444 search results for “asian modernities and traditions” in the Staff website
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Exhibition unveils Central Asian part of Silk Road
An exhibition at Oude UB takes visitors to the historical Silk Road. Old maps, clothes and jewellery reflect the rich heritage of the cities of Central Asia and their inhabitants.
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Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas
Faculty of Humanities
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ReCNTR screening: Bo Wang, ‘An Asian ghost story’
Festival
- LUCAS Modern & Contemporary Cluster
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Modernization of the library finished
The renewed library is built in the middle of wing B on the ground floor. The entrance opens onto the central hall.
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Faculty of Humanities
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Hoe te leven, klassiek of modern?
PhD defence
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Channa Li
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden Anthropology of Asia Network Created
Last week, the 'Leiden Anthropology of Asia Network' was created, based on the network event 'Leiden Anthropology of and in Asia' on 8 December 2021. During this event, it became clear that next to events oriented towards peer-level academic interaction, there is an urgent need for a better institutional…
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Siyun Wu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Christoph Pieper
Faculty of Humanities
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Remco Breuker
Faculty of Humanities
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Introducing: Noelle Richardson and Susana Münch Miranda
Since September 2021, Noelle Richardson and Susana Munch Miranda are working as a postdoctoral researcher within Cátia Antunes VICI project "Exploiting the Empire of Others: Dutch Investment in Foreign Colonial Resources, 1570-1800". Below, they introduce themselves.
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Edegar Da Conceição Savio
Faculty of Humanities
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Arfi Arfiansyah
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Janine Ubink
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gul-i-Hina van der Zwan
International Institute Asian Studies
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Myfel Paluga
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Vincent Chang
Faculty of Humanities
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Anti-Asian racism deserves much more attention
Racism and discrimination come in many different shapes and forms – in the Netherlands too. Verbal attacks, stereotypes and violence: some people are confronted with these on a daily basis. A group that is often not included in research and the debate on racism is people of Asian descent. The Diversity…
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Nira Wickramasinghe on New Books in South Asian Studies podcast
In the book 'Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' Nira Wickramasinghe, professor of Modern South Asian Studies, uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world. She was interviewed about the book in the New Books in South East Asian…
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Joost Augusteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Andrea Richards-Cummins
Faculteit Archeologie
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Enes Sütütemiz
Faculty of Humanities
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Chie Arita
Faculty of Humanities
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Helen Steele
Faculty of Humanities
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Jacobine Melis
Faculteit Archeologie
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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the Law: Skepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials’ – Lecture by Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University)
Lecture
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Leiden University signs strategic partnership with Asian Development Bank
Leiden University is going to partner with the Asian Development Bank, a bank committed to regional development. President of the Executive Board Annetje Ottow signed a memorandum of understanding on this unique partnership in Manila on 27 April.
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Eric Storm
Faculty of Humanities
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Lindsay Black
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk Schulte Nordholt
Faculty of Humanities
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Turaj Atabaki
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Liebregts
Faculty of Humanities
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Raymond Fagel
Faculty of Humanities
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Tiffany Bousard
Faculty of Humanities
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Marion Pluskota
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk Kern
Faculty of Humanities
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Stefan Landsberger
Faculty of Humanities
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Overcoming Ruptures: Zande identity, governance and tradition during cycles of war and displacement in South Sudan and Uganda
PhD defence
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Old tradition of ‘golden PhDs’ reinstated
Black-and-white photographs filled with solemn young men and distinguished professors line the walls of the Grand Auditorium. Young women are missing from the photos; women rarely obtained PhDs 50 years ago. And this article is about that group, the PhD candidates between 1966 and 1972, who were invited…
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Lydia van de Fliert
Faculteit Archeologie
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Archaeological excavations in Romania show life of earliest modern humans in Europe
In a new article in the journal Scientific Reports, Leiden archaeologist Wei Chu and colleagues report on recent excavations in Western Romania at the site of Româneşti, one of the most important sites in southeastern Europe associated with the earliest Homo sapiens. The site gives an important glimpse…
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Research into grave goods sheds new light on traditional roles
New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 words ago were less traditional than was thought. The research was conducted by a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Archol, the National Museum…
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Gerhard de Kok
Faculty of Humanities
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Jesse Sarneel
Faculty of Humanities