
• 12 March: Modern Conceptions of Islam group
        Grønne rommet
  
  
• 13 March: Communal ph.d. lunch
        Grønne rommet
  
  
• 26 March: Qur'an reading group
        PC Room, Øysteins gt. 3
  
  
• 1 April: Ph.D.-Seminar: Marit Vambheim
        Seminarrom 2
  
  
• 2 April: Modern Conceptions of Islam group
        Grønne rommet
  
  
• 8 April: Guest lecture, Annette Haaber Ihle: "Islam, Madrassa and Citizenship in Ghana".
        Seminarrom, SMI
  
  
• 15 April: Research Seminar, Henriette Hafsaas, "The Kingdom of Kush - A Centre on the Periphery of the Bronze Age World System in Afro-Eurasia".
        Seminarrom 2
  
  
• 21 April: Guest lecture, Terence Walz: "Habasha, Sudaniyin, Barabra and Takarna: African Slaves and Freedmen/Women in Cairo as Reflected in the 1848 Census".
        Seminarrom 2
  
  
• 22 April: Guest lecture, Terence Walz: "Egyptian and Sudanese Merchants and Traders in Cairo and Asyut in the mid 19th century".
        Seminarrom 2
  
  
• 29 April: Communal ph.d. lunch
        Grønne rommet
  
  
• 30 April: Qur'an reading group
        PC Room, Øysteins gt. 3,
  
  
• 7-22 May: Global Moments in the Levant: Concluding workshops
        Seminarrom, SMI (for participating scholars)
  
  
• 20 May: Modern Conceptions of Islam group
        Grønne rommet
  
  
• 23-24 May: Seminar, "Power and Powerlessness: Religious Minorities in the Middle East"
        Chr. Michelsens Institute (open to the public: Friday afternoon session)
  
  
• 26 May: Guest Lecture, Yann Richard, "The 1921 coup d'Etat in Iran and its echo in Persian historiography"
        Seminarrom, SMI
  
  
• 26 May: Guest Lecture, Elisabeth Picard, "Lebanon - from Civil War to Crisis"
        Chr. Michelsens Institute
  
  
• 2-8 June: Nordic Ph.D.-seminar in Egypt, "New Arabic Media / How are our sources created?"

  
  
  

• 26 August: Guest lecture: Ron Shaham, "Modern Medicine and Law: Current Debates on Paternity in Egypt"
        Seminar room, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, 14.15-16
        (part of the seminar series: "Shari'a, past and present")
• 4-7 September: Workshop: "Network for the study of Muslim visual expressions"
        Contact Richard Natvig, AHKR.
  
  
• 4 September: Guest seminar: Thomas Pierret: "Ulema-Led Social Movements in Contemporary Syria: Defending Islam, Tradition, and the Merchant Middle-Class's Religious Role"
        Seminar room, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, 12.15-14
        (from the workshop: "Network for the study of Muslim visual expressions")
  
  
• 5 September: Guest seminar: Simon Stjernholm: "Self, Soul and Society: Aspects of a Contemporary Sufi Movement"
        Seminar room, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, 12.15-14
        (from the workshop: "Network for the study of Muslim visual expressions")
  
  
• 9 September: Modern Conceptions of Islam group
        Grønne rommet, 14.15-16
  
  
• 18 September: Department lunch, AHKR: Chris Henshilwood: "Origins of human behaviour"
        Seminar Room 1, AHKR, 12.00-13
  
  
• 18-19 September: Workshop: " Islam in Africa"
        Seminar room, Unifob Global, Thursday 12-17; Friday 9-16.30
  
  
• 23 September: Ph.D. seminar: Marianne Bøe
        Grønne rommet, 12.15-14.
  
  
• 24 September: Guest seminar: Munzoul A.M. Assal, "The National Congress Party and the Darfur Crisis"
        Seminar room, SMI/Unifob Global, 12.15-14
  
  
• 24 September: Guest seminar: Kassahun Berhanu Alemu, "Abyei: The Achilles Heel of Peace in Sudan"
        Seminar room, Unifob Global, 14.15-16
        (part of the Nile Basin Research Programme Seminar Series)
• 7 October: Abdulkadir Hashim: "The administration of Islamic law in East Africa".
        Seminar room, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, 14.15-16
        (part of the seminar series: "Islam in Africa" and "Shari'a, past and present")
  
  
• 14 October: Modern Conceptions of Islam group
        Grønne rommet, 14.15-16
  
  
• 21 October: Guest lecture: Kai Kresse, "'Sauti ya Haki' - an Islamic newspaper and social debates among Muslims in postcolonial Kenya (1972-1982)"
        Seminar room 1, AHKR, 14.15-16
        (part of the seminar series: "Islam in Africa")
  
  
• 23 October: Two guest lectures: Jerôme TUBIANA, "Chad, another Darfur? Links between two crises", and "Darfur, Chad: Humanitarianism challenged".
        Seminar room, SMI, 14.15-17.
  
  
• 24 October: Islam in Africa Seminar: Abdel Sheriff: "Slavery and Manumission in the Persian Gulf, first half of the twentieth century".
        Seminar room, SMI, 14.15-16.
  
  
• 30 October: Islam in Africa Seminar: Liazzat Bonate, "The regulation of family life among Muslims of Pemba city, northern Mozambique".
        Meeting room, Unifob Global. 14.15-16.
• 3 November: Islam in Africa Seminar: Jeremy Prestholdt: "The Most Wanted Man in Africa: Fazul Abdullah Muhammad and the Myth of the Master terrorist".
        Seminar room, SMI/Unifob Global. 14.15-16.
  
  
• 4 November: Ph.D. seminar: Eirik Hovden.
        Grønne rommet, 14.15-16.
  
  
• 6 November: Guest lecture: Mathias Rohe: "Sharia in Europe"
        Auditorium Q, Sydneshaugen skole, 14.15-16.
        (part of the seminar series: "Shari'a, past and present")
  
  
• 18 November: Modern Conceptions of Islam group
        Grønne rommet, 14.15-16
  
  
• 5 December: Annual Ph.D. seminar
  Scandic Hotel, Håkonsgt. 2
  
  
  
• 8-9 December: AHKR Ph.D. School: Seminar on Discourse analysis
  Room 412, Sydnesplass 12/13, AHKR, 12.15.
  
  
• 11-12 December: Ph.D. defence: Ingvild Flaskerud:
  - 11 December: Trial lecture
  - 12 December: Defence of the thesis: "Visualising Belief and Piety. Representation, Reception, and Function of Imagery in Iranian Shiism".
  Opponents: Jürgen Wasim Frembgen, Faegheh Shirazi

• 6 March: AHKR department lunch, Randi Håland: "Lokale funn i global kontekst; fra Nildalen og Afrika til Levanten og India"
        Seminarrom 1
  
  
• 10 April: AHKR department lunch, Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Karina Hestad Skeie: "Misjon som transnasjonal mobilisering, 1860-1960"
        Seminarrom 1

• Ph.D. lunches
• National Ph.D. course: "Conceptions of Islam"
• Ph.D. Seminar, Solstrand, December 2007

• Ph.D. lunches
• Ph.D. Seminar, Solstrand, December