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Jonathan Silk receives Guggenheim Fellowship
The Guggenheim Fellowship is a prestigious award for US nationals. There are more than 3,000 applications every year, and this year only 188 were honoured. Professor Jonathan Silk is one of these 188, the first ever at Leiden University, and he tells us more about the fellowship and what he will do…
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This was the Leiden Asia Year
2017 was the Leiden Asia Year. Leiden has had connections with Asia and built up extensive knowledge of the continent over many centuries. This Leiden-Asia link has been in the spotlight for the past year.
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Censorship in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature
How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of mass murder – despite heavy censorship – found a place in Indonesian literature. PhD defence 31 March.
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Verena MeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Nur AhmadFaculty of Humanities
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Mischa CramerFaculty of Humanities
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Doreen MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Mery Cecconi
Mery Cecconi is a PhD student at the Institute for Area Studies.
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Nobuyuki Suzuki
Nobuyuki Suzuki is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.
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Kexin ZhengFaculty of Humanities
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Wenjing QiuFaculty of Humanities
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Italian Literature and Culture at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for German Literature and Culture at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Translation and the cultural Cold War
A new special issue on translation and the cultural Cold War sheds light on the understudied and yet important role of translation in cultural transfer.
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Culture: text and images in Japan
One of the ways of understanding another culture better is to examine what people experience when they read a text, or look at an image. Leiden experts have a lot of knowledge in this field, for example on culture in ancient Japan.
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Roman Fake News? Documentary Fictions in the Roman Empire
How can theories about modern disinformation help to understand how Roman documentary fictions functioned?
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Tradition and Innovation: Conrad Gessner and Sixteenth-Century Ichthyology (1551-1602)
This PhD subproject concentrates on 16th-century ichthyology and takes Gessner’s Historia piscium (1558) (further HP) as its point of departure and focus.
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The Representation of Imperial Rule and the Classical World in Early Medieval England
In early medieval England, there was an interest in the history of the Roman Empire and kings adopted such imperial titles as 'imperator' or 'basileus'. How can we explain this interest and what functions did imperial ideas and the reception of the classical world serve in early medieval England?
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for French Literature and Culture at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Programme structure
Dutch Studies is a unique bachelor’s programme in which you will quickly acquire fluency in spoken and written Dutch at a high academic level, while also gaining a deep understanding of the culture and history of the Netherlands.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for English Literature and Culture at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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The Tocharian Trek
A linguistic reconstruction of the migration of the Tocharians from Europe to China
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To be eligible for Korean Studies at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Chinese Studies at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Taking Up Space: Waste and Waste Labor in Developing South Korea
On 25 January 2024 H.J. Pak successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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The East Kalimantan Project
Indonesian Law and Reality in the Mahakam Delta
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Buddhist Astrology and Astral Magic in the Tang Dynasty
Jeffrey Kotyk defended his thesis on 7 September 2017
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Islamophobia and Radicalisation
A measured yet theoretically innovative exploration of how Islamophobia and radicalisation intersect and reinforce each other.
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Islam and the Limits of the State
Reconfigurations of Practice, Community and Authority in Contemporary Aceh
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Aligning religious law and state law: Street-level bureaucrats and Muslim Marriage practices in Pasuruan Indonesia
Latif Fauzi defended his thesis on 18 May 2021.
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Building the Library
Leiden University is building a new Middle Eastern Library. This new library will lie at the heart of Cluster Zuid on the new Humanities Campus and will endeavour to provide a sense of community, a pleasant study and working environment and modern facilities for researchers and students in Middle Eastern…
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The road to drain or gain: Dutch private investment and economic development in late colonial and early independent Indonesia
On 20 September 2023 Mark van de Water successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Embedded Remembering: Memory Culture of the 1965 Violence in Rural East Java
Grace Leksana defended her thesis on 26 May 2020.
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Rice eaters in the land of cheese: the context of ethnic socialization of Chinese-Dutch children
This dissertation aims to provide insight in ethnic prejudice in Chinese-Dutch children and the ethnic socialization context they are exposed to through three social-contextual factors, i.e., parents, children’s books, and the COVID pandemic.
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The advent of Abrī: the first wave of paper marbling in the long 16th century (ca. 1496-1616CE)
On Thursday 21 November 2024 Jake Benson successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Visits to Leiden
Leiden University regularly welcomes members of the Royal Family to attend opening ceremonies, lectures, presentations and unveilings of works of art.
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Understanding the Endless Steppe
Otrar as a Case Study for a 6-10th century Transition Zone
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Heritage and Climate Governance: Potentials and Pitfalls
Climate adaptation strategies frequently include the sourcing of heritage, encompassing landscapes, built environments and cultural practices. However, effective climate change governance requires taking seriously the stakes of local communities and the power relations that structure heritage initia…
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Framing China: Performativity and Narrative in Museum Displays of Chinese Porcelain
On the 26th of May Pao-Yi Yang successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Prepare for your studies
You’ve been accepted! Leiden University looks forward to welcoming you as a new student. Your next step is to prepare for your studies. Below you can find some tips to help you get a head start as you embark on your studies at Leiden University.
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Transforming Wayang For Contemporary Audiences: Dramatic Expression in Purbo Asmoro’s Style, 1989-2015
Kathryn Emerson defended her thesis on 28 June 2016