1,854 search results for “japanese history” in the Public website
-
LUC The Hague - Me, Asian?!: Asians in Popular Culture
Lecture
-
Dutch Studies Open Day: broad and varied
From the new street language Smibanese to 17th-century manuscripts: the first national Dutch Studies Open Day explores a wide range of topics. The Open Day will take place on Saturday 7 March in Leiden. Frits Spits will broadcast his radio programme ‘De Taalstaat’ (The Language State’) from the Kamerlingh…
-
‘Nature likes a mess’
Wouter Moerland is on a two-year secondment as ecology adviser at the Municipality of Leiden. This biology alumnus talks animatedly about his work. ‘We’re working hard to increase nature’s chances in town.’
-
‘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…
-
How a Dutchman contributed to the rapid development of Singapore
In 1960, Albert Winsemius started to help the city state of Singapore achieve its rapid rise out of economic misery. He helped the Singaporean government understand how the Netherlands had managed to rebuild so quickly after the Second World War, with the help of the American Marshall Plan. PhD defence…
-
In pictures: animal mummies in a scanner
The story of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh, is world famous. But did you know that the Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals too? The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden recently put a bunch of animal mummies through a CT scanner. This was in collaboration with Canon Netherlands…
-
Kazakhstan’s section of the Great Silk Road in light of new archaeological discoveries
Lecture
-
From the Maghrib to the Mashriq? The Sacrifice of She-Camels among the Fatimids and Safavids
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! series
-
11th annual Bronisław Geremek lecture: The Borders of the West
Lecture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
-
Earthly and Heavenly: Love, Loyalty, and Music in Persian Mystic Poetry
Conference
-
"We Give Them Schools, Hospitals, Democracy. Why Don't They Love Us?" Outside Intervention in Afghanistan, 2001-2021
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! series
-
LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
-
Conference: The Future of the African City
Conference
-
Unveiling the Early Use of Pottery in East Asia
Lecture
-
BA and MA courses of visiting professor of Buddhist Studies, Yukio Yamanaka
Course
-
CPP Annual Lecture with Margaret Moore "Territorial Rights and Natural Resources"
Lecture
-
Global Challenges: The Regime of Lukashenka
Lecture
-
Dhimma and the Conditions of Christians and Jews in Muslim Granada (13th-15th centuries)
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
-
Masterclasses by Maribel Fierro
Course, Al-Babtain Masterclasses
-
CANCELLED | Book Launch: Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
Festival, Book Launch
-
“And What Tombs!”: Making Rain with Relics in the Early Islamic Near East
Lecture, FLARe lecture series
-
The Maqomat: The Classic Music of Central Asia in times of political and cultural changes
Lecture
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
-
EL CID in a time of corona: ‘This is great fun – we don’t know what it was like before anyway’
The EL CID introduction period is mostly online this year. But all first-years get to come to Leiden for a day for a taste of studying and student life. We came to have a look on Wednesday 12 August.
-
A Summer at Shandong University
This Summer Eduard Fosh Villaronga visited Shandong University. He writes about his stay at the second oldest university in China.
-
Central Crisis Team: ‘It sometimes comes down to the last second’
It’s the middle of the academic year, but most of the University buildings are closed – something that hasn’t happened since the Second World War. Fortunately, after a week of intensive preparations, the teaching has moved online. How is the Central Crisis Team steering the University through the corona…
-
‘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.
- ICAS 11: 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars
- Gas-Induced Segregation in a Pt-Rh Alloy Nanoparticle Revealed by In Situ Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging
-
12th Siebold Conference Leiden
Conference
-
Colloquim Reforming Democracy by Graham Parkes (Hawai'i)
Lecture
-
Re-collecting Ourselves: Indigenous Time, Culture and Museums
Lecture, The 7th Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
-
The Christian Slaves of Depok: A Colonial Tale Unravels (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021)
Lecture, Book talk | LIMS seminar
-
Unravelling the Mysteries: Embracing the Particular and the General in Middle East Research - ONLINE
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! series
-
Sanjar Gulomov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in December 2018
Lecture, Masterclass
-
Society for Women in Philosophy: Philosophy and Practice & Annual General Meeting
Conference
- Volume 16 (2021)
-
Hall of Fame 2015
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed member of an academic society or have taken on a position in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include…
-
Curious and Scientific Things – Seeing and Knowing in Early Modern East Asia (1700-1900)
Conference, Workshop
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
-
Peace Education for the Protection of World Cultural Heritage in Iraq and Yemen
World Forum for the Culture of Peace
-
Asia Current Affairs Forum: Trump's Tour of Asia
Lecture
-
Small Grant Research Projects
The LUCDH foster the development of new digital research by awarding a number of Small Grants each year. As in previous years the LUCDH received a large number of excellent grant applications for Research and Personal Development funds. Congratulations to the recipients of this year's research award…
-
In Memoriam: Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck (May 20, 1947 – October 31, 2020)
An age-old expression in Classical Chinese is yǔ zhòng bù tóng 與眾不同, meaning ‘out of the ordinary.’ It could have been the motto of Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck, who taught that language for decades at Leiden University. What was different about him? He was extraordinarily gifted, helpful, and above all…
-
Conference on Multilingualism 2019
Conference
-
Publications
Electronic versions of our publications can be obtained by sending an e-mail to Esther van den Bos: bosejvanden@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
-
Friends and family day at the Faculty of Humanities
Festival
-
U.N. World Water Day: Key Challenges and Opportunities to Sustainable Water Management
Conference, Symposium of the Water and Society Lab: U.N. World Water Day