On Wednesday 3 December, Gertrude van de Ketterij will defend her PhD dissertation ‘"Dat Arnemuden sal wesen een stadt." Stadsstichting en stadswording in de zestiende eeuw.’
On Friday 5 December, Ali Aljasem will defend his PhD dissertation ‘Networks of Violence. The Rise and Fall of Shabbiha Paramilitary Groups in Aleppo After 2011’.