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Three ERC Advanced Grants for Leiden researchers04 April 2017Archaeologist Frans Theuws, Buddhism specialist Jonathan Silk and mathematician Ronald Cramer have each been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 mill...
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Papyri: the written residue of daily life during the formative period of Islam30 March 2017How did people experience Islam on a day-to-day basis in the early centuries of Islam? That's where the papyri come in, says professor of Arabic Petra...
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The art of control without repression21 March 2017How did the Arabs manage to maintain an empire based on Islamic principles for three hundred years? Arab expert Petra Sijpesteijn and her team will b...
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Anime as a source of human knowledge13 March 2017Japanese animated films are often fantastic to watch. What's less known is that anime often has a political message. Mari Nakamura researched this phe...
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History and Religious Studies #1 and #2 in The Netherlands in QS World University Rankings 201708 March 2017History and Religious Studies in Leiden rank # 17 and #32 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, History in Leiden ranks as the be...
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Research Trainee Project on Religious Narratives as Plausibility Structures launched28 February 2017Religions involve belief in the unbelievable: in evil spirits causing disease, in souls surviving death, and in gods punishing wrongdoers and blessing...
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Temple culture in Ptolemaic Egypt alive and kicking13 February 2017Egyptian temple culture was thought to be declining in the Ptolemaic era, after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Nothing could be further f...
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How ‘Mao’s little generals’ wreaked havoc in China06 February 2017No matter how hard Chinese communists tried to control the economy, they could not stop the free market from flourishing. This was the message given b...
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Refugee student wins Peter Baehr Prize 201602 February 2017With the support of the Foundation for Refugee Students UAF, Russia expert Oshank Hashemi, a cum laude graduate of Leiden University, has won the Pete...
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Robert D. McChesney will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in February-March 201727 January 2017
Robert D. McChesney will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in February-March 2017. Professor McChesney will deliver a guest lecture on 28 Februar...
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Yusen Yu wins MEM Graduate Student Prize27 January 2017Yusen Yu wins the prestigious Graduate Student Prize of the Middle East Medievalists (MEM) with his article "Chinese Gold-decorated Paper and the Pers...
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Arabic book design: slow progression09 January 2017Since the end of the nineteenth century Arabic book designers have influenced the social and cultural situation in the Middle East with their work. Hu...
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Lorentz Center brings together researchers from all disciplines19 December 2016For nearly twenty years the Lorentz Center has been a unique venue where researchers from all over the world work in intense collaboration. In an insp...
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Launch of the Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics14 December 2016International scholarly publisher Brill has released the most complete and up-to-date reference work on the Chinese language available today. Prof.dr....
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Launch meeting Leiden Islam Academy: gathering knowledge and meeting people08 December 2016The launch meeting of the Leiden Islam Academy on 7 December in the Academy Building drew just the right audience: a diverse group of people who were...