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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence
In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate. Archaeology research in Leiden into burial mounds in the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas of the Netherlands yielded this spectacular conclusion.…
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Metje Postma retires after 37 years
This February Metje Postma will stop teaching and retire. But she is not done with the discipline yet: she will finish her PhD and there are still five films on the shelf that she plans to complete.
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Workshop: Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights
This workshop brings together experts from the University of Exeter and Leiden University, as well as specialists from across the world, to analyse the historical role of the entrepreneur in a comparative and global-historical perspective, particularly in relationship to the management of risk and u…
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Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century
In the existing literature on Islamic legal history and South or Southeast Asian Islamic traditions, fatwa collections from the “peripheries” of the Muslim world have been largely ignored, despite a considerable presence of such texts in both regions. This paper focuses on two fatwa compilations from…
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Linguistic Anthropology in Europe: Past, Present, and Futures
Conference
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Film Screening: Foragers
Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws…
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Business History and Imperialism SI Workshop
Lecture, Workshop
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Governance and Democracy in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Campus the Hague 'Meet the Employer'
The Campus The Hague event 'Meet the employer' will take place again this fall, sign up soon! This event is organized by the faculties of Governance and Global Affairs, Humanities and Social Sciences. During the day you get to meet interesting companies and organizations, such as KPMG, Commit Global, Europese…