Death care search menu search content Lunch Event - Muslim bodies in secular European cemeteries Talk with dr. Nur Yasemin Ural Date: 11 September 2025 Location: Universiteit Antwerpen, Vergaderzaal S.SJ.024 – Het Brantijser, Sint-Jacobsmarkt 9–13, 2000 Antwerp. Online attendance (livestream) wi…

History of the Islamic World History of the Islamic World Micro-credential History of the Islamic World Micro-credential ATTENTION: This micro-credential cannot be chosen in academic year 2025 - 2026 A historical perspective on the 'other' What? In this programme you will learn to understand the com…

Malika Dekkiche associate professor Research Malika Dekkiche Research team Power in History - Centre for Political History Expertise My area of expertise focuses the history of premodern Islamic world. More particularly, my research deals with the history of the contacts between Egypt, Syria, Turkey…

Frances Cruz onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Frances Cruz Digital specters of colony : securitization, Moros, and the age of social media Bron Antwerp, University of Antwerp & Ghent University, 2025,423 p. Auteur(s) Frances Cruz, Mike Kestemont, María del Rocío Ortuño Casanova, Jeroen Adam Cit…

Loubna Ou-Salah senior onderzoeker Publicaties Loubna Ou-Salah Methodological reflections on visually mapping intangible remittances amidst environmental change Bron Geographical research - ISSN 1745-5863- (2025) p. Auteur(s) Loubna Ou-Salah, Lore Van Praag Citatielink Gendered dynamics in Moroccan …

Beyza Topuz Demir onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Beyza Topuz Demir Spilling pig blood in the Muslim cemetery: the effort to expel a dragoman in early-modern Ottoman Istanbul Bron Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association - ISSN 2376-0702-11:1 (2024) p. 179-207 Auteur(s) Beyza Topuz …

Roschanack Shaery-Yazdi associate professor Research Roschanack Shaery-Yazdi Research team Power in History - Centre for Political History Representation of female activists. The female body and resistance in the MENA region 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2019 Abstract This project focuses on influential female…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Judaeo-Arabic Studies Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies conference International conference 1-4 July 2019 University of Antwerp - City campus Building C - Room C.103 Prinsstraat 13 - 2000 Antwerp Free entrance to the lectures. Meals and guided t…

Vincent Bellinkx Research Vincent Bellinkx Research team Law and Development Death Care: Building the framework for a sustainable funeral industry in a superdiverse society. 01/10/2024 - 30/09/2028 Abstract Recent events such as the Covid19-pandemic and controversy around Muslim cemeteries have reve…

Lena Richter Postdoctoral researcher Research Lena Richter Research team Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change Expertise My research expertise lies at the intersection of gender, religion, and migration, with a particular focus on Morocco. In my PhD research, I explored the experien…

Reda Mahajar guest lecturer Research Reda Mahajar Research team Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change Expertise I research the historical stubbornness of Sunni and Shia categories in the Arab and Muslim worlds, as well as in the proverbial West. Cookie prreferences Strictly necessar…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Jewish Thought and Empire: 1830-1939 International workshop 8-9 December 2025 The Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, University of Haifa With t…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Jewish Thought and Empire: 1830-1939 International workshop 23-24 June 2025 The Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, University of Haifa With the…

Decolonial Dialogues search menu search content Publications 2022-2023 - Gyssels, K. M. (2022) "The Oriental Other (Jew, Muslim, Christian) in Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 40 no. 3, p. 98-119.(link) - Vettorello, P-A. (2023) ‘Decolonia…

Frances Cruz unpaid staff Publications Frances Cruz Digital specters of colony : securitization, Moros, and the age of social media Source Antwerp, University of Antwerp & Ghent University, 2025,423 p. Author(s) Frances Cruz, Mike Kestemont, María del Rocío Ortuño Casanova, Jeroen Adam Citation l…

Beyza Topuz Demir unpaid staff Publications Beyza Topuz Demir Spilling pig blood in the Muslim cemetery: the effort to expel a dragoman in early-modern Ottoman Istanbul Source Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association - ISSN 2376-0702-11:1 (2024) p. 179-207 Author(s) Beyza Topuz Demir C…

Loubna Ou-Salah senior researcher Publications Loubna Ou-Salah Methodological reflections on visually mapping intangible remittances amidst environmental change Source Geographical research - ISSN 1745-5863- (2025) p. Author(s) Loubna Ou-Salah, Lore Van Praag Citation link Gendered dynamics in Moroc…

Death care search menu search content Funerary needs in a super-diverse society Work package 3 This work package is concerned with examining the funerary needs and socio-cultural practices of bereavement in a super-diverse society, as well as the plethora themes and challenges they give rise to. The…

Law and Development search menu search content Oppression, Resistance & Solidarity: Palestine and beyond 12 November, 3-5 pm. Room S.E. 122 (UA Stadscampus) Join us for a compelling seminar on the interconnected oppressions and resistances in Palestine and beyond. Several regions and communities sha…

Nathalie Franckaerts unpaid staff Research Nathalie Franckaerts Research team Power in History - Centre for Political History "Tell me about your East". Noble European travel narratives and the representation of the Islamic World in the late Middle Ages. 01/10/2019 - 30/09/2023 Abstract Lands of mar…

Imane Kostet postdoc researcher FWO Research Imane Kostet Research team Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change Expertise Imane Kostet conducts research on symbolic boundaries in super-diverse societies, with a focus on ‘ethnicisation’ of social differences. In May 2022, she defen…

Migloba search menu search content Publications on Global Mobility and Governance 2025 Baillie Smith, M., Fadel, B., Ahimbisibwe, F., Turyamureeba, R. (2025). Refugee volunteering and responses to displacement in Uganda: Navigating service-delivery, work and precarity. Journal of Humanitarian Affair…

Instituut Joodse Studies zoeken menu zoek inhoud Jewish Thought and Empire: 1830-1939 International workshop 8-9 December 2025 The Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, University of Haifa With the sup…

Instituut Joodse Studies zoeken menu zoek inhoud Jewish Thought and Empire: 1830-1939 International workshop 23-24 June 2025 The Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, University of Haifa With the suppo…

Power in History search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Reclaiming the political sphere from the editorial margins: female journalists and their engagement with "the political" in the mainstream Parisian women's press (1815-1851). 01/10/2025 - 30/09/2028 Abstract This research proposal…