686 search results for “anthropology of religion” in the Staff website
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Interdisciplinary research: brainstorming and bridge-building
Bring over a hundred driven researchers together in one room and the good ideas will start to flow: that was the thinking behind the internal networking meeting on interdisciplinary collaboration on Wednesday 17 May. Representatives from the nine interdisciplinary programmes were waiting at their stalls…
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‘A country’s immigration narrative really influences the people arriving there’
Immigration and naturalisation policies are an important theme in the upcoming Dutch elections. The Netherlands should be mindful of its immigration narrative, says PhD candidate Hannah Bliersbach, as this greatly influences the relationship between ‘new’ citizens and their new home country.
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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How democratic is our kingdom? New ministry chair for Leiden political scientist
When we talk about the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it is not just about the Netherlands. On the contrary: our Kingdom consists of no less than four countries, three of which are Caribbean islands. This structure is complex, to say the least. Although all countries are officially equivalent, in practice…
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Archaeologist Jennifer Swerida investigates emergent social complexity in the Omani desert
In June 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new Assistant Professor. Dr Jennifer Swerida, originally from the United States, will strengthen the Faculty’s expertise on the archaeology of West Asia. ‘I explore human-environment relationships inside an ancient oasis and the surrounding land. Previous…
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Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
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Turkey’s Centennial: Democracy, Diplomacy, Security
Lecture, Panel Discussion
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Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
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Undisciplined Collections
Workshop
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Asian(s) in the Netherlands
Panel conversation
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Book Launch | Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
Book Launch
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FOOD CITIZENS? Conference 4th FEBRUARY 2022
Conference
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"Hello World!" #4 - Lecture by Zane Kripe
Lecture
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Legitimation as political practice: everyday authority in Tanzania and beyond
Lecture
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Difference and empire, or on the importance of thinking otherwise
Lecture
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I’m afraid it’s rather bad news | Debate in De Balie + livestream
Debate
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Documenting Death| Adrienne Strong
Lecture, Online webinar
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ReCNTR Launch
Festival
- The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
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Visible hands, audible voices: Economy as a Matter of Fact and a Matter of Concern by Douglas R. Holmes (Binghamton University)
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Intimate Legal Interactions Meeting - Power and Projects: Reflections on Agency
Debate
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Aging nationally in contemporary Poland| Jessica Robbins
Lecture, Online webinar
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Careful Waiting in the Last Phase of Life: Islam, Medicine and Life-Limiting Illness in Indonesia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Preferences and Beliefs in Behavior and the Brain
PhD defence
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ASCL Seminar: The Blue Values Journey to Research and Resilience in Coastal Africa
Lecture
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Minimalism in Malay Verbal Art: towards a cognitive poetic approach of allusion in Malay
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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European Music Meets Japanese Culture: a Lecture on the Essence of the Funeral Culture in Japan
Lecture
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LUCIR Book Talk: Contending Orders: Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law
Lecture
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Violence and the State: Perspectives from Ancient India
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Annual Cities, Migration, and Global Interdependence Seminar 2023
Conference, Annual Cities, Migration, and Global Interdependence Seminar
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Colonialism and the Age of Revolutions (1780-1830)
Conference
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Palliative Care Around the World
Conference, Seminar
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Finding God on the Malabar Coast: The Religious Origins of the Hortus Malabaricus?
Lecture, COGLOSS
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'Heroic Humanities', in honour of Isabel Hoving
Conference
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Should rivers and seas have rights?
Lecture, Public Ethics Talks
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Humanities as the heart of Leiden in 2022: get to know the team
In 2022, Leiden will be the European City of Science. During this year, Leiden will be the European stage for knowledge, with a programme filled with science, art and culture. Of course, the humanities also take part. Get to know the core team of our faculty.
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Book talk 'Aspiring in Later Life: Movements across Time, Space, and Generations'
Lecture, Online webinar
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Identity cards, semiotic instability, and signs of state recognition for Indonesian warias
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Visual Construction of the Dutch: From the Perspective of the “Tōjin”
Lecture
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"We are new farmers": How do e-commerce streamers perform authenticity in rural China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Women Issuing Fatwas
PhD defence
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La crémation dans l'Alexandrie grecque et romaine
PhD defence
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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To Register or Not to Register? Legal Identity and Birth Registration of Migrant Children in Morocco
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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I Wish, I Wish, a Western Mosque: Colonial Continuities in Dutch Perspectives on Islamic Architecture
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Abortion, Law, and Everyday Ethics in India: Women’s Reproductive Choices in Everyday World
Conversation
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Fragile Resonance | Jason Danely
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Material Legacies: The Post-Genocide Family Trees in Armenia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Research Seminar Janet Connor
Lecture, Research Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: Ancestral livelihoods and moral universalism - Evidence from transhumant pastoralist societies
Lecture