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Tifinagh: The brand-new age-old traditional Berber script
Lecture, LUCIS What's New series
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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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Digital Archaeology at a Dinosaur Dig
Lecture
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Plus ca change, plus ca reste la meme chose? Evaluating change and continuity in Modi's policy towards Israel
Lecture
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Testing, Testing: The Social Lives of Rapid Diagnostic Devices
Lecture
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Proud to be First!
Lecture
- Book Launch 'Indian and Intercultural Philosophy: Personhood, Consciousness, and Causality' by Douglas L. Berger
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Mining the Dragon Vein: Coal Extraction and Secular Power in Northeast China, 1895-1912
Lecture, China Seminar
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The Reception of the ‘Satanic Verses’ Story in the Works of Early Shi‘ite Scholars (9th – 12th c. CE)
Lecture
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City and Society: The Care of the Self
Conference
- Ukraine, Taiwan & The challenges of Deterrence in the era of Great Power Competition
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Possessives in Tongugbe, a dialect of Ewe
PhD Defence
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The Safaitic scripts: Palaeography of an ancient nomadic writing culture
PhD Defence
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Book Launch | Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
Book Launch
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“Mobile” Afterworlds in the Western Capital of the Liao Dynasty
Lecture, also on line with Zoom
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What Constitutes Being Muslim in Indonesia: Islamic Expressions, Politics of Contestation and Accommodation in Bima
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The New Silk Road of China: The Middle East
Lecture
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Architecture of the 20th Century: A View from Cairo
LUCIS Lecture | MENA Cultures & Global Aesthetics
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From Disorder to Order - Conflict and the Resources of Legitimacy
Conference, Kick-off Research Group
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Recent Developments in Nationalism Studies: Who is the New Benedict Anderson?
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network | Kick-off Event
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Formation of Islam: Topics
The FOI project has a number of topics it aims to investigate. These are: State, Economy, Culture and Papyri. You will find links to bibliographies on this page.
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Beatrice Penati will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in October 2016
Beatrice Penati is Assistant Professor of History at Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan). Dr Penati will deliver a guest lecture on Monday, 10 October and a masterclass on Thursday, 13 October within the Central Asia Initiative at Leiden University.
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Recap of the 2021 Anthrooplogy PhD Conference
After a long period of isolation under pandemic, the PhD candidates of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology seized the opportunity to organize an in-person, on-site event: the CADS PhD Conference for 2021. With the theme
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'The right to vote' and Catalan independence
Politicians in Barcelona are preparing for a new political battle. Nationalists fighting for Catalan independence have announced that they will organize a referendum this autumn, just as they did in 2014. Other parties claim that it will lead to new court cases because the referendum is unconstituti…
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Devin DeWeese will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in September 2016
Devin DeWeese, Indiana University Bloomington, will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor between 5-17 September 2016. Professor DeWeese will deliver a guest lecture on Monday, 12 September (Lipsius 148, 3pm) and a masterclass on Friday, 16 September within the Central Asia initiative at Leiden Uni…
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Bakhtiyar Babadjanov will be Leiden Erasmus Fellow in November-December 2016
Dr. Bakhtiyar Babadjanov is the first Erasmus Fellow within the Erasmus Mobility Plus Project between Leiden University and the Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies, in particular the Al-Biruni Centre of Oriental Manuscripts. The two-year project (2016-2018) envisages exchange of teaching staff…
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education
Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti were unable to reap benefits from this. PhD candidate Anita van der Hulst researched why so few Roma and Sinti went on to higher education. PhD defence on…
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ILS conference on the European Union as a Global Actor in Maritime Security
On Thursday 25 and Friday 26 October 2018, the Europa Institute organized a conference within the framework of ‘Interaction between Legal Systems (ILS): Policing the High Seas’ and in cooperation with four Interest Groups of the European Society of International Law. The event brought together representatives…
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‘In those days you could learn as much as you wanted at university’
Having flirted with Egyptology and Italian, Dieuwertje Kuijpers found her true calling in the Master’s in European Union Studies. She is now a freelance journalist specialising in politics, security and defence. But she is also at home writing columns for ThePostOnline and hard-hitting articles for…
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‘Our pirate image scares people off, but that’s exactly what we want’
Controversial environmental organisation Sea Shepherd fights illegal fishing all around the world and is not afraid to take direct action. Alumnus Geert Vons is director of Sea Shepherd Netherlands. How does he look back on his degree in Chinese Studies, and what motivates him in his work? ‘If we don’t…
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Serving the Khan: Power, Loyalty and Ideology in the Mongol World
Conference
- LUCIS Fall Fellow 2017: Mercedes Volait
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Last Skies: Avian Imaginaries in Video Art from the Middle East
Arts and Culture, LUCIS and RCMC film screening and panel discussion
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Modernity in the Ninth Century: the Controversy around Abū Tammām
Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture (2016)
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The Structure and Development of an Indonesian Youth Language
Lecture
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The Globalization of Baghdad
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! series
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Guiding Travelers Workshop: Visual Religion
Lecture
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Online Book Talk 'The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir' by Dr. Saiba Varma
Lecture, Online Book Talk
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CANCELLED Jennifer McWeeny, Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty - The Early Works: Seeds of a Radical Ontology
Lecture
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Disciplining Gender and (Homo)sexuality in Hungary
Lecture, Leiden Queer History Network
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Workshop Digital Pasts
Lecture
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Law and Sharia: A New Approach to the Historicity of Islamic Normativity (8th-19th centuries)
LUCIS What's New lecture
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The toponymy of Ecuador: Evidence for the historical distribution of Chicham languages
Lecture
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Dutch Symposium of the Near East
Conference
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Disturbing Poses: Policing Youth on Casablanca’s Margins
Lecture
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Living on the Other Side: A Legal-Anthropological Analysis of Migration and Family Law in Morocco
Lecture
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Book Launch "Legal Documents as Sources for the History of Muslim Societies"
Lecture, Book Launch
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European Counterterrorism Intelligence Cooperation: Origins, Benefits and Risks
Lecture
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Presidents - a genuine threat to European governance?
Lecture
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The Ghost of the Acropolis - Herodotus and the Creation of the Older Parthenon
Lecture