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685 search results for “world asian” in the Library website

• Asian Library

  The Asian Library holds the largest collection on Indonesia worldwide, and some of the foremost collections on South and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea.

• Asian Special Collections

  The Asian special collections comprise tens of thousands of rare books, thousands of manuscripts, maps, prints, drawings and photographs, and hundreds of archives.

• Southeast Asian Special Collections

  The Southeast Asian Special Collections contain text and audiovisual materials pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, religions, literatures, and (material) art of the region. The focus lies on the Malay world, in particular on the Nederlands-Indies/Indonesia. Apart from books and periodicals…

• South and Southeast Asian Studies

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for South and Southeast Asian Studies.

• South and Southeast Asian photography

  The photo collection of South and Southeast Asia contains material collected by the Kern Institute and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). In addition to photo prints in various techniques, the collection also includes (lantern) slides, picture postcards…

• South Asian and Tibetan Special Collections

  The South Asian and Tibetan special collections provide material pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, art and material cultures of the region. The focus lies on Sanskrit, Tibetan, Lepcha, and Buddhism, but the collections also hold rich visual material for educational and academic purposes…

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  Steven Denney University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Turaj Atabaki Emeritus Professor by special appointment

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Henk Schulte Nordholt Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

• UNESCO World Heritage

  The UBL holds seven collections recognised by UNESCO as documents of universal value and exceptional significance to the world. Six are included in UNESCO's International World Heritage list of documents or Memory of the World Register, one in the Dutch UNESCO register.

• Leiden Asian Library renews sponsorship of ICAS Book Prize News - 16 June 2022

  The Asian Library at Leiden University Libraries has renewed its sponsorship of the ICAS Book Prize (IBP) of the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) for the 2023 edition.

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  Remco Breuker Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Islamic World Special Collections

  The main focus of the Islamic World Special Collections is on the Middle East and North Africa, with smaller holdings from Indonesia, the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia as far as Xinjiang, China.

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  Nira Wickramasinghe Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gul-i-Hina van der Zwan Postdoc / guest

  International Institute Asian Studies

• Two exhibitions with Asian maps of the university library News - 18 September 2017

  From mid-September two exhibitions with maps from the collections of Leiden University Libraries are on view. Mapping Asia opens in the National Museum of Ethnology and Mapping Japan in Japanmuseum SieboldHuis. The exhibitions are organised in the context of Leiden Asia Year and the symposium 'Mapping…

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  Peter Bisschop Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Keiko Yoshioka Lecturer and Head of the Japanese language programme.

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Rogier Creemers Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• ICAS Book Prize awarded at the Asian Studies conference in Kyoto, Japan News - 24 August 2021

  The ICAS Book Prize (IBP) is one of the most prestigious book awards in the field of Asian Studies. The prizes were awarded in Kyoto, Japan at the 2021 International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS). As the proud sponsor of the ICAS Book Prize, Leiden University Libraries/Asian Library congratulate…

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  Jochem van den Boogert Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ritchie Kolvers Guest

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  Florian Schneider Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bouke van der Meer Senior University Lecturer

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  Roderick Geerts PhD candidate

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  Merlijn Veltman PhD candidate

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  Lindsay Black Associate Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Katarzyna Cwiertka Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Aritri Dutta External PhD

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Adam Buben University lecturer

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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  Victoria Nyst Associate professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Stephan Raaijmakers Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Manolis Fragkiadakis Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nicky Schreuder PhD candidate

• Newspaper articles (International)

  Leiden’s University Library provides access to a large collection of digital (contemporary) and digitized (historical) newspapers. These newspapers can be found through the library’s catalogue and through the library’s databases. Furthermore, the Dutch National Library offers access to several international…

• Cultural Anthropology

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Cultural Anthropology

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  Michael Kerschner Senior researcher

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  Jos Gommans Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nico Kaptein Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Peter Verhaar University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Peter Verhagen Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ethan Mark Senior University Lecturer Modern Japanese History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jan van Dijkhuizen Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nicolas Blarel Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Group study rooms

  The libraries offer several group study rooms, for use by Leiden University students. Rooms need to be reserved in advance, using the university's study places booking system.

• Panji tales awarded the status of world heritage by UNESCO News - 31 October 2017

  The unique collection of more than 250 ancient tales revolving around the mythical Javanese Prince Panji, which is curated by Leiden University Libraries (UBL), has been acknowledged as world heritage by UNESCO. The UBL is grateful to UNESCO for this exceptionally prestigious award.

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  Karin de Wild University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Lettie Dorst Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ben Arps Professor

  Faculty of Humanities