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ERC Consolidator Grant for Petra Sijpesteijn 18 January 2016Arabist and papyrologist Petra Sijpesteijn has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for her research on the early Islamic ...
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ERC Grants for five Leiden researchers 06 January 2016The European Research Council has awarded five Leiden researchers an ERC Consolidator Grant. These subsidies of up to a maximum of two million euros w...
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Markus Altena Davidsen wins the Gerardus van der Leeuw Dissertation Award 2016 04 January 2016Markus Altena Davidsen, university lecturer in the sociology of religion at LUCSoR, has been awarded the Gerardus van der Leeuw PhD Dissertation Award...
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Call for papers: Arabic and its Alternatives 15 December 2015Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging nation states of the Middle East (1920–1950)
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Support for doctoral research on the history of Zoroastrianism 10 December 2015Last year, LUCSoR welcomed two new Ph.D. students from Iran: Kiyan Foroutan from Ahvaz and Amir Ardalan Emami from Tehran. Kiyan works on a project on...
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Dialects as the key to Japanese prehistory 17 November 2015Japanese was not always the language spoken in Japan. Researchers link the arrival of the language in Japan with the migration of farmers around 400 B...
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Earliest known alphabetic word list discovered 05 November 2015A flake of limestone (ostracon) inscribed with an ancient Egyptian word list of the fifteenth century BC turns out to be the world’s oldest known abec...
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New Book: A Grammar of Mandarin 12 October 2015A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin by Jeroen Wiedenhof combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth. Crammed...
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King and Queen consult China experts in Leiden 05 October 2015King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima attended a meeting at Leiden University on 1 October to prepare for their state visit to China. China experts i...
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Iain Gardner (Sydney) visiting scholar in Leiden 28 September 2015
Prof. dr. Iain Gardner (University of Sydney) will be a visiting scholar at Leiden University Centre for the study of Religion (LUCSoR) in September-N...
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Wilt Idema receives Special Book Award of China 25 August 2015This year professor emeritus Old Chinese Literature Wilt Idema receives the Special Book Award of China. The Chinese government awards this prize to t...
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NWO funding for history research into Siva Religion in Asia 24 July 2015Professor Peter Bisschop, lecturer in Sanskrit and Ancient Cultures of South Asia, has been awarded a grant by the NWO Free Competition to fund his re...
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'Fieldwork in the Chinese tobacco industry more likely to turn you into a drinker than a chain smoker' 26 May 2015
This remarkable statement appears in Yi-Wen Cheng’s dissertation on state monopoly and forms of competition in the Chinese tobacco industry. Cheng pre...
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Bareez Majid nominated for ECHO Award 21 May 2015
Iraqi-Kurdish student of Middle Eastern Studies Bareez Majid has been nominated for the ECHO Award. ‘She has a strong personality, though she may appe...
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Leiden students admitted to prestigious Chinese master’s programme 27 March 2015
Three Leiden students have been selected for the Yenching Academy, a prestigious master’s programme offered by Peking University. The students will re...