On Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 and Friday 27 June 2025, the University of Strasbourg campus will host the sixth edition of the Congress of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, organised by the French Academic network "GIS MOMM" in partnership with the ARCHE, ARCHIMEDE, DRES, GEO and LINCS laboratories, the Strasbourg Institute of Islamology, the IISMM and the SEMOMM.

As in previous years, the conference will include an inaugural lecture, single (4 papers) or double (8 papers) workshops, round tables, a book fair, a film series and various cultural events. The workshops may cover one or more fields of the humanities and social sciences (anthropology, archaeology and art history, law, economics, geography, history, Islamology and religious sciences, linguistics, literature, philosophy, sociology, political science), from a global or regional perspective, in connection with the study of the Middle East and/or the Maghreb, the Muslim worlds in the broad sense or Islam in the world.

Most of the workshops have now been finalised and are available on the website, accessible by alphabetical list of titles, by name of speaker and by theme. You can also search by keyword. The composition of the workshops has been discussed between the workshop leaders and the conference organising committee.

All this data is in its raw state, and has not yet been edited. The GIS MOMM Scientific Advisory Board will be giving feedback on some of them. To find the latest version of a workshop, click on it and download the Word file in the ‘Poster’ box. This contains the names of the speakers, the titles of the various presentations and the summaries of each presentation. The file entitled ‘PDF version’, as its name does not indicate, contains only the call for contributions for the workshop.

If you do not appear in the list of speakers, this means that your individual proposal for a contribution has not been accepted. We invite you to contact the people in charge of the workshop for which you were a candidate to find out the reasons, the first of which is that we received more than 700 individual proposals for around a hundred workshops.

The 6th Congress of Middle Eastern Studies in Strasbourg wishes to present to its participants the editorial news in the domain over the past two years. A one-hour slot may be devoted to the presentation of a work by its author, possibly assisted by a discussant.
Please complete the application form before 15 February.

As at every congress, the GIS Middle East and Muslim Worlds will endeavour to support the mobility of researchers, particularly the youngest among them. These grants will be awarded by the organising committee according to a certain number of criteria:

Priority will be given to doctoral students and young researchers (without permanent status);
They will be used to complete other financing ( particularly transport) and in situations where other applications will have been tried without success. They will therefore only be paid in full on a case-by-case basis, and will usually be limited to accommodation or exemption from registration fees;
They will initially be limited to a maximum of two people per workshop, including double workshops;

To apply for mobility assistance, please complete the online form before the end of February.

If you cannot access to the form, please write to the contact address, and specify :