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Doing justice to Indonesia's multicoloured society
A poor woman from Java plucks three cocoa fruits from a plantation, to use as seedlings. The judge convicts her of theft, but she is not sent to prison. This is one of the examples of legal differentiation that Adriaan Bedner, Professor of Law and Society, will be examining in Indonesia. Inaugural lecture…
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The sky is not the limit: 230 000 people reached by Leiden University educational space project
Science education project Space Awareness engaged 230,000 people in 68 countries with the excitement and challenges of space sciences and technologies. After three years, the project coordinated by Leiden Observatory came to an end in March and has now been evaluated.
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Marieke Bloembergen appointed Professor of Archival and Postcolonial Studies
On 1 November 2018, Marieke Bloembergen was appointed Professor of Archival and Postcolonial Studies at the Institute for History.
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Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
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Programme: Cinema-Going in The Arab World: Exhibition, Distribution, and Audiences
A workshop (Cairo, Egypt, 14-15 September 2018) organized by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo with support from “DICIS” / Digital Cinema Studies https://www.digitalcinemastudies.com/
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Academic Retreat with students from Dutch Universities and Al-Azhar
For the students of our Dutch institutions, the Netherlands Embassy supported an ‘academic retreat’ at hotel Stella de Mare in Ayn Sukhna. During this two-day retreat, our students discussed with students of al-Azhar University in Cairo on various topics. It was an open exchange of ideas and feedback…
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Quantum optics for asylum seekers
The Clinical Epidemiology department at the LUMC has set up a series of lectures for asylum seekers. The series has become a huge success.
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AI and Society: A view from Indonesia
Explore the One Among Zeroes |0100| project and its role in shaping the future of the digital economy, human-environment dynamics, and urban heritage in Indonesia's cities.
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The immune system: step it up or slow it down?
When foreign matter enters our body, our immune system has to make a choice whether or not to go on the attack. There are times when the system goes wrong, and we end up with an illness or an allergic reaction. Researchers at LUMC are trying to steer the immune system. The dossier on Immunity, Infection…
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Sigrid Kaag avant la lettre: Women played a significant role in eighteenth-century diplomacy
With her Veni research, investigator Rosanne Baars from the Institute of History aims to demonstrate that women played a role in the eighteenth-century diplomatic circles of the Ottoman Empire. ‘We already know that one woman led the entire embassy.'
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A picture tells a thousand words
Besides being a linguist, George Saad is also a photography fanatic. He shares his most beautiful and telling pictures, shot during his field research in Eastern Indonesia.
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Back in Brussels! A lively alumni event
After two years, it was great to be back in Brussels again. Many thanks to all alumni and students who were present during the academic discussion on the values and the future of the EU, followed by networking drinks.
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Area Studies Week from 2-5 June: Join our live Q&As!
Interested in Area Studies? Then Leiden is the place to be! Join our Online Area Studies Week from 2-5 June to find out more. From Africa to Brasil and from Korea to Russia, Leiden covers all areas and fields, both in language, literature, history, politics and socio-economics. Join our live Q&As!
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Research & Funding Opportunities
AMT’s mission includes encouraging innovative high-quality research in Leiden on Asia. On this page you will find an overview of AMT related research projects, grant possibilities, publications and vacancies.
- Seminar 4: The Formation of Discourse Communities in the Early Middle Ages
- Visual Culture (5 ECTS)
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars
- Call for Papers Reading - Deadline
- Vacancy Groningen - Deadline
- JMRC - Call for Contributions
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Book Launch: (A New) Translation of the Nahj al-Balagha
Lecture
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Colonial Korean Print Shops through Computer Vision
Lecture
- Visual Culture (5 ECTS - FULL)
- International Symposium: Good Governance
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
Workshop
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LUCIS Summer School 2022 | Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World
Course, LUCIS Summer School
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Getting Done With Snouck
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Prospects for law reform and democracy under Indonesia’s new president
VVI Research Meeting 2023-2024
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Herstory and the female gaze: event on International Women's Day
Debate
- Basic Course in Palaeography (5 ECTS)
- Basic Course in Palaeography (5 ECTS)
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Book Launch and Discussion: Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America
Lecture, Book Launch and Discussion
- International Symposium: Good Governance (1/2 ECTS)
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LUCIP FORUM
Lecture
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
- GTGC Research Seminar
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Opening exhibition: Silk Road Cities
Exhibition
- Material Culture (5 ECTS)
- PhD Career Day 2023
- Material Culture (5 ECTS)
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Memory: concepts and theory
The terms ‘social’ , ‘collective’ or ‘public’ memory, are often contrasted with ‘private’, ‘individual’ or ‘personal’ memory. All these terms derive from a fairly new and interdisciplinary scholarly field that is often referred to as ‘memory studies’, and that according to some critics has developed…
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What politicians can learn from Cicero and Dionysius
'How do you write a slogan to win an election?' Steven Ooms answers this question in his PhD research into ideas about good prose in the time of Caesar and Emperor Augustus. This period is considered a high point for the development of literature. The Roman Cicero and the Greek Dionysius of Halicarnassus…
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Revolutionary Historiography: How Leftist Debated the Historical Sociology of the Ottoman Empire in Cold War Turkey
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Conservation and study of the Pahari collection of drawings and paintings
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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CANCELLED: Book Presentation and Discussion: Central Asia 300-850 Roads and Kingdoms
Lecture
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Violence and the State: Perspectives from Ancient India
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
- International conference: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators and the Practice of Compiling
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Courage and Disregard
Cleveringa Lecture