Programme

• 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)
• 28 Apr
  Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series If You Encounter Strife, Return to Yemen Nathalie Peutz (NYU Abu Dhabi)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 16 Dec
  Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Roundtable on premodern Yemeni history
• 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)
• 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)
• 23 Sep
  Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series Research on ancient southern Arabia: Current situation and outlook Christian Robin (CNRS)
• 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