TOI Events

Conferences, Workshops, Panels and Seminars organized as part of the TOI Project

2024

TOI Workshop 'The Yemeni Houthi Movement and the War on Gaza'
Place: online
Date: March 15 2024
Speaker: Alexandra Stark (RAND).

TOI Workshop 'Arab Islamist Responses to the War on Gaza'
Place: King's College London
Date: March 6 2024
Speaker: Toby Matthiesen (University of Bristol), Alexander Weissenburger (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Inna Rudolf (King’s College London), Aurélie Daher (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL), Jérôme Drevon (International Crisis Group) - Syrian Islamist responses (Toby, Alexander, Inna).

TOI Workshop 'Global International Relations and the International Thought of Turkish Islamists'
Place: Aarhus University
Date: February 28 2024
Speaker: Katerina Dalacoura (LSE)

TOI Workshop 'What is so Shia about Shia Islamism'
Place: King's College London
Date: February 13 2024
Speaker: Raphaël Lefèvre, Morten Valbjørn, Benedict Robin-D’Cruz, Courtney Freer, Younes Saramifar, Toby Matthiesen, Jeroen Gunning.

2023

TOI Workshop 'Why is there no Shia Salafis'
Place: virtual
Date: November 8 2023
Speaker: David Patel (Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard U.)

TOI Workshop - What can Middle Eastern protests in the past tell us about protests in the future (co-funded by Danish Institute in Damascus)
Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
Date: November 2 2023
Speakers: Jillian Schwedler (CUNY), Dima Smaira (AUB), Jeroen Gunning (KCL), Younes Saramifar (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

TOI Workshop 'Shia Islamism in Iraq – the case of the Hizb al-Dawa and SCIRI'
Place: virtual
Date: April 14 2023
Speakers: Thibaud Laval (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and Joseph Edward Kotinsly (U of Texas at Austin).

TOI Workshop
Place: London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, April 3, 2023
Date: April 4 2023
Speakers: Toby Matthiesen (Ca' Foscari U. & Stanford U), Raphael Lefevre (Bristol U), Jeroen Gunning (KCL), Courtney Freer (Emery U), Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus U)

TOI Workshop 'Comparing Shia and Sunni Islamism in Yemen'
Place: virtual
Date: March 11 2023
Speakers: Laurent Bonnefoy (SciencePo), Alexander Weissenburger (Austrian Academy of Science's Institute for Social Anthropology)

2022

TOI Workshop: Current Trends in Jihadism Studies
Place: Dept of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: December 13 2022.
Speakers: Trica Bacon (American University), Assaf Moghadam (Reichman University), Mona Sheikh (DIIS: Danish Institute for International Studies) Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus University).

MESA TOI Panel: “Bringing in the Other Islamists – comparing Shia and Sunni Islamism”
Place: The Middle East Studies Association’s 56th annual meeting , Denver, United States.
Date: December 4 2022.
Speakers: Courtney Freer (Emery University), Younes Saramifar, Andrew Leber, Morten Valbjørn.

TOI Workshop “Comparing Shia and Sunni Transnationalism” (co-funded by Danish Institute in Damascus)

Place: Dept of Political Science, Aarhus University
Date: November 10 2022
Speakers: Mona Sheikh (DIIS: Danish Institute for International Studies), Dino Krause (DIIS/Aarhus U), Saer El-Jaichi (DIIS); Oliver Scharbrodt (Lund U), Yafa Shanneik (Lund U),Oula Kadhum (Lund U), Fouad Marei (Lund U), Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus U), Jeroen Gunning (King College London), Simon Mabon (Lancaster U).

TOI Workshop 'Comparing Shia and Sunni Islamism in Lebanon'
Place: virtual
Date: October 14 2022
Speakers: Tine Gade (NUPI) and Filippo Dionigi (Bristol University).

NSMES Double TOI panel "Beyond Sunni-centrism: Shia and Sunni Islamism in the Middle East”
Place: The 12th Nordic Conference for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Date: September 23 2022.
Speakers: Courtney Freer, Toby Matthiesen, Morten Valbjørn, Tine Gade, Maria Louise Clausen.

TOI workshop "What is So Shia about Shia Islamism" (funded by the Carlsberg Foundation)
Place: Dept of Political Science, Aarhus University
Date: July 26-27 2022.
Speakers: Raphaël Lefèvre, Morten Valbjørn, Benedict Robin-D’Cruz, Courtney Freer, Fanar Haddad, Younes Saramifar, Toby Matthiesen, Jeroen Gunning.

BRISMES TOI panel “Bringing in the Other Islamists – Comparing Shi’a And Sunni Islamism“
Place: The BRISMES Annual Conference, University of St. Andrews (UK),
Date: July 5 2022.
Speakers: Raphaël Lefèvre, Morten Valbjørn, Benedict Robin-D’Cruz

TOI POMEPS workshop on Islamists in Warscapes (co-funded by Danish Institute in Damascus)
Place: Dept of Political Science, Aarhus University
Date: June 29-30 2022
Speakers: Jeroen Gunning, Mohammed Hafez, Michael Gabbay, Raphael Lefevre, Marc Lynch, Inna Rudolf, Younes Saramafir, Jérome Drevon, Morten Valbjørn,

TOI POMEPS Workshop
Place: Virtual (Department of Political Science, Aarhus University/Georg Washington University)
Date: February 4 2022
Speakers: Jeroen Gunning, Mohammed Hafez, Michael Gabbay, Raphael Lefevre, Marc Lynch, Inna Rudolf, Younes Saramafir,  Isak Svensson, Jérome Drevon, Morten Valbjørn,

2021

TOI Guest talk on 'THE OTHER JIHADIS: HOW SHIA AND SUNNI JIHADIS DIFFER FROM EACH OTHER'
Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: November 16 2021
Speakers: Raphael Lefevre (Oxford/Aarhus U).

TOI Workshop 'The 2021 Iraqi Parliamentary Elections'

Place: virtual
Date: October 13 2021
Speakers: Toby Dodge, Renad Mansour, Fanar Haddad, Benedict Robin-D’Cruz

TOI Workshop 'When Islamists Kill Islamists: Islamist fratricide in civil wars'

Place: virtual
Date: February 25 2021
Speakers: Inna Rudolf, Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Jérome Drevon. 
 

TOI-POMEPS workshop on "Changing Warscapes, Changing Islamists? Religion, Organization, Strategic Context and New Approaches to Jihadist Insurgencies 

Place: virtual
Date: January 6-7 2021
Speakers: Leonora Ardemagni, Jeroen Gunning, Mohammed Hafez, Thomas Hegghammer Stathis Kalyvas, Dino Krause, Raphael Lefevre, Brynjar Lia, Marc Lynch, Assaf Moghadam, Afshon Ostovar, Inna Rudolf, Younes Saramafir, Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Mona Sheikh, Isak Svensson, Ora Szekely, Morten Valbjørn, Lianne Vostermans, Joas Wagemakers

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2020

TOI-TJ-RJC Workshop on (Shia and Sunni) Jihadism
Place: virtual
Date: November 5 2020
Speakers: Mona Sheikh, Saer El-Jaichi; Dino Krause; Telli Betül Karacan; Isak Svennson, Jeoren Gunning and Morten Valbjørn

2019

TOI Guest talk on ‘The Conflict in Libya, Proxy Wars and Madkhali-Salafis’ /Jalel Harchaoui
Place: Aarhus University.
Date: November 29 2019
Speakers: Jalel Harchaoui (The Hague’s Clingendael Institute)

ICSRU/TOI Workshop on the TOI project
Place: Arab Islamic Studies, Aarhus University.
Date: October 28 2019
Speakers: Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus University), 
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TOI Guest talk on the Transformation of the Islamist scene in Iraq and th Gulf /Cortney Freer (LSE) and Fanar Haddad (NUS)
Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: October 22 2019
Speakers: Cortney Freer (LSE) and Fanar Haddad (NUS) 

TOI Kick-off Research Workshop.
Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: October 21 2019
Speakers: Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus University), Jeroen Gunning (KCL), Cortney Freer (LSE), Raphael Lefevre (Oxford U), Fanar Haddad (NUS), Toby Matthiesen (Oxford U).