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Tensions between China and Taiwan: what's behind it?08 August 2022For a while, it was uncertain whether prominent American politician Nancy Pelosi would travel to Taiwan. But last Tuesday, she did visit – much to the...
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European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’26 April 2022Professor 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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PhD candidate reveals link between North Korea and southern Africa07 March 2022North Korea is generally thought to be an isolated country. But, according to PhD candidate Tycho van der Hoog from Leiden’s African Studies Centre, t...
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How a Dutchman contributed to the rapid development of Singapore12 November 2020In 1960, Albert Winsemius started to help the city state of Singapore achieve its rapid rise out of economic misery. He helped the Singaporean governm...
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A broader perspective on the war07 May 2020Leiden researcher Ethan Mark has a mission, he explains in the alumni magazine Leidraad. He wants us to take off our Eurocentric glasses when we study...
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KNAW Early Career Award for Carolien Stolte06 November 2019Carolien Stolte has received an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She received this award for her res...
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Knighthood for Professor Henk Schulte Nordholt09 September 2019Professor Henk Schulte Nordholt was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion on Friday 6 September 2019 for his services to the study of Ind...
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia02 July 2019The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visi...
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From (no) sex in Japan to environmental policy: ICAS 11 is coming to town26 June 2019The walls of Paul van der Velde’s study at the International Institute for Asian Studies are full of neat rows of post-it notes. As organiser in chief...
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Divine Encounters in Asia – a photo exhibition19 June 2019Photographs of sacred rituals and ceremonies in Asia by Bangkok-based photographer and author Hans Kemp can be seen in the front hall of the Leiden To...
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Sanjar Gulomov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in December 201828 November 2018
Sanjar Golomov is a senior scholar at the Al-Biruni Institute in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In Leiden he will deliver two lectures and one masterclass for ...
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Mavlyuda Yusupova will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in November 201829 October 2018
Mavlyuda Yusupova will be Central Asia Visiting Professor in November 2018. She will deliver two guest lectures for Leiden MA and PhD students.
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Archaeologist teaches Honours Course in The Hague: “The past is still alive.”01 October 2018This semester archaeologist Dr Marike van Aerde teaches an Honours Course at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs in The Hague. “In the cours...
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15 September: Deadline AMT2 Research Funding (final round)30 August 2018The deadline for the final round of AMT2 Research Funding is 15 September 2018, 17 hrs CET. Application is open to all academic staff of Leiden Univer...
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Leiden in 2019 meeting place for researchers and others interested in Asia05 July 2018Next year in July Leiden University will receive around 1,500 Asia experts from around the world, for the 11th International Convention of Asia Schol...