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Fifty years of diplomatic relations with China: an ‘open and pragmatic’ partnership
This year, the Netherlands and China reflect on fifty years of diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level. How has the relationship between the countries developed over the past half century? An interview with university lecturer Vincent Chang.
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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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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch
Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center for International Relations (LUCIR) has conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique. Her resulting book, Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil…
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Introducing: Catherine Wood and Martijn van Ette
Catherine Wood and Martijn van Ette recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the NWO Vidi-funded project "American foreign policy and liberalism", led by Andrew Gawthorpe. Below they introduce themselves.
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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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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant
Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their research ideas in the coming three years.
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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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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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“No metadata no future” – kicking off UMADA [on a donkeys’ island]
Ustadh Mau Digital Archive project (UMADA) is among the UCLA Library 29 international cultural preservation projects supported by the Modern Endagered Archive Program (Cohort 3). From the 3rd up to the 5th of October, a digitization training workshop took place on Lamu island, on the so-called northern…
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Book Launch 'Freedom on the Offensive'
Lecture, Book Launch
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Research Day of the National Research School for Literary Studies (OSL)
Conference
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Dark Matters
PhD defence
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Computerized Adaptive Testing in Dutch Mental Health Care
PhD defence
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Smoke on the Water: Ocean Incineration as a Struggle for Environmental Justice
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Is ‘Great Ming’ a Dynasty?
Lecture
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International Symposium 150 years New Waterway
Conference, Symposium
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Enlightenment, Empire and Fanaticism
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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How to Study a Polymath
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Tamas David-Barrett
Lecture
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From Disappearance to the End Game: Reflecting on the Politics of Decolonization in Hong Kong
Lecture, China Seminar
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The Construction of Nationalism in Chinese Media Events in the Reform Era
PhD defence
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Contemporary ballet advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Book Launch: Capitalism in Contemporary Iran
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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VVIK Lecture: Local Biographies in Jain Literary Production
Lecture, VVIK
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A Conversation on Helen Thompson's 'Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century'
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare
Lecture
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Legitimation and nationalism in official Chinese Television Documentaries
Lecture, China Seminar
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How to be an Academic in a World on Fire: A Hands-On Workshop co-organized by LUGO and OSCL
Lecture
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A Paragenealogy of Computational Rationality
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Chinese Cinema Meets Digital Humanities
Lecture
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Booju on the Red Hill: the Kangxi emperor's Manchu emissaries to Tibet and their role in shaping the relationship with the Tibetan government
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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ASCL Seminar: Subaltern Metropolitan Adventure and Colonial Mediation in Nigeria
Lecture
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Film screening & panel: The Great Book Robbery
Debate
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Afro Mix intermediate/advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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A ‘Little Armenia’ in the Caribbean
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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The thousand war-battalions of the btsan: everyday demons in Ladakh
Lecture
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The BuddhistRoad Project: Research Agenda and Recent Results
Lecture
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International PhD Seminar on Slavery, Servitude & Extreme Dependency
Conference
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The Needham Question: Did Needham Need to Pose It? Is He Guilty of Coloniality?
Lecture
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Afro Mix beginners/intermediate
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Unveiling Media Accessibility: From Research to Practice and Back
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
- The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead