3,541 search results for “ancient near east” in the Public website
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Getting Done With Snouck
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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How is The Practical Standpoint Possible: On Korsgaard's Jusitification of Personal Identity
Lecture
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GLASS Public Lecture | Translation and Image – on the Schematism of Co-Figuration
Lecture
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Rejoicing Life in Malady: Forough Farroukhzad's Documentary of the Lepers of Bababaghi
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Demonstratives in Ayt Atta Tamazight
Lecture
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Leiden Translation Talks goes Zoom! Online talk by Alexandra Assis Rosa on Audiovisual Translation and Research
Lecture
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Globalizing the Northern Muslim World: the Mongol Exchange and the Horde
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
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Chair of UN Studies in Peace and Justice
From 1 August 2018, Alanna O'Malley was appointed as Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice, focusing on the ‘lesser-known actors’ of the UN: women, the youth, the agents of informal diplomatic networks within the UN and actors from the Global South. This Special Chair has been created…
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Online tools
This section provides an overview of online tools for the study of the medieval Low Countries. It has been launched in Dutch, but its translation into English is envisaged for the (near) future.
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April
All coronavirus updates released in April 2020.
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PhD Research Projects
PhD projects:
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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…
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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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Guest lecture from Sander Dekker, Minister for Legal Protection, to CSM students
On Wednesday morning, 14 March, Sander Dekker, Minister for Legal Protection, gave a guest lecture to the students of the Master Crisis and Security Management as part of the course Crisis Management. Dr. Sanneke Kuipers presented propositions based on theory to Minister Dekker. After each proposition,…
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Healthcare and population health: AI research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam
‘Our health is the area that stands to gain most from artificial intelligence.’ The three universities in Zuid-Holland are helping make these gains. Three researchers talk about their collaborative research into AI for health, drug discovery and healthcare in the AI knowledge cluster in Zuid-Holland.…
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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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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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What makes us ill?
Genes predict whether you have a propensity for an illness but environmental factors often have the last word: nutrition, air pollution, lifestyle, stress. The exposome as both culprit and chance. Large-scale research is being carried out into this at Leiden. Thomas Hankemeier, Professor of Analytical…
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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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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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GI grants awarded to Mariana Francozo, Sabine Luning and Wayne Modest
Global Interactions is pleased to announce that we have awarded a GI Advanced Seminar grant to Dr. Mariana Francozo (Archaeology) for 'Historia Naturalis Brasiliae' and a Breed Grant for 'Global Earth Matters' to Dr. Sabine Luning (CA-DS) and Dr. Wayne Modest (RCMC)
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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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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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Rage Against the Regime
Debate, LUCIS Panel Discussion | Islam in North Africa
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Perspectives on Recent Developments in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Debate, LUCIS Panel Discussion | Islam in Central Asia
- Activating 2D materials for CO2 and CO hydrogenation to higher alcohols: predictive modeling meets experiments
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Cognitive enhancement: Toward the integration of theory and practice
PhD Defence
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Interrogating Speculative Futures: A workshop on the politics of imagining a future with(out) chronic illness
Course, Online Workshop
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This Week’s Discoveries | 23 January 2018
Lecture
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LUCIR Lecture: Restraining Great Powers - Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era
Lecture
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CADS Ph.D. Conference 2021: Young Scholars at the Intersection of Uncertainty, Possibility and Responsibility
Conference
- 24th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition 2016/2017
- Combined UHV-STM and AP-XPS study of Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) of NOx over a VOx/TiO2 based catalyst
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Relative Clauses in Asia Minor Greek
Lecture
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Sanjar Gulomov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in December 2018
Lecture, Masterclass
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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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Webinar Corona research - Young Alumni Network
Alumni Event
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Short Summer Course in Forensic Archaeology
Summer Course
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This Week’s Discoveries | 1 March 2016
Lecture
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CADS PhD Conference 2021: Young Scholars at the Intersection of Uncertainty, Possibility and Responsibility
Conference
- From model- to real catalysts operated at relevant process conditions
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Public Lecture prof. Paul Hebert
Lecture
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Reedijk Symposium 2019: Function-based nonadiabatic principles for artificial photosynthesis with high yield
Lecture
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LIAS Online Concert: Music from North India
Live Concert
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This Week's Discoveries | 16 april 2019
Lecture
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Tocharian in Progress
Conference
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Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene Acoustemology
Lecture, The 6th Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
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Life & Work in a Byzantine Industrial Hub
Workshop