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New Talk Series on Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies (Princeton)
This series of seminars convenes researchers based in North America and Europe in order to inspire and further establish reflections about race, race-thinking, and racialization among scholars of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The first seminar will be held on Monday, October 19, at 12:00 EDT by…
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Sander, Linde and Melle create an online exhibition for the University Library
With a recently published major research project and an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, the struggle for independence in Indonesia has been thrusted back into the spotlight. Leiden University is devoting attention to this topic as well. History students Sander van der Horst and Melle van Maanen joined…
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Blog Post | From the margins to the front line: Central Eastern European diplomacy in the light of Russia’s attack on Ukraine
Russia’s premeditated attack on Ukraine in February 2022 changed not only the security landscape of Europe. It also altered – at least for now – the structures of leadership and influence within the West.
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Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: Shadowy art from Leiden University Libraries
Ominous witches, gruesome monsters, and hideous freaks: from Saturday 15 June, Kunsthal Rotterdam will be putting the spotlight on the shady depths of human imagination in the exhibition Hello darkness, my old friend. Seventy works on paper from the collection of the Leiden University Libraries confront…
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New investigation of South African rock shelter sheds light into Middle and Later Stone Age modern human behaviour
In the eighties the Umhlatuzana rock shelter in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, was excavated. Results from this excavation led to an understanding when the Later Stone Age started in this area. This archaeological period is often associated with the structural presence of modern human behavior. Now a…
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Vici for Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Islamic Empire rapidly became unified'
After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the Islamic Empire expanded at a tremendous pace. Within a hundred years, it stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian subcontinent. How did such a rapidly conquered territory become one empire? Professor Petra Sijpesteijn has been awarded a Vici grant…
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Rural Riches
The bottom-up development of post-Roman northwestern Europe
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Education
At Leiden University you can study Islam and Muslim societies within two Dutch-language BA and various MA programmes and specializations.
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Political elites and regime change in the Middle East and North Africa: accommodation or exclusion?
Political scientist Kevin Köhler (Leiden University) has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This prestigious grant enables him to set up a research group in the coming five years. Köhler and his team will examine how elite conflict affects processes of regime change…
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Cultural activities
To reach a larger audience beyond the academy, a number of activities in the cultural realm have been programmed over the years.
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Opening of the Herta Mohr Building: brand new and also recycled location for Humanities
Light, open and green: a description that fits the new, renovated location of the Faculty of Humanities. The official opening of the Herta Mohr Building took place on 8 October, and it has many remarkable features: for example, recycled ‘mushroom columns’, a pedestrian bridge to the University Library…
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Schulhofer-Wohl, Quagmire in Civil War
Why do some civil wars experience quagmire, a situation in which belligerents are trapped in fighting? To explain this puzzle, Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl (Leiden University Institute of Political Science) analyses the overlapping strategic interactions between foreign powers and the warring parties. Studying…
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Catching Kairos? Imagining Alternative Futures in Eastern German Literature
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Daniela VoicanLeiden University Library
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Gessica SastrosoedjonoLeiden University Library
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Pema GurungLeiden University Library
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Kevin StoofLeiden University Library
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Claudia PeesLeiden University Library
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Stein BrugmanLeiden University Library
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Bernie PerssonStudent and Educational Affairs (SEA)
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Anouk MansfeldLeiden University Library
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Sophie MulderLeiden University Library
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Yoran KremerLeiden University Library
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Mart van DuijnLeiden University Library
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André BouwmanLeiden University Library
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Els KoenemanLeiden University Library
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Nina KuitertLeiden University Library
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Ilse JansmaLeiden University Library
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Marco de NietLeiden University Library
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Paul MaasLeiden University Library
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Jacqueline AbrahamseLeiden University Library
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Sufyan Al KaraimehLeiden University Library
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Hyunsook ChoiLeiden University Library
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Mick RubinghLeiden University Library
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Kirsten van EgdomLeiden University Library
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Fleur PraalLeiden University Library
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Bart WentholtLeiden University Library
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Esther HanekrootLeiden University Library
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Ari AsmiLeiden University Library
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Erik WeberLeiden University Library
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Marc GilbertLeiden University Library
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Marjolein van ZuylenLeiden University Library
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Claudia Moreira CalzadillaFaculty of Humanities
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Nathaniël LinssenLeiden University Library
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Guus JanssenLeiden University Library
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Amber ZijlmaLeiden University Library
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Yvonne AchterkampLeiden University Library
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