487 search results for “urban history” in the Staff website
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New research programme for urgent challenges in Africa
Leiden University and four other Dutch universities will appoint 51 PhD candidates to conduct solution-oriented research for and with the African continent.
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Gea Hakker: ‘We aim to be the gold standard of language learning’
The Academic Language Centre (ATC) is one of the cornerstones of Leiden University. Director Gea Hakker explains how this organisation is providing quality (online) language courses and meeting new demands.
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The Camel’s Hobble: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on the Practical Intellect
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Ñii Ñu’u - Sacred Skin
Film screening and Q&A
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Indigenous populations’ major political impact in Latin America: (Re)shaping the nation-state in Bolivia, Chile, Guatemala, and Perú
Lecture, PCNI Roundtable
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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'Vital Minds’: Healthy University Week 2022
Course
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: One Among Zeroes: AI, Islam and what computational analysis can teach us about religious futures
Lecture
- Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Environmental Humanities LU: Declutter, disconnect, dismantle! Reflections on degrowth and cultural politics
Lecture
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The Processes of Conversion to Islam in Contemporary Spain: From the Betrayal of Spain to Community Insertion
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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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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Assessor talk: Ebrar Kaya succeeds Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens as assessor
Participating in discussions as a student, at an administrative level? Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens has done so for the past two years as assessor of the Faculty of Humanities. Ebrar Kaya will take over the position of assessor starting this September. In this interview we look back and ahead at the asse…
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Eight projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
From a queer art exhibition to a podcast about people with disabilities, the JEDI Fund this year again honored several projects that contribute to diversity and inclusion.
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Opening exhibition: Silk Road Cities
Exhibition
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The making of a lost generation: child labor among Syrian refugees in Turkey
Lecture
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Revolutionary Parents: Intimate Cultural Memories of the Arab Left
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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POSTPONED - Gastro-Politics & Gastro-Ethics of Diversity: Negotiating Islam in an Entangled World
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Memory, Activism and Social Justice: Kao Jun-honn’s Great Leopard Project
Lecture, China Seminar
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I Wish, I Wish, a Western Mosque: Colonial Continuities in Dutch Perspectives on Islamic Architecture
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Sufis in Afghanistan: Contemporary Navigations of Religious Authority across Political Changes
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: What Use are Networks Anyway?
Lecture
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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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Kress Talks with Cynthia Kok and Felicity Good
Lecture
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LUCAS “Modern and Contemporary Studies” Research Cluster 3rd annual conference 'Environment as Lens: Rethinking Humanities Research through the
Conference
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Religiosity and Knowledge in Muslim Context in West Africa: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Boko and Adini
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Researchers from Leiden visit Indonesia on knowledge mission
A delegation from Leiden University recently embarked on a knowledge mission to various NGOs, universities and government organisations in Indonesia. New partnerships were formed and important knowledge exchanged, and researchers from Leiden gave guest lectures.
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In the Making #2: Etienne Kallos, Searching for a Diasporic Time Image
Lecture
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
- 'Sound Matters': An exploratory Workshop into Sound and Digital Humanities
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023