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Amirardalan Emami awarded the Houtan Scholarship 201601 July 2016We are proud to announce that Amirardalan Emami has been awarded the Houtan Scholarship (3500€) to help fund his PhD project “Transformation in Ancien...
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Iran expert Maaike Warnaar columnist for Leidsch Dagblad30 June 2016The next few weeks Iran expert Maaike Warnaar will write a weekly column in the Leidsch Dagblad. She will write about her work and about private matters.
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Henri Borel: a government official caught between two cultures16 June 2016Audrey Heijns explored the mindset of alumnus Henri Borel. From 1894 to 1916 he was an interpreter of Chinese and later a government officer for Chine...
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North Korea uses ingenious constructions to supply forced labour to the EU20 May 2016Companies in Poland employ North Korean forced labourers on a large scale. Some of these companies are supported by the European Union. These are the ...
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Strengthening the Central Asia Collection at Leiden University Library20 May 2016The Central Asia project, funded by Asian Modernities and Traditions, has engaged in strengthening the Leiden University library collection in the are...
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Immersed in Manchu03 May 2016Fresco Sam-Sin teaches the almost extinct language Manchu. His appointment one day in the week is no match for his enthusiasm. But that doesn't stop h...
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Two LUCIS publications available in Open Access19 April 2016Two books that recently appeared in the Debates on Islam and Society series at Leiden University Press are now available in Open Access through the Kn...
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LUCIS' commitment to the NWA14 April 2016LUCIS is well connected to the Dutch National Research Agenda (Nationale Wetenschapsagenda/NWA). Both Petra Sijpesteijn and Jan Michiel Otto have a se...
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Driss Moussaoui: Moroccan psychiatrist with a mission13 April 2016Psychiatrists in Morocco can't ignore Islam. Driss Moussaoui was one of the first modern psychiatrists in this North African country. He delivered the...
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'Leiden cafés are the ideal places to write a dissertation'12 April 2016American PhD candidate Linda Gottschalk wrote this proposition in her dissertation on Caspar Coolhaes, Leiden’s first Professor of Religious Studies. ...
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Freedom is not our gift to the world08 April 2016Tolerance and democracy are not our European values
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Call for papers: Compassion, Social Engagement, and Discontent: Believing and the Politics of Belonging in Europe Today06 April 2016Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), Thursday 10 and Friday 11 November 2016
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‘We haven't finished with Tutankhamun's tomb yet'31 March 2016Sensational, is how Leiden Egyptologist Olaf Kaper described the discovery of two new chambers in the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun. He hopes that a sec...
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Why Leiden’s first Professor of Theology was banned31 March 2016The Reformed Church removed preacher Caspar Coolhaes - Leiden’s first Professor of Theology – from office because of his advocacy of tolerance. PhD c...
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An Interview with Kiri Paramore, Author of Japanese Confucianism24 March 2016For more than 1500 years, Confucianism has played a major role in shaping Japan's history - from the formation of the first Japanese states during the...