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Late Pre-colonial and Early Colonial Entanglements of Venezuela with the Caribbean
This research project is an integral part of its mother-programme NEXUS1492 ERC Synergy Project directed by Prof. Corinne Hofman. Overarchingly, it aims at understanding and bridging from the archaeological perspective the late pre-colonial and early colonial history of the Southeastern Caribbean macroregion…
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Splitting and clustering grammatical information
This project focuses on a striking parallelism between two macro-groups of languages: southern Italian dialects and the so-called split-ergative languages, like Basque, Georgian, Dyirbal, Hindi/Urdu.
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Seasons of Interdisciplinarity
The Seasons of Interdisciplinarity are an initiative by the Young Academy Leiden that started in 2021.
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Visual Ethnography MSc student film screenings
Festival
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Understanding Sport Participation: On the embodiment of religion, gender and race/ethnicity
Conference, Roundtable
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LUC The Hague - Me, Asian?!
Lecture
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Language of Religion: What does it inform the field of Linguistics?
Lecture
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Globalising Sociolinguistics (GloSoc2) “Communicating in the city”, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Conference
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LUC The Hague - Me, Asian?!: Migration History and Cultural Memory
Lecture
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Faculty of Archaeology launches dinosaur-focused research
Many an archaeologist, at some point in their career, is asked what type of dinosaur they discovered. Instead of once again patiently explaining that we do not do dinosaurs, the Faculty Board has now decided to listen to society’s call. ‘It is clear that the general public feels that dinosaurs are relevant…
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Interview with Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi about his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot'
In the interview by Manu Sinjan, published in Eos Memo, Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi addresses questions about the changing role of music in society through history, which is also the topic of his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot'.
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Thriller writer Jeroen Windmeijer: books have their own truth
With cultural anthropology alumnus Jeroen Windmeijer, Leiden has added another writer to the fold. Following the success of his religious-historical thrillers, he has been able to call himself a full-time writer since 1 January 2019. ‘Not a true story but still true.’
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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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FC Winter School student Ginevra Montefusco produces a web doc on Bari’s fish market
Mingo, a 91-year-old fish lover from Bari, takes us with him into the physical, symbolic and cultural space of the market.
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Blog Post | Do diplomatic gifts matter?
In this blog, Jorg Kustermans asks the question whether diplomatic gifts matter - a subject covered in the latest HJD Forum on gift giving in diplomacy.
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This archaeologist dives to VOC ship De Rooswijk
Martijn Manders conducts research on the sunken VOC ship De Rooswijk. Tirzah Schnater from the Ministry of Education, Culure and Science produced this impressive report of the work of this underwater archaeologist.
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‘The connection with society is always closer than you think’
On the Things That Talk platform, students publish stories about objects from museums from the many collections of the university library and the city. An interview with Fresco Sam-Sin, its creator. Sam-Sin: ‘Things That Talk is a way to talk to each other about the structure of our education and about…
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Call for Contributions: Third conference of the Law and Development Research Network
From 19 to 21 September 2018 the third annual conference of the Law and Development Research Network (LDRN) will take place at Leiden University. The theme of the conference will be 'Interfaces'.
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Letters of Johan de Witt give a glimpse behind the scenes at the Disaster Year 1672
The government, the people and the country were in desperate straits. This about sums up the state of affairs in the Disaster Year of 1672. It was 350 years ago, and to mark the occasion PhD candidate Roosje Peeters collaborated on a series of letters to and from a key political figure Johan de Witt,…
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Take care of each other’
After a turbulent Covid year, the well-being of our students and staff has the highest priority. How can we prevent physical and mental health problems? This was the key question at the Opening of the Academic Year in Pieterskerk in Leiden on 6 September.
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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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‘The sun never sets on our university'
Leiden University has partnerships in the local region, in the Netherlands, in Europe and with countries on almost all the world's continents. Students and researchers benefit from these partnerships, but society is also a beneficiary, says Rector Carel Stolker.
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"From Epistemicide to ‘Epistemic Disobedience'" by Anne-Maria Makhulu
Lecture
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Sharia Embedded: the Bureaucratization of Islam in Brunei and Singapore
Lecture
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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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Tone in Binumarien (Trans-New Guinea): mora-based melodies
Lecture
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‘Give’ constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia: a case of structural convergence
Lecture
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CPP Colloquium, Academic Freedom: How to Conceptualize and Justify it?
Lecture
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With kind regards: 22 November 2022
Lecture
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The Measure of Power and the Power of Measure
LUCIR Lecture: The Concept of Power in World Politics
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"Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing Social Orders”
Lecture, Seminar
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Leiden Translation Talk 5 April: Pseudotranslation and reading under the bombs in Iran
Lecture
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LUSSI Seminar: What does Mecca have to do with Athens? The Language of Revelation in the Epistles of the Ikhwan al-Safar’ and other Ismaili Texts
Lecture
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Sexual Misfits and State Socialism: Dealing with Male Homosexuality and Male Sexual Deviance in Czechoslovakia
Lecture, Leiden Queer History Network
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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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Mapping the Transmission of Knowledge in Tenth-Century Baghdad: an Investigation of the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim
Lecture, LUCIS
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Modern Transimperial Histories: Forms, Questions, Prospects
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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China Fashion Power - Fashioning Power through South-South Interaction: Rethinking Creativity, Authenticity, Cultural Mediation and Consumer
Lecture, China Seminar
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Developing a Proof of Concept on the digital documentation of Theban Tomb 45 (Luxor, Egypt): some recent results
Lecture
- Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS) year 2019-2020
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Uneven, extractive and racist media infrastructures have long (dis)connected the world divided by imperialism. Yet, from the 1990s, discussions about the media and computing have predominantly focused on the ways in which our world has been positively transformed by new digital technologies and novel…
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Kamran Matin: Lineages of the Islamic State: An international historical sociology of State (de‐)formation in Iraq
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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After Securitisation: Militarisation of Governance of Migration in the EU and Implications for the EU’s identity
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Reordering the Natural World: Animals, Plants, and the Natural Environment in Early Modern China
Course, Workshop
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Political Science Lunch Research Seminar: Judicial Strategies in Consociations
Lecture
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Memory and Protest Cultures in Postcolonial and Post-Socialist Contexts
Conference
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Reconfiguring Queer Chineseness: Hong Kong as Method
Lecture, China Seminar
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Global Frictions & Creative Traces: Works in Progress
Project presentation | MENA Cultures and Global Aesthetics
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Sub-Indo-European Europe: Problems, Methods and Evidence
Conference, Workshop EUROLITHIC