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End of Year Event Archaeology
End of Year Event
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Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
This roundtable discussion centres on the notion that storytelling is a practice capable of shaping collective memory and envisioning future trajectories. It will start with brief introductions highlighting the work of each participant. Join scholars and artists in conversation on indigenous…
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Sub State Recognition: The Politics of State Recognition from Below
Lecture
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‘We died the day we left the forests’: Documenting the collective memories of the lost heritage of the Basua of Bundibugyo
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Africa's Second Struggle for Freedom: What's decolonisation got to do with it?
Please note: contrary to regular ASCL seminars, this seminar will take place in the Lipsius Building in Leiden, room 0.19. For registrees who cannot travel to Leiden a link to an online platform will be sent one day in advance. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò is by now well known for his book Against Decolonization,…
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Talk by Prof. Anne Allison (Duke University)
On Wednesday the 11th of October Prof. Anne Allison (Duke University) will visit us to give a talk about her new book Being Dead Otherwise (Duke University Press 2023). The talk will take place in our Faculty building, room TBA.
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68th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
We have the honour of inviting you to the 68th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, the annual conference of the International Association for Assyriology, hosted by Leiden University from 17 to 20 July 2023!
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Building Future Heritage
Conference
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Doctoral Performance Anna Bianco
PhD defence, Performance
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Radical Spotlights: Desire, Sexuality, and the Economy
Lecture, Radical Spotlights Seminar
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Award ceremony: Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Award 2024
In collaboration with Defence for Children, Leiden University’s Department of Child Law will hold the 12th Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award ceremony on Friday 13 December from 14.00 onwards. The prize will be awarded for the best master’s thesis in the field of children’s rights. From the…
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Heritage languages in the Netherlands: Scholars, teachers, and students in dialogue
HERLING, the research lab for the study of Heritage Languages in the Netherlands, is glad to invite you to a workshop for linguists and educators for International Mother Language Day on Wednesday, 21 February 2024 from 11:00 to 16:00.
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New Year’s reception 2021: a memorable online event
The Faculty’s traditional New Year’s reception, like everything else these days, was transformed into an online event this year. Dean Paul Wouters as the host led us through the programme filled with the Casimir Teaching Award, the Pieter de la Court Medals, the Master’s Thesis Prizes, and a short lecture…
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Modern Literature from the Middle East - The Reading List
The Middle East has a rich literary tradition, which is steadily gaining a foothold in the West. Modern literary works deal with contemporary issues, such as the legacy of colonialism, the struggles between traditionalism and modernity, the place of women in society and the war in Israel/Palestine.
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this second instalment: historian and university lecturer Nadia Bouras (1981). ‘Although I only found out later that was my mother’s dream, it was as though I…
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The Comics Canon - Graphic Novels at Leiden University Libraries
Graphic Novels and Comics have developed from pulp status to an entirely self-contained medium. This form of storytelling is not limited to stories of superheroes but has been used, molded and reshaped to display historical events, classic stories and autobiographical memoirs. But where should you begin…
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'Dissociation in borderline personality disorder can hinder daily life and the course of therapy'
Dissociation is a common symptom in borderline personality disorder and is associated with an increased risk of suicidality and self-harm. Dialectical behaviour therapist Anne Krause-Utz has written a book for clinicians, researchers and students who want to better understand and recognise the pheno…
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Twenty-five lecturers gain Senior Teaching Qualification
Twenty-five passionate lecturers earned their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on Monday 12 January. Five of these lecturers talk about how the SKO has benefitted them and what they think ‘good teaching’ is.
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In cap and gown on the A12, titles on X? Academics in the public debate
On 14 February, the university’s Academic Freedom Core Team is holding a dialogue session on the role of academics in the public debate and how this relates to academic freedom. There are different perspectives on this topical issue. How should academics join the public debate? Is active participation…
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From Hygienic Cities to Fossil Urbanism: Global Forces, Local Contexts, and Urban Environmental History
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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LUCAS PhD Symposium “Research in Progress”
The LUCAS PhD Council is thrilled to invite you to the 2nd LUCAS PhD Symposium “Research in Progress” on November 21, 2024. This symposium will provide an excellent opportunity for our PhD candidates to present their research to their peers and engage in a thought-provoking discussion regarding…
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From Underground to Overground, from Print to Digital: A Symposium on Unofficial Poetry from China
Leiden University Libraries holds an internationally unique collection of unofficial poetry from China. Produced outside the System over the last fifty years or so, this poetry is hugely influential yet hard to find beyond the informal networks through which it travels. To address this paradox, the…
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Women's Rights in the New Geopolitical Landscape
International Women's Day 2025 - Seminar
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If You Encounter Strife, Return to Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Why has Western Policy failed on Palestine/Israel?
This session brings together three former diplomats, from both sides of the Atlantic. Each one of them resigned over the Palestine/Israel/ Gaza policy of their respective Dutch/US government. They will share and reflect on the background and motivation as to their decision to resign. In addition they…
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Conference, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Politics in Late Imperial Austria and Contemporary Europe: Back to Normal?
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
This workshop brings together linguists, historians and document specialists to examine how rhetorical strategies in letters of request differed across different linguistic historical cultures. Presentations cover cases from classical to early modern Europe and Middle East. For much of the pre-modern…
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All Roads Lead to Rome? New Reflections on Ecology and Mobility in the Roman Empire
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Are there questions that should not be raised at university?
The university’s Academic Freedom Core Team is holding a dialogue session on the question: Are there questions that should not be raised at university? All Leiden University students and staff are welcome to participate. The session will be in Dutch but you will be able to ask and answer questions in…
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Exploring Our Roots
This will be our first symposium of the year and it will be focused on connections between us and our heritage or our cultural roots. There will be 5 speakers covering a range of different topics, so we hope you are excited to hear all about their amazing research. The symposium will take place…
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Nation Building, Historiography, and School History in a Multi-Cultural Context: Ethiopia’s Enigma of Our Time
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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Workshop about diversity biases of AI systems in the workplace
Course
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Environmental Activism, Indigenous Survival, and Settler Colonialism in the Unist’ot’en Camp’s Resistance against the Coastal GasLink Pipeline
Hosted by the Futures of Native American Studies, the North American Studies programme, the Leiden University Cente for the Arts in Society, and the JEDI fund. In this workshop, Laura de Vos (Radboud Univ.) will present their research with Marije van Lankveld on the Unist’ot’en Camp and its…
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The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health of LGBTQIA+ child asylum-seekers
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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ASCL Seminar: Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Rwanda: A Feminist Analysis
Lecture
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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…
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
On 23-34 May 2024, the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and the Research Group ‘Museums, Collections and Society’ will hold an interdisciplinary symposium on ‘Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage’. One of the shortcomings of existing approaches to restitution…
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Philosopher of law Ali Kösedag: Hague heart, Leiden mind
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this fourth instalment: alumnus and philosopher of law Ali Kösedag (1992): ‘Philosophising about equality before the law in the Netherlands at an early-morning…
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Caribbean Literature - A Reading List
Caribbean literature holds a unique position in the world. Literature produced in the Caribbean region is extremely diverse, not only because of the wide variety of languages spoken, but also due to distinct colonial legacies that exist in the archipelago. Despite cultural specificities, the region…
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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Memory Politics and Contentious Heritage in Anṣār Allāh/Ḥūthī Yemen
Cultural memory is constantly mediated by the fields of political power in which it circulates and through which it eventually obtains its shape. This holds particularly true for heritage politics, as the curation of heritage is controlled and financed by elites, making it highly dependent on power…
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Turkey’s Centennial: Democracy, Diplomacy, Security
On October 29, 1923, the Turkish Republic succeeded the defeated and partitioned Ottoman Empire. The year 2023 marks the centenary of the Republic of Turkey. For a century, it remained the focus of international attention due to its strategic position between Europe and Asia. The Republic’s political,…
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Jews at Home. From Creation to Corona
16.00-18.00 Opening (Academy building, Faculty Club, Rapenburg 70) Reception and Keynote Panel: 'Home as Haven? Narratives of Crises and the Jewish Past' The panel will feature Professor Elisheva Baumgarten, Department of Jewish History and Contemporaneous Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Prof.…
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There and Back Again: Spirit Travels in Western Religious Traditions (13th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity)
Lecture, Symposium
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Yemen’s history of slavery and its lasting impact on social and racial hierarchies
For centuries, enslaved individuals were trafficked to Yemen – mostly from the Horn of Africa across the Red Sea – and forced to support local societies through their labor. As Ḥusayn al-ʿAmrī's pioneering scholarship and my recent studies have highlighted, their contributions in medieval…
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The New Atlantic Order - and Transformation of Global Politics in the "Long" 20th Century
Building on my recent book The New Atlantic Order, and challenging long dominant conceptions of a “short” 20th century, this talk seeks to cast fresh light on how the modern global order actually came to be recast so radically. To this end, it will present a new conceptual framework and trace fundamental…
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Reimaging Peace Democratization in Yemen: Women, Transnationalism and Activism in Exile
This presentation sheds light on the dynamics between gender, war-induced diaspora, transnationalism, and peace-building in Yemen. Since the outbreak of the war in 2014/2015, around 4.5 million people have been internally displaced and over 190,000 Yemenis sought refuge abroad. While the out-migration…
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Social class and the rise of Scottish Standard English: Insights from a corpus of poor relief petitions
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Double Lecture on Ecocritical Perspectives in Japanese Art
This talk critically explores the artistic practices involved in visualizing disasters in early-modern Japan, focusing on the interplay between representation and unrepresentability within printed visual culture. Unlike contemporary disaster imagery, which often transforms catastrophic events into spectacles…