2014.12.08 | Staff
Thomas Würtz will be joining the Arab and Islamic Studies program for the first half of 2015.
2014.10.24 | Conference
In late October 2014, a major conference on "Multi-Sited Sufism: Transmissions, Translations, Transcendence" was held in Istanbul.
2014.08.14 | Arts
New Routledge collection with contributions from six members of the ICSRU, Making European Muslims: Religious Socialization Among Young Muslims in Scandinavia and Western Europe
2014.07.28 | People
Elvire Corboz, specialist in contemporary Shi‘i Islam, has been appointed to a three-year assistant professorship in the Department of Culture and Society to teach in the Arab and Islamic Studies program.
2014.05.20 | Grant
The Danish Council for Independent Research has funded a postdoctoral project investigating the question “Do Group Politics Only Matter for Men?,” to be carried out by Emily Cochran Bech at the department of Political Science and Government.
2013.10.03 | Religion and theology
The Danish research council has funded a postdoctoral project on "Illnesses of the Muslim Heart: Contagion, Purification, and Protection among Salafi Muslims in Egypt," to be carried out by Christian Suhr Nielsen.
2013.09.27 | Research
The ICSRU welcomes Leonardo Schiocchet, who is working in Aarhus on "A Nation Without a Motherland: (Trans)nationalism, Refuge and Social Belonging among Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East, Brazil and Europe."
2013.08.02 | PhD defence, Society and politics, Religion and theology
Christian Suhr's PhD dissertation "Descending with Angels: The Invisible in Danish Psychiatry and Islamic Exorcism" was successfully defended on July 3, 2013. Suhr now moves on to illnesses of the heart.
2013.06.13 | Religion and theology, Arts, Staff
After four years at Aarhus and in the ICSRU, Thomas Hoffman has been appointed to a professorship in Quranic Studies at the faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.
2013.05.03 | Society and politics, Religion and theology, Arts
Mikkel, previously on a time-limited project appointment, has received a tenured position at AU as an associate professor (lektor).
