3,976 search results for “cultural history” in the Public website
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Racism versus Socialism in Cuba
Lecture, Discussion
- Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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Pieter Slaman wins 2024 LUS Teaching Prize
Pieter Slaman, Assistant Professor at the Institute of History and the University’s university historian, has won the 2024 LUS Teaching Prize.
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Traces of Contact in the Lexicon
This volume investigates how loanwords can prove past contact events, taking into consideration ten different regions located in the Philippines, Eastern Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and New Guinea.
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4th Hybrid Cushitic Conference
Conference
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Reassessing the etymology of Greek katharós ‘clean, stainless, pure’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Archaeological Forum: Lieke Bes and Adam Benfer
Lecture
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Archaeological Forum: Nathalie Brusgaard and Martin Berger
Lecture
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Trick, trap, treason: Conspiracy theories on Turkey’s internal and external enemies (2002-2022)
PhD defence
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Modality without moods? Preliminary considerations for a systematic study of modal strategies in Hittite
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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A Luwian song in Old Hittite and its relevance for the study of negation compounds
Lecture, CIEL Seminars
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Making a field of interpretation for biosolar cells
This project investigates the role of art in the public and academic debate on biosolar energy
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Medieval MasterChef
Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Cuisine and Western Foodways
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Required documents
When you apply for admission, you’ll be asked to submit several documents.
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About the programme
The MA Asian Studies East Asian Studies offers focused study of China, Japan or Korea. You can study the country of your choice from an expansive number of disciplinary perspectives including history, literature, art, art history, sociology, anthropology, media, cultural studies, religious studies,…
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South Asian Studies (MA) (60EC)
The MA South Asian Studies at Leiden University is designed for students with an interest in studying South Asia from a range of perspectives including its history, literature, art, media, culture, religions, philosophy and philology.
- Application deadlines
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Russian and Eurasian Studies (MA)
The one-year MA in Russian and Eurasian Studies at Leiden University is a unique programme that stands out for its interdisciplinary approach and relevance to current global affairs.
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175 years of the Constitution: ‘Its dryness makes it a success'
175 years ago, the Netherlands took great strides towards parliamentary democracy with a revamped Constitution. Where does the Constitution stand today?
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About our Faculty
The Faculty of Humanities offers an inspiring international working environment with room for diversity and innovation to staff and students from home and abroad.
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ASCL Seminar: Waves of Memory in the Red Sea: Unpacking Mixedness through Italo-Eritrean Livescapes
Lecture
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Successful Open Day for Humanities: ‘Here you feel how it really works’
Full lecture halls, a crowded information fair and a queue for coffee in the basement: during the Open Day, the Faculty of Humanities was inundated with curious prospective students.
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Sarah Cramsey awarded a KNAW Early Career Partnership
Dr. Sarah Cramsey, University Lecturer Judaism & Diaspora Studies, has been awarded an Early Career Partnership by the KNAW.
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Biogeochemical Biographies
A multiple isotope approach to human-animal dynamics in the Lesser Antilles across the historical divide
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An Introduction to the Indian Ocean Slave Trade
When many people think of slavery, they think of the translatlantic trade that took place between Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean.
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Bernhard Rieger receives senior fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich
Bernhard Rieger has been awarded a fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich. This will allow him to work on his current book, entitled
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Heritage encased in public and private care
Bringing Dominican indigenous collections back to the community
- Dossiers
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Neoplatonism in the Christological Debates of Late Antiquity: Influences, Interferences, and Contrasts
Conference
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Leiden University strengthens ties with China
Op 26 april 2012 kwamen ze samen om ervaringen te delen met Leidse staf: twaalf Chinese promovendi die in Nederland zijn in het kader van het beursprogramma van de China Scholarship Council. Tien dagen eerder, op 16 april, ontving de Universiteit Leiden een delegatie van Peking University.
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Call for Papers: Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850
Keynote speakers: Jennifer Gaynor (University at Buffalo SUNY) and Sue Peabody (Washington State University)
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2012 'Valorisation' by Marieke Hendriksen
As a humanities researcher, it is not always easy to explain to other people why what you do is important. It is easy for people to see why searching a cure for cancer matters, but it is a bit harder to make clear why it is also important to study language, culture, and history. One of the things that…
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Podcast tips for Pentecost
Are you looking for some listening material for the upcoming long weekend? Staff members and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities have been creating various podcasts over the last few months. A selection is shown here:
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African Diaspora in Ottoman Izmir
An interesting Ottoman History podcast that deals with the slave trade and the African Diaspora in Ottoman Izmir.
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Research themes
LUCAS hosts a wide variety of research. Here we outline some of the most important research themes.
- Educational Sciences & Teacher Training
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Visualizing Multispecies Resistance: Pan-Amazonian Indigenous Perspectives
Lecture
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Classical Antiquity once again a hot topic
The theme for this year’s Week of the Classics (19 to 27 March) is war in Classical Antiquity. Leiden Classics scholars are organising various activities, including the popular Know-Your-Classics Pub Quiz.
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“Heritage and the Question of Conversion”: Internships in Work Package 3B of Pressing Matter
Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums is a large-scale research project funded through the Dutch National Research Agenda, and led by Wayne Modest and Susan Legêne (Vrije Universiteit). Work Package 3 on “Value” phrases its main research question as follows:…
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Lecture on the book Democratic Commitment: Why Citizens Tolerate Democratic Backsliding
Lecture
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Relative chronology and the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop systems
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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'Au Liban', but 'en Iran': external sandhi in French prepositions at the syntax-phonology interface
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Syria, one year after the revolution: The role of women and minorities
Lecture, Workshop
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No phases
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The position of Lydian within Anatolian
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum
Conference
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The syntax of Dutch (non-clausal) manner PPs
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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Adjectival Doubling Construction - 'I almost forgot the most importantest part'
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The End of Democracy? Latin American Perspectives on a Global Crisis
Debate, Panel discussion