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Cotton, control, and continuity in disguise: The political economy of agrarian transformation in lowland Tajikistan
PhD Defence
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Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800 - Not a normal job: the Emperor in Eurasian History
Lecture, Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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The Indian Temple -- Production, Place and Patronage
Lecture
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Lecture series ‘Museum Talks’ kicked off
Major renovations, much-discussed exhibitions and current museum related questions. ‘If you want to know what is happening in the art and museum sector in a very up-to-date way, then the 'Museum Talks' lecture series is the thing for you’, says Professor of Art History and organiser Stijn Bussels.
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800 year old mystery of ancient bone disease solved
Scientific research at the molecular level on a collection of medieval skeletons from Norton Priory in Cheshire, United Kingdom, could help rewrite history after revealing they were affected by an unusual ancient form of the bone disorder, Paget’s disease. Osteoarchaeologist Carla Burrell, attached…
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individual differences in cognitive flexibility: a resting state fMRI study using multiband EPI
Lecture
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Korean Culture Market
Festival
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How to tackle disease: medical knowledge in official home doctor manuals of early modern Japan
Lecture
- Trump and the Iran Deal
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Why cities outlive empires: the potential in non-sovereign cities
Lecture
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CEES.center lecture: The End of Social Democracy?
Lecture
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Starting university with a sleepover
El CID, the University introduction week, has begun! We spoke on Sunday evening to the first new arrivals who had come to Leiden to spend the night at the University Sports Centre. New students can sleep here all this week as well as at the ice rink or in a student house.
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Atalialu Serapheim and the Turkophone Orthodox Christians of Anatolia: A study of eighteenth-century Turkish texts in the Greek alphabet (Karamanlidika)
PhD Defence
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fabricae of Augustus and the workshops of Charlemagne: A compositional study of corroded copper-alloy artifacts using hand-held portable XRF
PhD Defence
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A Comprehensive Approach to the Study of Electoral Reform: An Analysis of Chile’s Road to Electoral Reform (1989-2015)
PhD Defence
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Social Museums from the Caribbean and Beyond
Conference
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Archaeological context, design and architecture: tensions in museum displays of Egypt
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: The Lion’s Historian: Animal Histories from the South
Lecture, Seminar
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Leiden victims of WWII given a face
Every year on 26 November Leiden University commemorates the protest speech given by Professor Cleveringa against the Nazis. At least 663 students, staff and alumni of the University lost their lives during the Second World War, yet little was known about these victims. PhD candidate Adriënne Baars…
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GLASS Public Lecture | Translation and Image – on the Schematism of Co-Figuration
Lecture
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Monitoring Migrations: The Habsburg-Ottoman Border in the Eighteenth Century
PhD Defence
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Discretion and decision making seminar
On 20 & 21 April 2017 international researchers in the field of law and society and criminology presented their work in Brussels and shared ideas on discretion and decision-making.
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Blog Post | Diplomacy’s Response to the Coronavirus
The coronavirus outbreak has demonstrated the strengths and weaknesses of modern diplomacy. In this two-part series of blog posts, I will attempt to analyze how diplomats grappled with the coronavirus pandemic and how international diplomacy can best prepare to meet similar challenges in the future.…
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Volvo Ocean Race winner Carolijn Brouwer has sailing in her blood
Carolijn Brouwer and ambitious are synonymous. That has got her a long way. She was the first woman to be part of the winning team of the Volvo Ocean Race, the toughest of sailing races. 'Would I take part again? Only for a bigger challenge - as skipper, for example.'
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‘It will be much easier without the British’
The year 2020 should finally be Brexit year. The United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union on 31 January, at midnight Dutch time. Legal scholar Joris Larik from Leiden University College The Hague explains why he is not advocating remain.
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442nd Dies Natalis focuses on Asia
On the 442nd anniversary of the foundation of Leiden University, and at the start of the Leiden Asia Year, lawyer Jan Michiel Otto, an expert in the field of law in developing countries, delivered the first Dies lecture. He compared demagogues in Asia who call upon Muslims to turn against their governments…
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‘Heritage is never neutral. It is always interpreted’
As of 1 September 2019, Prof. Pieter ter Keurs will assume the position of Scientific Director at the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development as well as that of Professor of Museums, Collections and Society at the Faculties of Humanities and Archaeology at Leiden University.…
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Remco Breuker on North Korea: ‘We have actually run out of time’
Since it was announced that North Korean President Kim Jong-un is ready to launch an intercontinental nuclear missile, fear of a nuclear war is growing by the day. Professor and North Korea expert Remco Breuker talks about the increased international tensions and their consequences for his work.
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Stranded: students and PhD candidates affected by the corona crisis
The travel ban and closed borders have had a big impact on our students and staff. Some are stranded abroad, while others are stranded here in the Netherlands. Others again have returned early to their home country. Three personal stories from Wuhan, Leiden and The Hague.
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From Law student to Indian expert
Even the Mohawk Indians were talking about Serv Wiemers’ thesis. This Law alumnus, who has been intrigued by the world of American Indians since he was a boy, recently wrote a book about that world.
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Interview: Zeger van der Wal about 'Good Governance in Asia and the West'
On Thursday 28 September 2017 the Institute of Public Administration of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) organizes the event ‘Good Governance in Asia and the West: What is the Difference?’ as part of the Leiden Asia Year. Below you can read the interview with professor Zeger van der…
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When will there be a coronavirus vaccine?
The genetic code of the new coronavirus has been found: it is closely related to the SARS virus from 2003. Professor of Molecular Virology, Eric Snijder, has been researching coronaviruses for years. We asked him a few questions about the outbreak. ‘It’s still unclear whether this new virus is more…
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PhD Research || Re-discovery of the Italian salterio
It was her original Salterio from 1725, built by Michele Barbi, which Franziska Fleischanderl could coincidentally acquire in 2014 that ignited her passion for this special string instrument. Before, she was focussed on contemporary music with modern Hackbrett.
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Brazil, an emerging power, a BRICS / Brazil, major producer of primary goods
Lecture
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Ledi Bianku, Judge European Court of Human Rights
Lecture, European Union Seminar Series
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Escape from Rome: The Death of an Empire and the Birth of the Modern West
Lecture
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North Korean exiles speaking in public
Lecture
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Visualisation and Museology
Lecture
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Sara Brandellero: 'the news coming from Brazil is chilling'
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro called the COVID-19 disease “a minor illness”. With more than 200.000 confirmed corona cases today (May 18) however, Brazil is quickly becoming one of the world’s emerging coronavirus hot spots. How long can Bolsonaro continue to downplay the corona crisis? We asked…
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The “Morality Crisis” on the Ottoman Home Front during the First World War
Lecture
- Combined UHV-STM and AP-XPS study of Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) of NOx over a VOx/TiO2 based catalyst
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Fake (and the notion of Real) in ancient and modern societies
Conference
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Artistic Presentation Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
PhD Defence, Artistic Presentation
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Narratives and figures in transition
Lecture, Friends of the Kern Institute lecture
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7th Coffee Break Conference: Comparisons Across Time and Space
Conference
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Curious and Scientific Things – Seeing and Knowing in Early Modern East Asia (1700-1900)
Conference, Workshop
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Delineating State Grid’s Role in the EU Low-carbon Transition: Rules, Standards, and Notions of Energy Justice
Lecture
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Industrial Cyber Espionage under International Law
Lecture
- LUCIS Fall Fellow Wen-chin Ouyang
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The production and perception of incomplete tonal neutralization
PhD Defence