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Ottoman and Colonial Modernities in the Transformation of the Urban Sphere
Masterclass
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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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Living standards in Tsarist and Early Soviet Central Asia: Can we study them? Why do they matter?
Lecture
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Nulli tam laeti triumphi: Constantine’s cameo and its historical context
Lecture
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LUCIS Annual Lecture | Sharia, Law, and China
Lecture
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Commercialisation as Social Transformation: Ottoman Greeks in Amsterdam
Lecture
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Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
Lecture
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Relocating Governance in Asia: state and society in South- and Southeast Asia, c. 1800-2000
Conference
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From “The Sea Bastards” to “Solidarity Beyond Ocean”: Japanese Dockworkers and the Politics of Scale in the Bandung Moment
Lecture
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
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Patching Poetry’s Cloak: the Poet’s Historical Sense in Modern Arabic and Dutch Poetry
Poetry Recital | Al-Babtain Poetry Series
- Volume 10 (2015)
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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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Ten lecturers receive Senior Teaching Qualification
On 28 June, ten dedicated lecturers received their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). Rector Hester Bijl congratulated them in an online meeting. We asked some of them what this qualification means to them, what they believe ‘good teaching’ entails and what makes them so passionate about education…
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Rembrandt made a mess of his legal and financial life
‘Rembrandt was a stubborn, socially inept shopaholic.’ In his lifetime the Dutch master became embroiled in over 20 legal disputes. Emeritus Professor of Private Law Bob Wessels has written a book about Rembrandt’s legal and financial dealings.
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this second instalment: historian and university lecturer Nadia Bouras (1981). ‘Although I only found out later that was my mother’s dream, it was as though I…
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Storie del Possibile: Grassroots and Local Initiatives in Italy and Europe
The conference Storie del possibile took place in the Ex- lavanderia of Santa Maria della Pietà in the neighbourhood Monte Mario in Rome, on April 21-22 2018. Maria Vasile, PhD candidate of the "Food Citizens?" project, attended the conference and shares her experiences.
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Garenmarket: woven into the fabric of Leiden
From cloth to serge and from ‘frame lands’ to a wool factory. Archaeologist and historian Roos van Oosten was pleasantly surprised by what she found out about Garenmarkt in Leiden. The historical research on the site of the new car park, which opens to the public on 19 February, has added a new chapter…
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Pieter's Corner: How useful is deprivation of liberty?
A new bill is currently under debate in the Netherlands, advocating raising the prison sentence for manslaughter from 15 to 25 years. ‘This very serious crime (...) evokes feelings of disgust and insecurity in society’, Dutch Minister for Justice and Security Grapperhaus comments on the sentence that…
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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…
- The Imam of the Christians: Round-table on newly published book by Prof. Philip Wood
- The global cosmopolis. Past, present and future of the city of Alexandria
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LUCIP Lecture Series with Godfrey Igwebuike Onah
Lecture
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2020 Hall of fame
In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.
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Seminar: Academic Activism
Lecture
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Workshop: Doing Gender in The Netherlands: TRANS* approaches, methods & concepts
Course
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7th Coffee Break Conference: Comparisons Across Time and Space
Conference
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Activity-based protein profiling and bio-orthogonal chemistry
Conference
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Familiarizing the Colony: Distance and Proximity in Dutch and German Colonial Photography and Visual Culture
Lecture
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Alternative Archaeologies, multiple Agencies, hidden Narratives
Masterclass
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7th LUCIS Annual Conference: Memory and Commemoration in Islamic Central Asia
Conference
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Interpreting Rituals: Historiographical Perspectives and Pluralistic Contexts
Conference
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Publications
This is a list of scientific publications by our students and staff.
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The impact of Alexander the Great on the arts of Greece
Lecture
- Material Agency Forum
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Beyond Ambassadors: Missionaries, Consuls and Spies in Premodern Diplomacy
Conference
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Welcome to Our Paris Talks!
Lecture
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Josephus Scaliger: famous scholar and grouch
Josephus Justus Scaliger was one of the most famous scholars of his time and yet today his name is likely to be met with blank looks. His correspondence shows that this Leiden professor was also irritable to say the least. Kasper van Ommen will defend his PhD thesis on Scaliger’s legacy on 2 July. Find…
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Thijs Porck is the winner of the second LUCAS Public Prize!
Thijs Porck, expert in medieval English, has won the LUCAS Public Prize because he has made his research and education visible to a wider audience. Thijs has reached the national media, secondary schools and a lot of views with his blogs and videos. The prize consists of a certificate, trophy, 1000…
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Data Science meets Humanities
Lecture, Seminar
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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Constructing monuments and perceiving monumentality
Workshop SETinSTONE I
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Centre for Digital Heritage meeting 2017
Annual meeting
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NISIS Traveling through Islam Research in the Netherlands
Lecture
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Dies natalis 2021
University ceremony
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Friends and family day at the Faculty of Humanities
Festival
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2019 Hall of fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2019 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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Masterclasses by Hugh Kennedy
Course, Al-Babtain Masterclasses
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Conference on Multilingualism 2019
Conference
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2020 Online
Arts and Culture, Middle Eastern Culture Market