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Panel discussions
At our regular panel discussions we bring together scholars and other experts to discuss a current topic that captures the interest of the general public as well as academics.
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Late Pre-colonial and Early Colonial Entanglements of Venezuela with the Caribbean
This research project is an integral part of its mother-programme NEXUS1492 ERC Synergy Project directed by Prof. Corinne Hofman. Overarchingly, it aims at understanding and bridging from the archaeological perspective the late pre-colonial and early colonial history of the Southeastern Caribbean macroregion…
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Constraints on large-scale implementation of BioSolarCells, Early stage assessment of environmental value propositions
What performance criteria does a new technology have to fulfill in order to be added to the list of future energy options and what constraints exist in terms of broad market penetration?
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Shaping a Muslim State
The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official
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Islamitisch basisonderwijs in Nederland
Marietje Beemsterboer defended her thesis on 12 June 2018 (in Dutch)
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The island of Skyros from Late Roman to Early Modern times
ASLU 28 Michalis Karambinis (2015)
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The First Horse Herders and the Impact of Early Bronze Age Steppe Expansions into Asia
The article investigates the origins of Indo-European languages in Asia by 65 coupling ancient genomics to archaeology and linguistics.
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An anthropological rethinking of the Pintados and early tattooing in the Visayas, Central Philippines
In this paper, Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio and Myfel D. Paluga recast new light on the historical tattooing of the “Pintados,” or the the name by which the inhabitants of the Visayas Islands (in the central Philippines) were called by Spanish documenters in the sixteenth century. This is one of their…
- Current guest researchers
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Mahmood Kooriadathodi
Faculty of Humanities
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Imagining the Arabs
Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
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WARN-D: developing an early warning system for depression in students
My ERC Starting Grant, funded with €1.5 million for 5 years as part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, is focused on building the early warning system WARN-D to reliably forecast depression in young adults before it occurs. Why depression, and why prediction?
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Southern Crossings: Indian activists and the Afro-Asian movement in the early Cold War era
Southern Crossings: Indian activists and the Afro-Asian movement in the early Cold War era
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Early modern war narratives and the Revolt in the Low Countries
By the end of the sixteenth century, stories about the Revolt in the Low Countries (c. 1567-1648) had begun to spread throughout Europe. These stories had very different authors with very different intentions.
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University Lecturer early modern/modern history with special expertise in digital history/AI (0,8 fte)
Humanities, Institute for History
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NISIS publication: Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century
This month, the NISIS publication “Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: Transformations and Continuities” was published by Amsterdam University Press. This volume brings together contributions of various speakers at past NISIS Autumn Schools, providing an overview of important issues in the…
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Scholarly meetings
At LUCIS we offer a varied programme of scholarly meetings (conferences, workshops) which reflect our multidisciplinary and comparative view on Islam and Muslim societies in past and present.
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Mette Langbroek
Faculteit Archeologie
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Dusan Maczek
Faculteit Archeologie
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Our students at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo
On a thursdaymorning our students were guided around a new exhibition in the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo. This exhibition displayed photographs and documents from the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Western Arabian Peninsula.
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Religious Discourse and Tribal Affiliation in Early Islamic Ifrīqiya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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‘Fire-free’ survival strategies for the early occupants of north-west Europe
In Europe, archaeological traces of fire become more frequent between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago; but could the earliest occupants have survived without fire for at least half a million years before this? How could the early occupants of Europe have kept warm and processed meat without fire?
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Green defense against thrips- Exploring natural products for early management of western flower thrips
As a contribution to the changing legislation and evolving societal attitudes concerning environmental issues, this project aims to enhance and manipulate the plants’ own natural defense mechanisms against western flower thrips (WFT).
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Lecture ‘Knickerbocker Renaissance: Dutch Schools and Slavery in the Early United States’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Special Guest Lecture
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Understanding PKK, Kurdish Hezbollah and ISIS Recruitment in Southeastern Turkey
This study delivers a comprehensive picture of the causes of radicalization in the Eastern and Southeastern regions of Turkey. It demonstrates how regionally specific factors enable ideologically disparate terrorist groups to recruit and radicalize from the same population.
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Join the NIMAR study trip to Morocco: Islam and citizenship
Are you a teacher (history, social studies, religion, philosophy, geography, etc.) and do you have questions about the relationship between citizenship and Islam? Consider joining NIMAR's study trip to Morocco.
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Early Colonial Mosaics, Transculturation within Ceramic Repertoires in the Spanish Colonial Caribbean 1495-1562
What can continuity and change in the manufacturing of locally made ceramics from the early colonials Spanish towns of Concepción de la Vega, Cotuí and Nueva Cádiz (1492-1600) tell us about the choices people made in ceramic production as a reaction the the changing social environment?
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Beyond Prometheus: Pursuing the origins of fire production among early humans
When do fire making tools appear in prehistory, and how might the use of these tools manifest in the archaeological record?
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The Rule is for None but Allah
From the rise and fall of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, to Islamic State’s attempts to create its own currency, to the dramatic return of the Taliban in Afghanistan, this edited volume from two leading scholars of contemporary terrorism assembles an enviable array of international experts to explore these…
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In Search of a Lost Language: Performing in Early-Recorded Style in Viola and String Quartet Repertoires
How might viola and string quartet playing in the performer-centered, moment-to-moment and communicative style heard on early recordings be brought about today?
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Sara Bolghiran
Faculty of Humanities
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Tilling and manuring prehistoric and early historic fields in western Europe
Since the adoption of agriculture people have cultivated fields. The project concerns all kinds of aspects related to raising crops.
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Transforming data into knowledge for intelligent decision-making in early drug discovery
Promotor: A.P.IJzerman Co-promotor: A. Bender
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Joanne Mouthaan
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Leonie Vreeke
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jacobine Melis
Faculteit Archeologie
- Former guest researchers
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Seascape Corridors: How modelling routes through the sea can illuminate early island culture
What are the capabilities or limitations of traveling between islands and how does this reflect seasonal variation? Is it possible to show higher levels of connectivity between islands based on generated pathways between several sites on two separate islands?
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Frans Theuws
Faculteit Archeologie
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Nathal Dessing
Faculty of Humanities
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A Stairway to Heaven: Daoist Self-Cultivation in Early Modern China
Paul van Enckevort defended his thesis on 3 June 2020.
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Bridging the gap between physics and chemistry in early stages of star formation
A dense region of a gaseous and dusty cloud collapses to form a protostar surrounded by a disk and an envelope. This thesis uses both observations and models to study physical and chemical conditions of these protostellar systems which are likely where planets start to form.
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The Heirs Of Vijayanagara: Court Politics in Early Modern South India
This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the south Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records, this research…
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Food production and food procurement in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (2000-500 BC) (2000)
ASLU 7 - A.E. de Hingh
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e-storybook reading on a SMART board for kindergartners to promote early literacy skills
This study examined the effects of a classroom-focused intervention on different domains of early literacy. The intervention consisted of shared e-book reading combined with a print referencing technique done via a SMART board. The specific goal of the study was to examine whether children could be…
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
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Public Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe: Theatrical Entertainments for the State Journeys of English and French Royals into the Low Countries
One way for governments to conduct foreign policy and promote national interests is through direct outreach and communication with the population of a foreign country. This is called public diplomacy. Historians such as Helmer Helmers and William T. Rossiter have shown that printed media were already…
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Sharia in the West
This research projects wants to know what Muslims in the West do and mean by ‘Sharia’, and how the Western legal system responds to that. The focus is on Sharia as an informal practice by Muslims in the West, i.e. other than through state law or state courts.
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Re‐dating the seven early Chinese Christian manuscripts : Christians in Dunhuang before 1200
Mr. J. Sun defended his thesis on 21 March 2018.