Carsten Wilke, associate professor in the CEU Departments of History and Medieval Studies, has been named director of the Center for Religious Studies (CRS). He takes over for University Professor Aziz Al-Azmeh from the History Department.
This month, CEU's Center for Religious Studies and the Institute for Advanced Study at CEU are launching a new, two-year project entitled “Striking from the Margins: Religion, State and Disintegration in the Middle East.” The project seeks a nuanced and complex understanding of the transformations of religion in relation to related changes in state and social structures, most specifically in Syria and Iraq over the past thirty years.
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation has awarded a EUR 18,000 grant to the CEU Center for Religious Studies and the CEU Institute for Advanced Studies for their upcoming International Conference entitled Qurʾanic Manuscript Studies: State of the Field, planned for spring 2017.
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