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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019The fourth edition of the Middle Eastern Culture market was a great success with more than 2000 visitors over the weekend. Attendees participated in t...
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Bernhard Rieger receives senior fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg MunichBernhard Rieger has been awarded a fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich. This will allow him to work on his current book, entitled "Making Soc...
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Cuneiform reveals shared birthplaceAssyriologists in Leiden have been conducting research into ancient clay tablets from the Middle East for 100 years already. What exactly do these cla...
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There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the European refugee crisisWho is welcome as a refugee, and who is not? And how is that decided? What role do humanitarian organisations play in the debate surrounding refugees?...
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New elective in practical rhetoricIn February 2020 Jed Wentz will start the new course 'Practical Rhetoric: public speaking according to historical sources'. Registration is now open!
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Ferdinand Harmsen: ‘I have been restless for a long time, but that is over now’Ferdinand Harmsen (49) is an ICT and Education Coordinator. He helps study programmes that want to use ICT to improve their education. He has been wor...
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Alice Twemlow wins Simon Mari Pruys prize for design criticismOn Saturday November 16 Alice Twemlow was awarded the Simon Mari Pruys prize for design criticism for her essay ‘Conflicting Definitions of Key Terms’.
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Alice Twemlow is the chair of the “Redesigning the Designer” congress at Het Nieuwe Instituut
In the light of today’s major changes and challenges, the congress on November 22 will focus on Redesigning the Designer while also taking some of the...
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Persian poetry knows no frontiersThe Persian language and its poetry are intertwined with the history of Central Asia. Although some mediaeval poets were later claimed by an individua...
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Online documentation Symposium Transformations of the AudibleThe video registration is now available on our Projects and Events page.
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Who is the rightful owner of colonial art?Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the ...
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Speaking a Foreign Language: Is Fluency ‘a Must’?Nivja de Jong, researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON), has wo...
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A look at the communication strategies of a Chinese state-owned media outletHow does the Chinese government communicate with its citizens? Yuxi Nie obtained her PhD with her thesis on communication strategies of the Chinese st...
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Marlene Dumas on the Huizinga Lecture: ‘Artists shouldn’t have to justify themselves’Artist and painter Marlene Dumas will give the Huizinga Lecture in Pieterskerk on Friday 6 December. In an interview with Elsevier Weekblad, she talks...
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Three tips on how to celebrate World Philosophy DayThe UN has christened 21 November World Philosophy Day, a day on which ‘the enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought, for eac...