592 search results for “ancient arabic” in the Student website
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Writing a bottom-up, practice-oriented and connected history of Christianities in the medieval Middle East (12th-17th centuries
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Palestine Poster Workshop (2): History, Graphic Design, Political Solidarity
Arts and culture
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Obstinate Graves in East Java: Traditionalist and Modernist Ethics, Excess, and Sufi Perspectives | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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The Bank van Lening (1746) en Bank Courant (1752) in Batavia: Did Empire Create a Financial Revolution in Asia?
Lecture, Economic and Social History Brown Bag Seminar
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Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the making of the Palestinian Nakba
Lecture, Book talk
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Old signs & current signs in LSF (French Sign Language)
Lecture, Sign Language & Deaf People
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Oriental dance beginners/intermediate
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Oriental Dance intermediate/advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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From Microbes to the Cosmos: A Journey Through Science
Lecture, Pint of Science
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Modality without moods? Preliminary considerations for a systematic study of modal strategies in Hittite
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis
How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone in the universe? This was all covered during the celebration of Leiden University’s 449th Dies Natalis.
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Last starlight for space telescope Gaia
ESA’s space telescope Gaia, which maps the Milky Way, completes its active phase of scanning the sky on 15 January. Over the past decade, Gaia has made more than three trillion observations of about two billion stars and other cosmic objects. ‘Gaia is already the discovery machine of the decade,’ Leiden…
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-discussed topics. We compiled an overview of the most-read news items and other events of the past year.
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Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
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Metje Postma retires after 37 years
This February Metje Postma will stop teaching and retire. But she is not done with the discipline yet: she will finish her PhD and there are still five films on the shelf that she plans to complete.
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Annual Review 2025
In 2025, students, lecturers, researchers and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities were once again at the heart of society. They demonstrated the importance of the humanities through their groundbreaking research, meaningful education and strong collaborations.
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Skill issues: conceptual metaphors and the etymology of Vedic r̥tá
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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One language = one archaeological culture? Peruvian evidence for a richer interface between language and archaeology
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
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Care and the Jewish Experience
Conference, Second Conference of the Leiden Jewish Studies Network
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Working in the Netherlands for non-EU
Career and apply for jobs
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Redefining the community: The Huthi movement’s attempts to foster a sense of national belonging in Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Making Concentric Circles: The Performative Aspects of Sufi Devotional Practices and Modes of Constructing a Reality
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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If You Encounter Strife, Return to Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Master's students
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Wet felting workshop: design your own case or bag
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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An Evening of Druze Voices
Lecture, Event
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Informal workshop Global rhetoric
Lecture, Workshop
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Herta Mohr lecture 2025: TT 217, the tomb of the sculptor Ipuy
Lecture, Herta Mohr Lecture
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Measuring the edge of Infinity
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Archaeology in the Dealer’s Archive
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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Book ‘De Glazen Toren’: ‘The balance isn't quite right anymore’
Writing a book on the recent history of Leiden University in corona times. For educational and policy historian Pieter Slaman (34), this has meant working in the attic of his parents’ house while they looked after his daughter, along with numerous online conversations and very few, if any, visits to…
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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Opening public lectures Lorentz Center
Lecture
- Herta Mohr lecture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2025
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
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The Historical Topography of Medina: Faith, Power, and Memory in Early Islamic Arabia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Hybrid workshop: Narrating Highland Heritages of Bhutan
Lecture, Hybrid workshop
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Update: Executive Board responds to coalition agreement
The three parties currently forming a government – D66, CDA and VVD – have presented a new coalition agreement, in which they announce their intention to reverse the substantial funding cuts to higher education. This is encouraging news, although many uncertainties remain. The Executive Board will closely…