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Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire
An interdisciplinary study of the Persian Period
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Saqqara Excavations and Fieldschool (Egypt)
Our recent excavations have focused on the more recent New Kingdom/Late Period (ca. 1500-332 BCE) material.
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Gli artigiani e la città
Over the last decades, the systematic investigation of urban settlements in Central-Tyrrhenian Italy led to the discovery of a growing number of contexts revealing both direct and indirect evidence of artisanal workshops. Such research commitment has yielded a vast amount of new data that greatly contribute…
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Eric Storm
Faculty of Humanities
h.j.storm@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2721
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Remco Breuker
Faculty of Humanities
r.e.breuker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2921
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Jacqueline Hylkema
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
j.j.hylkema@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Anne van Dam
Faculty of Humanities
a.n.van.dam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2166
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
a.f.schrikker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2769
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Karwan Fatah-Black
Faculty of Humanities
k.j.fatah@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2666
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Lionel Laborie
Faculty of Humanities
l.p.f.laborie@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3546
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Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
Faculty of Humanities
j.fynn-paul@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9191
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
e.w.rosen.jacobson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1293
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Imagining the Arabs
Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
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The idea of the primitive hut
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Formalizations après la lettre. Studies in Medieval Logic and Semantics
This thesis attempts to establish a dialogue between the modern and the medieval traditions in logic, by means of ‘translations’ of the medieval logical theories into the modern framework of symbolic logic, i.e. formalizations.
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Profiling Leiden Japan Sources in the Global History field: From Bipolar to Multipolar Research
Leiden University Library and related museum holdings in Leiden contain a body of materials showing the unique role of Dutch-Japanese trade relations as a node in the history of global flows of knowledge, materials and culture during the early modern period.
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Diversifying the Collections: Inclusive Citizenship and Public Histories of Exclusion
In educational settings such as museums, universities and schools, white, male, able-bodied and rational subjects still dominate. Although there has been a lot of theoretical work on processes of in- and exclusion through racialization, sexualization, and disabilization, we still know very little about…
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Coping with Versnel: A Roundtable on Religion and Magic
Henk Versnel's work on ancient religion has been seminal. For his 80th birthday, a group of scholars assembled to celebrate and analyze his oeuvre.
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Colonialism and Slavery: An Alternative History of the Port City of Rotterdam
Unlike most city histories, this book focuses exclusively on the city’s connections with colonialism and slavery.
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General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.
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Pepper to Sea Cucumbers: Chinese Gustatory Revolution in Global History, 900-1840
On 10 November Guanmian Xu successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Gerhard de Kok
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.de.kok@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2623
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
c.m.stolte@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7308
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Luc Bulten
Faculty of Humanities
l.j.bulten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2706
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Alanna O'Malley
Faculty of Humanities
a.m.omalley@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2785
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Ancient water management and field systems in southern Jordan
About 15 km to the south of the ancient city of Petra, archaeologists from the University of Leiden have discovered an impressive network of ancient water conservation measures and irrigated field systems.
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Culture, History and Society (BA Major of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges)
Today, globalization makes us all aware of how closely we are connected to, and often dependent upon, the actions of people who are distant from us. Human migration and economic liberalization have confronted local communities with changes happening on a global level. How can we devise ways to share…
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By the rivers of Babylon: New perspectives on Second Temple Judaism from Cuneiform texts
“BABYLON” investigates the extent of the similarities between Babylonian and post-exilic forms of cultic and social organization and explores the question how Babylonian models could have influenced the restoration effort in Jerusalem.
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Claire Weeda
Faculty of Humanities
c.v.weeda@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2718
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A Literary History of Reconciliation. Power, Remorse and the Limits of Forgiveness
From William Shakespeare to Marilynne Robinson, A Literary History of Reconciliation is the first study to examine representations of interpersonal reconciliation in work of literature across a long-term period, from the early seventeenth century to the present day, focusing on how these representations…
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Apocalypse Now: Connected Histories of Eschatological Movements from Moscow to Cusco, 15th-18th Centuries
Eschatology played a central role in both politics and society throughout the early modern period. It inspired people to strive for social and political change, including sometimes by violent means, and prompted in return strong reactions against their religious activism.
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Nature and History Towards a Hermeneutic Philosophy of Historiography of Science
Nature and History, Towards a Hermeneutic Philospohy of Historiography of Science
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Ancient Greek decision making with help from the gods
In the world of Ancient Greece the interpretation of supernatural signs was a versatile tool to facilitate decision-making. This is the central hypothesis of the PhD dissertation of historian Kim Beerden. Defence on 14 February.
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Melanie Gross
Faculty of Humanities
m.m.gross@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Peter Meel
Faculty of Humanities
p.j.j.meel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2654
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Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet oder Hekuba and the Question of a Philosophy of History
The thesis reconstructs Carl Schmitt's 1956 monography on 'Hamlet'. By scanning and unearthing books, essays, think-pieces, articles, personal diaries and private correspondence, this investigation fully addresses the unwritten philosophy of history -partially developed- in Schmitt's late thought. The…
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The World and The Netherlands: A Global History from a Dutch Perspective
This book examines the history of The Netherlands in a way that connects global processes to local developments.
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The Future is Elsewhere: Towards a Comparative History of the Futurities of the Digital (R)evolution
How did digital intermediality symbolise and facilitate the transfer of content from popular culture into policy statements and vice versa in the period between 1945 and the new millenium?
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Political legitimacy in Chinese history : the case of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-535)
Liu Puning defended his thesis on 25 April 2018.
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Being a Slave: Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean
Being a Slave brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean.
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Irene Vikatou
Faculteit Archeologie
e.vikatou@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jac Aarts
Faculteit Archeologie
j.m.m.j.g.aarts@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Greater focus on pre-Islamic heritage
War and terrorism overshadow interest in the pre-Islamic heritage of the Arabic peninsula. The new Leiden Centre for the Study of Ancient Arabia aims to make the general public more aware of the ancient history of this region.
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Reception in Nietzsche’s Concept of Amor Fati
To what extent can Nietzsche's Amor Fati be seen as a Stoic concept?