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Serena Tolino was invited to give a presentation on May 27, 2023 with the title «Intersectionality Matters: New Perspectives on the Study of Islamic Legal Sources» at the Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law, a series of lectures taking place regularly on Thursdays afternoon at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. The series is hosted by the Research Group on the Law of Islamic Countries, head by Nadjma Yassari. The talk was introduced and moderated by Shéhérazade Elyazidi.  In her…

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Four members of the TraSIS team went to the University of Toronto to present on methodological aspects of the project, as well as sharing some of their early research findings.  At the end of April 2023, four members of the TraSIS team went to Toronto to introduce the project in a workshop immediately preceding a major conference on Re-evaluating Methodological Trajectories in the Academic Study of Islam. Jointly hosted by the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto and the Centre…

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On 29–30 March 2023, TraSIS PI Serena Tolino and postdoc Omar Anchassi presented at a workshop hosted by the Institute of History (Chair of Modern History) and the Center for Global Studies, University of Bern, organised by Sibylle Marti (University of Bern, SNSF Ambizione Fellow).  The workshop was launched on 29 March by Seth Rockman, a leading historian at Brown University working on the nexus of the fields of slavery studies, labour history, material culture studies and the history of capitalism in the United States. In his presentation, “Field…

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TraSIS won this year’s award for Best Scientific Poster at the Research Day of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bern, organised by the Walter Benjamin Kolleg, an inter- and transdisciplinary research centre. Bringing together researchers from diverse fields, the event cultivates an atmosphere of creative exchange and networking within the Faculty. This year’s Research Day took place on 27 March 2023 at the Unitobler and was opened by Dean Prof. Dr Gabriele Rippl and the President of…

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