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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...
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Greater focus on pre-Islamic heritage 26 March 2015
War and terrorism overshadow interest in the pre-Islamic heritage of the Arabic peninsula. The new Leiden Centre for the Study of Ancient Arabia aims ...
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New open access, peer-reviewed journal: Arabian Epigraphic Notes 17 March 2015The Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Arabia (LeiCenSAA) announces a new open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the epigraphy of Arabia ...
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Using an ERC grant to study languages with beans and millet 04 March 2015
Japanologist and linguist Martine Robbeets is going to use her newly acquired ERC Consolidator Grant to study the origins and spread of Trans-Eurasian...
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The eighty-year-old Leiden Papyrological Insitute has a small but great collection 19 February 2015The Leiden Papyrological Institute celebrated its eightieth birthday on Monday 19 January. Its collection of papyri – including paper, potsherds, piec...
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Language as a time machine 06 February 2015About 90 per cent of Austronesian and Papuan languages are under threat of soon becoming extinct. Marian Klamer is the only professor in the world who...
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‘Alumni are the best ambassadors the Netherlands has’ 03 February 2015
Dutch and foreign alumni from Leiden are the oil that keeps the wheels of Dutch-Asian relations moving smoothly. That’s one of the conclusions reached...
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Henk Schulte Nordholt has been appointed extraordinary professor 13 January 2015
Dr. Henk Schulte Nordholt, working at KITLV and LIAS, has been appointed extraordinary professor of Indonesian history for a five-year period.
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Leiden University continues support for Asian Modernities and Traditions 02 January 2015The University’s Executive Board (College van Bestuur) has decided to continue the Leiden University profile area Asian Modernities and Traditions for...
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The multicultural history of soya sauce 11 December 2014
The soya sauce in our kitchen cabinets is not a recent acquisition. This sauce is an important element in a long history of exchange between Asia and ...
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New colleague: Corey Williams 09 December 2014
It gives us great pleasure to report that the search for a University Lecturer in Christianity in the Modern World has resulted in the appointment of ...
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'The North Korean regime will collapse within five to seven years’ 07 November 2014
The greatest threat to the North Korean regime is not the outside world but its own developing private market and the growing frictions at the top. Th...