Series

Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series

The Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series brings together experts on various aspects of Yemen’s history, art and archaeology, politics, economics, and sociology, anthropology and literature, creating an interdisciplinary dialogue about the region.

The series is supported by the Horizon-2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project EMStaD YEMEN.

Programme

23 Sep
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Research on ancient southern Arabia: Current situation and outlook Christian Robin (CNRS)
21 Oct
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Yemen’s history of slavery and its lasting impact on social and racial hierarchies Magdalena Moorthy-Kloss (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient)
25 Nov
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series The 12th-Century Transfer of Zaydi Legal Texts from the Caspian Region to Yemen and its Impact on Later Yemeni Zaydi Law Ebrahim Mansoor (University of Bergen)
16 Dec
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Roundtable on premodern Yemeni history
27 Jan
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series War, Governance, and the Environment in Ottoman Yemen, 1870-1924: Revisiting the History of the Late Ottoman Frontier Thomas Kuehn (Simon Fraser University)
24 Feb
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Redefining the community: The Huthi movement’s attempts to foster a sense of national belonging in Yemen Alexander Weissenburger (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
24 Mar
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Jewish angels who speak Arabic: Yemeni-Jewish vernacular religion in immigration context Tom Fogel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
28 Apr
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series If You Encounter Strife, Return to Yemen Nathalie Peutz (NYU Abu Dhabi)
26 May
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Exploring the Extra-Religious Zaydi Literary Canon through Manuscript Collections of Yemeni Origin Valentina Sagaria Rossi (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
22 Jan
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Keynote Lecture: Zaydis, Salafis and Houthis and Their Engagement with the Islamic Tradition in Yemen Bernard Haykel
19 Feb
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Reimaging Peace Democratization in Yemen: Women, Transnationalism and Activism in Exile Ewa Strzelecka
25 Mar
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century Mahmood Kooriadathodi
22 Apr
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Blessed Aristocracies: Charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont
20 May
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study Ingrid Hehmeyer
24 Jun
Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Memory Politics and Contentious Heritage in Anṣār Allāh/Ḥūthī Yemen Marieke Brandt