210 search results for “historiography” in the Public website
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Tazuko van Berkel receives Vidi for research into economics and anthropology in ancient Greece
University lecturer Tazuko van Berkel has obtained a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. This will enable her to research the image of man that emerges from economic texts from ancient Greece.
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Call for Papers: Imperial Artefacts. History, Law, and the Looting of Cultural Property
Call for Papers: Imperial Artefacts. History, Law, and the Looting of Cultural Property
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Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn
Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of Bonn. In this position, Jansen, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Mexican pictorial manuscripts, will further expand upon the long-standing collaboration…
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchers
From artificial intelligence to letters from the Dutch East Indies and from breast-cancer gene BRCA-1 to the collaboration between government and opposition: nine researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Vidi grant for their research.
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Classical Antiquity once again a hot topic
The theme for this year’s Week of the Classics (19 to 27 March) is war in Classical Antiquity. Leiden Classics scholars are organising various activities, including the popular Know-Your-Classics Pub Quiz.
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Call for Papers - Conflict Management in the Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 1200-1600: Actors, Institutions and Practices of Dispute
From the late Middle Ages onwards, maritime conflict has developed hand in hand with international trade. Over time, specific institutions were established to address disputes arising from violence or mishap at sea and in coastal areas. Conflict resolution at sea has mostly been studied through the…
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Five ERC Starting Grants for young researchers from Leiden
The ERC has awarded a Starting Grant to five promising researchers from Leiden. Two are from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, one is from the Faculty of Humanities/Governance and Global Affairs, one from the LUMC and one from the Faculty of Science.
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Svetlana Gorshenina will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in February 2018
Svetlana Gorshenina, Associate Lecturer at Collège de France, Paris, will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar from 17 February until 25 February 2018. Svetlana Gorshenina will deliver a guest lecture on Tuesday, 20 February and a masterclass on Friday, 23 February within the Central Asia Initiative…
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Letters as loot
Linguistic research on a unique collection of Dutch letters allowed us to gain access to the every-day language of people from various walks of life. Private letters by men, women and even children have been elaborately explored in the Letters as Loot researchprogramme, initiated and directed by prof.…
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Islam and Society
Knowledge of Muslim societies is essential to function in a globalised world and to fully understand our own Dutch society. Leiden researchers explore the languages, cultures, religions, legal systems and history of Muslim societies and in this way contribute to a centuries-old tradition.
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BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).
Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.
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Unearthly Powers: a theoretical framework for inserting religion into comparative global history
Lecture, Research Seminar 1000-1800
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“Not a Local Product Here”: Materia Medica and the Spatial Politics of Material Resources (wuliao) in Ming China
Lecture
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Re-Presented Pasts: Uses and Re-Uses of the Past in Pre-Modern Islam
Conference, LUCIS Research Programme | Re-Presented Pasts
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Turkic Identities in Pre-modern Central Asia
Lecture
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Invisible but influential? Dutch aristocracy since World War II
Lecture, History Brown Bag Seminar
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Framing Late Antique Religion: Religion & Ethnicity in the Quran
Lecture, Framing Late Antique Religion
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‘Nationalism’, ‘internationalism’ and ‘collective memory’ in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia
Lecture
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Cities of Refuge: Slave Flight and Illegal Freedom in the American Urban South, 1800-1860
PhD Defence
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“Beyond departure: The labour practices of Greeks in Egypt, 1961-1976”
Lecture, Seminar
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Hunting for women in Leiden’s history
They existed and were important, but for too long they have remained invisible in historiography: women. Ariadne Schmidt, the Magdalena Moons endowed professor, researches the history of urban culture in Leiden. Women take pride of place in her research. Inaugural lecture on 28 February.
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Conflict Management in the Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 1200-1600: Actors, Institutions and Practices of Dispute Settlement
Conference
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Peculiarities in Persianate Painting
LUCIS What's New Lecture
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Workshop Assessing Cicero's (in)constantia through the ages
Workshop
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Colonial Airmindedness: Views from British India
Lecture
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Does 'Sinosphere' Work as a Unifying Concept for East Asian Studies?
Lecture
- Interiors for Display: The art of the eighteenth-century interior in the Dutch Republic and Europe
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Leiden Southeast Asia Seminar: Sultans and master-builders in Java
Lecture
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Principled Pragmatism; VOC Interaction with Makassar, 1637-68, and the Nature of Company Diplomacy
PhD Defence
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Research & Funding Opportunities
AMT’s mission includes encouraging innovative high-quality research in Leiden on Asia. On this page you will find an overview of AMT related research projects, grant possibilities, publications and vacancies.
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Agenda
Overview of all Asia events at Leiden University
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Interpreting Rituals: Historiographical Perspectives and Pluralistic Contexts
Conference
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Workshop UvA –Amsterdam School of Historical Studies in cooperation with NISIS
Conference
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Call for Papers - Monarchy in turmoil: princes, courts, and politics in revolution and restoration 1780-1830
For every period, it is a challenge to unearth the details of political trafficking; yet the effort needs to include all relevant persons, groups, and institutions – not only those wielding formal responsibilities. We hope to reinvigorate this effort by inviting specialists to present their research…
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Religion in Africa: Jacob Olupona and Afe Adogame
Lecture
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Where Have All Those Books Gone? Translocation and Provenance in Studying Medieval Middle Eastern Writerly Cultures
Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture (2019)
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Approaches to Ritual and Power in Central Asian History
Lecture
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Involving the audience. Textual strategies in Livy’s account of the battle of Cannae
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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Power, Silence and the Production of History in Africa
Conference, Workshop
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Strategic Autonomy or Strategic Cacophony? The Evolution and State of European Defence
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Masterclass | Ziauddin Sardar: Islam, Knowledge and Culture in Postnormal Times
Masterclass
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Images of the enemy: the security services and democracy, 1912-1992
PhD Defence
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Customizing the Sharia: Matrilineal Muslims of the Indian Ocean Littoral
Conference
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Authors and their books: bio-historical writings in Early Modern Central Asia
Lecture
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LUCIR Lecture: Strategic Autonomy or Strategic Cacophony? The Evolution and State of European Defence
Lecture
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POSTPONED || Symposium ‘Money, Rationality, Solidarity’
Symposium
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Twilight of the Persianate: The Vernacularization of Central Asia (18th - early 20th Centuries)
Lecture
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POSTPONED- Making a Laboratory: What Method for Erotohistoriography?
Arts and Culture, Workshop