2,625 search results for “history of the contemporary middle east” in the Staff website
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Hominin diversity in Eastern Asia
Conference
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Using a camera to look into a book's spine: ‘You might just find that one rare text’
What do you do if you have a book from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, but you suspect that the binding contains a fragment of a medieval manuscript? University lecturer Thijs Porck has received an NWO grant to experiment with a camera attached to a tube. 'The project boils down to keyhole surgeries…
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Not Rifles but Books: FEC’s Book Programs (1954–1991)
Lecture, CHEI Seminar
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Maria Spirova
Social & Behavioural Sciences
mspirova@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Hans Oversloot
Social & Behavioural Sciences
j.oversloot@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Amadou AdamouFaculty of Humanities
a.adamou@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Corrie BakelsFaculty of Archaeology
c.c.bakels@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272393
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Archaeologist Jennifer Swerida investigates emergent social complexity in the Omani desert
In June 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new Assistant Professor. Dr Jennifer Swerida, originally from the United States, will strengthen the Faculty’s expertise on the archaeology of West Asia. ‘I explore human-environment relationships inside an ancient oasis and the surrounding land. Previous…
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Devotion & Immersive Play - The Use of 'Spiritual Toys' in the Late Middle Ages
Lecture
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Marijke Kooijman
Faculty of Humanities
m.p.e.kooijman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275014
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".
- Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
- Ancient History Research Seminars 2024-2025
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Alexander Dencher: ‘I want to give new elan to the study of applied arts’
A successful series of lectures on interior design, a symposium on four-poster beds and a new series of study afternoons on the horizon. University lecturer Alexander Dencher knows how to hold the attention of a growing audience. How does he do it? And what makes the history of interior design so fa…
- Peace Histories Seminar Series 2024-2025
- Global Histories of Knowledge 2023 - 2024
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National(ist) Media: Platform, Participation, and the Rise of Digital Populism in Japan
Lecture
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Spaces of Conflicts: The Lebanese War Novel as Urban and Architectural History
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Sensing Scripts: Popular Religion, the Senses and Textuality
Lecture, Keynote
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From Scribe to Screen: Sources and Approaches to Global History in the Digital Age [COGLOSS x GLOBALISE]
Lecture, COGLOSS x GLOBALISE Webinar
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European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2025
Conference
- Peace Histories Seminar Series 2025-2026
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Ancient History (UMW) Research Seminar
Lecture, Ancient History (UMW) Research Seminar and Ancient Worlds Network Lecture
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Reparative Encounters: Colonial Histories, Other-Archives, and Collaborative Artistic Research
Lecture, CADS/CWTS DataCultures seminar
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Student Johan collaborated on three books: ‘1572 was not a celebration of tolerance’
This year marks the 450th anniversary of the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen (lit. ‘Sea Beggars’) and therefore the birth of the Netherlands. Student Johan Visser is contributing to no fewer than three books about the extraordinary year of 1572.
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Business History and Imperialism SI Workshop
Lecture, Workshop
- BioREPS online seminar series
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LUCAS “Modern and Contemporary Studies” Research Cluster 3rd annual conference 'Environment as Lens: Rethinking Humanities Research through the
Conference
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Nearness Within the Chinese Literati Garden and its Enlightenments for Contemporary Spatial Practices in China
Lecture, China Seminar
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LUCSoR welcomes Verena Meyer to the staff
LUCSoR is happy to welcome Verena Myer, researcher and lecturer in Islam in South and South-East Asia to the staff. In this interview she will discuss the course she is teaching, as well as her upcoming book.
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Alistair Kefford on French television on the future of European cities
What does the retail crisis mean for the future of Europe's urban centres? Assistant professor Alistair Kefford answers this very question in the French television programme 27.
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How seals point to an undocumented prehistoric language
Language can be a time machine: we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach us something about people whose language has been lost? PhD candidate Anthony Jakob investigated whether the languages of prehistoric populations left…
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Durable Upheaval: The 1974 Ethiopian Revolution and Its Impact Five Decades Later
Lecture, Studium Generale
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How should we use AI? The Islamic world may have an answer
The secular West is struggling with the rise of AI, but so too is Muslim Southeast Asia. What can we learn from each other?
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery
Lecture
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Exhibition honours Niels Stensen, pioneer in medicine and geology
Seventeenth-century Danish scientist Niels Stensen made groundbreaking discoveries in the anatomy of the body and of Earth. This Leiden alumnus’s theories are still relevant, as an exhibition at the Oude UB shows.
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Henk te Velde on ABC Nightlife about Queen Wilhelmina
82 years ago Queen Wilhelmina fled to England. Henk te Velde tells about her on the Australian radio show 'Nightlife'.
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(In)equalizers - Social and Economic Histories of Inequality(ies) and Difference(s), 1500-2000
Conference, Workshop
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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CMP Somatic Dance (mixed level)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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National Museum of Taiwan Literature donates to Leiden Chinese Queer Collection
On the occasion of the Workshop organized last July to officially launch the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC), the National Museum of Taiwan Literature (NMTL) donated 30 titles of Taiwanese LGBTQ+ literature to support this initiative. These works where published between 1971 and 2022 by authors…
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The United States and the War in Gaza: History, Politics, and Culture
Debate, Panel and Q&A session
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Marie KolbenstetterFaculty of Archaeology
m.m.kolbenstetter@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
e.g.paskaleva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271692
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Dimitris Kastritis
Faculty of Humanities
d.kastritis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727