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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From Japan Studies to junior school: ‘I was back to square one in the classroom’ -
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'
In the media
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Vincent Chang on East Asia Forum: ‘China globalises its pantheon of national heroes and martyrs’ -
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
Events
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Trick, trap, treason: Conspiracy theories on Turkey’s internal and external enemies (2002-2022)
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Delicate Repertoires- Buddhist Creativity, Commodification, and Digitalization in Xi’s China
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Expressions of "war" and "peace" in medieval Arabic North African conquest narratives
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Daoism on the Irrelevance of Books
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Valedictory lecture prof.dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover
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Call for papers: Who is Asian? Definitions, Representations, and Marginalizations
Books and journals
PhD Dissertations
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The Muslim Woman Question in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between Islamic Tradition and Global Modernity
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Educated Muslim women in a non-Muslim world: navigating identities in Sendai, Japan
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Rethinking digital nationalism in China: state propaganda and public discourse during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic