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Leiden University to welcome Al-Babtain visiting professors in Arabic culture in 2018-2019 13 December 2017
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) and the Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation will join hands in promo...
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Call for Papers: 'Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-2000' 30 November 2017
On 8 and 9 May 2018 the Workshop 'Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-20...
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‘The study of cuneiform texts is still an open field’ 28 November 2017
The oldest forms of literature and law originate from Mesopotamia (3000 BC until AD 70), as do important discoveries in science and technology. All th...
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Lisette Atsma: how a Korean and Asian Studies alumna became an ICT specialist 20 November 2017
She studied Korean and Asian Studies and, four years after graduating, is now working as a specialist for an ICT secondment company. This is the story...
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Charles Melville will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in November 2017 13 November 2017
Charles Melville, Professor of Persian History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College, will be the Central Asia Visiting Profes...
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Call for papers: Modalities of Displacement in South Asia 07 November 2017
‘Displacement’ has emerged as a keyword in studies of South Asia, across research in historical, anthropological, geographical, and cultural studies. ...
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Online course for diplomats bridges perceptions between Islamic and Western worlds 06 November 2017
Professor Maurits Berger is presenting an online course, starting on 6 November, on the images that Islam and the West hold of one another. The course...
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15 December: Deadline AMT2 Research Funding (final round) 02 November 2017
The deadline for the final round of AMT2 Research Funding is 15 December 2017, 17 hrs CET. Application is open to all academic staff of Leiden Univers...
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LUCSoR at the 2017 American Academy of Religion Conference 11 October 2017
LUCSoR will be represented at the upcoming American Academy of Religion (AAR) conference by Dr. Corey Williams (Assistant Professor of Anthropology an...
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Ahmad Al-Jallad wins Gratama Science Prize 04 September 2017
Pre-Islamic Arabia was barren, barbaric, and isolated. At least, that's what many Arabic writers and historics argued. Ahmad Al-Jallad debunks this my...
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Florian Schneider wins LUS Teaching Prize 04 September 2017
Florian Schneider has earned the title of Leiden University Lecturer of the Year. Sinologist Schneider was nominated by his students and crowned winne...
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‘My students don't stop at a six!' 21 August 2017
During the opening of the academic year, true to tradition the LUC Teaching Prize will be awarded to the University's best lecturer. Get to know the n...
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Peter Webb’s EPIC PASTS explores how Muslims viewed their pre-history 02 August 2017
Peter Webb is one of the four young Leiden Humanities researchers to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (N...
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Veni awards for four Leiden Humanities researchers 28 July 2017
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to four Humanities researchers in at Leiden University. This award...
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Mountain ascetic ideal image for urban dwellers in Korea 03 July 2017
In order to be able to handle the pressure of modern life better, Koreans practise GiCheon: intensive exercises for body and spirit. This movement the...