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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Crash Course in Greek Palaeography
Two-day Seminar
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Ann BrysbaertFaculteit Archeologie
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Katarzyna CwiertkaFaculty of Humanities
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Anne GerritsenFaculty of Humanities
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Johan HuizingaDoelensteeg 16, Leiden
- New elections student section Humanities Faculty Council
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Wilhelmina E. Jansenfonds
Master
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Workshop Reselect your study choice?
Career and apply for jobs, Study support
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Forecasting Finlandization: How will Xi’s China seek to revise East Asia’s regional order?
Lecture
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Tragic news concerning Dr Andrzej Antczak
Social
- Chinese Linguistics in Leiden (ChiLL)
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LUCIR Seminar: Refugees and asylum seekers in East Asia: Perspectives from Japan and Taiwan
Debate
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Previous projects
You can find an overview of the projects and a list of all research trainees below.
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Khatuns: Sexual Slavery and Marriage Policy in the Turco-Mongol Middle East
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East, with James Shires
Lecture
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EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa): One database to rule them all?
Lecture
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’
The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying in Rabat.
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Three Leiden PhD candidates awarded Mosaic 2.0 scholarships
Three PhD candidates from Leiden University have been awarded a Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for their PhD research. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) Mosaic 2.0 programme is aimed at an underrepresented group of graduates with a migrant background.
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Border closures in East and Central Africa: asymmetry, severance, and disruption
Lecture
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Infrastructure and the Port City of Takoradi
We are offering Policy in Practice opportunities for fieldwork in Ghana as collaborating researchers of the Centre for PortCityFutures.
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Meet your fellow students and colleagues
Join us at meet & greet and networking events for students and staff, both Dutch and international. A great way to build a network of new friends, mentors and colleagues. Forge connections that span continents!
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ReuvensReuvensplaats 2-4, Leiden
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PoortgebouwRijnsburgerweg 10, Leiden
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Internships and research in the Netherlands
How can you find an internship or research project and what arrangements do you need to make?
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EA & SSEA Night Talk 2 – Technology in East Asia from Manufacturing to Research & Development?
Lecture
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Launch: 'A Comparative Study of Non-State Violent Drone Use in the Middle East'
Lecture
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Stiffness and viscosity of cells differ in cancer and other diseases
During illness, the stiffness or viscosity of cells can change. Tom Evers demonstrated this by measuring such properties of human immune cells for the first time. ‘The stiffness of certain cells could be a way to make a diagnosis,’ Evers said. He defended his thesis on March 26th.
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What did resistance look like in Indonesia during the Second World War?
Stories of resistance in the Second World War are widely covered in Dutch historiography: Hannie Schaft, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, and Professor Cleveringa are some of the best known. But these accounts largely focus on the Dutch domestic perspective. On the other side of the world, a complex colonial…
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Studying Inscribed Funerary Poetry from the Hellenistic and Roman Greek East
Conference, Research Seminar
- Histories Connected
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Study associations
A study association is a good way to combine study-related activities with pleasure. Every faculty has one or more study association.
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After graduation
You’ve graduated. What’s your next step? Leiden University offers many options for students who have just finished their Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
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After graduation
You’ve graduated. What’s your next step? Leiden University offers many options for students who have just finished their Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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Kamerlingh Onnes BuildingSteenschuur 25, Leiden
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Theatres and museums
In the centre of Leiden there are thirteen museums, all within walking distance of each other. Leiden is also home to the oldest theatre in the Netherlands, the Leidse Schouwburg. The Hague on the other hand has no less than thirty museums in and around the city, as well as a wealth of theatres. So…
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Podcast tips for Pentecost
Are you looking for some listening material for the upcoming long weekend? Staff members and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities have been creating various podcasts over the last few months. A selection is shown here:
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These students studied Byzantine Rome... in Rome: ‘It was an immersive experience’
Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course, co-taught by Vroom, Letty ten Harkel and various guest lecturers, investigated the transition of the city of Rome from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages,…
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Archaeologist Lennart Kruijer's year: a Cum Laude dissertation, a grant, a fellowship
In May 2022 Lennart Kruijer succesfully defended his PhD, which he wrote as a member of the VICI Project ‘Innovating Objects’, led by prof. Miguel John Versluys. So succesfully, in fact, that he was awarded the Cum Laude honors. Just a short time later he was awarded a grant and a fellowship to further…
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Hoard of Roman coins turns out to be offering for safe crossing
Several years ago, two amateur archaeologists from Brabant discovered over a hundred Roman coins near to Berlicum in the north of the province. After years of research, it now appears that the location, close to a ford in the river, was a site for offerings. Another interesting fact is that the coins…
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Month of Tutankhamun: Egypt's most legendary pharaoh
November marks exactly 100 years since the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. To celebrate this special discovery, the Faculty of Humanities, together with various parties, is organising the 'Month of Tutankhamun': a month full of activities around Egypt's most legendary pharaoh.
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11 November 2022: Tutankhamun on Tahrir Square
Education, Research, Social
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Call for Applications - Classics Colloquium, 12-15 December at the University of Bologna
Education
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JEDI Fund: ‘We’re now showing clearly that the community is diverse’
If you have a plan that could improve the education or the learning environment of the Faculty of Humanities in terms of diversity or inclusion, you can apply for a grant from the faculty’s JEDI Fund. This year, Nasreen has been helping to develop a new syllabus for the first-year Ancient History co…
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How should we use AI? The Islamic world may have an answer
The secular West is struggling with the rise of AI, but so too is Muslim Southeast Asia. What can we learn from each other?
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Diversity and inclusion in your studies
We provide more than 125 courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level that offer the chance to study diversity from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.