Researching on the frontier: How to deal with a new concept: Islam & Ism?

Lecture by Mehdi Mozaffari, Professor emiritus at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.

Professor Mozaffari is Dr. d’Etat en science politique from the University of Paris (Sorbonne-Panthéon) and has been lecturer at the same university. He was a member of the academic staff at Tehran University and has been a visiting scholar at different universities (Geneva, Grenoble, MGIMO/Moscow) and senior fellow at Harvard University. Until 1 January 2013, Mehdi Mozaffari was Head of the Centre for Studies in Islamism and Radicalisation at Aarhus University.

Mehdi Mozaffari recently published the book "Islamism - an oriental totalitarianism" (only in Danish), which received praise from the critics for its original and controversial ideas. In the book, Mozaffari shows how the ideology 'Islamism' coincides with the three other totalitarian ideologies; Fascism, Communism and Nazism, and points out an alternative route to how we are to understand Islamism. Through this seminar, Mehdi Mozaffari will share some of his experiences related to the methodology, data collection and finally editing and publication of his book: Islamisme: en orientalsk totalitarisme (2013-2014). He will present his interdisciplinary approach to this problematic as well as how he overcame some of the obstacles encountered in the process.

Humanomics Open Research Seminars

New trends in the humanities

Humanomics Research Centre continues to present new guest lectures and invited international scholars throughout the spring semester 2015. Director Frederik Stjernfelt and Co-Director David Budtz Pedersen have prepared an interesting and challenging course of lectures with the intention to gather colleagues, PhD students, and advanced students for discussions of new trends and theories in the humanities - ranging from current research projects to theoretical debates about the past, present and future of humanities scholarship. The objective is to organise one or two monthly meetings with presentations of new research by Copenhagen University staff and invited international scholars.   This season will continue with a presentation by Professor Emiritus Mehdi Mozaffari from Aarhus University.

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