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Elsevier: Five Leiden humanities degree programmes rated best 10 October 2016
The Humanities Faculty bachelor’s degree programmes in History, and Greek and Latin language and culture were rated by students as the best. The maste...
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'Using few words to say a lot – that’s the art of blogging' 24 August 2016
Many Humanities scholars keep a blog of their own. This summer, we’re putting these in the spotlight. For this week’s interview, we sat down with Anne...
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Archaeology school in Israel 01 July 2016
Many mosaic stones and potsherds have been excavated, and a Byzantine synagogue is revealing its history layer by layer. The excavations at Horvat Kur...
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Amirardalan Emami awarded the Houtan Scholarship 2016 01 July 2016
We 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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Two LUCIS publications available in Open Access 19 April 2016
Two 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 NWA 14 April 2016
LUCIS 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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'Leiden cafés are the ideal places to write a dissertation' 12 April 2016
American 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 world 08 April 2016
Tolerance 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 Today 06 April 2016
Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), Thursday 10 and Friday 11 November 2016
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Why Leiden’s first Professor of Theology was banned 31 March 2016
The 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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HERA grant awarded to Léon Buskens and international colleagues 17 March 2016
Together with internationally esteemed colleagues, Léon Buskens has been awarded a HERA Joint Research Programme Grant for a research project entitled...
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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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Markus Altena Davidsen wins the Gerardus van der Leeuw Dissertation Award 2016 04 January 2016
Markus Altena Davidsen, university lecturer in the sociology of religion at LUCSoR, has been awarded the Gerardus van der Leeuw PhD Dissertation Award...
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Call for papers: Arabic and its Alternatives 15 December 2015
Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging nation states of the Middle East (1920–1950)
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Support for doctoral research on the history of Zoroastrianism 10 December 2015
Last year, LUCSoR welcomed two new Ph.D. students from Iran: Kiyan Foroutan from Ahvaz and Amir Ardalan Emami from Tehran. Kiyan works on a project on...