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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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Vici grants for 7 Leiden researchers 12 February 2016
Seven Leiden researchers have been awarded a prestigious Vici grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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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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Call for papers: Digital Disruption in Asia: Methods and Issues 03 February 2016
How do digital technologies affect both Asian societies and the methods we use to study them? Conference in Leiden on 23-25 May 2016. Deadline abstra...
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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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Ann Stoler - GLASS Scholar (Spring 2016) 25 January 2016
Professor Ann Laura Stoler from The New School for Social Research in New York will be the Spring 2016 Global Asia Scholar. She will visit Leiden Univ...
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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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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...
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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...
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Earliest known alphabetic word list discovered 05 November 2015
A flake of limestone (ostracon) inscribed with an ancient Egyptian word list of the fifteenth century BC turns out to be the world’s oldest known abec...
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New Book: A Grammar of Mandarin 12 October 2015
A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin by Jeroen Wiedenhof combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth. Crammed...