503 search results for “ancient trade” in the Student website
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Gender and International Criminal Law
Conference, Seminar
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis
How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone in the universe? This was all covered during the celebration of Leiden University’s 449th Dies Natalis.
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Book ‘De Glazen Toren’: ‘The balance isn't quite right anymore’
Writing a book on the recent history of Leiden University in corona times. For educational and policy historian Pieter Slaman (34), this has meant working in the attic of his parents’ house while they looked after his daughter, along with numerous online conversations and very few, if any, visits to…
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-discussed topics. We compiled an overview of the most-read news items and other events of the past year.
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Opening LeidenGlobal Photo Exhibition: Crafting Cultures
Exhibition
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Religious Discourse and Tribal Affiliation in Early Islamic Ifrīqiya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Jewish Magic from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Lecture
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Getting on Famously: The Netherlands and the Shah of Iran
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- Career Café Leiden Law School
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
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Birth of a Pelagic Empire: Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansions in the Pacific
Lecture
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PCNI Research Seminar on Political Meetings
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: Roadblock Politics - Predation and Resistance in Central Africa
Lecture
- CMGI Brown Bag Seminars 2022-2023
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Globalizing the Northern Muslim World: the Mongol Exchange and the Horde
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Leaving Science: A Large-Scale, Cohort-Based, Longitudinal Approach, 2000-2022
Seminar
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(CANCELLED) The UK, the Netherlands, and Ukraine. How strong bilateral relations are crucial for multilateral diplomacy
Lecture, Seminar
- POPTalk: Mapping Slavery Walk & Potluck Spring Dinner
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Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
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Border closures in East and Central Africa: asymmetry, severance, and disruption
Lecture
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Anthropology at Sea: Displacement as Ethnographic Praxis
Lecture
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European Music Meets Japanese Culture: a Lecture on the Essence of the Funeral Culture in Japan
Lecture
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With kind regards: October 2022
Lecture
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Daniel Carter, PhD – ‘There's “money law” and there's “people law” and I've always been more interested in the latter.’
Not everyone benefits from the increased flexibility in the labour market. EU migrant workers engaged at the lower end of the employment spectrum are falling behind. According to Daniel Carter, the legal system is at fault and in his PhD thesis he explains the reasons why.
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New Year’s reception 2021: a memorable online event
The Faculty’s traditional New Year’s reception, like everything else these days, was transformed into an online event this year. Dean Paul Wouters as the host led us through the programme filled with the Casimir Teaching Award, the Pieter de la Court Medals, the Master’s Thesis Prizes, and a short lecture…
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Pieter de la Court Medal winners talk about accessibility and the conditions of education
During the New Year’s Reception on 11 January 2022, the Pieter de la Court Medal was awarded to two students of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences: Orestes Kyrgiakis and Claire van den Helder. They tell us about the causes they fight for and what it means for the University to be better.…
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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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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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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MA International Relations: Alumni Career Networking Event 2023
Career event
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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Visiting the EU institutions in Brussels
Career and apply for jobs
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LUGO Sustainability Day
Conference, Symposium
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The future of Europe’s finances
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Experimental Ethnographies
Lecture
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Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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The Processes of Conversion to Islam in Contemporary Spain: From the Betrayal of Spain to Community Insertion
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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Between Admiration and Repulsion: The ‘Witch’ in Medieval Islam
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Van de Waallezing 2023: Maarten van Heemskerck, Rome and classical mythology
Alumni event, Lezing
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
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2021: This was the year of our faculty
2021 was an eventful year once again for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). Hybrid, working from home, online education, on-campus education, face masks, self-tests, keeping distance, quarantine and the coronavirus. Words that have now become a standard part of our vocabulary when…
- EU Seminar
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Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2023
Conference
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Where is the Caribbean in the Dutch WPS National Action Plan?
Lecture
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On not seeing like a state: How archaeology can inform critiques of the inevitability of hierarchy, dispossession, and disconnection of the human
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Plato's Myths: Tools for Thinking Conference
Conference
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Actio! Actio! Actio! European Acting Techniques in Historical Perspective
Arts and culture, Symposium