1,420 search results for “ancient crafts” in the Public website
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Epistemic Vices: Continuities and Discontinuities, 1600-2000
Conference
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CANCELLED | New Remarks on the Problematic Nature of the Qurʾanic Text: Muhammad and Ali Between Apocalypse and Empire
Lecture
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The nature of Qur’anic emotion, where it is felt, and how it is expressed
Lecture
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A Brief History of the Shifting Representations of Indigenous Taiwanese in Documentary Film
Lecture, Research Seminar
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YAL members
Read all about YAL membership and the members of the Young Academy Leiden.
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Lunch Time Seminars
In this section you can find information about and recordings of past SAILS Lunch Time Seminars.
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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.
- 'Sound Matters': An exploratory Workshop into Sound and Digital Humanities
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Workshop 'Introduction to Public Speaking' by LeidenMUN
Workshop
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Platform for Artistic Research: ARC
Debate, Artistic Research forum
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Asia Beyond Boundaries: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Primary Sources from the Premodern World
Conference
- Material Agency Forum
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Welcome to Our Paris Talks!
Lecture
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Visual Ethnography MSc student film screenings
Festival
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Flash interview with alumnus Joost Bunk: As a diplomat, you know there's a risk of being declared persona non grata
When Russia attacked Ukraine in the night of 23-24 February, alumnus Joost Bunk, who was working as a diplomat in Russia, knew that everything would change.
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Pieter's Corner: The surveillance society
Those who know their dystopian classics will inevitably associate the concept of surveillance society with the all-knowing oppressive force characterized as Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel 1984. However, surveillance permeats our society in many more subtle aspects than our worst fears about spy…
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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Hall of Fame
Many of our staff and students have won an award, received a grant, obtained an academic fellowship for their quality or have been socially engaged due to their specific expertise. See below for an overview per year.
- Volume 6 (2011)
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Text in Context
Recontextualising the Papyri from Roman Soknopaiou Nesos / Dimê (Fayyum, Egypt)
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Tales of the Revolt. Memory, Oblivion and Identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700
This research project, that started in September 2008, aims to explore how personal and public memories of the Dutch Revolt in the seventeenth century evolved and interacted to create new political and cultural identities for the societies that eventually were to become the kingdoms of the Netherlands…
- Volume 8 (2013)
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The formation of Islam: The view from below
By examining the impact of Islam on the daily life of those living under its rule, the goal of this project is to understand the striking newness of Islamic society and its debt to the diverse cultures it superseded. Questions will be the extent, character, and ambition of Muslim state competency at…
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Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers
From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant from the NWO. A grant of up to 250,000 euros will give them the opportunity to further elaborate their own ideas over…
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Cairo Institute Director: ‘I’m keeping the ship afloat’
In March 2020, the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo suddenly had to repatriate 57 students to the Netherlands and Flanders. Director and Arabic specialist Rudolf de Jong decided to stay in Egypt. ‘A lot of the work carries on.’
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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Aris Politopoulos: ‘I use games as a teaching method'
In his lectures Aris Politopoulos combines archaeology with video games. He is one of the three nominees for the 2020 LUS Teaching Prize. 'A good teacher is always open to feedback from students.'
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Neanderthals hunted straight-tusked elephants, 125.000 years ago
A Leiden and Mainz (Germany) based team studies the activities of early humans in a 125,000 years old Last Interglacial ecosystem, formerly exposed in a large open cast brown coal pit near Halle (Germany). The Last Interglacial is an important warm-temperate period, showing the full flora and fauna…
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Pieter's Corner: How useful is deprivation of liberty?
A new bill is currently under debate in the Netherlands, advocating raising the prison sentence for manslaughter from 15 to 25 years. ‘This very serious crime (...) evokes feelings of disgust and insecurity in society’, Dutch Minister for Justice and Security Grapperhaus comments on the sentence that…
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Reading list – Culinary culture and tasty tales
Are we going vegetarian this year? Shall we keep the dessert the same? Where do I find inspiration for a festive meal during the holidays? For readers who like to postpone these questions, for those who like to tell a good story with their culinary contribution, or for those who simply want to know…
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How students incorporate sustainability in their master thesis
Many students are finishing their master thesis on sustainability this summer. In this blog, we reflect on their topics, approaches, and goals by highlighting theses from Governance of Sustainability, European Law, Global Archaeology, Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Ecology, and…
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Lucia Langerak: ‘I'm not one to sit on the sidelines’
Lucia Langerak was awarded a Master’s degree in Egyptology with cum laude honours in 2018. Her bachelor’s degree was also with cum laude honours. ‘I’m an exceptional Egyptologist, if only because I’ve never been to Egypt.’ She is now the coordinator of the Access & Support Platform at the University…
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Conference Mediated Cicero
Conference
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Between Admiration and Repulsion: The ‘Witch’ in Medieval Islam
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Ethno-taxonomy among Bakhtiari nomads of Iran – Part 2: Plants
Lecture
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Tocharian in Progress
Conference
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Fabulous Creatures and Auspicious Symbols: A Farewell Symposium in Honour of Ellen Raven
Conference
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The Roman World Between Global Society and Local Cultures
Conference
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LIAS Online Concert: Music from North India
Live Concert
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Re-Presented Pasts: Uses and Re-Uses of the Past in Pre-Modern Islam
Conference, LUCIS Research Programme | Re-Presented Pasts
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This Week's Discoveries | 16 april 2019
Lecture
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LTP Lecture with Kit Fine 'The Logic and Metaphysics of Gender'
Lecture
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The Island of the Divine Crocodile – Recent Research on Textual and Other Archaeological Remains from Soknopaiou Nesos
Conference
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On-Campus Master's Experience Day
Study information
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Ethno-taxonomy among Bakhtiari nomads of Iran
Lecture
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LUCIP FORUM
Lecture
- LUCIP Forum, Debates on Death and Immortality in Classical Chinese Cosmology
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
- Volume 13 (2018)
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LCCP Working Seminar: Elements of ecotechnical existence in Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics (1935)
Lecture