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Nira Wickramasinghe wins John F. Richards Prize 08 November 2021
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe has won the American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History for her book Slave in a Palanq...
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The ancient Egyptians were just like us 28 October 2021
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a s...
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Rint Sybesma: ‘I’m looking forward to getting to know everyone’ 21 October 2021
The Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) has a new Director of Education. Rint Sybesma was appointed with effect from 1 September. ‘I am looking ...
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Netflix hit a metaphor for South Korea: ‘You have to achieve’ 11 October 2021
South Korean smash hit Squid Game is on track to becoming the most successful Netflix production ever. The series is number one in over 90 countries. ...
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How a Taiwanese organisation strengthens local communities through recycling 07 October 2021
Most people think of waste as something dirty that needs to be disposed of as soon as possible, but Olivia Yun-An Dung's dissertation aims to show tha...
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An important visitor in The Hague: The ambassador of Bangladesh visits International Studies 05 October 2021
What can you learn about Bangladesh that cannot be found on Google? On 24 September, bachelor students of International Studies and Southeast Asian St...
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy 31 August 2021
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud ...
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Andrea Cortellari wins the best MA thesis prize in Turkish Studies 18 August 2021
Andrea Cortellari, a 2020 graduate of the MA program in Middle Eastern Studies at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies, wins the best MA thesis prize...
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In memoriam Sjoerd van Koningsveld (1943-2021) 02 August 2021
We are saddened by the news of the unexpected passing of prof.dr. Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld on 28 July 2021.
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Digital guest lectures for secondary school students: 'The interdisciplinary collaboration gives me energy' 26 July 2021
Can a robot perform a religious ritual just like a monk? And what exactly is a religious ritual? Robots and religion seem to be two different subjects...
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Bastiaan Rijpkema appointed Professor by special appointment of Tolerance 30 June 2021
Bastiaan Rijpkema has been appointed Professor by special appointment of the new chair Tolerance at the Faculty of Humanities with effect from 1 July ...
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Skandapurāṇa Project Interview for New Books Network 29 June 2021
This interview features Drs. Peter Bisschop (Leiden University) and Yuko Yokochi (Kyoto University) and their work on the monumental Skandapurāṇa proj...
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NWO and ERC grant for research on Chinese infrastructure 21 June 2021
In the coming years, Hilde De Weerdt gets to spend over three million euros. She received grants from both the European Research Council (ERC) and the...
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Eight researchers to travel abroad on Rubicon grant 21 June 2021
Eight young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will allow them to conduct re...
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Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations' 14 June 2021
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and ...