2020

SWAR Seminar on Comparative Sectarianism in Syria’s Regions

Place: online / University of St Andrews and the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
Date: August 13-14, 2020.

2019

TIFO/SWAR workshop on 'Sectarianism before, during and after the Arab Revolts.

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: February 4.
Speakers: Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus University), Martin Riexinger (Aarhus University), Thomas Brandt Fibiger (Aarhus University), Raymond Hinnebusch (University of St. Andrews)
Further info: http://icsru.au.dk/arrangementer/vis/artikel/sekterisme-foer-under-og-efter-de-arabiske-revolter/

Concluding SWAR workshop,

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: January 21
Speakers: Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus University), Martin Riexinger (Aarhus University), Thomas Brandt Fibiger (Aarhus University),Raymond Hinnebusch (University of St. Andrews), Rainer Brunner (CNRS), Bassel Salloukh (Lebanese American University), Christian Axboe (Aarhus University), Justin Gengler (Qatar University), Christa Salamandra (City University of New York), Laura McAtackney (Aarhus University),Toby Matthiesen (Oxford University), Simon Mabon (Lancaster University), Rola el-Husseini (Lund University), Helle Malmvig (DIIS), Jeroen Gunning (King’s College, London)

2018

Research workshop on 'Sunni/Shia relations in Europe – How to study them?’,

Place: Migration Institute of Finland, Turku, Finland.
Date: December 13-14.The workshop is part of a series of exploratory workshops on Sunni–Shi‘i Relations in Europe funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS).

'Voices from Syria': Public Lecture by Wendy Pearlman

Place: Moesgaard Museum.
Date: October 9.
Speakers: Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University), author of the book 'We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled: Voices from Syria'.
Further info here

Research seminar with Wendy Pearlman   

Place: Dept of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: October 8.
Speakers: Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University), Thomas Brandt Fibiger (Arab Islamic Studies, Aarhus University), Emilie Lund Mortensen (anthropology, Aarhus University), Martin Thomas Riexinger (Arab Islamic Studies, Aarhus University), Morten Valbjørn (Political Science, Aarhus University)

Research workshop on "Repercussions of Middle Eastern sectarian conflicts beyond the Middle East"  

Place: Dept of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: October 5.
Speakers: Paulo Pinto (UFF, Rio de Janeiro), Mara Leichtman (Michigan State University), Elvire Corboz (Edinburgh Uni.), Lene Kühle (Aarhus Uni.), Uzair Ahmed (Oslo Uni.).

BRISMES Panel "Contending Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Sectarian Mobilisation"

Place: BRISMES Conference 2018, King's College London, London UK.
Date: June 25 2018
Speakers: Toby Dodge, Raymond Hinnebusch, Fanar Haddad, Morten Valbjørn.

BRISMES Panel "Intra- and Inter-Sect Dynamics and the Study of Sunni-Shi‘i Relations"

Place: BRISMES Conference 2018, King's College London, London UK.
Date: June 26 2018
Speakers: Elvire Corboz, Rainer Brunner,Thomas Fibiger, Martin Riexinger.

Research workshop on ' Mapping Sunni-Shi‘i Relations in Europe'

Place: University of Gothenburg, Sweden 
Date: June 7-9.

The workshop is part of a series of exploratory workshops on Sunni–Shi‘i Relations in Europe funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS). The core team members of the project are Elvire Corboz (University of Edinburgh), Göran Larsson (University of Gothenburg), and Tuomas Martikainen (Migration Institute of Finland), with also the collaboration of Marius Linge (University of Oslo).

Guest-lectures by Waleed Hazbun and Anne-Kirstine Rønn “(Anti-Sectarianism before and after the 2018 Parliamentary Elections”

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
Date: May 16.
Speaker: Waleed Hazbun (American University of Beirut) and Anne Kirstine Rønn (Aarhus University)

FIFO/SWAR-seminar om Sectarianism in the Wake of the Arab Revolts, April 16, Aarhus University

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Bartholins Alle 7, 8000 Aarhus C (www.ps.au.dk)
Time: April 16 2018 14.15-16.00
Program: 

Research workshop on 'Shia-and Sunni-Islamism(s) in a sectarianized new Middle East’

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University,
Date: March 16.
Speakers: Shadi Hamid (Brooking Institute), Joas Wagemakers (Utrech University) Kristin Smith Diwan (Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington), Jeroen Gunning (King’s College London), Fanar Haddad (National University of Singapore/ Middle East Institute, Washington D.C.), Rola El-Husseini (Lund University), Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus University).

 

Public event 'Shia-and Sunni-Islamism(s) in a sectarianized new Middle East’

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, (Aud 1, building 1330,
Date: March 15, 14.15-16.00.
Speakers: Kristin Smith Diwan (Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington), Jeroen Gunning (King’s College London), Fanar Haddad (National University of Singapore/ Middle East Institute, Washington D.C.), Rola El-Husseini (Lund University).
See also here

 

Guest-lecture by Fanar Haddad “Understanding ‘Sectarianism’: Sunni-Shi’a Relations in the Arab World”

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
Date: March 14.
Speaker: Fanar Haddad (National University of Singapore) 

 

Guest-lecture by Justin Gengler on 'Mapping and Explaining Sectarianism in the Gulf'

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
Date: February 21
Speaker: Justin Gengler (Qatar University) 

 

CODE/SWAR Seminar with Justin Gengler on 'Doing surveys/experiments in the Middle East' 

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
Date: February 19
Speaker: Justin Gengler (Qatar University)

 

2017

 

Workshop on "Everyday Sectarianism" with Joanne Nucho

Place: Aarhus University
Date: November 6 2017
Speakers: Joanne Nucho, Thomas Brandt Fibiger, Morten Valbjørn
See also here

 

Panel "Examining the Nexus between Religion and International Relations in a Sectarian New Middle East’’

Place: 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Barcelona, Spain.
Date: September 15 2017
Speakers: Helle Malmvig, Rosita Di Peri, Henrik Lauritsen, May Darwich, Morten Valbjørn

 

Panel on "Sectarianism and Regime Trajectories after the Arab Uprisings", BRISMES Annual Conference 2017.

Place: University of Edinburgh.
Date: July 6 2017.
Speakers: Raymond Hinnebusch, Morten Valbjørn,  Thomas Brandt Fibiger, Hasan Hafidh, Cortney Freer
For abstracts see here

 

Workshop on “IR Theory and the new sectarian Middle East”

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: June 22 2017.
Speakers: May Darwich, Simon Mabon, Helle Malmvig, Raymond Hinnebusch, Søren Schmidt, Henrik Lauritsen, Morten Valbjørn.
See the program here

 

Author workshop on “Sunni and Shi’i Intra- and Anti-Sectarianism”

Place: Aarhus University.
Date: June 16 2017.
Speakers: Mohamed Nawab, Aida-Mihaela Arosoaie, Ingvild Flaskerud, Thomas Brandt Fibiger, Elvire Corboz, Martin Riexinger.

 

International Research Seminar on “Sectarian Materiality”

Place: Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University.
Date: May 30-31 2017.
Speakers: Fanar Haddad, Christa Salamandra, Laura MacAtackney, Marie Vejrup, Joachim Meyer, Thomas Fibiger, Martin Thomas Riexinger, Morten Valbjørn, Elvire Corboz, Maria Louw
See the program here.

 

Seminar on “New and old Media in a New Sectarian Middle East”.

Place: Department of Religion, Aarhus University.
Date: May 9 2017.
Speakers: Marc Owen Jones, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen.
Read more here.

 

Mini-conference on “Power Politics in Syria – Where are we now and where are we going? “ (Co-organized with IP-NU)

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: February 13 2017.
Speakers: Christopher Phillips, Jakob Skovgaard Pedersen, Jan Pêt Khorto.

  

2016

Workshop on “Comparative Sectarianism”

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: November 29.
Speakers: Christian Axboe Nielsen, Ingvild Flaskerud, Patrick Milton, Justin Jones, Martin Thomas Riexinger, Michael Kerr, Morten Valbjørn.

 

Panel on “Sectarianism, State Failure and the Regional States System” at 23^rd Annual Congress of DAVO: German Middle East Studies Association.

Place: Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen.
Date: October 6-8 2016.
Speakers: Adham Saouli, Morten Valbjørn, Raymond Hinnebusch, Vincent Durac.

 

Panel on “Inter-disciplinary Explorations into Shia/Sunni Sectarianism” at the Tenth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies.

Place: University of Southern Denmark.
Date: September 23 2016.
Speakers: Thomas Brandt Fibiger, Elvire Corboz, Martin Riexinger, Morten Valbjørn, Raymond Hinnebusch, Ali Granmayeh.
See the program here.

 

Workshop on Sectarianism and Regime Formation” (co-organized with CODE)

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: August 16-17 2016.
Speakers: Lasse Lykke Rørbæk, Courtney Freer, Hasan Hafidh, Adham Saouli, Thomas Brandt Fibiger, Morten Valbjørn, Raymond Hinnebusch.

 

Workshop “Jordan in a New Sectarian Middle East” (co-organized with DJUCO and CSS)

Place: Center for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan.
Date: August 11 2016.
Speakers: Curtis Ryan, Abdel Ilah Alkhatib, Oraib al Rantawi, Mohammed Abu Rumman, Giulia el-Dardiry, Majeda Omar, Sara Ababneh, Morten Valbjørn.

 

Workshop on Inter-disciplinary perspectives on Sectarianism in Iraq and Beyond (co-organized with AIC)

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: May 24 2016.
Speakers: Toby Dodge, Thomas Brandt Fibiger, Morten Valbjørn, Martin Riexinger, Bjarke Aae.

 

ICSRU Workshop on “Sectarianism and non-religious identity politics”

Place: Aarhus University
Date: May 9
Speakers: Raymond Hinnebusch (University of St. Andrews) Thomas Brandt Fibiger (Aarhus University), Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus University), Martin Riexinger (Aarhus University).

 

Public Lecture by Raymond Hinnebusch on  "Thinking about Sectarianism: Drivers and Consequences – lessons from Syria"

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: May 3 2016.

 

Roundtable on ”Inter-disciplinary perspectives on religion and sectarianism”,

Place: Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University.
Date: April 12 2016.
Speakers: Thomas Brandt Fibiger, Martin Riexinger, Morten Valbjørn, Raymond Hinnebusch.

 

2015

Public event on Yemen at War in a ‘Sectarian New Middle East – regional and domestic dimensions (co-organized with IP-NU).

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: November 16 2015.
Speakers: Maria-Louise Clausen and Siris Hartkorn.

 

Workshop on (Inter)disciplinary Perspectives on Sectarian in a New Middle East

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: November 12 2015.
Speakers: Rainer Brunner, Bassel Salloukh, Toby Matthiesen.

 

Public lecture by Toby Matthiesen on “The Shia/Sunni Question in a Sectarian Gulf – Politics in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states after the Arab Uprisings” (co-organized with IP-NU).

Place: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.
Date: November 11 2015.
Read more here.