2,345 search results for “middle eastern literary” in the Public website
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Data Management and the Gortyn Project: ‘With great data comes great responsibility’
The world is becoming increasingly digitised, and the information one has easy access to is often rather overwhelming. In particular, the accumulative nature of the archaeological practice has resulted in huge quantities of data being produced. But how to prevent these from becoming dust-collectors…
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Caribbean archaeology in times of corona: ‘Instead of fieldwork, our students worked on an online exhibition’
Recently, in the midst of coronavirus situation, Professor Corinne Hofman and her team became part of the NWO project Island(er)s at the Helm. Both the application process as well as the start of the project were challenged by the limitations set by Covid-19. ‘As a preparation we travelled through the…
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‘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…
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Open Day: ‘The programme is what's most important'
More than 10,000 school-leavers and their parents visited the Open Day at Leiden University on 25 February. The prospective students were given information about the different programmes in Leiden and The Hague. 'I'm curious to hear about their experiences.'
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Hora Hester Bijl! Farewell to a rector who steered the university through turbulent times
The university bid farewell to its Rector Magnificus, Hester Bijl, on 13 January during the ‘Hester’s Highlights’ symposium.
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LAMS Lecture Perennialist Traditionalism and Modern Philosophy
Lecture
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Sacred Serpents of the Mekong: Nāga Myths and Magic in Contemporary Thailand
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Only the dead can tell us: on ancestor worship, law, social status and gender norms in Ancient Egypt
PhD defence
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Racial Capitalism, Sexuality and Labour: Experience of Young Northeast Women in the Spa Industry in Hyderabad, India
Lecture
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LUCIP Colloquium "Gender and Emotion in Chinese Thought and Cultures"
Lecture
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‘We died the day we left the forests’: Documenting the collective memories of the lost heritage of the Basua of Bundibugyo
Lecture
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Not Rifles but Books: FEC’s Book Programs (1954–1991)
Lecture, CHEI Seminar
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Lunch Talk Asia Research Cluster and Futuring Heritage Project
Lecture, Lunch Talk
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Space for academic debate: discussing academic boycotts and ethics committees
Lecture
- The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
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Can Neurodiversity be a Lens to Study Sufism?
Lecture, LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
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Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
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Birth of beautiful brides: Rise and transformation of the female gender roles and responsibilities among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Seeing Development Approaches and Narratives from the African Periphery, 1979-2023
Lecture
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The Plurality of Early Modern Media: 21st-Century Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities
Conference
- ‘Theatres of Law: Policing, Prosecution, and Performance from Plato to YouTube’ – Workshop with Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University) and
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IPH and LUCAS Symposium Mimesis
Conference
- Spring School Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Landscape History and Ecology
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Institute for History
The Leiden University Institute for History is responsible for the main part of the historical research carried out at Leiden University. The institute has a wide-ranging academic scope.
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
- How to research medieval books? (5 ECTS)
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Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium 2025
Symposium
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Ælfric’s Afterlives: Copying, Editing, Studying, Teaching and Remembering the Most Prolific Author of Old English
Conference
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When Dionysus Lands on Erin: Greek Tragedy on Irish Grounds
PhD defence
- Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture 2023: The Place of Archives in Modern African Studies: A Searchlight on the Patronage of National Archives of Nigeria
Lecture
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The Ten Kings of Earth Prisons: Theatricality of Death in Late Imperial China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Jade from the Other Mountain: Chinese Fan Fiction Based on English Source Texts
PhD defence
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LUCIR US Elections Roundtable 2: Comparative perspectives on the results and where the US is headed to now
Debate
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God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
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Reconstructing non-standard varieties and their speakers
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Memory, Activism and Social Justice: Kao Jun-honn’s Great Leopard Project
Lecture, China Seminar
- How to research medieval books? (5 ECTS)
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LCCP Colloquium "Testimony and Deliberative Practices"
Lecture
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Obstinate Graves in East Java: Traditionalist and Modernist Ethics, Excess, and Sufi Perspectives | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
- Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
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Daoist Lived Religion from Epigraphic and Archeological Materials
Lecture, China Seminar
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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At the helm of the largest Oxford college
Kersti Börjars studied English language and literature in Leiden. She became a professor and now she is Master of the largest college at the University of Oxford: St Catherine’s College. What impact is coronavirus having on St Catherine’s and how has she benefited from her studies in Leiden.
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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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Reading list – Culinary culture and tasty tales
Are we going vegetarian this year? Shall we keep the dessert the same? Where do I find inspiration for a festive meal during the holidays? For readers who like to postpone these questions, for those who like to tell a good story with their culinary contribution, or for those who simply want to know…
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18 Veni subsidies for Leiden, 8 for our faculty!
This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…
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