RESEARCH PROJECTS

 Michel Kabalan's current and past research projects, collaborations, and research stays. 

Known and Unknown Arabists from Portugal between the 18th and 20th Century (2023-2025) 

Estudantes Portugueses na École spéciale des Langues orientales, 1795-1914 (2023-2025) 

The Midnight Rotating Tree: Collective Gallery (2024) 

Arabists and Hebraists 18th-20th Century, Hamsa: Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies (2021-2022) 

Europe in Vernacular: The Rise of Vernacular Languages at the Borders of the Latin World in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age. Contexts and Ideas (2019-2022) 

From Data to Wisdom: Philosophizing Data Visualizations in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity, 13th-17th Century (2018-2021) 

Print and publication practices of Syrian-Lebanese migrants in the context of Mahjar literature (2018)

American and Muslim Worlds, ca. 1500-1900 (2017) 

Aristotelica Portugalensia: The Reception of Aristotle in Portugal until the 18th Century (2013 - present) 

Reason, Politics and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy (2011 - present) 

Seminário Medieval de Literatura, Pensamento e Sociedade (2011 - present) 

Doctoral research in Arabic and Islamic Studies  (2006-2012) 

The Dysfunctions of Arab Modernity (2004-2005) 

Influence of Islamic Philosophy on Contemporary Arab Thought (2004-2005) 

Richard Rorty and the Revival of American Pragmatism (2004) 

Different methods of Historiography in Philosophy (2003 - 2004)