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A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography
Lecture, Talk
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International Women's Day: the visibility of women in archaeology
On 8 March, International Women’s Day, equal opportunities for women worldwide, empowerment, and gender equality take centre stage. For years, the role of women in the past has been nearly invisible. Four archaeologists reflect on this inequality of focus, from hunter-gatherers in the palaeolithic to…
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Museum Talk with Annabelle Birnie (Hermitage Amsterdam)
Alumni event, Lecture
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Colonial Korean Print Shops through Computer Vision
Lecture
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Photography Meets Science and the City
Conference, Leiden2022
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Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress
Permission was recently given for all members of the examining committee and co-supervisors at PhD ceremonies to wear academic dress, even if they’re not full professors. How historic is this change?
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What drives Harm Derks? The new Head Institute Office on beauty, integrity and quality
Harm Derks started as Head of the Institute Office on 21 May. After a lengthy test drive in the world of classic cars, he is once again in his element back in the academic world. ‘I really want to get to know people, and also for colleagues to get to know me.’
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Maia Casna investigates respiratory disease in the past with an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant
Every year, an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant is awarded to a prospective PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology. This year, the grant went to Maia Casna, enabling her to study respiratory disease in the past. ‘My hypothesis is that the rapid formation of cities in the medieval Netherlands, must…
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Archaeology students play important role in visit indigenous Ka’apor people
As part of Mariana Françozo’s BRASILAE project, a group of representatives of the Ka’apor people was invited to visit Leiden. The Ka’apor, an indigenous people from Brazil, are some of the present-day relatives of the Tupi-speaking peoples who used to live in the northeastern region of Brazil, claimed…
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The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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AI & Humanities: ‘So much untapped potential’
The field of artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years. We spoke with Stephan Raaijmakers, professor by special appointment in Communicative AI, about the impact of artificial intelligence and why everyone should pay more attention to developments in this field.
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Night of Discoveries: 3D-printed paintings and the effects of psychedelics
Come to the Night of Discoveries art and science festival on 16 September. Various researchers from the university are speaking at the festival.
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More than 100 objects described on Things That Talk: ‘It’s super cool to be a part of this’
On Things That Talk, a website founded and developed by Fresco Sam-Sin, students and researchers describe objects from today and from long ago. By now, more than a hundred objects have been covered. Willemijn Waal, Emma Verweij and Frank van den Boom contributed to the content.
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These are the nominees for the Faculty Teaching Prize 2021
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students and a jury decides who will receive the prize. The prize is awarded during the official opening of the academic year on 8 September. This year, students nominated four candidates. We spoke to…
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Rosalien van der Poel: 'I’m always busy’
Rosalien van der Poel has worked in every nook and cranny of the University over the past 30 years. Now, as institute manager, she is the lynchpin of the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), the only institute in the Netherlands where artists can obtain a PhD from a university. 'This is where…
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Herstory and the female gaze: event on International Women's Day
Debate
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Museum Talk: Maps, Navigating and Manipulating
Lecture
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Concubines vs. Khatuns: Sexual Slavery and Marriage Policy in the Turco-Mongol Middle East
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Van de Waal Lecture 2024 - Barkcloth: wrapping people, places and ideas
Alumni event, Lecture
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Why are we so determined to find Amitābha in Gandhāra?
Lecture
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Late Ottoman Istanbul Meets Cinema: Social Impacts of the First Encounter
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Museum Talk with Geert-Jan Janse (Vereniging Rembrandt)
Alumni event, Lecture
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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Revolutionary Historiography: How Leftist Debated the Historical Sociology of the Ottoman Empire in Cold War Turkey
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Freud and China
Lecture
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What are We Remembering When Nothing Happened?
Lecture, Museum Talks
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Van de Waal Lecture 2022: Futurism and Europe: The aesthetics of a new world
Alumni event, Lecture
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Museum Talk with Ina Klaassen (Boijmans van Beuningen): 'The depot: a public private endeavour'
Alumni event, Lecture
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Courage and Disregard
Cleveringa Lecture
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Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
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[CANCELLED] Museum Talk with Ina Klaassen (Boijmans van Beuningen): 'The depot: a public private endeavour'
Alumni event, Lecture
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Roundtable: International Relations and the Idea of Merit
Conference, Roundtable
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SSH labs: a place to be inspired by your colleagues
The new SSH labs will offer great opportunities for FSW and FGW staff engaged in experimental research. The labs will be a place of inspiration, not only because of the state-of-the-art equipment, but also as a result of the increased interaction with colleagues in other disciplines.
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Call 6th meeting reading group "The Role of Experience"
Course
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Durable Upheaval: The 1974 Ethiopian Revolution and Its Impact Five Decades Later
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Between Admiration and Repulsion: The ‘Witch’ in Medieval Islam
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Webinar: Is LUC for me?
Study information, Webinar
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Our Hirāk: The Tishreen Revolution
Lecture, LUCIS Meets
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‘When I leave the lecture and students are still discussing, I know I did a good job’
‘It was the biggest bunch of flowers I’d ever seen,’ says Emily Strange about the moment she won the Leiden Teaching Prize 2022. The judge praised the conservation biologist for her passion, engaging personality, and the way she motivates her students. On the Dutch Day of the Teacher, we get to know…
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The Ten Kings of Earth Prisons: Theatricality of Death in Late Imperial China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Museum Talk: The Future Museum: Digital Replicas, Virtual Reality and Storytelling for a New Audience
Lecture
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Theological Speculation in Arabic: What Can We Know about Early Islamic Theology?
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Leiden-Paris-Cambridge Seminar on the Interior as a Space of Display
Lecture
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Ñii Ñu’u - Sacred Skin
Film screening and Q&A
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The Camel’s Hobble: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on the Practical Intellect
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series