339 search results for “mortuary rituals” in the Public website
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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 University in the time of coronavirus: from working at the kitchen table to a livestream PhD defence
The outbreak of coronavirus has radically changed our life and work. We have had to work, teach and conduct research from home. How has coronavirus changed your work? What do you miss most? And what is keeping you going? We asked a few colleagues.
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Catholics in the Dutch Republic were creative directors of their own lives
The Catholics were by no means pitiable victims over the two centuries that they had to practise their religion underground, Caroline Lenarduzzi writes in her PhD dissertation. They managed to keep their faith alive from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. PhD defence 25 October.
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Faculty of Archaeology contributes to 'Heritage on the Move' Overview Exhibition
The Faculty of Archaeology, in the persons of Marlena Antczak and Lennart Kruijer, had three pictures included in the exhibition 'Heritage on the Move'. The whole collection of 18 pictures can be seen from 3 December 2018 until 7 January 2019 at the Oude UB Building, Rapenburg 70, Leiden.
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Dating with electrodes struck to your skin
Four thousand visitors immersed themselves in art and science during Leiden's Night of Art and Science on 17 September. They could choose from dozens of lectures, experiments, interactive events and a lot of art.
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‘Governments must provide fundamental rights to certain animals’
Legal proceedings conducted on behalf of apes and animals who are starved for the purpose of an ecological project. What position do animals actually have in the rule of law? And what changes need to be made? PhD candidate Janneke Vink defends her dissertation on 10 October.
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Dies natalis: ‘Collaboration requires firm grounding in the individual disciplines’
‘Collaboration is increasingly important,’ Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker said at the 445th Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 7 February. But, as he heard from a number of Leiden researchers, this is contingent upon a firm disciplinary basis. A novelty of this year’s celebration was a joint dies…
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Sarajevo Spring School
Conference, Spring School
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Tirana Spring School 2018
Conference, Spring School
- Losing the Way in the City: Cities and Intellectual Crisis in Eleventh-Century China
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Amulets and Talismans in the Muslim World
Conference
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How to make a ‘Cōḻa bronze’? Theory and practice of bronze casting in South India and the Rijksmuseum research on Asian bronzes
Lecture, Friends of the Kern Institute lecture
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Screening documentary ‘Breaking News: Spending the Same Day in Two Different Newsrooms’
Lecture
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The Paippalādasaṃhitā of the Atharvaveda
PhD Defence
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Katholiek in de Republiek. Subcultuur en tegencultuur in Nederland, 1570-1750
PhD Defence
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Conference 100 Years of Assyriology in Leiden
Conference
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Faculty symposium Humanities: The Myth of High and Low Culture
Festival
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Alumni
Since 2009, at ACPA, 69 candidates received their PhD in Creative and Performing Arts. On this page you will find an overview of ACPA's alumni.
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Fortune-tellers, Kings and the Dancing Lord: Sculpture from temple and court in early modern Tamil South India
Lecture, Friends of the Kern Institute Lecture
- Worlds of Love in the Wakhan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan
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8th Southeast Asia Update
Conference
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Junius Symposium voor Jonge Oudgermanisten 2016
Conference
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Religion in Africa: Jacob Olupona and Afe Adogame
Lecture
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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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Late Antique Religion in Practice: Papyri and the Dynamics of Religious Identification
Conference
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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Asia Beyond Boundaries: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Primary Sources from the Premodern World
Conference
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Dialogic Network Presents: Two Lectures
Lecture
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The Walking Dead II: The Making of a Cultural Geography
Conference
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Elves, Spirits, and Aliens: Superhuman Entities in New Religions
Conference
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Online Museum Talk: Kress Talks: Evaluating the Sources / A Woman’s Place is in the Garden
Lecture, Online Museum Talks
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Encounters after the Soviet collapse: Chinese presence in the former Soviet Union border zone
Conference
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Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture: Spirituality, Culture & Political Power in Early Independent West Africa
Lecture
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‘In the end, rector is just Latin for organiser’
On the day of the Dies Natalis, Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker starts his second term of office. How does he look back on the first four years, and what are his plans? These are the questions asked of him by Mayor Lenferink, student of public administation Mikal Tseggai, Professor Eveline Crone and…
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PhD Defence Ellen van de Bovenkamp
PhD Defence
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Collaborative Filmmaking Approaches in Archaeology, Heritage, and Development
Conference
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The Study of Religion and Good Teaching Materials
Conference, Seminar and Expert Meeting
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)