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Gastro-Politics & Gastro-Ethics of Diversity: Negotiating Islam in an Entangled World - POSTPONED
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Bodies in the Hands of Science
Lecture, Johan Picardt Mini Symposium
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The nature of Qur’anic emotion, where it is felt, and how it is expressed
Lecture
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Contesting Empires: Sogdiana, Bactria and Gandhara between the Sasanian empire, the Tang dynasty and the Muslim Caliphate (ca. 600-1000 CE)
Workshop
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On Display: Instagram, the Self, and the City
Lecture, Research Seminar
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POSTPONED - Gastro-Politics & Gastro-Ethics of Diversity: Negotiating Islam in an Entangled World
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The Emotive Qur’an in its Late Antique Context, part 1: Context
Lecture
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LUSSI Seminar Prophecy after Muhammad: the Early Alid Rebellions in a Late Antique Context with Mushegh Asatryan
Lecture
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FGGA Research Seminar: Linking the Discontented Employee and the Discontented Citizen
Lecture, Seminar
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Anthropology research seminar Leiden
Lecture, Seminar
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City Responsibility: Municipal Institutions as the First Frontier of Conflict Prevention and Peace building
Lecture
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The Emotive Qur’an in its Late Antique Context, part 2: Qur'an
Lecture
- Preparation Course for the ILEC Examination
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Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty
Lecture, Book presentation
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Tocharian and Iranian in the Tarim Basin and beyond
Conference, Workshop
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Turning over a new leaf: Manuscript innovation in the twelfth-century renaissance
How did the medieval manuscript develop as a physical object during the Twelfth Century Renaissance and what do these changes tell us about the intellectual culture of the period?
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Skills
What skills do students need to function as academic professionals and engaged citizens?
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Judi Mesman awarded Stevin Prize for research on upbringing and diversity
What influence do children’s upbringing and education have on their world view? This is the question Professor Judi Mesman is trying to answer. For her research and public outreach activities, she has just been awarded the prestigious Stevin Prize, the highest award in the Netherlands for a researcher…
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International alumnus Wandile Madalane tells us why going to Leiden has been his best decision in life
Alumnus Wandile Madalane tells us how his time in Leiden has made it easier for him to engage with renowned figures and how he does NOT miss the rain.
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How can we tell the story of multivocal the Netherlands?
At a time when statues of figures from history have an uncertain future Valika Smeulders has just become Head of History at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. What changes does she want to make? And how does she look back on her Languages and Cultures of Latin America degree programme in Leiden?
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Our man in Jakarta keeps the institute running from Venlo
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many staff of Leiden institutes abroad to leave their posts in a hurry. How is the KITLV Jakarta team doing now? Director Marrik Bellen talks about the turbulent times for this Leiden institute and its staff. And can we learn anything from the Indonesian approach?
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On the road with an International Credit Mobility grant
Over the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and teaching links: all 14 projects that Leiden University submitted to the EU’s International Credit Mobility programme have been awarded a grant. Three ex…
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Pieter's Corner: Confidence in the future?
After a long period of formation, the Rutte III cabinet presented itself on 26 October 2017. The coalition agreement on which ministers will build is called ‘Vertrouwen in de toekomst’ ('Confidence in the future'). But what impact will this new cabinet have on our future? We asked our researchers in…
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International Labour Organization: tumult on the global labour market
Since 1919 the International Labour Organization (ILO) has been promoting the rights of workers worldwide. On 7 February, Leiden University hosted the symposium celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the foundation of the ILO. Leiden emeritus professor of International Labour Law Paul van der Heijden…
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Flash interview with alumnus and new Faculty Advisory Council member Yousef Yousef
Yousef Yousef is a 'self-made man'. But he first obtained his bachelor's degree in tax law in Leiden. 'A CEO needs to have a basic understanding of the principles of law', he says.
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Eventful opening of academic year: minister in the church, protest on the square
Not one but two openings: the minister who defended her plans and many who emphasised the importance of standing together with the arts and social sciences: the opening of academic year 2019-2020 in Leiden was not without event.
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Two psychologists on a date with the Rector
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this edition…
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Bitter truths: Common-pool resources, industrialisation, and the global history of Central Asian wormwood
Lecture
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The Development of Security: Colonial Geneaologies
Lecture
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Living standards in Tsarist and Early Soviet Central Asia: Can we study them? Why do they matter?
Lecture
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Ties that Bind: Mechanisms and Structures of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire
Conference
- The UN at 75: Improving Image and Visibility Through Education
- Gas-Induced Segregation in a Pt-Rh Alloy Nanoparticle Revealed by In Situ Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging
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Political Science Lunch Research Seminar: Being Young in Italy in Times of Crisis
Lecture
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Commercialisation as Social Transformation: Ottoman Greeks in Amsterdam
Lecture
- How surface species drive product distribution during ammonia oxidation, STM and AP-XPS study
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Gongming shehui (Civil society) and the prospect of democratization in China
Lecture
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Dissertations
Overview of all dissertations published by PhD candidates from CML.
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2020 Hall of fame
In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.
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Secrets of Business: Empires and Global Commercial Practices in the Early Modern Period
Conference, Workshop
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Exchanges on the Middle East II: Turkey and the Middle East
Public Lecture and Debate
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Brazil in the 21st century: advances and obstacles
Conference
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LUCAS “Modern and Contemporary Studies” Research Cluster 2nd annual conference: Back to Normal? The Shifting Ground before, during, and beyond
Conference
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Roundtable Series: Reflections on a Pandemic 3 - The Human Experience: Rights and their Abuses during a Pandemic
Lecture
- LUCIS Spring Fellow 2018: Karen Bauer
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Electronic Monitoring, Privatization of Criminal Justice Administration, and the Law of Unanticipated Consequences
Lecture
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‘We couldn't really celebrate our vaccine being approved, but we were over the moon’
On 11 March, pharmaceutical company Janssen received approval to launch its corona vaccine on the European market. This made Janssen the fourth company to be given the green light by the European Medicines Agency. As Lead of the Janssen Campus in the Netherlands, Biology alumnus Bart van Zijll Langhout…
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Formation of Islam: Topics
The FOI project has a number of topics it aims to investigate. These are: State, Economy, Culture and Papyri. You will find links to bibliographies on this page.
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March
All coronavirus updates released in March 2021