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Hossam Ahmed: ‘Listen to your students’ 02 March 2023Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) this year. Lecturer Hossam Ahmed is one of them. What does he think makes ...
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund 28 February 2023More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other proj...
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Markus Davidsen: 'We need to implement ideas that improve an entire programme' 23 February 2023Three 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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Dr Carwyn Morris awarded the British Academy Global Convening grant 03 February 2023Dr Carwyn Morris (LIAS) was awarded the British Academy Global Convening grant, as part of an international consortium with 19 colleagues.
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023) 01 February 2023On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Le...
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Rogier Creemers on CNBC about China’s big tech policy 30 January 2023Chinese State-backed entities have taken tiny stakes in parts of two Alibaba subsidiaries that oversee a video platform and web browser. Professor Rog...
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European grant to research Tibetan collection: 'Tibetans' literary output was and is huge' 17 January 2023As a student, university lecturer Berthe Jansen fell under the spell of the Van Manen collection: a collection full of Tibetan writings and objects. A...
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Maurits Berger on Ruetir about national holidays 04 January 2023Why are the majority of our national holidays based around Christian festivities? Arabist Maurits Berger talks about this in an article on Ruetir.
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Feminist fatwas: How female Islamic scholars influence the religious landscape in Indonesia 02 January 2023If you have a question about the right way to live as a Muslim, to find the answer - the fatwa - you need to speak to an alim (plural ulama), an Isla...
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Protests in China: Politicians afraid of not the population but colleagues 05 December 2022That it was students who started the protests in China against its zero Covid policy makes things more dangerous for politicians. China expert Frank P...
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Yorum Beekman: ‘I didn’t want to write about people, I wanted to give them a voice’ 28 November 2022As a woman, working in Japan and Korea can be pretty tough, Yorum Beekman discovered. It prompted her to pursue a PhD on the subject: ‘I thought: hey,...
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Six top-rated programmes at Humanities 24 November 2022Six 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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Six Leiden researchers receive ERC Starting Grant 22 November 2022Six researchers from Leiden University have received an ERC starting grant. This grant of on average 1.5m euros will enable the researchers to launch ...
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Sarah Cramsey appointed professor: ‘I want to uncover the underrepresented stories in history’ 08 November 2022Sarah 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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Master Class | Factory Girls, Sex Workers, and Minorities: Writing the Marginalized in History 03 November 2022
Hanan Hammad and Eftychia Mylona give a master class focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges in writing histories of marginalized social ...