News

For information and news about the individual disciplines, please see the relevant pages on this website.

An overview of our events can be found on the research page.

08.07.2024
 

Muharram fasting and Ashura 2024

On 7 July 2024, the 12-day Muharram fast and mourning period begins for Alevis.

04.07.2024
 

Research prize awarded to Dr Şenol Yağdı, PhD

Dr Şenol Yağdı, PhD was awarded for his dissertation "Religionspädagogischer Habitus von islamischen ReligionslehrerInnen in Österreich. Eine...

02.07.2024
 

Today, on 2 July, many Alevis around the world are remembering the victims of the fire in Sivas.

02.07.2024
 

Closing times of the Office

The Office is closed from 9 to 26 July and from 12 to 19 August. Please also note that the Office is not staffed on Fridays.

01.07.2024
 

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Handan Aksünger-Kizil is looking for interviewers for her research project "Living religion and religious education in Alevi...

26.06.2024
 

Tamara Nili-Freudenschuß and Şenol Yağdı at the Nordic Conference on Religious Education

Tamara Nili-Freudenschuß, BA MA and Dr Şenol Yağdı, PhD, took part in the 17th Nordic Conference of Religious Education (NCRE), which was held at...

14.06.2024
 

A blessed Eid ul Adha (Feast of Sacrifice)!

On Sunday 16 June, Muslims celebrate the Feast of Sacrifice, Eid ul Adha. On this day, the Islamic world remembers the father of the Abrahamic...

06.06.2024
 

As part of the ASEA-UNINET funding programme, Prof. Aslan visited Gadja Mada University in Jogyagarta, the University of Indonesia and the University...

23.05.2024
 

Talk by Şenol Yağdı at the European Academy of Religion

Dr. Şenol Yağdı, PhD gave a talk at the seventh annual conference of the European Academy of Religion, which took place in Palermo from 20 to 23 May...