The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam & Society announces a series of lectures on the heritage and history of Yemen throughout the year. These will be online via zoom and registration for each individual talk can be made here.
Here are the online lectures:
22 JAN Keynote Lecture: Zaydis, Salafis and Houthis and Their Engagement with the Islamic Tradition in Yemen
Bernard Haykel
19 FEB Reimaging Peacemaking: Gender, Diaspora, and Peace Democratization in Yemen
Ewa Strzelecka
25 MAR Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century
Mahmood Kooriadathodi
22 APR Blessed Aristocracies: Charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen
Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont
20 MAY History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study
Ingrid Hehmeyer
24 JUN Mapping the Past, Imagining the Future: Heritage Politics in Ḥūthī Yemen
Marieke Brandt
23 SEP Keynote Lecture: Friendship and Scholarship in 20th-Century Yemen
Sabine Schmidtke