2,628 search results for “history of the contemporary middle east” in the Staff website
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Marijke TielemanFaculty of Humanities
m.tieleman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271666
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Georg Cyrus
Faculty of Humanities
g.c.cyrus@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Albert Planelles OrozcoFaculty of Humanities
a.planelles.orozco@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272038
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Book launch: Roots of counterterrorism, Contemporary Wisdom from Dutch Intelligence
Lecture, Book launch
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European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’
Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.
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Panel Discussion | A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
Debate, Panel Discussion
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Historiography and Palaeography of Sasanian Middle Persian Inscriptions
PhD defence
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg: 'How does the discourse on war influence practice?'
As a student, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg was primarily interested in diplomacy surrounding conflicts. Through research on peace operations and subsequently the fight against guerrillas, he became increasingly involved with the most violent aspects of colonial warfare. Per 1 September 2024 he is appointed…
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Obstinate Graves in East Java: Traditionalist and Modernist Ethics, Excess, and Sufi Perspectives | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Lingyun Lai
Faculty of Humanities
l.lai@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Dettje BakkerFaculty of Humanities
d.j.bakker.2@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Anne van DamFaculty of Humanities
a.n.van.dam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Salem Ritenour
Faculty of Humanities
s.j.ritenour@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Daný van DamFaculty of Humanities
h.d.j.van.dam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Sarah BadwyFaculty of Humanities
s.badwy@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Anna Ljung Grüner-HeggeFaculty of Humanities
a.b.ljung.gruner.hegge@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Emma de VriesFaculty of Humanities
e.m.de.vries@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Roosmarijn HompeFaculty of Humanities
r.g.hompe@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Mark Driessen's Jordan fieldwork features in Photo Exhibition
The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden features a small photo exhibition on Mark Driessen's fieldwork research project in Southern Jordan. In this small exhibition you will see a selection of nine photos, made in Udhruh. This ancient Jordanian settlement lies fifteen kilometres east of Petra,…
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The Helsinki Final Act at 50: Timeless Masterpiece or Relic of the Cold War?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Ties DamsFaculty of Law
t.t.c.dams@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Book Landscapes of Survival sheds new light on the habitation of the Jordan deserts
December 2020 saw the crowning publication of the Landscapes of Survival project by Professor Peter Akkermans. Its main topic is human habitation in marginal environments like the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. ‘The people living here built their own society, and they would not have viewed it as…
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Meet Dr. Jonathan Stökl, LJSA Member
Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Stökl was Reader in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at Kings College London.
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Luca Bruls Awarded Fellowship Grant for Research and Ethnographic Filmmaking
Luca Bruls has received a Catharina Halkes Fonds fellowship grant to finalize her fieldwork in Chad and Senegal and to complete her first ethnographic film.
- Call for papers: The Routledge International Handbook on Social Exclusion and Radicalisation
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Jesse Wichers SchreurFaculty of Humanities
j.g.wichers.schreur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274154
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Sense Embodied: Cloves and Olfactory Transitions in Middle Period China
Lecture
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Ilan PeledFaculty of Humanities
i.peled@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
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‘In the second half of the eighteenth century, decisions were made in the stadtholder’s audience chamber.’
The stadtholder’s court in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands has long been underestimated. Real courts and the associated court culture were to be found elsewhere in Europe. PhD candidate Quinten Somsen is trying to reverse this image. ‘The stadtholder’s court was actually very lively.’
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Honorary doctorates for Safiya Umoja Noble and Catherine Malabou during 2026 Dies Natalis
Leiden University will award two honorary doctorates at its Dies Natalis on 9 February 2026. They will go to internet studies scholar Safiya Umoja Noble and philosopher Catherine Malabou.
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Hong Kong's Place in South East Asia
PhD defence
- Global Histories of Knowledge 2024 - 2025
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'Rome after Rome': a unique student-scholar exploration of early medieval Rome
Debates about the ‘end’ of the Roman era, how, when, and even if it ended, are still very much alive and raging. However, what happened after the (long) late antique period is a lesser-known and lesser-studied subject. The post-Roman past needs, however, as much energetic investigation and discussion.…
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Tracing mobility and connection to place in the world’s first farming villages
How did people move and form communities when human societies first shifted from hunting and gathering to farming? A new study of the Neolithic period in southwest Asia, the birthplace of agriculture, offers fresh insights.
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Introducing: Lauren Lauret
In February 2015 Lauren Lauret started her PhD project titled 'Meeting practices of the Dutch States General and the continuity of the early modern world of the political (1780-1848)' at the Institute for History, supervised by prof. H. te Velde.
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Research by Leiden archaeologists in The Jordan Times
Recent fieldwork at the vast desert region in north-eastern Jordan has revealed an immensely rich heritage of an area that is difficult to access and archaeologically less known. Professor Peter Akkermans was interviewed about his groundbreaking research in this area, known as the Black Desert.
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While the men are away, the Scheveningen women do it their way
Women confined to the kitchen? Not in Scheveningen around 1900. There, some women ran entire shipping companies. This is according to new research by history student Sjors Stuurman. He compiled the results in a book he wrote for Muzee Scheveningen.
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Digital Humanities for Contemporary Policy Research - the Case of China
Lecture
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David Pieter Schaper
Faculty of Archaeology
d.p.schaper@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 06 12754061
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The Western Part of the East Indies: Colonial Worldmaking and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape Colony
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Introducing: Stefano Bellucci
In August 2014 Stefano Bellucci started working as Senior Lecturer in African History at the Institute for History.
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Students Sander, Linde and Melle create an online exhibition for the University Library
With a recently published major research project and an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, the struggle for independence in Indonesia has been thrusted back into the spotlight. Leiden University is devoting attention to this topic as well. History students Sander van der Horst and Melle van Maanen joined…
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Marie SoressiFaculty of Archaeology
m.a.soressi@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5355
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Forecasting Finlandization: How will Xi’s China seek to revise East Asia’s regional order?
Lecture
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
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Blessed Aristocracies: Charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series