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Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods and Tools for New Approaches to Literary Studies
Lecture
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco
A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat at the end of February.
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Co-creation with researchers in Indonesia: ‘We welcome misunderstandings’
How do you co-create with researchers in other parts of the world? LDE wants to gather and share knowledge on the grand challenges and to do so across national borders. A delegation of 27 researchers will therefore travel to Indonesia at the end of October to take part in the LDE-BRIN Academy.
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Netherlands and Japan united by a tradition of mutual curiosity
A delegation from Leiden University visited various universities in Japan at the end of March. The strong ties between the Netherlands and Japan are still based on a long tradition of knowledge exchange.
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Studying the History of Technocratic Reasoning in Digitized Parliamentary Debates
Lecture
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The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The Most Popular Buddhist Illustrated Book of circa 1450
Lecture, China Seminar
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LTA lunch lecture - Gamification in Higher-Ed: Promises, Practices, and Pitfalls
Lecture
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The Śākadvīpīya Sun Cult from Ancient Times to the Present Day
Lecture, Friends of the Kern Institute
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Transforming Caste: Circus and Body Politics in Colonial Malabar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Environmental Colonialism in Palestine
Panel
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How a Taiwanese organisation strengthens local communities through recycling
Most people think of waste as something dirty that needs to be disposed of as soon as possible, but Olivia Yun-An Dung's dissertation aims to show that this does not always have to be the case. For this purpose, she focuses on Tzu Chi recycling in Taiwan. There, an army of elderly volunteers has been…
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Fifty years of teaching and research in Egypt: ‘Visit to Cairo a highlight for students’
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Thousands of students and researchers from eight partner universities in the Netherlands and Flanders have been able to gain valuable experience in Egypt through the institute. Good reason for a celebrat…
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2021: Evening Edition
This year, LUCIS adapted the programme of its popular annual Middle Eastern Culture Market into an evening version, featuring a lecture, book discussion, and music.
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Nadine Akkerman appointed professor: 'Interdisciplinarity also strengthens the humanities'
Leiden University has a new professor. On 1 June Nadine Akkerman became Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, a position she feels is designed to help her help others.
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Research Day of the National Research School for Literary Studies (OSL)
Conference
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Quality of master’s programmes assessed in new guide
The Air and Space Law (Advanced LL.M.) master’s programme at Leiden University is among ten ‘excellent master’s programmes’ at Dutch universities. This is according to ‘Keuzegids masters 2024’, a guide to master’s programmes in the Netherlands.
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Staging Power: A Study of Narrative Patterns in Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire
PhD defence
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Development and application of cryo EM tools to study the ultrastructure of microbes in changing environments
PhD defence
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Studies into Interactive Didactic Approaches for Learning Software Design Using UML
PhD defence
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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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Opening tentoonstelling 'Crafting Cultures' in de oude UB
Exhibition
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Renaming Ambiguity: Modernist Dream Encounters in Islamic Indonesia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Violence and the State: Perspectives from Ancient India
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam
Lecture
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POSTPONED - Gastro-Politics & Gastro-Ethics of Diversity: Negotiating Islam in an Entangled World
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Seventeenth-century depictions of sacred sites in the Kailasanathar Temple at Nattam, Tamil Nadu
Lecture, Masterclass IIAS/LIAS
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Special Guest Lecture: Civilian Internment in India: Omissions and Exceptions, Incarceration camps of the Pacific War
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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I Wish, I Wish, a Western Mosque: Colonial Continuities in Dutch Perspectives on Islamic Architecture
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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In conversation with Kimsooja
Expert meeting
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The Making of a Standard Mountain: A Road-Construction Campaign of 1934 and the Formation of Mount Huang’s Modern Image
Lecture
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Freud and China
Lecture
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Conspiracies in Turkish State-Sponsored Historical TV Series: A Case Study of Payitaht Abdulhamid
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Evelien Campfens in the New York Times on looted art in museums
In an article by the New York Times, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens discusses the difficulties surrounding the ownership of looted art.
- 'Sound Matters': An exploratory Workshop into Sound and Digital Humanities
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2022: 'After Lights Out: Studying Classics in a World War II Internment Camp'
Lecture
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Ammodo Science Award to bring cultural heritage to life through play
A team of Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage.
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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Honorary doctorates for Belgian virologist Marc van Ranst and German Arabist Beatrice Gründler
Leiden University is awarding an honorary doctorate to virologist Marc van Ranst. Van Ranst has been one of the main advisers of the Belgian government during the Covid pandemic. German Arabist Beatrice Gründler will also receive an honorary doctorate for her work in the field of Oriental Manuscript…
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Jewish families in late antiquity parables
Lecture, Public Lecture
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan van Leeuwen, modern horror says more about our society than we think. He has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize for his research into addiction…
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Minecraft in Morocco: virtual building blocks bring the past to life
Getting young people excited about history is quite possible without books. Researchers from Leiden travelled to Morocco to work with schoolchildren on reconstructing cultural heritage in the popular video game Minecraft. The result: one virtual 14th-century city gate – and 20 teens with a greater appreciation…
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The Processes of Conversion to Islam in Contemporary Spain: From the Betrayal of Spain to Community Insertion
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Workshop: Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights
Conference, Workshop
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India in the Making of the Global Esoteric: 1200-2000
Conference
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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy
Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger and twelve students from different conflict zones are starting a creative thinking process that aims to discover the basic conditions for peace in the…
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Roundtable: International Relations and the Idea of Merit
Conference, Roundtable