155 search results for “ancient arabia” in the Staff website
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Fal 2021: 'Cicero, an illustrious man?'
Lecture
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Forum Antiquum Spring 2021 lecture: 'Will the real homo economicus please stand up?'
Lecture
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Forum Antiquum Lectures Spring 2023: The Revisionist Muse: Recent retellings of Greco-Roman myths from a female perspective
Lecture
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The BuddhistRoad Project: Research Agenda and Recent Results
Lecture
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Fall 2021: 'Tyrrhenus fato profugus. Neo-Latin Panegyrics and the Humanist Appropriation of Etruscan Foundational Myths'
Lecture
- Unification of the Mediterranean World Research Seminars 2022-2023
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Confucius Speaks
Lecture, on line with Zoom
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Pop-up Exhibition Roman Clohting
Exhibition
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Jews at Home. From Creation to Corona
Conference, First Annual Symposium of the Leiden Jewish Studies Association
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QAnon and Alien Gods: Plausibility Construction in the Cultic Milieu (11th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity)
Lecture, Symposium
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Forum Antiquum Fall 2021 Lecture: 'Images of Cicero the statesman in Roman historiography'
Lecture
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Tazuko van Berkel new member The Young Academy
The Young Academy has gained a new Leiden humanities scholar as a member. University lecturer Greek language and literature Tazuko van Berkel will be appointed as a member as of March.
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Hoard of Roman coins turns out to be offering for safe crossing
Several years ago, two amateur archaeologists from Brabant discovered over a hundred Roman coins near to Berlicum in the north of the province. After years of research, it now appears that the location, close to a ford in the river, was a site for offerings. Another interesting fact is that the coins…
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Charlotte wins thesis award on argumentation theory: ‘This is one way to strategically pin someone down’
Everyone has heard arguments like this before as a child: ‘Whether you like it or not, you have to go to school!’ It seems as though you are presented with two options, but there is only one real outcome. Charlotte van der Voort of the MA Dutch Studies won the Leiden University Thesis Prize on her research…
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How can academics be supported in the face of threats on social media?
'Academics who share their knowledge with the outside world on social media are often insulted or even threatened. Especially female academics and academics of colour seem to regularly be the victim of sexist and racist comments.' This is what Ineke Sluiter, Professor of Greek Language and Literature…
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Digital skills at History
In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an innovation project in order to research which digital skills history alumni need on the labour market and how these skills can be implemented in the cu…
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Florian Herrendorf wins Fruinprijs 2023
Florian Herrendorf has won the Fruin Prize 2023. His thesis was chosen out of 11 nominees as the best master's thesis in history studies.
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Six NWO grants for FGW researchers: this is what the scientists are going to do
Six projects from the Faculty of Humanities recently received grants of up to 750,000 euros from the NWO Open Competition. Researchers involved tell how they will spend this money.
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Break the familiar routine of papers and write a blog post! ‘This way you can be more involved with the subject’
Exam, paper, exam, paper. A familiar, though sometimes little unexciting, routine for students. That is why Film and Literary students Sietske de Haan and Wouter Dijkman decided to write a blog post for the course Interculturality. Their impressive achievement was rewarded with a publication on science…
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Vidi grants for eight researchers from Leiden University
Eight scientists from Leiden University have been awarded a grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). With this Vidi funding, the researchers can set up an innovative line of research and further expand their own research group over the next five years.
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The Linguistics Olympiad final is coming up soon: ‘The questions shouldn’t be too easy’
On Saturday 16 April, secondary school pupils will once again have a chance to sink their teeth into the hardest language-related questions during the final of the Linguistics Olympiad. Professor Sasha Lubotsky and PhD student Cid Swanenvleugel are both former Olympiad winners. Now they are involved…
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KNAW subsidy strengthens cooperation between Leiden religious scholars and secondary school teachers
Markus Altena Davidsen was 'extremely happy' when he heard that he and his colleagues had been awarded a grant from the KNAW pilot fund for science communication. Together with partners from all over the country, they are working on a book that should inspire secondary schools to renew their education…
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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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Four VIS grants for Humanities projects
The new VIS grant has been awarded to four projects from the Faculty of Humanities. In a Virtual International Cooperation Project (VIS), Dutch and foreign students work together remotely on a project that links local issues to an international perspective.
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Jews at Home. From Creation to Corona
Conference, First Annual Symposium of the Leiden Jewish Studies Association
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Forum Antiquum Spring 2021 lecture: ‘Fleshing out the body politic at Rome’
Lecture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
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Book presentation: 'Coping with Versnel: A Roundtable on Religion and Magic'
Lecture, UMW Research Seminar
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Symposium about Robert van Gulik
Conference
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Engaging with the Antique: Parisian architects, designers and craftsmen and the development of the neoclassical interior, 1760-1785
Alumni event, Lecture
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Developing a Proof of Concept on the digital documentation of Theban Tomb 45 (Luxor, Egypt): some recent results
Lecture
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Forum Antiquum Spring 2021 lecture: 'Plotting History: writing your own Anabasis’
Lecture
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Affective Fish
Lecture, also on line with Zoom
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Is ‘Great Ming’ a Dynasty?
Lecture
- The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words & Images: Book Launch with Caroline van Eck (Cambridge), Bram Van Oostveldt (Ghent) and Stijn Bussels (Leiden)
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Getting on Famously: The Netherlands and the Shah of Iran
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Opening LeidenGlobal Photo Exhibition: Crafting Cultures
Exhibition
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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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Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos are the winners of the fourth LUCAS Public Prize 2022!
On Tuesday 12 April Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos have been awarded the fourth LUCAS Publieksprijs.
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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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Freud and China
Lecture
- 'Sound Matters': An exploratory Workshop into Sound and Digital Humanities
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Masterclasses by Hugh Kennedy
Course, Al-Babtain Masterclasses
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Lineage and Gender in Islam: Perspectives from the Indian Ocean World
International Conference
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Why you (won’t) vote – A reading list
In November, the Dutch will elect a new parliament. Not all eligible citizens will go out and vote, however. How can this be explained, and how big of a problem is it? International research into voter turnout can shed new light on this issue – and offer possible solutions.
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Between Admiration and Repulsion: The ‘Witch’ in Medieval Islam
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Conference Mediated Cicero
Conference
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2023: 'The proper time for marriage: Plato vs. Xenophon on law and persuasion'
Lecture
- Leiden University Nationalism Network