1,294 search results for “new religions and alternative spirituality” in the Staff website
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Introducing: Caroline Schep and Bianca Angelien Claveria
Caroline Schep and Bianca Angelien Claveria recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the ERC-funded project “Human Subject Research and Medical Ethics in Colonial Southeast Asia”, led by Fenneke Sysling. Below they introduce themselves.
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Rector Hester Bijl on education in times of corona: ‘We have high hopes, but we are also realistic.'
The Dutch universities as a whole are lobbying for a 'normal' academic year from the end of August, where on-campus teaching will be possible. It's a view that Leiden University shares. Rector Hester Bijl talks about what teaching will be like then. She also looks back on a year of lockdown.
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In memoriam Jan Zaanen 1957-2024: The universe in a speck of rusting copper
This Thursday, January 18th 2024, our esteemed colleague Jan Zaanen passed away. Jan was one of our star scientists, larger than life, with an unabashed, boisterous drive for the best of physics at the Institute Lorentz, at the Leiden Institute of Physics and in the full international scientific community.…
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Introducing: Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou
Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate and postdoc in the framework of the 'Anchoring Innovation' program. Below, they introduce themselves!
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Reading list - our favourite books this summer
Did you also read a lot this summer? We made some real headway on our bookshelves. After all, nothing beats reading a beautiful or thrilling book outside. In this reading list, you'll find our favourite books for the summer of 2022. If you have any suggestions, let us know via Twitter, Facebook or I…
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Annie Ernaux - a reading list
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (1940). In an explanation, the Swedish Academy praises Ernaux 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory'.
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‘We are drowning in dossiers of which we have long known they will play a role’
The new government needs to look further ahead, says environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra. ‘We keep pushing forward big dossiers like demographic ageing, climate and migration. Even though we know they play a big role in our future.’ Hoekstra therefore hopes that the new coalition agreement will…
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with David Schoch
Lecture
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Smoke on the Water: Ocean Incineration as a Struggle for Environmental Justice
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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FGGA Academia in Motion get-together
Debate
- 5th Meeting reading group 'The Role of Experience'
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Ruthenium-peptide conjugates for targeted phototherapy
PhD defence
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Enlightenment, Empire and Fanaticism
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Pedagogy in Literary ‘Postcards’: João do Rio in São Paulo (1905-1915)
PhD defence
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Once upon a War: Truth and Subversion in Iranian War Literature
Lecture
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Refugees’ “Right to Have Rights”: Opening Doors between Nations
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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A Paragenealogy of Computational Rationality
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Greening Casablanca: Speculative Fictions and Contested Planning Responses to the Climate Crisis
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Longing to the Gray: Nostalgia, Nationalism and Social Media
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Portrait/Figure drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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The neuroscience of the psychedelic experience
Lecture
- Best practices
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Humanities as the heart of Leiden in 2022: get to know the team
In 2022, Leiden will be the European City of Science. During this year, Leiden will be the European stage for knowledge, with a programme filled with science, art and culture. Of course, the humanities also take part. Get to know the core team of our faculty.
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Lineage and Gender in Islam: Perspectives from the Indian Ocean World
International Conference
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Our Digital Future 2023
Conference
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Dies Natalis 2023
University ceremony
- The Anthropocene is a prospective epoch/series, not a geological event
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The Emergence of Democratic Firms in the Platform Economy: Drivers, Obstacles, and the Path Ahead
PhD defence
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Civil Society and International Students in Japan: Methodology and Fieldwork
Lecture
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Jimpitan in Wonosobo, Central Java: An Indigenous Institution in the Context of Sustainable Socio-Economic Development in Indonesia
PhD defence
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SRS seminar series: Deep history of violence and security
Seminar series
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Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Global China’s Human Touch?
PhD defence
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Playing dice with the Universe
PhD defence
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The EU and Africa – joint visions for the future or falling back on the past?
Lecture, Seminar
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GTGC Lunch Seminar: Transformation and connections through food/waste in Dutch cities
Lecture
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Why has Western Policy failed on Palestine/Israel?
Debate
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Extinction, Extraction, Emergence: Plantation Necrobiopolitics on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
Lecture
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Meaning or what? The semantics of ChatGPT
Lecture
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Fragile Resonance | Jason Danely
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Academic management and leadership skills
Leadership, Personal development, Management
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Models of linguistic diversity and Amazonian pre-history: a view from the Northwest Amazon
Lecture, Language & the Human Past Lecture Series
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Sanctions, Remittances, and (in)Security: Legal Conundrums, Financial Paradoxes, and Humanitarian Puzzles
Conference
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Using technology for the translation of literature: a user-centred approach
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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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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In the Shadow of the Constitution: the Micropolitics of Constitutionalism in Cambodia
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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Manifesting Minutes and Mapping Cosmographies: Time and Place in Early Modern Deccan
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Girls’ Education, Neoliberal Subjectivity, and Sacrifice in Niger
Lecture
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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LUCAS “Modern and Contemporary Studies” Research Cluster 3rd annual conference 'Environment as Lens: Rethinking Humanities Research through the
Conference