Research Colloquium for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Switzerland
The ‘Research Colloquium Islamic Studies Switzerland’ is a forum for academic exchange. It meets once every semester, alternating between seminars in Basel, Bern, Zurich, Geneva and Fribourg, and is aimed at advanced students, doctoral students and post-doctoral students of Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Studies as well as related subjects such as history, linguistics, religious studies, ethnology, geography, etc. Other interested parties are very welcome - including those who would like to present their own project.
Each meeting includes a presentation on an ongoing project. The subsequent discussion, which usually centres on questions of method, forms the core of the evening. Some questions do not even arise until the evening meal.
The colloquium is an initiative of the Mittelbau and has existed since the summer semester 2000.
Further information can be found here.