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Lecture by Professor Tahera Qutbuddin: Between This World and the Next: Moving Reflections on Mortality and Morality in the Orations of Ali ibn
Lecture | Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
- Medieval Middle East Meeting (1ECTS)
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13th International Congress of Egyptologists, 2023
Conference
- Forum Antiquum Lectures Series Spring 2023
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LCCP Colloquium "Singing Unsung Stories: From Disinterest to Strange Taste"
Lecture
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47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47)
Conference
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Following Fate or Falling in Love: The second marriage of the Kitchen God’s wife in the rewriting of Chinese Folk Literature in the 1950s and
Lecture, China Seminar
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Words and Warning Messages: Communicating Deterrence in Theory and Practice
Lecture
- Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2023: The Role of Action in Historical Oratory
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Stancetaking and morphosyntactic variation: Insights from two case studies of complementizer (that)
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Graphic Novels in South-Africa: the Work of Nathan Trantraal
Arts and culture
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LUCIR US Elections Roundtable 2: Comparative perspectives on the results and where the US is headed to now
Debate
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Student for a day Linguistics
Study information
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Meeloopdag Taalwetenschap
Study information
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‘Tikitoki’ or ‘Tikutoku’? Speech variation among bilinguals in Japan’s Brazilian Diaspora
Lecture, LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
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Memory, Activism and Social Justice: Kao Jun-honn’s Great Leopard Project
Lecture, China Seminar
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Jade from the Other Mountain: Chinese Fan Fiction Based on English Source Texts
PhD defence
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A grammar of Ashéninka
PhD defence
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Student for a day Linguistics
Study information
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46th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL46)
Conference
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45th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL45)
Conference
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boekpresentatie & symposium “Indische Adel”
Conference
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How to Study a Polymath
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Dies Natalis
University ceremony
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D&I Symposium 2023
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Rapenburg - backdrop for art and knowledge
Street theatre, drama, poetry and a lot of science: Leiden's Rapenburg was the backdrop for the fifth Night of Art and Knowledge on Saturday 16 September. Many University buildings - from the Observatory to the Hortus - opened their doors to artists, scientists and a public curious to know more.
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Lucia Langerak: ‘I'm not one to sit on the sidelines’
Lucia Langerak was awarded a Master’s degree in Egyptology with cum laude honours in 2018. Her bachelor’s degree was also with cum laude honours. ‘I’m an exceptional Egyptologist, if only because I’ve never been to Egypt.’ She is now the coordinator of the Access & Support Platform at the University…
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Cairo Institute Director: ‘I’m keeping the ship afloat’
In March 2020, the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo suddenly had to repatriate 57 students to the Netherlands and Flanders. Director and Arabic specialist Rudolf de Jong decided to stay in Egypt. ‘A lot of the work carries on.’
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‘Morocco Institute crucial for better understanding of Arab world’
A better understanding of Morocco and the Arab world is crucial for international relations and for Dutch society. This was the key message of Minister of Education, Culture and Science Jet Bussemaker and Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam, at the opening of the renewed Netherlands Institute in Morocco…
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Hall of Fame 2016
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed member of an academic society or have taken on a position in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include…
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18 Veni subsidies for Leiden, 8 for our faculty!
This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…
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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
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Leiden victims of WWII given a face
Every year on 26 November Leiden University commemorates the protest speech given by Professor Cleveringa against the Nazis. At least 663 students, staff and alumni of the University lost their lives during the Second World War, yet little was known about these victims. PhD candidate Adriënne Baars…
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They want to be in Leiden's council
Many students and members of staff at Leiden University are politically active. In the run up to the local elections on 21 March candidates in The Hague and Leiden explain why you should vote for them, and what they want to do if they are elected. In this article, the Leiden candidates.
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Starting university with a sleepover
El CID, the University introduction week, has begun! We spoke on Sunday evening to the first new arrivals who had come to Leiden to spend the night at the University Sports Centre. New students can sleep here all this week as well as at the ice rink or in a student house.
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Research at the Faculty in 2018: a sneak preview
A new year that will bring all sorts of developments in the world of research. What are the new year’s resolutions in social sciences research at our faculty? What unites us, and what exciting developments do we anticipate?
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‘The connection with society is always closer than you think’
On the Things That Talk platform, students publish stories about objects from museums from the many collections of the university library and the city. An interview with Fresco Sam-Sin, its creator. Sam-Sin: ‘Things That Talk is a way to talk to each other about the structure of our education and about…
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Alumna Gabriella Sancisi: ‘In Leiden I learned what I think is important in life’
For seven years she worked at Noordeinde Palace, as the Private Secretary of Queen Máxima. Since the summer of 2021, Gabriella Sancisi (1973) has been the Dutch Ambassador in Slovakia, where the Embassy in Bratislava’s historic city centre is now her base.
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Students HC Law visit neighbourhood centre: 'You think that's bizarre? Welcome to our world'
Do young people trust the law? That is what HC Law students are trying to find out. Regular guest speaker and social worker Carlito Jones invited the students to the Bezuidenhout-West neighbourhood centre in The Hague to talk to youth workers and neighbourhood police officers: what do they run into…
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‘I became a stronger believer in the power of Europe’
She knew that a degree in Public Administration would be a stepping-stone to a career in politics. And that is exactly what Leiden alumna Samira Rafaela (30) wanted. Thanks to preferential votes, this member of the D66 party is the first Dutch MEP from an Afro-Caribbean background.
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Book Presentation of Beyond the Mulatta: Haunted Hybridity in Advertising
Book Presentation | Studium Generale Lecture
- Fireside Peace Chats
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2023: 'The proper time for marriage: Plato vs. Xenophon on law and persuasion'
Lecture
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Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: A Reminiscence
Lecture
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
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Book Launch | A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
Lecture, Book Launch
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Human rights and Global Diversity
Lecture, Opening of the Owada Chair
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Following the Pagla Jahaj ['the crazy ship']: The inevitable journey towards the un/familiar
Lecture
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Symposium Metaphors for quantum science and technology
Conference