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D&I Calendar
The Faculty of Humanities is proud to launch its new D&I Calendar for the academic year 2023-2024. This calendar is an effort to build awareness and cultural understanding of important religious holidays and other special observances of the diverse groups within our academic community.
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Islam, Politics and Change
The Indonesian Experience after the Fall of Suharto
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Between the Holy Land and the World. A connected history of Christian communities in the Near East via the unpublished photographic collections
The project ‘Between the Holy Land and the World’ proposes a connected history of the Christian communities in the Near East (1900-1948) by means of a study of unpublished Franciscan and Dominican photographic collections.
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Public Reason Secularism: A Defense of Liberal Democracy
On 25 October 2018, Tu Zhang defended her thesis 'Public Reason Secularism: A Defense of Liberal Democracy'. The doctoral research was supervised by prof. P. Cliteur.
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Churches and Religion in the Second World War
Despite the wealth of historical literature on the Second World War, the subject of religion and churches in occupied Europe has been undervalued.
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Punching Back - Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing
Punching Back is a detailed ethnographic study that demonstrates that young Muslim women who kickbox develop agentive selves by challenging gender norms, challenging expectations, and living out their religious subjectivities.
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The spiritual Tolkien milieu : a study of fiction‐based religion
Markus Davidsen defended his thesis on 16 October 2014
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Arabic and its Alternatives
Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War.
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Emblems and the Natural World
The multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying artistic, literary, political and religious ideologies.
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Cultural Memory of War and Conflict
From Apartheid in South-Africa to 9/11 in the United States: there is not a single culture that is not shaped by the memory of war or conflict. The minor Cultural Memory of War and Conflict focuses on how such memory cultures influence and shape societies today.
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Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and Development (MSc)
Study why and how, in countries around the world, people mobilize around ethnic, racial, religious and social identities, and explore the role of political institutions in mitigating conflicts that arise from such mobilization.
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Eye-contact in childhood and adolescence
Effects of age and social anxiety
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Syncing up for a good conversation: Cognitive mechanisms of conversational alignment
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Buddhism and Social Justice
From 23-25 April 2014, a conference will be held on the topic of Buddhism and Social Justice. This conference confronts the common perception of Buddhism as intrinsically a tradition of peace and justice, and explores the various ways in which historically Buddhist societies of Asia have shaped, transmitted,…
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Research Areas
The Centre is the proud home of several research programmes.
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The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires.
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Law and Governance in Muslim Societies
With regard to governance, policies and law, many Muslims and Muslim countries recognise the possibility that Islam has something important to say about the way society is to be ordered, governed, and regulated.
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Arabic Studies
Dating back more than 400 years, Leiden University has the oldest continuous chair of Arabic outside the Arabic-speaking world. Today the MENA region is studied at Leiden from before the coming of Islam up to today from a wide array of disciplines. And Arabic is studied within the diverse linguistic,…
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Negotiating Islamisation and resistance : a study of religions, politics and social change in West Java from the early 20th Century to the present
Chaider Bamualim defended his thesis on 9 September 2015
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Philippine Confluence: Iberian, Chinese and Islamic Currents, C. 1500-1800
Situated at the crossroads of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Spanish Philippines offer historians an intriguing middle ground of connected histories that raises fundamental new questions about conventional ethnic, regional and religious identities.
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Sharia Incorporated
Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present
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Human-wildlife Interactions in the Western Terai of Nepal
Large carnivores and humans, along with their livestock, have co-existed for thousands of years. However, human population growth and an increase in economic activities are modifying the landscape for large carnivores and their prey.
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Associates
Associates of Leiden University Center for Intercultural Philosophy
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion
An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.
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Mediating Islam in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Performing Dakwah through Popular TV Shows
On the 9th of November Syahril Siddik successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Extra-curricular
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Economic value of non-timber forest products among Paser Indigenous People of East Kalimantan
Promotor: G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh
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Polysémie et structuration du lexique: le cas du wolof
Emphasizing on the key role of polysemy in forming the lexicon is the main goal to be achieved in this dissertation paper. The paper suggests a qualitative evaluation of polysemy in comparing it with other relations that form the lexicon. The research confirms that the polysemic links must not be modeled…
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Tolkien and fiction-based religions
Markus Altena Davidsen’s PhD dissertation is the first major study of Tolkien Religion. In it, he analyses the religion that is based on the stories by acclaimed British fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien. He also discusses how fiction itself can become religious. Davidsen will defend his dissertation on…
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Electroreduction of nitrate and carbon dioxide on copper electrodes: a mechanistic study
In this thesis we have discussed several parameters that affect the electrochemical conversion of enviromentaly harmful molecules such as nitrates and carbon dioxide to more valuable and less deleterious compounds, in order to cast light onto the mechanism of the reaction to achieve an efficient and…
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Four Comenius teaching awards for Leiden lecturers
Five lecturers from Leiden University have received a Comenius teaching award. With the grants they can carry out an innovation project.
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Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550 [PRAYER]
This project investigates the full ecosystem of Middle Dutch prayerbooks in order to answer questions about their role in – and impact on – religion, culture, and society in the late medieval Low Countries.
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Marriage Law and Practice in Indonesia
This project looks at the current practices of marriage law in Indonesia. It examines the often ambiguous views different groups hold of marriage, from local villagers in Bengkulu to women’s activists in Jakarta, and how these relate to the development of national law on the one hand and local practices…
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The Unification of the Mediterranean World 400 BC - 400 AD
The Leiden Ancient History specialization concentrates on the study of the economies, societies and cultures of the large empires of the Graeco-Roman world, starting with the empires of Alexander the Great and his successors. The appearance of these empires led to the development of an interaction network…
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Hajj: Global Interactions through Pilgrimage
Every year, in the last month of the Islamic calendar, millions of Muslims from around the world come together in Mecca to perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that all capable Muslims should perform at least once in their lives. In 2013, the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden organised the exhibition…
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Tolkien Spirituality: Constructing Belief and Tradition in Fiction-based Religion
How is tradition constructed and belief made plausible in fiction-based religion?
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Islam and law
Systematic investigations into religious precepts, worldly rules of law and legal practices in the Muslim world show clearly how these societies deal with justice and injustice. Sharia, the Islamic ‘legal system’, plays an important role in this context.
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Ancient Worlds network
The Ancient Worlds Network brings together staff and graduate students in LIAS working on the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world.
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Training courses D&I
The university and faculty regularly offer training courses in the field of Diversity & Inclusion. View an overview of the current training courses here.
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EMStaD YEMEN: Early Modern State Development in Yemen
How do early modern states organize effective rule in difficult conditions? EMStaD YEMEN focuses on a country that due to its geographical, religious and social complexities is now considered a failed state – Yemen.
- Masterclass: Wondering about 'Reform' in Medieval Sources (4th-11th Centuries) - 1/3 ECTS
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Italian
These courses address all language skills: speaking, writing, listening and reading.
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Catalysis of the electrochemical water oxidation to oxygen
Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: F. Calle-Vallejo
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Towards efficient low-temperature CO2 electrolysis
In what way can the chemical properties of cobalt porphyrines be adjusted to optimize their selectivity and activity when using them for the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to methane and methanol?
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Fundamental Research in Energy & Sustainability
Twenty years from now, the world population is estimated to be around 9 billion people (now 8 billion). In combination with the improvements in living standards and the corresponding growth in consumption, this population will result in an enormous increase in the demand for food, consumables, water…
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ACPA - Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
At ACPA, the collaboration between Leiden University and the University of the Arts The Hague, artistry and academia meet at the highest level.
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Utterance-final particles in Taiwan Mandarin: Contact, context and core functions
This study explores regional variation in the use of utterance-final particles by analyzing spoken Taiwan Mandarin data recorded from spontaneous conversations.