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In memoriam: Prof. Dr. Barbara Henriëtte Flemming (28 mei 1930 - 22 maart 2020) 29 April 2020
On 22 March 2020 passed away due to heart failure emerita professor Turkish Language and Culture Barbara Flemming: a great loss for her partner Dr. S...
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‘I miss the books and papers from my office’ 20 April 2020
Our lecturers had just a week to convert their lessons into online formats. It was an enormous challenge because by no means everyone at Leiden Univer...
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Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape published 15 April 2020
In Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape: Narrative, Place, and the Śaiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India, Elizabeth A. Cecil explores the sacred geo...
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Skandapurāṇa Volume III now available in Open Access 15 April 2020
Skandapurāṇa III presents a critical edition of the Vindhyavāsinī Cycle (Adhyāyas 34.1-61, 53-69) from the Skandapurāṇa , with an introduction and ann...
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Summer School in Languages and Linguistics is now open. 09 March 2020
The Leiden Summerschool in Languages and Linguistics, including courses in Papyrology, is now open. BA/MA/PhD students are welcome to attend.
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Asghar Seyed Gohrab: ‘Teaching keeps me young and sharp’ 09 March 2020
Associate Professor Asghar Seyed Gohrab considers it his role to tell students about Iran, the country where he was born and raised. His research focu...
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Walking in a city of the dead 09 March 2020
They call their team ‘The Walking Dead’: Leiden Egyptologists Lara Weiss, Huw Twiston Davies and Nico Staring. A fitting name for a group that conduct...
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Christopher Green: ‘You cannot generalize North Koreans' self-understanding’ 24 February 2020
The notion of North Koreans as brainwashed and unable to think critically about their heritage and what it means to be North Korean is pervasive. More...
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‘Fantasies about coronavirus are more contagious than the disease itself’ 05 February 2020
Fake news about ‘patient zero’ and hyperbolic headlines warning about the ‘yellow peril.’ Leiden researchers have spotted fake news galore about coron...
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In Memoriam: Erik Herber (1969-2020) 03 February 2020
The Japanese Studies community at Leiden University is deeply saddened by the sudden loss of our colleague, Erik Herber. He was not only an esteemed s...
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Lara Weiss: ‘Egypt is not just pyramids and mummies’ 16 December 2019
Egyptologist Lara Weiss is curator at The National Museum of Antiquities and has been leading the VIDI research project 'Walking Dead' since 2017. The...
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Cuneiform reveals shared birthplace 05 December 2019
Assyriologists in Leiden have been conducting research into ancient clay tablets from the Middle East for 100 years already. What exactly do these cla...
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Persian poetry knows no frontiers 28 November 2019
The Persian language and its poetry are intertwined with the history of Central Asia. Although some mediaeval poets were later claimed by an individua...
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A look at the communication strategies of a Chinese state-owned media outlet 21 November 2019
How does the Chinese government communicate with its citizens? Yuxi Nie obtained her PhD with her thesis on communication strategies of the Chinese st...
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Berthe Jansen receives Early Career Award for research into ancient Tibet 06 November 2019
Berthe Jansen receives an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for her research on Buddhism and law in an...