Joint Chair RSCAS
Professor of Social and Political Theory

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 747/818

Fax: [+39] 055 4685 201

Email: Olivier.Roy@eui.eu

Office: SD 019, Convento (1st floor) 

 

Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

European University Institute

Via della Fontanelle 19

50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI)

Italy

 

Office Hours

Thursdays 14.30-16.00. Researchers are advised to send an email.

 

Secretaries

Mia Saugman (RSCAS), tel.  [+39] 055 4685 818   

Monika Rzemieniecka (SPS), tel. [+39] 055 4685 233 (for seminars and Ph.D. supervisees)

Languages

French (fluent), English (good), Persian (good), German (reading), Arabic and Turkish (notions)

Short Biography

Olivier Roy (1949) is a Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (since 1985) and a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (since 2003). He headed the OSCE’s Mission for Tajikistan (1993-94) and was a Consultant for the UN Office of the Coordinator for Afghanistan (1988). His field works include Political Islam, Middle East, Islam in the West and comparative religions.

Prof. Roy received an “Agrégation de Philosophie” and a Ph.D. in Political Sciences. He is the author of “Globalized Islam” (Chicago University Press), 2004, and more recently of “La Sainte Ignorance” (“The Holy Ignorance”, Seuil 2008). In 2008-209 he has been a visiting Professor at Berkeley University.

He is presently working on “Islamic norms in the public sphere”, conversions and apostasy and comparative religions.

Seminars and Workshops

• Seminar: Contemporary Middle East, an Introduction: Society, Religion, Politics (Autumn 2010)

• Workshop: Studying religion: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges (Spring 2010)

• Seminar: Western Islam or Islam in the West? The Debate on "integrating" Islam (Winter 2010)
• Seminar: The Impact of Contemporary Religious Revivals on Political and Strategic Relations (Autumn 2009)