Conference

On 30 January 2019 the first ever German symposium about clan criminality was held in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). EZIRE-director Mathias Rohe accepted the invitation of Herbert Reul (CDU), minister of the interior NRW, and spoke before the 400 attendees of the event.

The conference "End(s) of Time(s)", hosted by the IKGF Erlangen in cooperation with EZIRE, takes place from 11 December until 13 December 2017 in the seminar room of building D in the Hartmannstr. 14 in Erlangen. Scholars from different disciplines will discuss concepts of last judgements and salvat...

A conference organized by the Frankfurt Research Center on Global Islam (FFGI) on May 05 has examined possible areas of conflict between Sharia Law and German Basic Law. Mathias Rohe, lawyer, Islamic scholar and director of EZIRE, was invited. In an interview with the broadcasting station Deutsche W...

The Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT) is the largest professional meeting of Oriental Studies in Germany and one of the most important scholarly Orientalist congresses in the world. The range of disciplines encompasses the Ancient and Modern Middle East, including North Africa, as well as all of Asia, with particular emphasis on Central, South and South East Asia. The abstracts for the congress in Jena can be submitted until 31st March 2017.

How can religious people act out their beliefs at a German University? In how far can – and should –this ideologically and religiously neutral institution support its students and employees in their free exercise of religion? Apart from others, this question was discussed by Professors of different ...

All participants of the 4th workshop on June 16 and 17, 2016, had the option to discuss relevant topics, such as Islam, communication of values and radicalization, with Jörn Thielmann, managing director of EZIRE. The objective is to develop the teaching in professional integrated classes at vocat...

The term "Parallel Justice" refers to an alternative dispute resolution that is not based on the democratic statutes of German law. Mostly foregrounded is the protection or restoration of a social validity claim – namely honour. At a conference of the Hanns-Seidel-foundation on April 6th 2016,...

Conference on 4th-5th November 2015 in Nuremberg, in cooperation with the associations represented in the German Islam Conference (DIK). For a long time, Muslims in Germany have been calling for their own, fully differentiated charity organisations, in analogy to those of the Christian church. Bu...

An interdisciplinary symposium in cooperation with the Central Institute "Anthropology of Religion(s)", on 17-18th September 2015 in Erlangen. In the intellectual and spiritual tradition of Islam the notions of the dignity of man and his moral deficiency have always been some of the principal con...

Conference "Politik und Religion" on 24th - 25th April 2015 in Nuremberg. How public and political can and should religion be? What is its purpose in the context of secular civil society and politics? How can religion responsibly shape the open space of a liberal-democratic  constitution? Having ...