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- Doing Fieldwork with the Police: Methodological and Ethical Considerations
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Ellis Annual Lecture 2023: The Place of Archives in Modern African Studies: A Searchlight on the Patronage of National Archives of Nigeria, Ibadan
The 2023 Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture will be given by Mercy Ariomerebi Iroaganachi, University Librarian of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Stephen Ellis, a prominent historian of Africa, made extensive use of the National Archives of Nigeria at Ibadan. Notable are the materials…
- Evening Lecture Series: Practitioners in War
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Jewish families in late antiquity parables
'Wie is de baas in huis? Joodse families in laatantieke parabels' Dr. Albertina Oegema, Research Associate New Testament, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. For an abstract, please see the Dutch event page for this lecture. The livestream for this event will also be available on the Dutch event…
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Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey Introduces the Film “Obchod na Korze”
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Archaeologist Amanda Henry traces ancient diets and human adaptability with a Vici grant
Dr Amanda Henry has secured a prestigious Vici grant for her groundbreaking research project, Hominin FoodWays: Changing Diet and Food Processing Across Climate Frontiers. This five-year study, set to begin in September, aims to unravel the dietary adaptations of Eurasian hominins between 1.8 and 0.9…
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Intelligence & the Direction of War
Dr. S.J.G. (Sebastian) Reyn, the deputy director of the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD), will give a lecture on the ‘grey zone’. Dr. Reyn will talk about the twilight zone between war and positive peace, also known as negative peace, and the role of the…
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Unveiling the Written Heritage of the Siak Sultanate: An Ethnographic Study on the Access and Interpretation of the Archives of Sultan Syarif Kasim
Lecture
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The Inauguration of the Fonds Oostenrijkse Studiën at the Leiden University Fund (LUF)
Please RSVP to to Fleur van der Kaay at kaay@luf.leidenuniv.nl by June 14th .
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When religion did not(?) matter in the Balkans: confessionalization in early modern Southeastern Europe
Please RSVP to Professor Sarah Cramsey via e-mail: s.a.cramsey@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy
Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger and twelve students from different conflict zones are starting a creative thinking process that aims to discover the basic conditions for peace in the…
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Spatial Narratives of Historical Experiences: 3D Visualizations of Prisoner Art as Tools for Knowledge Production and Transfer at Holocaust Memorials
Lecture, Austria Centre Leiden Lunch Talk
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Introducing 'Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One Direction' (Purdue Univ. Press, 2024)
Lecture, Austria Centre Leiden Lunch Talk
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Working together on the plastic problem: how to keep citizens engaged?
What motivates citizens to participate in a citizen science project on plastic pollution? And does that motivation change over time? Liselotte Rambonnet tried to answer these and other questions with her research on the Clean Rivers (‘Schone Rivieren’) project. Rambonnet is a PhD student at the Institute…
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Jews at Home. From Creation to Corona
16.00-18.00 Opening (Academy building, Faculty Club, Rapenburg 70) Reception and Keynote Panel: 'Home as Haven? Narratives of Crises and the Jewish Past' The panel will feature Professor Elisheva Baumgarten, Department of Jewish History and Contemporaneous Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Prof.…
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Investigating obsidian sources in Honduras with a Corrie Bakels Grant
Obsidian, a volcanic glass-like material, is often used for making tools by Mesoamerican societies. In Honduras, certain obsidian artefacts do not yet have a known provenance. PhD candidate Marie Kolbenstetter and Assistant Professor Dennis Braekmans were awarded a Corrie Bakels Grant to explore thus…
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Civil Society and International Students in Japan: Methodology and Fieldwork
This lecture will be held via Zoom: click here for the link.
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An Evening of Druze Voices
Lecture, Event
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Care and the Jewish Experience
Conference, Second Conference of the Leiden Jewish Studies Network
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Ōtsuka Kusuoko (1875-1910) in the Meiji Literary Field: Models of Authorship between keishū sakka and the "New Woman"
Lecture
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On behalf of the Austria Centre Leiden, The Embassy of the Czech Republic in The Hague and The Czech Centre in Rotterdam, you are warmly invited
On behalf of the Austria Centre Leiden, The Embassy of the Czech Republic in The Hague and The Czech Centre in Rotterdam, you are warmly invited to an event celebrating the publication of Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey's book, Uprooting the Diaspora.
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Who Became a Politician: A Portrait of Modern Japan
This lecture will be held via Zoom: click here for the link
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The Military Perspective: Sea Power in International Security
During this lecture, Henk Warnar will talk about and the importance of maritime strategy in a period of increasing great power competition, about naval operations and planning, in the national context and within NATO. Captain-at Sea Henk Warnar is a Dutch Naval officer and Associate Professor at the…
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Asia Academy #06: Taiwan's Future
Taiwan consistently captures attention in the news. The democratic island, home to approximately 24 million people, is approaching a crucial juncture—the 2024 elections. As Taiwan prepares for the elections, China stays close to the most recent developments. What insights can we gain about Taiwan's…
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Debtors in Possession: A Legal Comparative Study of the Role of Debtors in US, EU and Dutch Restructuring and Insolvency Law
PhD defence
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Shakespeare, Renan and Weber: an interdisciplinary study of the violence paradigm and what it means to law and the nation-state
PhD defence
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Archaeologists bring experts on human evolution together with Kiem grant
Leiden University's Kiem grants aim to help develop new interdisciplinary and interfaculty collaborations and encounters. In the first round, a Kiem grant was awarded to a group of researchers from the Faculty of Archaeology, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the LUMC for the organisation of a symposium…
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How can we make better use of natural resources?
Mining for natural resources harms the environment. But we desperately need them, for both the development of countries and the transition to a sustainable energy system. Professor of Sustainable Resource Use Ester van der Voet researches how we can reduce the environmental impact of natural resources…
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Current standings NSE faculty competition: SV LIFE takes the lead!
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From Slavery to Freedom
On Thursday 12 October 2023 Damian Pargas is co-organizing (together with the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies and The Netherland-America Foundation in New York) a short webinar titled “From Slavery to Freedom in the American South and Dutch Caribbean,” with renowned historians Manisha Sinha…
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The Military Perspective: Space Power
Major Shar Timman is an engineer at the Defence Space Security Center of the Royal Netherlands Air Force. After graduating from the Aerospace Engineering faculty in Delft, she worked at the European Space Agency where she obtained her PhD in human-machine interaction for manned lunar missions. At the…
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The Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Military Purposes
During this lecture, Roy Lindelauf will talk about data science and AI in the defense and security domain. Lindelauf will first discuss examples of DS&AI in this domain based on a few cases. He will then proceed to zoom out and explain a number of aspects that play a role in the use of these types…
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The Military Perspective: Commanding Air Power
In this lecture, Commodore Johan van Deventer and Colonel Bart Hoeben will talk about Commanding Air Power, how to lead air based operations in contemporary armed conflict. They will do so by giving examples from their own careers and show simulations of air operations. Commodore Johan van Deventer…
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Meet Dr. Kathyrn Brackney, LJSA Member
Dr. Brackney is a modern European intellectual and cultural historian with a Ph.D. from Yale University. Before coming to Leiden, she held postdoctoral teaching posts in the History & Literature program at Harvard University and the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago.
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Hegemonic Memory Culture and Postmigration: How to Remember the Past in Diverse Societies?
Lecture, Conversation
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Visual Construction of the Dutch: From the Perspective of the “Tōjin”
This presentation will re-examine popular imagery of the Dutch during the Edo period, when Japanese commoners often referred to foreigners by the general term of tōjin (Tang or Chinese people) and to imports by tōbutsu (Tang or Chinese goods). Focusing on this fact, Keiko Suzuki previously argued that…
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Augmented Realities: Japanese Literati Painting, Circa 1700–1800
Spanning the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, the Japanese literati phenomenon in the early modern period was a loose movement of artists who thrived on their mutual veneration for a real and imagined China. These artists formed an aesthetic microcosm that catered to a network of like-minded…
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Partners into the Contemporary Art Sector: Exploring China as a Case Study
The pace and widespread integration of digital technologies and AI into the contemporary art sector is distinct to China today due to its rapid digital developments and government policies on integration of digital technology and art and promotion of AI for individuals and organisations. This has taken…
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
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Belarus is the only Russian ally left in Europe: what is in it for them?
While all European nations have condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is one country Russia can still count on: Belarus. Russia even used its territory as a stepping stone for the invasion. We spoke with Matthew Frear, Assistant Professor and expert on contemporary Belarus, to shed light…
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Lego Lost at Sea: an archaeological and environmental exhibition at the Van Steenis
At the entrance of the Van Steenis building you may now visit an exhibition on material culture. Unexpectedly, it does not display pottery or tools, but building materials. And recent ones at that! Check out the exhibition on Legos lost at sea, conceived and assembled by PhD candidate Maia Casna. ‘These…
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Sara Polak: 'We have seen a failed attempt at a revolution'
A flood of news reports, push notifications and even extra news broadcasts: on Wednesday, the world was shocked by the storming of the Capitol in Washington. Americanist Sara Polak discusses the events.
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Roundtable: International Relations and the Idea of Merit
In his recent article, Sankaran Krishna asks: how does IR address the glaring fact of inequality across nation-states? His answer is: through a discourse of meritocracy. IR theories construct world politics as a meritocratic space, where inequalities are reflections of innate differences in merit of…
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National(ist) Media: Platform, Participation, and the Rise of Digital Populism in Japan
Lecture
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Onwards to noble death! War representation in the manga of Shigeru Mizuki
Lecture
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Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan
This lecture will be held via Zoom: click here for the link.
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ELS lab meeting - Lunch & Learn: ELS lab meeting - Welcome back: connecting the dots
We welcome you back in the Global Lounge to catch up and start the academic year together. Together, we will do the so-called ‘wool’-assignment, where we will explore our research interests and possible avenues for collaboration. Like always, lunch is on us. More information on the second and third…
- Conference Empirics and Consumer Law in Changing Markets
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Eager enlargers, reluctant reformers? Central and Eastern European perspectives on EU’s institutional reform
After a decade-long hiatus, Russia’s war on Ukraine has reinvigorated the European Union’s enlargement plans. Scholars and practitioners alike agree, however, that in its present shape the EU is not fit to cope with the challenges of another enlargement. Any step in that direction will thus require…
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The World of Smallpox Picture Books: The Red Books for Smallpox in the Edo Period
Lecture