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Call for papers: Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE)
We invite proposals for the conference entitled ‘Ruins and Memory in the Muslim World: Typologies and Motifs (622-1800 CE)’ to be held in Leiden between 14-16 September 2026.
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5 NWO XS grants for the Faculty of Humanities
Five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an Open Competition Domain Science ENW XS grant by the Dutch Research Council for their research projects.
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Unstoppable urbanisation of Indonesia calls for interdisciplinary partnerships
More than half of the Indonesian population lives in cities. What does this mean for public health? How sustainable are these megacities? This is the subject of the ‘Urban Transitions’ Summer Academy on West Java. This summer course is also the kick-off for a renewed interdisciplinary partnership…
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COIn grant enables Leiden researchers to improve their research infrastructure
The COIn grants enable researchers to improve the infrastructure for their research. The four initiators of two projects explain how the grant has helped them.
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Reflecting on our university’s colonial past: ‘We’re still too Eurocentric’
How do colonialism and historical slavery continue to impact the university today? And what should happen next? Students and staff discussed these questions on 11 March.
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[CANCELLED] Delicate Repertoires - Buddhist Creative Assimilation, Commodification, and Digitalization in Xi’s China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Underground China
Lecture, China Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: When Africans speak
Lecture
- Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)
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Categorial Hylomorphism
PhD defence
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LCCP Colloquium: Scapegoating History: #RhodesMustFall and a Girardian Unveiling of Radical Decolonization
Conference
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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The Cultural Network: Javanese Imaginings of Indonesia, 1918-1966
PhD defence
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Peace Movements and Decolonization Collaborative Research Week
Conference
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Open access in India: A trajectory of opportunities, missteps, and future potential
Seminar
- Book Club: The Slow Professor
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Governance and Democracy in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
Conference
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Social Science Matters: The surveillance society
Those who know their dystopian classics will inevitably associate the concept of surveillance society with the all-knowing oppressive force characterized as Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel 1984. However, surveillance permeats our society in many more subtle aspects than our worst fears about spy…
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Josephus Scaliger: famous scholar and grouch
Josephus Justus Scaliger was one of the most famous scholars of his time and yet today his name is likely to be met with blank looks. His correspondence shows that this Leiden professor was also irritable to say the least. Kasper van Ommen will defend his PhD thesis on Scaliger’s legacy on 2 July. Find…
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VIVAS by Angélica Cruz Aguilar
Orange the World 2025
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In the Making #13: Exploring the Multidimensional Nature of Radio
Arts and culture
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Imagining the future of UK-Europe relations: Narratives from Brexit Britain
Lecture, CHEI Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: Obscure Capital and Containers: History, Objects, and Power in Central Africa
Lecture
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Book Presentation of Beyond the Mulatta: Haunted Hybridity in Advertising
Book Presentation | Studium Generale Lecture
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FYSICA 2025
Conference
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Futures of Native American Studies lecture series presents: Sarah Sense
Lecture
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Metascience of Past, Present, & Future
Seminar
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Authoritarian Teleology
Lecture, China Seminar
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No one is a censor: How Chinese book editors consider potential consequences of their decisions
Lecture, LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
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OSCoffee: Peer Review - In Search for Improvement
Lecture
- Book club: The Slow Professor
- BA Fall Middle East Studies Programme
- Medieval Studies' Day (1/2 ECTS)
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Racism versus Socialism in Cuba
Lecture, Discussion
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From Coup to Classroom: Viewing the South Korean film "12.12: The Day (Sŏul-ui pom)"
Film screening
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LUCAS Talks: Negotiating the Past
Lecture
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Commemoration in the city: Engaging with the Stolpersteine in Leiden and beyond
Course
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LCCP Colloquium "We, Who, Where to? On Jean-Luc Nancy and Transplantation as a Model for Rethinking History Relationally"
Lecture
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From Peacemaking to Dealmaking? Transitional Justice in a New Era
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Hegemonic Memory Culture and Postmigration: How to Remember the Past in Diverse Societies?
Lecture, Conversation
- Centre for Continental Philosophy 2024-2025
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‘We want our country back’: Banal nationalism and the continuing significance of the national in an uncertain world
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Treasures Festival
Festival
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Seeing the Romans - and ourselves - in a different light
Globalisation means becoming globalised, a process in which material culture plays a crucial role. This is what Miguel John Versluys, the new Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology, teaches. He bases his teaching on research into the origin and growth of the Roman Empire from the 3rd…
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BRIN-LDE ACADEMY 2023: The Smart, Sustainable, and Healthy City in Indonesia
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the upcoming workshop on the study of smart, sustainable, healthy, and diverse cities in modern-day Indonesia. The workshop aims to explore the future possibilities and challenges of metropolitan centers such as Jakarta, the newly built IKN Nusantara,…
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The added value of Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities: interview with Dean Wim van den Doel
Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities will celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2022. In recent years, the alliance has expanded to include centres and new programmes as well as a curriculum of its own. What do the next ten years have in store?
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Archaeologist Amanda Henry traces ancient diets and human adaptability with a Vici grant
Dr Amanda Henry has secured a prestigious Vici grant for her groundbreaking research project, Hominin FoodWays: Changing Diet and Food Processing Across Climate Frontiers. This five-year study, set to begin in September, aims to unravel the dietary adaptations of Eurasian hominins between 1.8 and 0.9…