The Annual International Conference on Islamic Studies (AICIS) is a scientific activity organized by the Directorate of Islamic Higher Education of the Ministry of Religion Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia involving educators, researchers and observers of Islamic and Indonesian studies which has been going on for 20 years. it was first pioneered in 2000 in Semarang in the form of the meeting of the heads of postgraduate program from different Islamic higher education institutions across Indonesia they initiated the need for annual academic meetings as a vehicle for presenting Islamic studies to the public sphere.
The conference which was originally called Annual Conference on Islamic Studies (ACIS) has been done in cooperation with The State Higher Education (PTN) in various places in Indonesia such as the 1st ACIS in Semarang (2001), the 2ndACIS in Padang (2002), ACIS 3th in Yogyakarta (2003), ACIS 4th in Banda Aceh (2004), ACIS 5th in Makassar (2005), ACIS 6th in Bandung (2006), ACIS 7th in Pekanbaru, Riau (2007), ACIS 8th in Palembang (2008), ACIS 9th in Surakarta (2009), ACIS 10th in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan (2010), ACIS 11th in Bangka Belitung (2011). Since 2012, ACIS tranformed AICIS (Annual International Conference on Islamic Studies) to broaden its range to internationally recognized up to now.
AICIS is an academic forum for Islamic scholars, researchers, and observers of Islamic studies to share their novel ideas, new perspective and latest research findings on the dynamic social change. AICIS is also hoped as medium for Islamic and Indonesian studies to learn each other and broaden their knowledge and horizon on Islam.
The conference will bring into the fore current issues of Islamic studies into three main topics: Digital Humanities, Knowledge Management, and Social Resilience. Focusing on the significant and engagement of digital humanities in the study of Islam, the conference’s topic delves into the notion of “digital turn” and how the turn affects, transforms, and challenges our classical understanding on Islamic studies and how digital humanities contributes to contemporary discussion on Islamic studies. The topic of knowledge management will critically address the urgency of institutional reformation and transformation in the study of Islam as to which the transformation provides a suitable knowledge governance in a fast- changing society. The topic of social resilience will closely look at both sociological and personal spheres of Muslim subjectivities. It addresses social resilience of being Muslims in a contemporary globalised world. This conference will also specifically talk about halal industry as a topic affecting as well as affected by the reorientation of Islamic studies in Indonesia. Halal discourse in Indonesia is not only an economic issue, but also social and humanities ones that are closely related to digital transformation, knowledge management, and social resiliency.
