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Religious Discourse and Tribal Affiliation in Early Islamic Ifrīqiya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Affective Fish
How does one paint joy? Joy, or le, in literary and visual representations had become one of the codified feelings through classical discourses by the middle period in China (9th-14th centuries). This talk asks how the canonized feeling of joy inspired and challenged artists in the middle period. Focusing…
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Getting on Famously: The Netherlands and the Shah of Iran
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Freud and China
The KVVAK and HWS (Hulsewé-Wazniewski Foundation) are extremely happy to invite you for the lecture Freud and China by Craig Clunas. Admission is free, but registration is required. (non-KVVAK members can fill in 0000 in the field Membership number)
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And then it stopped – the impact of print culture on the perception and growth of Purāṇas
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Jewish Magic from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Lecture
- Liveable communities – Liveable Planet
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Book Presentation: Gāyatrī: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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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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'Sound Matters': An exploratory Workshop into Sound and Digital Humanities
The Digital Humanities are flourishing, but they are still largely focussed on textual and visual objects. These are objects of sight, but a significant portion of human life is experienced through sound – in our day to day communication, in the music that we listen to, in the soundscapes of urban and…
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Humanities and International Relations Graduate
Conference
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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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Why you (won’t) vote – A reading list
In November, the Dutch will elect a new parliament. Not all eligible citizens will go out and vote, however. How can this be explained, and how big of a problem is it? International research into voter turnout can shed new light on this issue – and offer possible solutions.
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Book ‘De Glazen Toren’: ‘The balance isn't quite right anymore’
Writing a book on the recent history of Leiden University in corona times. For educational and policy historian Pieter Slaman (34), this has meant working in the attic of his parents’ house while they looked after his daughter, along with numerous online conversations and very few, if any, visits to…
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Between Admiration and Repulsion: The ‘Witch’ in Medieval Islam
The study of the Islamic occult sciences has developed rapidly with impressive outcomes in the last 10 years. In addition to ground-breaking research, these include critical editions of overlooked texts that are essential to our knowledge of the occult sciences, and Islamic philosophical and scientific…
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With kind regards: October 2022
Building a theory of material and visual politeness in ancient sources: the example of the Graeco-Roman letters on papyrus Yasmin Amory (Ghent University) Although letters on papyrus have been thoroughly examined and investigated from the very beginning of the discipline, attention has mainly been paid…
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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Conference Mediated Cicero
From 16 to 18 June 2022, Christoph Pieper and Leanne Jansen are organizing a festive, three-day event to mark the end of the VIDI-project Mediated Cicero. You are all warmly invited to join (part of) the programme. On Thursday 16 June, we will start with a 'publieksmiddag', in Dutch, at…
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
Workshop
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Van de Waal Lecture 2024 - Barkcloth: wrapping people, places and ideas
Alumni event, Lecture
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The Concept of Living Customary Law Revisited
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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‘Staging Witchcraft Before the Law: Skepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials’ – Lecture by Julie Stone
Lecture
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Van de Waallezing 2023: Maarten van Heemskerck, Rome and classical mythology
Alumni event, Lezing
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Opening public lectures Lorentz Center
Lecture
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
r.e.breuker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2921
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
In this symposium, we are exploring the varieties of divinatory practice. These techniques are a way to envision, predict and understand the individual’s life from the perspective of the sacred world. Whether cast as mere funfair fortune-telling or as the most earnest augury, if religion refers to the…
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Memory Politics and Contentious Heritage in Anṣār Allāh/Ḥūthī Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Actio! Actio! Actio! European Acting Techniques in Historical Perspective
The story of Demosthenes’ transformation from a much-mocked to a much-admired orator is well-known: he emerged from his ‘subterranean study’—after dedicated and rigorous physical training—a master of delivery. His diligence was spurred by the realization that a performance that was not only powerful,…
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Double Lecture on Ecocritical Perspectives in Japanese Art
Lecture
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Plato's Myths: Tools for Thinking Conference
Conference
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Leiden University-Zurich University Workshop: Ecocritical Perspectives in East Asian Art and Culture
Workshop
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis