741 search results for “middle east” in the Staff website
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Spice War: Ternate, Makassar, the Dutch East India Company and the struggle for the Ambon Islands (c. 1600-1656)
PhD defence
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Asia Academy #09: India's Democracy
Lecture
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LTA lunchlezing Tsolin Nalbantian
Lecture
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Film screening & panel: The Great Book Robbery
Debate
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On the Origins of 'The Origins of Inequality'
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Revolutionary Parents: Intimate Cultural Memories of the Arab Left
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- How to present in front of a camera: do's and don'ts
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Matthias de Vrieshof
Matthias de Vrieshof 1-4, Leiden
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Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World
Lecture, Studium Generale
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LUCIR Talk: Protecting Nuclear Power Plants During War: Implications from Ukraine
Lecture
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Panel Discussion | A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
Debate, Panel Discussion
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Introducing: Geert Ham
In September 2023, Geert Ham started working at the Institute for History as a PhD candidate within the ERC-funded project 'Anchoring Innovation'. Below he introduces himself.
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How should we use AI? The Islamic world may have an answer
The secular West is struggling with the rise of AI, but so too is Muslim Southeast Asia. What can we learn from each other?
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Remembering Olivier Nieuwenhuyse with a festschrift: ‘He would have loved this book’
On November 16 a festschrift in honor of Dr Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was presented in a moving event at the Faculty of Archaeology. Professor Bleda Düring, a personal friend of Nieuwenhuyse, was one of the initiators. ‘If he had been here, he would have loved this book.’
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Leadership
Strong leadership is essential for building an open and learning organisation.
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Salary
The University pays out salaries on pre-determined dates. Additionally, the holiday allowance is paid out in May and the end-of-year bonus is paid out in November.
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Judith Naeff
Faculty of Humanities
j.a.naeff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 5485
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Marie Soressi
Faculteit Archeologie
m.a.soressi@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5355
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Model painting with diverse techniques
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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ICT-contact persons
For each university unit, the ICT Shared Service Centre (ISSC) has an appointed ICT contact person responsible for applying for ICT facilities for research, teaching and operational management.
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The United States and the War in Gaza: History, Politics, and Culture
Debate, Panel and Q&A session
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Political Symbolism and Conspiracies in Turkish State-Sponsored Historical TV Series: A Case Study of Payitaht Abdulhamid
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Globalizing the Northern Muslim World: the Mongol Exchange and the Horde
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Why has Western Policy failed on Palestine/Israel?
Debate
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‘Women, Life, Freedom’ Protests in Iran: Will This Time Be Different?
Debate, Roundtable
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Van Steenis
Einsteinweg 2, Leiden
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Pieter de la Court
Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden
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Connect & Deposit: discovering the Dryad data publishing platform
Network meeting
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Hybrid education
Hybrid education combines offline with online teaching. While some students attend your classes on campus, other students take part digitally, from their own home.
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
b.m.de.leede@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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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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Rethinking community in upland, ‘indigenous’ South Asia
Erik de Maaker wrote a monograph on how Garo, an indigenous community of the extended eastern Himalayas, experience and negotiate such disparities. The book shows how relatedness is reinterpreted as religious practices change, and communally held land ends up being privately controlled. Erik de Maaker…
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'Rome after Rome': a unique student-scholar exploration of early medieval Rome
Debates about the ‘end’ of the Roman era, how, when, and even if it ended, are still very much alive and raging. However, what happened after the (long) late antique period is a lesser-known and lesser-studied subject. The post-Roman past needs, however, as much energetic investigation and discussion.…
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Ukraine and the Failure of Global Security
Lecture
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Modern Transimperial Histories: Forms, Questions, Prospects
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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Papyrus, roses and a sea cat: the Leiden Dioskurides
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Take care of each other’
After a turbulent Covid year, the well-being of our students and staff has the highest priority. How can we prevent physical and mental health problems? This was the key question at the Opening of the Academic Year in Pieterskerk in Leiden on 6 September.
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Heritage expert Ian Lilley holds commemoration speech at Netherlands-Australia War Memorial
Professor Ian Lilley, the Faculty of Archaeology’s Willem Willems Chair in Archaeological Heritage, was invited by Her Excellency Mrs. Marion Derckx, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Australia, to present the 2022 commemoration speech for Netherlands Memorial Day on May 4th at the Netherlands-Australia…
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Investigating ancient irrigation tunnels with a remote controlled car
In ancient times, the desert in the Udhruh region in Jordan was transformed into a green oasis. An intricate network of underground water channels was part of an ancient system of water management, storing water and preventing loss through evaporation. Archaeologist Mark Driessen found a new way to…
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Researcher develops Google for archaeologists
An incredible quantity of archaeological reports are stored in digital archives. If you want to search for information in them, you have to do this manually. And that is a real chore. Archaeologist Alex Brandsen has now used deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence, to develop a search engine…
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War in Europe
Conference
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Byzantine consumers focal point of a new publication
Recently Professor Joanita Vroom’s book Feeding the Byzantine City was published by the prominent academic publishing house Brepols. This volume is the fifth in a series called Medieval and Post-Medieval Mediterranean Archaeology, of which she is the editor. ‘This series aims to offer new perspectives…
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Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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"From Epistemicide to ‘Epistemic Disobedience'" by Anne-Maria Makhulu
Lecture
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Arabic Echoes and Persian Refrains: Devotional Poetry and Intersonicality in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century North India
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series