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Serving the Khan: Power, Loyalty and Ideology in the Mongol World
Conference
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Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-2000
Conference, Workshop
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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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the opening of the Al-Babtain Leiden University Centre for Arabic Culture
Opening ceremony
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Paul Christiaan Flu: a Surinamese professor in a time of war
Paul Christiaan Flu, originally from Surinam, was a brilliant tropical doctor, who in 1938 rose to the position of Rector Magnificus of Leiden University. The war years brought his lightning career to an abrupt end: his son was murdered and he himself was imprisoned in a concentration camp. A sad family…
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Archaeologist Annelou van Gijn in College Tour Merenwijk
Lecture, College Tour
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Rick Honings receives Vidi grant for Voicing the Colony
University lecturer of modern Dutch literature Rick Honings, associated with the Faculty of Humanities, has received a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. This allows him to carry out research into a more nuanced image of our colonial past.
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History Brown Bag Seminar ‘Colonialism, Anarchism, and the Transnational Life of an Irish-Argentine Doctor in the late 19th century’
Lecture, Seminar
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Sanjar Gulomov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in December 2018
Lecture, Masterclass
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Opening Lecture Academic Year - International Studies
Lecture
- Gravensteen Lectures
- Gravensteen Lectures
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How Dutch Brazil was lost
The Amsterdam media played a major role in the rise and fall of Dutch Brazil, the colony held briefly by the Dutch West India Company in the 17th century. This is the conclusion reached by Professor of Maritime History Michiel van Groesen in his book ‘Amsterdam’s Atlantic’.
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From in-person lectures to a first-class degree: our year on social media
Covid year 2021 might have felt somewhat less strange than the year before, but the virus still left its mark on University life and our students and staff. Fortunately there was also room for research, visiting dignitaries and in-person classes. And our social media accounts weren’t only about covid…
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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TRC exhibition Dressing the "Stans": Textiles, dress and jewellery from Central Asia
Exhibition
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NWA grant for Anouk de Koning and consortium for research on social resilience
A 5 million euros grant from the Dutch Research Agenda allows Anouk de Koning and co-applicants Femke Kaulingfreks and Maartje van der Woude to study social interventions in eight Dutch cities in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.
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Caribbean through a biographical approach: Microwear and material culture across the historical divide (AD 1200-1600)
PhD Defence
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The Paranormal: Experiences and Experiments (8th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity)
Conference
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Masterclasses by Maribel Fierro
Course, Al-Babtain Masterclasses
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The architectural landscape of the city of Khiva (Khorezm)
Lecture
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GLASS Public Lecture | Translation and Image – on the Schematism of Co-Figuration
Lecture
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GLASS Roundtable | Transregional Asia: Methods and Challenges
Debate
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Negotiating mobilities: Identities, borders, and empires in the Caribbean ca 1860-1940
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Marriage, Mecca and the Immigrant Quraysh
Lecture
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The Development of Security: Colonial Geneaologies
Lecture
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Large grant for research into Islamic non-conformism
In the coming years, Asghar Seyed Gohrab receives an advanced European Research Council grant of two and a half million euros to spend on his research into non-conformism in Islam. ‘Hopefully I can use this to contribute something to society, to pass something on to future generations.’
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Celebrating Maimonides in Cairo: Jewish Historiography, Egyptian Nationalism, and Global Crisis
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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A window into the past: Turks and Greeks at the end of the Ottoman Empire
Lecture
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How Did East Asians Become Yellow?
Lecture
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars 2021-2022
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The link between The Hague bonfires and different types of citizenship
For the third year in a row, the bonfires in the Duindorp and Scheveningen neighbourhoods in The Hague during New Year's Eve have been cancelled. According to Professor Henk te Velde, the fight for the bonfires represents something bigger: angry citizens.
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The importance of an interdisciplinary approach to open information provision in palliative care
What if seriously ill patients do not want to hear their diagnosis? Does a clinician always need to provide a patient with all available information? Communication researcher Liesbeth van Vliet, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels and research intern Fiona Brosig will put these questions on open…
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Mathematische statistiek
Valedictory Lecture
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"If I deserve it, it should be paid to me": A social history of labour in the Iranian oil industry 1951-1973
PhD Defence
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Building a Human Rights Movement that Changed History: The Inside Story of the Campaign to Investigate the Murder of Sandro Girgvliani
Lecture
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mechanisms of political decision-making and economic interests in the history of Dutch Brazil, 1621-1656
PhD Defence
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US 2016: The Most Dangerous Elections since 1868
Lecture
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From the Maghrib to the Mashriq? The Sacrifice of She-Camels among the Fatimids and Safavids
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! series
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Illegality and Immobility in the 19th-century Americas
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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ASCL Seminar: The Economics and Politics of Ghana’s Policy Experiments 1957-2011/2018
Lecture, Seminar
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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Mapping Merovingians: Integrating Text & Archaeology in the Digital Age
Digital Archaeology Group Lecture
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Commercialisation as Social Transformation: Ottoman Greeks in Amsterdam
Lecture
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Cyberbabe, Cybervamp, Consumption Celebrity
Lecture
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Unravelling the Mysteries: Embracing the Particular and the General in Middle East Research - ONLINE
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! series
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The "Serpent of the Desert" and the "Lion’s Whelp": Transformations of Christian Apocalypticism and Interreligious Polemics
Lecture, FLARe lecture series
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Who is the rightful owner of colonial art?
Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the debate on art and collectors’ items from a loaded past. Inaugural speech on 2 December.
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Anar Ahmadov awarded fellowship at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
Anar Ahmadov, Assistant Professor of Political Economy at LUC, has been awarded NIAS Individual Fellowship by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW).
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Language as a time machine
About 90 per cent of Austronesian and Papuan languages are under threat of soon becoming extinct. Marian Klamer is the only professor in the world who researches both these language groups. She records languages before they disappear and sheds new light on the history of Indonesia. Inaugural lecture…