628 search results for “history of the contemporary middle east” in the Library website
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Connect & Check in: meet the RDM Community
Network meeting
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Summer School: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World
Summer School
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Connect & Learn: The decentralized web and safeguarding digital sovereignty
Network meeting
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‘Literature explores all sorts of things that the law is not yet ready for’
As Professor of Literature, Culture and Law, Frans Willem Korsten explores the interplay between literature and law. These are two disciplines that most people wouldn’t immediately connect, but Korsten can see a lot of common ground between them. ‘A fictional story can have a huge impact on law.’
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Public Lecture ‘The Role of the Humanities in an Information Age’ by Ted Underwood, Visiting Scaliger Professor
Leiden University Libraries invites you to the public lecture by Ted Underwood, Visiting Scaliger Professor. This lecture will be held on Thursday 21 November, from 16.00-17.00 in the Lipsius building, Room 0.19, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden. Afterwards, you can meet the new Visiting Scaliger Professor…
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Connect & Share: Licenses and Access Rights – How to Set the Appropriate Conditions for your Dataset
Network meeting
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Connect & Open up: meet the Open Science Community Leiden
Network meeting
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Connect & Reuse: practical use cases from public health
Netwerkbijeenkomst
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Connect & Learn: How a large, complex, sensitive dataset is managed for long-term access and use
Netwerkbijeenkomst
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Connect & Deposit: discovering the Dryad data publishing platform
Network meeting
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Connect & Protect: data driven research at the LUMC
Network meeting
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Connect & discover: data registration, deposition and discovery
Network meeting
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Connect & Share: the 2024 IDCC Conference 'Trust through Transparency'
Network meeting
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Connect & Meet: AI and data management
Network meeting
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Connect & Discover: What can the European Open Science Cloud do for you?
Network meeting
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Sabine WittingFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
s.k.witting@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8838
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The Pen and the Sword: A reading list about writer's quarrels
Writers are not just storytellers: with their novels, tales and critiques they broaden the social imagination, reflect on societal developments and sometimes put new themes on the map. This can easily lead to a conflict because writers and literati often think very differently about issues such as…
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Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks - a reading list
On Saturday 11 September, it will be 20 years since two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in the very heart of Manhattan. The images of smoking towers are etched into the memories of many, not only in the United States, but all over the world. September 11 became the subject of much research,…
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict – a reading list
Tensions between Israel and Palestine again reached fever pitch in May, with hundreds of – mainly Palestinian – deaths as a result. Now that a ceasefire offers some respite, there is an opportunity to reflect on the history of the conflict. Are there lessons to be learned from the past? How do historians…
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Elizabeth den HartogFaculty of Humanities
e.den.hartog@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2686
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Lennie GeerlingsFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
l.r.c.geerlings@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Workshop: Arabic manuscripts and how to read them
Workshop
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Why Humanities? Frans-Willem Korsten about Literature & Law
Lecture
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Nanne TimmerFaculty of Humanities
n.timmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2184
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Stolen Focus: Our Brains Online - The Reading List
There is a reasonable chance that you came to this reading list through a social medium. Now it's our job to keep your attention. We are going to do our best. There are so many distractions; from notifications on your phone, to another screen near you, that may also be screaming for attention. Every…
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Caribbean Literature - A Reading List
Caribbean literature holds a unique position in the world. Literature produced in the Caribbean region is extremely diverse, not only because of the wide variety of languages spoken, but also due to distinct colonial legacies that exist in the archipelago. Despite cultural specificities, the region…
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Veni grants for 21 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 21 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).