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Humanities as the heart of Leiden in 2022: get to know the team
In 2022, Leiden will be the European City of Science. During this year, Leiden will be the European stage for knowledge, with a programme filled with science, art and culture. Of course, the humanities also take part. Get to know the core team of our faculty.
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Blog Post | An Identity Perspective on Non-great Power Public Diplomacy
The postwar Liberal International Order faces grave challenges today mostly in the form of geopolitical competitions among great powers and exclusionary identity politics unfolding across different countries.
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Past, Present, and Future: Encoding and Accessing Memories in Epigraphy in Post-Classical Mediterranean
Round table
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[CANCELLED] Arabic and its Alternatives: Religious Minorities and their Languages in the Emerging Nation States of the Middle East (1920-1950)
Lecture, Book launch
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Leiden University Alumni in Brussels Event
Alumni event
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The Christian Slaves of Depok: A Colonial Tale Unravels (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021)
Lecture, Book talk | LIMS seminar
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The Yangtze and the Rhine: A historical conference
Conference
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Sharia Embedded: the Bureaucratization of Islam in Brunei and Singapore
Lecture
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Frank Scholten in Mandate Palestine: Biblification, Orientalism, and the Classical Body
Lecture, Leiden Queer History Network
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LUCIS Annual Lecture | Ziauddin Sardar | From Islamisation to the Integration of Knowledge
Lecture
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Vernacular Books and Reading Experiences in the Early Age of Print
Conference
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Virtuous Suffering: new perspectives on the ethics of suffering for critical global health and justice
Lecture, Workshop
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[CANCELLED] Hybrid Book talk and discussion ‘Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia’ by Prof. Patricia Spyer
Debate, Book talk
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: One Among Zeroes: AI, Islam and what computational analysis can teach us about religious futures
Lecture
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Seminar & PhD Defence Amer Morgahi
Conference
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Worlds of Love in the Wakhan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan
LUCIS lecture & screening | Islam in Central Asia
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How can we study Islam in post-WWII Central Asia?
Masterclass
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Film Screening | The Judge
Film screening
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Masterclasses by Maribel Fierro
Course, Al-Babtain Masterclasses
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Deep sea research with microphone
‘Even at the deepest point in the ocean you can still hear the noise from boats,' says biologist Hans Slabbekoorn. ‘And that's while sound is the most important means of communication for underwater life.' What is the effect of all that underwater noise on fish and other animals? Slabbekoorn is on board…
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Hall of Fame 2016
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed member of an academic society or have taken on a position in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include…
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‘I became a stronger believer in the power of Europe’
She knew that a degree in Public Administration would be a stepping-stone to a career in politics. And that is exactly what Leiden alumna Samira Rafaela (30) wanted. Thanks to preferential votes, this member of the D66 party is the first Dutch MEP from an Afro-Caribbean background.
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Nature conservation initiatives – who foots the bill?
In January 2020, Marja Spierenburg joined the FSW as the new Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihoods. Let’s get to know her. ‘All my research is basically about nature conservation. I look at areas like national parks, but also at measures aimed at increasing the sustainability of…
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire
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 first…
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Diversity & Empires: Governance of racial and religious plurality overseas (16th-20th centuries)
Conference
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Is it Possible to Build World Order Without American Hegemony?
Lecture
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Monthly meeting series LUCAS Modern & Contemporary cluster: Memory Culture in Contemporary Iran
Debate
- Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS) year 2018 - 2019
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Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
Lecture
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Customizing the Sharia: Matrilineal Muslims of the Indian Ocean Littoral
Conference
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Book presentation: The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex
Lecture
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The interpretation of syntactic focus variation
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Roadblock Politics - Predation and Resistance in Central Africa
Lecture
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International PhD Seminar on Slavery, Servitude & Extreme Dependency
Conference, Seminar
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Silent Disco
Festival, Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019
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NISIS Traveling through Islam Research in the Netherlands
Lecture
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International Leiden Mayflower 400 Conference GOES ONLINE
Conference
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Diversity, equity and inclusion in the sciences and beyond
Symposium
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POSTPONED || Symposium ‘Money, Rationality, Solidarity’
Symposium
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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Historicizing Security. Enemies of the State, 1813 until present
The research project ‘The History of National Security, 1945-present', is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Campus The Hague/Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH). The project will run until the summer of 2013, when we hope…
- Volume 14 (2019)
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Online exhibition
TEXTS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT. Highlights from the Collection of the Leiden Papyrological Institute. Online exhibition on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the foundation ‘Het Leids Papyrologisch Instituut’ in 2015.
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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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Earthly and Heavenly: Love, Loyalty, and Music in Persian Mystic Poetry
Conference
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VVAK Lustrum Symposium: Collecting Asian Art in the Western World – Past, Present and Future
Conference
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Diversity and inclusiveness
Conference
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The repair of moral injury
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
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Ethical Dilemmas and Material Challenges of Doing Research in High Surveillance Environments
LUCIS Masterclass | Islam in North Africa