874 search results for “discovery of the yara” in the Staff website
-
Skin and Beyond: Reading the Surfaces of the Body in Ancient Greek Literature
PhD defence
-
Anchoring & Affordances: The Modern Afterlives of Francis Bacon’s Theory of the Idols
PhD defence
-
Book Talk: Israeli-Turkish Relations at the End of the Cold War: The Geopolitics of Denying the Armenian Genocide
Lecture, Book Talk
-
Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)
In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.
-
Sjef Barbiers moves to INT: ‘Especially in times of AI, we need to keep Dutch relevant’
Professor Sjef Barbiers is leaving his job as scientific director of LUCL for the position of scientific director of the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) from 1 September.
-
Look to Africa as a mirror of global developments
Western countries still tend to view Africa as the periphery, says anthropologist Mayke Kaag. In her inaugural lecture, she calls for a shift in perspective: to see Africa as a mirror of global developments.
-
New perspective, equal opportunities in the classroom
Inequality could be addressed in the classroom without taking too much time, effort or money. By making one small change, teachers can make a big difference, says Professor by Special Appointment in Equal Educational Opportunities Lisa Gaikhorst in her inaugural lecture.
-
Guest lecture: Matsumoto Toshio’s Theory of the Antifascist Avant-Doc
Lecture
-
The Western Part of the East Indies: Colonial Worldmaking and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape Colony
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
-
Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
-
the Environment in Ottoman Yemen, 1870-1924: Revisiting the History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
-
Chinese nationalism in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis
PhD defence
-
Kremlin's Control and Suppression Strategies: The evolution of the relationship between violence and disinformation between 2000 – 2021
Lecture
-
our country back’: Banal nationalism and the continuing significance of the national in an uncertain world
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
-
‘Migration’, ‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages
Social scientists from Leiden University have worked with an international team to create teaching modules on migration.
-
Sander Bax: 'Literature doesn’t confine itself to national borders'
To truly understand Dutch literature, we have to look beyond borders. At least, that is the view of Sander Bax. From 1 August, he will be Professor of Contemporary Dutch Literature and Culture in a Transnational Dynamic.
-
Shii Law of War Booty: What Imamis and Zaydis Say about the Division of the Khums
Middle East Studies Lecture
-
Veni for Verena Meyer: 'Not every religious manuscript is meant to be digitised'
Now that it is becoming increasingly easy to digitise texts, it seems almost obvious to do that with everything that has ever been written. University lecturer Verena Meyer thinks that is too simplistic. ‘We need to look more closely at the political and cultural effects of digitisation.’
-
‘Having children is increasingly seen as something that can be planned and managed’
What are the main trends in family life today? Three stand out: young adults living with their parents for longer, people delaying parenthood and widening inequality between families. How did these trends emerge, and what are their consequences? Leiden experts explain.
-
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.
-
Social Mobility and Integration of Amsterdam Jews: The Ethnic Niche of the Diamond Industry, 1850-1940
PhD defence
-
Foreign Yet Domestic Liberties: The Imperial Imaginary of the ACLU and the U.S. Colonial Empire, 1920-1941
PhD defence
-
government's communicative practice in colonial bureaucracy at the turn of the twentieth century in southern Africa
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
-
Old Testament and Scribal Scholarship in Antiquity on the Occasion of the Eightieth Birthday of Arie van der Kooij
Symposium
-
Daan Roovers in the 54th Huizinga Lecture: ‘Democracy is more than winning elections’
In a packed Stadsgehoorzaal, philosopher and Member of the Senate Daan Roovers delivered the 54th Huizinga Lecture. It was a passionate plea for a form of politics thatt is not only about winning, but also about talking and playing.
-
Causation in Aristotle’s Philosophy: Ensuring the Continuity and Coherence of the Cosmos within a Teleological Framework
PhD defence
-
‘Teach young people to take control of technology’
Technology is spreading its tendrils into the classroom. But who is in control?
-
The Devāsurasaṃgrāma Myth in Buddhist Context: A Textual Study of the Deva-Asura War Narrative in the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra
PhD defence
-
How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
-
'Language is part of your identity’
Rik van Gijn was appointed professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World from 1 December 2024. He is keen to use the position to set up research on language vitality. ‘People almost never give up their mother tongue entirely voluntarily.’
-
Talk: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: The Politics of Emotion in the Pamphlets of the De Hondt Affair During the Small Brabant Revolution (1787)
Lecture, Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk
-
Following Fate or Falling in Love: The second marriage of the Kitchen God’s wife in the rewriting of Chinese Folk Literature in the 1950s and
Lecture, China Seminar
-
Sein and Sollen? A Preliminary Reconstruction and Reinterpretation of the Concept of Tao in the Tao Te Ching
Lecture
-
European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
-
From Japan Studies to junior school: ‘I was back to square one in the classroom’
It was while wearing clogs at a Dutch theme park in Japan that Cindy Heijdra really got to know Japan. Over 20 years later, she is studying again: to be a primary school teacher.
- Activities
-
Li Manshan: Portrait of a Folk Daoist
Film screening
-
Opera Viva: Ah, l'Amor
Arts and culture, Opera lecture
-
Lustrum: 75 years English Language and Culture programme
Alumni event, Lustrum
-
India - Pakistan: Een grensconflict met diepe wortels
Lecture, Leids Actualiteitencollege
-
Asia Academy #20: 75 Years of Korean War: The Long Shadow
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
-
Telling the story of Gaza
Lecture, Book presentation and Q&A
-
Book presentation: Israelite Religion
Lecture, Book presentation
-
A Special Territory: Visions of Hong Kong and its People
PhD defence
-
Setting the Standard
PhD defence
-
The Values of Language(s) in the Ancient World
Conference, Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values XIII
-
Uncorking Language
Debate, LUCL Fireside Chat
-
Syria, one year after the revolution: The role of women and minorities
Lecture, Workshop
-
The Historical Topography of Medina: Faith, Power, and Memory in Early Islamic Arabia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
-
Beyond Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote