427 search results for “asian literary” in the Staff website
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Delicate Repertoires- Buddhist Creativity, Commodification, and Digitalization in Xi’s China
Lecture, China Seminar
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LINE Mini-symposium on Happiness & Enthusiasm
Lecture
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VIVAS by Angélica Cruz Aguilar
Orange the World 2025
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ReCNTR: My Want of You Partakes of Me
ReCNTR Film Screening
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Black hole one year later: proof of a persistent shadow
The brightness peak of the ring around M87's supermassive black hole has shifted 30 degrees counterclockwise in a year. This is shown by new images released by the Event Horizon Telescope consortium.
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The Van der Loon family has had ties with Japan and Leiden University for over a hundred years.
Over a century ago, Alexandra van Elroy's great-grandfather left for Japan, where her grandmother was born. Together with her mother, Maaike van der Loon, she reminisces about her family history, through which a key thread is the study of Japanese and Chinese.
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Update Executive Board: Impact of government cuts, drastic measures required
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco
A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat at the end of February.
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Back to Rabat
The airspace had almost closed last year as Leiden students and staff rushed to leave the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR). How is this Leiden institute in Rabat doing over a year later? ‘Luckily we’d done a crisis exercise a few months before. Everyone managed leave the country in time.’
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
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Following Fate or Falling in Love: The second marriage of the Kitchen God’s wife in the rewriting of Chinese Folk Literature in the 1950s and
Lecture, China Seminar
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Mandarin shì and Vietnamese là: A Tale of Two Complementizers
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Petrus Camper’s Research on Elephants: Cabinets, Menageries, and the Zoology of Exotic Animals in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch
Lecture, COGLOSS Seminar
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Linguistic Anthropology in Europe: Past, Present, and Futures
Conference
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Rodrigo Duterte in The Hague: The International Criminal Court, the War on Drugs, and the Global Politics of Justice
Lecture, Roundtable Forum
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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Leiden Anthropology Conference 2
Conference
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Russia correspondent Eva Hartog: ‘Return to the Netherlands? No way!’
Russia correspondent Eva Hartog took a Master’s in Political Philosophy in Leiden in 2011. This former editor-in-chief of The Moscow Times sees this short period as a new chapter in her life. And she is once again contemplating her future now she can no longer ask the big questions in Russia.
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Brexit’s second anniversary - a reading list
On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union. New regulations, agreed upon by both parties took effect on 1 January 2021. What impact did Brexit have politically? Do British and European citizens now have different opinions of one another? And why did the Brits want to leave…
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There and Back Again: Spirit Travels in Western Religious Traditions (13th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity)
Lecture, Symposium
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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Conference: Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850
Conference
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Symposium ‘Beyond Expo: Sustainable Futures’
Conference
- Migration and Remittances Major Projects: Wrapping Up and Ramping Up
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Update: Executive Board responds to coalition agreement
The three parties currently forming a government – D66, CDA and VVD – have presented a new coalition agreement, in which they announce their intention to reverse the substantial funding cuts to higher education. This is encouraging news, although many uncertainties remain. The Executive Board will closely…