381 search results for “staat en religie” in the Staff website
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These students studied Byzantine Rome... in Rome: ‘It was an immersive experience’
Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course, co-taught by Vroom, Letty ten Harkel and various guest lecturers, investigated the transition of the city of Rome from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages,…
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…
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Ab de Jong new academic director of LIAS: ‘Feels like home’
Ab de Jong, professor of Comparative Religion, was appointed as the new the academic director of the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) with effect from 1 September. We asked him about his plans for the future of the LIAS.
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PhD survey results announced
The Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities conducted a survey of its PhD candidates and their supervisors in spring 2023. What is going well? And what could be improved? The results are now known.
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DNA from a cup of pond water can reveal a lot: Kat Stewart will find out with a Vidi grant from NWO
She has had the idea for seven years, but now environmental scientist and conservation biologist Kat Stewart finally gets to work on it. She has been awarded a Vidi grant by NWO to find out how DNA from water can be used to shed light on invasive species and their impact on native populations.
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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What Do We Mean When We Say “Academic Freedom”?
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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Qahramon Yakubov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in April 2023
Lecture
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Keynote Lecture: Zaydis, Salafis and Houthis and Their Engagement with the Islamic Tradition in Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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World Peace: visions from Tolstoy
Debate, Seminar
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New archaeological perspectives on an Arabian oasis in Islamic periods
Lecture
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The Leiden 'Humanities in a Digital World' Symposium
Symposium
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The Israel-Hamas War in Islamist Discourses
Discussion
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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POSTPONED: Civic and ethnic nations in Southeast Asia
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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The Commentary on the Remarks and Admonitions of Ibn Sina by the Shi’i Polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Or.95 in the Leiden University Library
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Renske Janssen is the winner of the LUCAS Dissertation Prize 2021
The LUCAS Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Dr. Renske Janssen for her PhD thesis Religio Illicita? Roman Legal Interactions with Early Christianity in Context.
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When will the salary increase be paid? And six other questions about the CAO
In July, the unions and universities reached a definitive CAO agreement (Collective Labour Agreement), with commitments on higher pay, more permanent contracts and a more inclusive leave scheme. Colleagues from the HR department and the FNV union explain how the agreement was reached, what we can expect…
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with issues from the past. Not to be rooted in the past because some developments from history are things you definitely don’t want to repeat.’
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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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Earliest Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections in Leiden Now Available in Open Access
Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available in Open Access via Digital Collections. The available manuscript collections include the private collections…
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant
Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their research ideas in the coming three years.
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Applying for jobs during the coronavirus pandemic: Ancient History alumni share their experiences
Three alumni of our Master’s degree programme in Ancient History talk to us about how they found a job after graduation during the coronavirus pandemic. During the interview, Gabriël hung a huge board covered in post-it reminders behind his laptop, Molly was glad that the members of the selection committee…
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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Reading list - our favourite books this summer
Did you also read a lot this summer? We made some real headway on our bookshelves. After all, nothing beats reading a beautiful or thrilling book outside. In this reading list, you'll find our favourite books for the summer of 2022. If you have any suggestions, let us know via Twitter, Facebook or I…
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
- COGLOSS seminars 2022-2023
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Asian(s) in the Netherlands
Panel conversation
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Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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The Decade of Revolt? Class Conflict and the State of Permanent Crisis in the Post-2011 Middle East
Conference, Roundtable
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Worlds to Discover: Ajami Manuscripts of West Africa
Lecture, Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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CSPPR Lecture: The Power of ‘Unpolitics’
Lecture
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Roundtable on the Future of Yemeni Studies
Conference, Roundtable
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Regulating Relations: Controlling Sex and Marriage in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
PhD defence
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Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
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Vedic mantras and rituals and their Avestan parallels: Toward the reconstruction of Indo-Iranian formulae and liturgical structures
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Between spiritual care and forensic care: situating the remains of war dead in contemporary Vietnam
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Warrior Women, Gender-bending Plots, Perfect Masculinity: Paradigms of gender in Javanese Amir Hamza narratives
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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European Music Meets Japanese Culture: a Lecture on the Essence of the Funeral Culture in Japan
Lecture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
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Globalizing the Northern Muslim World: the Mongol Exchange and the Horde
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Fireside Peace Chat with Arnold Stepanyan
Debate, Fireside Peace Chats
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Making meaningful lives | Iza Kavedžija
Lecture, Online webinar
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The UN Commission on the Status of Women CSW: Over 75 years of making women’s rights human rights
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Anthropology of Asia at Leiden Update
Conference, Network event
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Workers of Istanbul Unite! A Socialist Workers' Organization in the Late Ottoman Capital, 1909-1922
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series