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Fifty years of diplomatic relations with China: an ‘open and pragmatic’ partnership 06 June 2022
This year, the Netherlands and China reflect on fifty years of diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level. How has the relationship between the count...
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Alex West awarded Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Award 2022 12 May 2022
Alex West’s dissertation, "Bujangga Manik or, Java in the Fifteenth Century: An Edition and Study of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS jav. b. 3. (R)" (Lei...
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Maghiel van Crevel elected KNAW member 12 May 2022
Maghiel van Crevel has been elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The professor of Chinese Language and Literat...
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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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Benjamin Suchard: ‘The more you send out into the world, the more likely it will stick’ 25 April 2022
How do you make niche subjects interesting and accessible? Benjamin Suchard, historical linguist and researcher, seems to have created the perfect rec...
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Rogier Creemers: ‘A nine-to-five job would make me miserable’ 19 April 2022
Rogier Creemers is a lecturer in Modern Chinese Studies. While he looks for challenges in his lectures, in his free time he much prefers to go back to...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Marijn van Putten: How many ways are there to read the Quran? 11 April 2022
How should the Quran be read? The manuscript of this holy book makes different interpretations possible. Researcher Marijn van Putten has been awarded...
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant 11 April 2022
Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their re...
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Censorship in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature 30 March 2022
How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of ma...
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Announcement Fellow Program 2022 'The Iranian Highlands' 07 December 2021
For 2022, The Iranian-German project 'The Iranian Highlands: Resilience and Integration of Premodern Societies' announces the second round of fellowsh...
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam 18 November 2021
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of I...
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Islamic TV in Indonesia: piety or commodity? 09 November 2021
In Indonesia, some Muslim preachers are TV stars with massive followings. Syahril Siddik studied how they operate and how their viewers react. On 9 No...
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Nira Wickramasinghe wins John F. Richards Prize 08 November 2021
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe has won the American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History for her book Slave in a Palanq...
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The ancient Egyptians were just like us 28 October 2021
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a s...
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Netflix hit a metaphor for South Korea: ‘You have to achieve’ 11 October 2021
South Korean smash hit Squid Game is on track to becoming the most successful Netflix production ever. The series is number one in over 90 countries. ...