Applications are now open for the NISIS Autumn School 2019, Netherlands. NISIS are pleased to announce that the registration for the NISIS Autumn School ‘Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies in the Digital Age’ is now open. This year the NISIS Autumn School will take place at Utrecht University from 28 to 31 October. You can register for the Autumn School until Monday 2 September 2019, 09.00 hrs (CET) by filling out the registration form. From Monday 28 until Thursday 31 October 2019, the NISIS Autumn School will be held at Utrecht University. The theme of this year’s Autumn School is ‘Islamic and Middle Eastern  Studies in the Digital Age.

Moreover, PhD candidates, research master students, and advanced MA students, whose research focuses on the study of Muslims, Muslim societies and Islam in the broadest sense of the word, are invited to apply for participation. Successful applicants will be granted participation in the full program.

Eligibility

• NISIS junior members automatically qualify for participation but DO need to apply by
  sending in a title, an abstract and a short biography (see requirements above).
•  The number of people who are to be to the NISIS Autumn School.
• Further, Lunches and a conference dinner will be includ in the programme for those applicants
  who are enroll in a Dutch university or the KU Leuven
• All other costs are for your own expenses

After selection

• read the prescribed literature in advance, you will be to reflect on the literature during
  one of the workshops;
• hand in at least one question related to each article;
• give a presentation in one of the workshops and act as discussant for the presentation of one
  of the other participants

Required documents

• CV
• motivation letter
• a one-page description of your MA thesis or PhD project, indicating supervisor(s)
• a title and an abstract of your presentation (250 words max). Presentations must be related to the theme of the Autumn School
• a short biography (50 words max, in the third person)