News
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LUCSoR student perspectives on the Jewish Experience, in podcast form 05 March 2024
In her “Jews and Judaism” lecture class, Dr. Sarah Cramsey’s students produced 7-minute long podcasts instead of final papers.
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Word from the LUCSoR Chair 14 February 2024
Welcome to 2024! I hope this message finds you doing well and reenergised following the holiday season. With that said, I can imagine that many of us ...
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LUCSoR welcomes Verena Meyer to the staff 14 February 2024
LUCSoR is happy to welcome Verena Myer, researcher and lecturer in Islam in South and South-East Asia to the staff. In this interview she will discuss...
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'Especially now, in-depth knowledge about Judaism and Jewish history is important' 27 November 2023
The newly established Leiden Jewish Studies Association aims to bring together Leiden scholars working on Judaism. The first annual conference will ta...
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Professor bids farewell with roadshow in Indonesia: 'One big celebration of recognition' 12 October 2023
Whereas most outgoing professors are offered a congress, Nico Kaptein's former students and PhD students took a bigger approach. They treated him not ...
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Bas van Rijn defends PhD dissertation on afterlife research 22 September 2023
On 22 September, LUCSoR alumnus Bas van Rijn successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled “The Experimental Culture of Afterlife Research: Atte...
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Four Comenius teaching awards for Leiden lecturers 27 June 2023
Two lecturers from Leiden University have received a Comenius teaching award of 100,000 euros as part of the Senior Fellows programme. And a further t...
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Markus Davidsen: 'We need to implement ideas that improve an entire programme' 23 February 2023
Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) this year. University lecturer Markus Davidsen is one of them. What does h...
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Six top-rated programmes at Humanities 24 November 2022
Six programmes in the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded the designation 'top programme' by the Keuzegids. These are the bachelor’s in German Lan...
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Sarah Cramsey appointed professor: ‘I want to uncover the underrepresented stories in history’ 08 November 2022
Sarah Cramsey was appointed professor by special appointment of Central European Studies at the Institute of History on 14 September. 'I am keen to in...
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Lara Offermans and Marijn Bethlehem win the LUCSoR thesis prizes (2019-2021) 31 October 2022
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR) and the Beheerstichting Theologische Fondsen hand out two thesis prizes each year, one...
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What can Europe learn from Islamic thought? 22 July 2022
Islamic banking, freedom of religion, LGBTQ+ acceptance and education are topics that European Muslims find important for their future. These are the ...
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How do European Muslims see their future? 30 May 2022
Professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger wants to use citizen science to answer this question. On the futureofislam.eu website, he is inviting E...
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European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’ 26 April 2022
Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, com...
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In Memoriam: Prof. Henk Jan de Jonge (1943-2022) 21 April 2022
With the passing of Henk Jan de Jonge on 16 April 2022, Leiden University has lost one of its most characteristic, learned and devoted professors.