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Henri Borel: a government official caught between two cultures 16 June 2016
Audrey 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 EU 20 May 2016
Companies 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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Immersed in Manchu 03 May 2016
Fresco 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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‘We haven't finished with Tutankhamun's tomb yet' 31 March 2016
Sensational, 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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An Interview with Kiri Paramore, Author of Japanese Confucianism 24 March 2016
For 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...
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Should we close our borders? Not according to the Classical World! 09 March 2016
Leiden University archaeologists receive multiple awards for research on interaction between the Greek and Roman world and ‘The East’
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Fieldwork in North Korea 19 February 2016
It is difficult to get access to North Korea. That makes scientific fieldwork very difficult. Korea expert Valérie Gelézeau shared her experiences dur...
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How China Studies started in the Dutch East Indies 16 February 2016
Leiden has the most highly regarded China Studies programme in Europe. But how did this knowledge find its way specifically to Leiden? For his PhD res...
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Gabrielle van den Berg receives prestigious VICI grant 15 February 2016
Dr. Gabrielle van den Berg received a prestigious VICI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for her project "Turks, t...
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Call for papers: New law, new villages: Changing rural Indonesia 03 February 2016
The 2014 Village Law will likely cause a considerable change in the character of village governance and leadership in the coming years.
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Second Skandapurāṇa Project fieldwork trip 31 January 2016
The Skandapurāṇa Project considers fieldwork to be essential to the study of purāṇic religious topography and the understanding of the socio-political...
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Leiden strengthens expertise on Asia 25 January 2016
The LeidenAsiaCentre will open its doors on Wednesday 27 January. This is the place for applied knowledge on Asia in the Netherlands.
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Petra Sijpesteijn 18 January 2016
Arabist 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 2016
The 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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Dialects as the key to Japanese prehistory 17 November 2015
Japanese 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...