2,513 search results for “central asian history” in the Public website
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Eurasian empires: report on the final conference
The final conference of the Eurasian Empires programme took place from 15 to 17 June 2016 in Leiden. The conference concluded a five-year research programme in which nine researchers worked on their own specific projects within the programme’s Eurasian scope, transcending borders by bringing together…
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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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Back to Rabat
The airspace had almost closed last year as Leiden students and staff rushed to leave the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR). How is this Leiden institute in Rabat doing over a year later? ‘Luckily we’d done a crisis exercise a few months before. Everyone managed leave the country in time.’
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Beyond plastic: why humanities scholars study waste
In a new series of articles, we explore how the humanities study topics related to sustainability. First up: waste. How and why study waste as a humanities scholar? We asked Elena Burgos Martinez, University Lecturer South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan…
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Demographic Transformation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Lecture
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Workshop on the CPC’s 19th Party Congress
Lecture, Workshop
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Digitization and the Securing of Nationals in a Citizen-Centric World
Lecture
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Masterclass | Ziauddin Sardar: Islam, Knowledge and Culture in Postnormal Times
Masterclass
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The Yangtze and the Rhine: A historical conference
Conference
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Gongming shehui (Civil society) and the prospect of democratization in China
Lecture
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Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia
Lecture, LIAS Book event
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Mshatta and the Invention of “Islamic Art” as a modern Concept
Public Lecture
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Beyond the ‘Slave Community’ and ‘Resistance’ Paradigms: Alternative Approaches to the Social Lives of Bondpeople in the Atlantic World
Conference
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LUCIS Annual Lecture | Ziauddin Sardar | From Islamisation to the Integration of Knowledge
Lecture
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Who is your name?
Lecture
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A Neandertal in us?
Lecture
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Online launch of the “Leiden Overview on SOGIESC in International Law”
Conference
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Exhibition of Panji, Diponegoro and La Galigo manuscripts
Exhibition
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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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LUCIP Lecture Series with Antoine Panaïoti
Lecture
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Transnational Curation Politics: Contemporary Muslim Fashions
Lecture, LUCIS Short-Stay Visiting Scholar Lecture
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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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LUCIP Lecture Series with Godfrey Igwebuike Onah
Lecture
- Leiden University Nationalism Network
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From “The Sea Bastards” to “Solidarity Beyond Ocean”: Japanese Dockworkers and the Politics of Scale in the Bandung Moment
Lecture
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Society for Women in Philosophy: Philosophy and Practice & Annual General Meeting
Conference
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
- The Timurid Period: Cultural Production, Exchange and Legacies
- Volume 16 (2021)
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Peace Education for the Protection of World Cultural Heritage in Iraq and Yemen
World Forum for the Culture of Peace
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Older Publications
Overview of the publications of the department of Industrial Ecology (1982-2015)
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Secrets of Business: Empires and Global Commercial Practices in the Early Modern Period
Conference, Workshop
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The impact of Alexander the Great on the arts of Greece
Lecture
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Curious and Scientific Things – Seeing and Knowing in Early Modern East Asia (1700-1900)
Conference, Workshop
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Globalising Sociolinguistics (GloSoc2) “Communicating in the city”, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Conference
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The Role of Law in Development: steady beacon or mere sham?
Farewell Symposium Jan Michiel Otto
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Inclusive Leadership
Debate, Inclusive Leadership
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Narratives and figures in transition
Lecture, Friends of the Kern Institute lecture
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Global (Economic) Power in Flux? End of Western Dominance?
Lecture, L-PEG PhD Network Workshop
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Innovation and Tradition: The Odd Couple
Debate
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Gulf Migration: Governing Gulf Labour in a Global Labour Market
Roundtable
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Between spiritual care and forensic care: situating the remains of war dead in contemporary Vietnam
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Alternative Archaeologies, multiple Agencies, hidden Narratives
Masterclass
- China Seminar
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Panel discussion on the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda and its relevance to national minorities
Panel discussion
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Hall of Fame 2015
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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‘In the end, rector is just Latin for organiser’
On the day of the Dies Natalis, Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker starts his second term of office. How does he look back on the first four years, and what are his plans? These are the questions asked of him by Mayor Lenferink, student of public administation Mikal Tseggai, Professor Eveline Crone and…
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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Maria Ulfah and Her Vision of a Humanistic Postcolonial Asia
In 1933, Maria Ulfah Santoso was the first Indonesian women to earn a law degree. During her studies in Leiden University she became involved with Indonesia;s nationalist movement. She went on to be Indonesia's Social Minister, as the first female cabinet member. In this article, historian Wildan Sena…