667 search results for “middle eastern literary” in the Staff website
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Burcu YildirimFaculty of Archaeology
b.yildirim@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Vici for Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Islamic Empire rapidly became unified'
After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the Islamic Empire expanded at a tremendous pace. Within a hundred years, it stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian subcontinent. How did such a rapidly conquered territory become one empire? Professor Petra Sijpesteijn has been awarded a Vici grant…
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2024
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Master’s students create Graduate Journal: ‘It represents the development we’ve achieved’
A celebration was held in the Tabú restaurant: Mark Rutgers, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, was presented with the first copy of LEAP, a journal where Humanities master’s students can prepare for an academic career by publishing articles themselves.
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EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa): One database to rule them all?
Lecture
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Peter Webb Awarded ERC Consolidator Grant for groundbreaking research on Pre-Islamic Arabia
Dr Peter Webb (LIAS) has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for his project Geo-Poetic Analysis of Pre-Islamic Arabia (GeoPo).
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Stone Age Chronicles: The Middle to Later Stone Age Transition in Southern Africa
Conference
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
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Jonathan SilkFaculty of Humanities
j.a.silk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2510
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
e.g.paskaleva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271692
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The Transformation of Science Systems in the Middle East and North Africa
PhD defence
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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Krista A. MilneFaculty of Humanities
k.a.milne@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2978
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Dorine SchellensFaculty of Humanities
d.e.a.schellens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6553
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
p.j.smith@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Antoinette HuijbersFaculty of Archaeology
a.m.j.h.huijbers@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Nina JaspersFaculty of Archaeology
n.l.jaspers@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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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…
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2025
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Sensing Darjeeling: Experiential Ethnographies Across Time
Workshop
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Yunnan Ye
Faculty of Humanities
y.ye@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Nadine Akkerman’s Spycraft reviewed in several publications
Nadine Akkerman's book Spycraft, which she co-wrote with historian of science Pete Langman, has garnered top publications, with reviews featured in The Telegraph, Literary Review, The Spectator, History Today, and the Times Literary Supplement.
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Goran Bouaziz
Faculty of Humanities
g.bouaziz@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Using a camera to look into a book's spine: ‘You might just find that one rare text’
What do you do if you have a book from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, but you suspect that the binding contains a fragment of a medieval manuscript? University lecturer Thijs Porck has received an NWO grant to experiment with a camera attached to a tube. 'The project boils down to keyhole surgeries…
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‘Eldest sons held the power in ancient Egypt’
For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, PhD candidate Steffie van Gompel explains that the reality is somewhat different. ‘In Egyptian families, it was often the eldest son versus the rest of the children.’
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan van Leeuwen, modern horror says more about our society than we think. He has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize for his research into addiction…
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Devotion & Immersive Play - The Use of 'Spiritual Toys' in the Late Middle Ages
Lecture
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Translating Jurjani: Why read an eleventh-century text about Arabic poetics?
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
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Angelique Heijstek-HofmanFaculty of Humanities
a.heijstek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2996
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Amit KurienSocial & Behavioural Sciences
a.j.kurien@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Swargajyoti GohainSocial & Behavioural Sciences
s.gohain@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ancient Greek spelling mistakes shed new light on language development
If you had something important to write down in ancient times, you would usually write in Greek in the eastern Mediterranean. University lecturer Joanne Stolk has been awarded an ERC grant to explore the kinds of spelling mistakes that were made in these scripts. And, more importantly, what improvements…
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Leiden’s Austria Centre traveled to Budapest, Hungary for the Annual Convention of Austria Centers
The sixteenth Annual Convention of Austria Centers took place in Budapest, Hungary in June 2024. There, colleagues gathered from around the world, coming from Jerusalem, Olomouc, Vienna, Berkeley, Edmonton, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Budapest and, of course, Leiden.
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Meet Dr. Lital Abazon LJSA Member
Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses ranging from Introduction to Zionism to World Cinema.
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European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’
Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.
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Faculty Office has moved to Herta Mohr Building
As from Wednesday 13 May, the Faculty Office has moved to the Herta Mohr Building.
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‘Literature is our compass in a turbulent world’
Literature – and films and social media too – helps us understand ourselves and society. That makes literary studies an eternally modern discipline, especially if you dare to combine it with other disciplines, says Nidesh Lawtoo.
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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.
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Irini SifogeorgakisFaculty of Archaeology
e.sifogeorgakis@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Hannah Busch
Faculty of Humanities
h.f.busch@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Jacobine MelisFaculty of Archaeology
j.melis@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Roderick GeertsFaculty of Archaeology
r.c.a.geerts@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273500
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Weishuo LiFaculty of Archaeology
w.li@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Elizabeth Rodriguez EstradaFaculty of Archaeology
e.e.rodriguez.estrada@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Devon GravesFaculty of Archaeology
d.l.graves@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272206
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Jonathan OuelletFaculty of Archaeology
j.m.ouellet@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Andrea Richards-CumminsFaculty of Archaeology
a.c.richards@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Youssef CherifFaculty of Humanities
y.cherif@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727