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Hortus botanicus increases focus on Asia18 April 2017The Hortus botanicus Leiden has one of Europe’s largest collections of living plants from the Asian region. This rich resource is no longer the sole d...
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Ron Sela will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in May 201729 March 2017Ron Sela, Associate Professor of Central Asian History in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University – Bloomington, will be the ...
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442nd Dies Natalis focuses on Asia08 February 2017On the 442nd anniversary of the foundation of Leiden University, and at the start of the Leiden Asia Year, lawyer Jan Michiel Otto, an expert in the f...
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Sugoi! Start of Leiden Asia Year07 February 2017Throughout the coming year, all attention in Leiden will be on Asia. This special year, featuring numerous Asian events, conferences, exhibitions and...
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How ‘Mao’s little generals’ wreaked havoc in China06 February 2017No matter how hard Chinese communists tried to control the economy, they could not stop the free market from flourishing. This was the message given b...
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‘Indonesians want more focus on fine details in research on war of decolonisation’05 December 2016After a lobby lasting many years, the Dutch government has decided to finance an independent study of the war of decolonisation (1945-1950) in the for...
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Frank Dikötter to receive honorary doctorate at Dies Natalis 201705 December 2016Historian Frank Dikötter will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for his work on the history of the Chinese Republican period and th...
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Zifa-Alua Auezova will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in November 201631 October 2016Zifa-Alua Auezova will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in November 2016. Dr Auezova will deliver two guest lectures on Thursday, 10 November and ...
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Leiden to focus on Asia and the Asian Library in 201705 September 2016The programme for the Leiden Asia Year in 2017 is now available. Rector Carel Stolker launched the new website www.leidenasiayear.nl at the opening of...
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Devin DeWeese will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in September 201605 September 2016Devin DeWeese, Indiana University Bloomington, will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor between 5-17 September 2016. Professor DeWeese will deliver...
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Call for Papers and Kick-off Conference Research Group: From Disorder to Order31 May 2016On October 20 and 21, 2016, Leiden University will host an international conference under the title "From Disorder to Order: Conflict and the Resource...
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How China Studies started in the Dutch East Indies16 February 2016Leiden has the most highly regarded China Studies programme in Europe. But how did this knowledge find its way specifically to Leiden? For his PhD res...
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Call for papers: New law, new villages: Changing rural Indonesia03 February 2016The 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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Ann Stoler - GLASS Scholar (Spring 2016)25 January 2016Professor 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...