Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS)
The Leiden Institute for Area Studies consists of the School of Asian Studies, the School of Middle-Eastern Studies and the School of Religious Studies, with international staff and student populations.
The institute is committed to a present-day vision of area studies, integrating (inter)disciplinary and regional-historical perspectives on a solid foundation of excellent language skills.
News
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Leiden historian and Arabist awarded ERC Consolidator Grants -
Peter Webb Awarded ERC Consolidator Grant for groundbreaking research on Pre-Islamic Arabia -
Word by word, the first modern Japanese-Dutch dictionary is nearing completion -
Call for papers: Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE) -
Aya Ezawa honoured for volunteer work with Japanese-Indonesian war children: 'Recognition of the importance of reconciliation' -
Gabrielle van den Berg: "We can raise our profile"
In the media
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Marian Klamer on Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history' -
Svetlana Kharchenkova on The Diplomat about decreased number of U.S. books in China -
Vincent Chang in various media outlets on Chinese commemoration of World War II -
Colleagues on The Conversation -
Research by Willemijn Waal in various media -
Henk Schulte Nordholt on BBC News Indonesia: 'Nyepi is about giving nature a moment to rest'
Events
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Conference: Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850
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Remembering and Forgetting in Two Worlds. Writing Histories of Forced Displacement and Submerged Genealogy
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Muslim Futures Festival
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Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf states in the global food system
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The Cosmos Malabaricus programme: researching early modern Kerala through Dutch sources
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Trick, trap, treason: Conspiracy theories on Turkey’s internal and external enemies (2002-2022)
Books and journals
PhD Dissertations
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Rethinking digital nationalism in China: state propaganda and public discourse during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Marriage traditions and the stem family in ancient Egypt: a study of marriage contracts, social structure and family life
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The cultural network: Javanese imaginings of Indonesia, 1918–1966