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The two tiers of noun incorporation in Iraqw
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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The study of ancient cities provides us with new urban ideas
Lecture
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New archaeological perspectives on an Arabian oasis in Islamic periods
Lecture
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Building Democratic Solidarity in Europe through Culture
The European Cultural Foundation (ECF), established in 1954, was created for the stimulation of a European sentiment, to promote the development and preservation of a feeling of mutual comprehension and democratic solidarity between the peoples of Europe by encouraging cultural and educational activities…
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Publications
Electronic versions of our publications can be obtained by sending an e-mail to Esther van den Bos: bosejvanden@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
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Historicizing Security. Enemies of the State, 1813 until present
The research project ‘The History of National Security, 1945-present', is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Campus The Hague/Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH). The project will run until the summer of 2013, when we hope…
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Engaging Europe in the Arab World: European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970)
From the mid-19th century until the 1970’s, the Middle East witnessed the presence of various European missionaries who played a fundamental role in the birth and the development of humanitarianism. Since these Christian missionaries were well integrated in the local Middle Eastern societies via their…
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Strategic research into and development of best practice for, predictive modelling on behalf of Dutch Cultural Resource Management
Are predictive archaeological maps a reliable tool to play an important role in the spatial planning? One of the goals of this project was to develop best practices for the production and application of the models.
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Interdisciplinary research and teaching at Leiden University
Many of the challenges of our time are too complex to be resolved within the confines of a single discipline. Leiden University is a broad-based university where an incredible number of research fields converge. That makes us the ideal breeding ground for, and practitioners of, interdisciplinary research…
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Programme structure
The core curriculum equips students with the conceptual approaches and qualitative empirical research methods necessary to analyze law in context. Specialized electives enable students to dive deeper and focus on particular areas of legal practice—from legal mobilization to regulation and compliance…
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About our Faculty
The Faculty of Humanities offers an inspiring international working environment with room for diversity and innovation to staff and students from home and abroad.
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Jimpitan in Wonosobo, Central Java: An Indigenous Institution in the Context of Sustainable Socio-Economic Development in Indonesia
PhD defence
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Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
Roundtable
- Medieval Fragmentology and the Fragmented Old English Glossed N-Psalter
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IBL Spotlights - Development & Disease
This edition will be hosted on December the 8th at 15.30 by Development and Disease. The meeting will take place at the Sylvius building in the big lecture room (1.5.31). After the lectures, you are all invited to the reception on the first floor of the Sylvius! Agenda Prof. Dr. Marianna Kruithof-de…
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International Conference: Historicizing the Shiʿi Hadith Corpus
The central sources of religious doctrine and law in Islam are the Qurʾān and the hadith. Hadith is, by volume, the far greater of these two sources. While there has been an increasing production of sophisticated studies on Sunni hadith traditions, the study of Shiʿi hadith requires far greater attention…
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Indistinguishable Likeness
PhD defence
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Decolonising International Law: Entrapments in Praxis and Critical Thought
Dr. Mohsen al Attar is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and a Visiting Scholar at UCL. Dr. al Attar is best known for his writings on Third World Approaches to International Law, a theory that guided his doctoral research and continues to inform his investigations into global political…
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Rights Denied, Heritage Stolen
PhD defence
- Magnetic Carbon
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MCBIM Colloquium: Supramolecular systems based on CO2 and metal waste material: from fundamental investigations to recycling plant
Lecture
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Egyptian Diaspora in Paris – Between the Language and Resistance
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Death and the Digital Realm
Conference
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Children's Response to Humor in Translated Poetry
PhD defence
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Widening the horizons of outer space law
PhD defence
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Secure and Efficient Computing on Private Data
In this talk, we summarize the main results of my PhD thesis, and discuss directions for future work. The overarching technique that has been the basis of all contributions in this thesis is Multiparty Computation (MPC). MPC is a cryptographic primitive that allows a set of mutually distrusting parties…
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Entangled Transformations: Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Power Dynamics in Belarus
Please register at least 4 days in advance at l-peg@hum.leidenuniv.nl to receive a copy of the paper and attendance details.
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Worlds to Discover: Ajami Manuscripts of West Africa
In addition to texts in Arabic, the manuscript heritage of Islamic West Africa includes written attestations of local languages in Arabic script (Ajami). The Ajami writings range from brief explanatory glosses on didactic texts to historical accounts, religious and secular poems, and healing and talismanic…
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HiSoN Summer School 2022
The summer schools organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) offer classes by leading experts on modern and historical sociolinguists. There is space for only 40 graduate students and young (at heart!) researchers so you are advised to book early. Dates: 24 July - 31 July…
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Book launch: 'White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt, 1926-1974: In a Class of Their Own'
This event will be held both online and physically in Leiden. All registrees will receive a link to the online platform one day before the start of the event. Please register via the ASCL website. The ASCL is pleased to announce the launch of Duncan Money's new book 'White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt,…
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Decoding the molecular makeup of the human ovary through single-cell transcriptomics
PhD defence
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Unde Venisti? The Prehistory of Italic through its Loanword Lexicon
PhD defence
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Two Leiden MOOCs in New York Magazine’s Top 21
‘Heritage Under Threat’ and ‘The Rooseveltian Century’ are among the 21 best MOOCs for a general public according to New York Magazine.
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D&I Symposium 2024: What have we achieved with a decade of diversity policy?
How has progress been made on diversity and inclusion at Leiden University over the past decade? Attendees reflected on this at the D&I Symposium 2024: Untold Stories. And in the workshops, students and staff discussed the next steps toward a more inclusive community.
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‘Japan and Leiden aren’t so far apart after all’
A delegation from Leiden University visited Japan from 18 to 26 November to facilitate cooperation in research and teaching. The delegation also attended the signing of a twinning agreement between the cities of Leiden and Nagasaki and the opening of a bridge to Dejima, once literally the bridge between…
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Lorentz: celebrated physicist, born mediator
Emeritus professors Dirk van Delft and Frits Berends both channelled their inner Sherlock Holmes as they delved into the life and work of the great physicist Hendrik Lorentz. Their voluminous biography ‘Lorentz: gevierd fysicus, geboren verzoener’ (Lorentz: celebrated physicist, born mediator) is published…
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‘A week feels like a month at the National Think Tank’
In the National Think Tank (NDT) 20 young academics spend four months reflecting on how to solve a societal problem. Four participants from Leiden told us about their experience.
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Food Citizens? featured in Horizon Magazine
Horizon Magazine published about urban food systems.
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Science Groot funding for Leiden scientists
Leiden scientists are the main applicants for five projects that have been awarded a Science Groot grant of up to 3 million euros in the Science Domain. In addition, several Leiden scientists are involved in other projects that have been awarded funding.
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Assessor Olivier passes on the baton to Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens
For two years, assessor Olivier Fajgenblat was a familiar face of this faculty. Starting September 1st, it will be up to Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens to look after the interests of students in all kinds of matters. Together they look back on and look ahead to being assessor at the Faculty of Humanities.
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Cleveringa Professor Roméo Dallaire on Rwanda and PTSD
Cleveringa Professor Roméo Dallaire led the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in 1994, but was unable to prevent a genocide from unfolding before his very eyes. Eight hundred thousand people lost their lives. In his Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November, this retired Lieutenant-General from Canada speaks…
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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
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This archaeologist dives to VOC ship De Rooswijk
Martijn Manders conducts research on the sunken VOC ship De Rooswijk. Tirzah Schnater from the Ministry of Education, Culure and Science produced this impressive report of the work of this underwater archaeologist.
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Conference Hazelhoff Centre: Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law, the conference ‘Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets’ was held on the 11th of May 2017 at law firm Stibbe in Amsterdam. The conference attracted an international audience originating from more than five different…
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Every European citizen trilingual?
Leiden University linguist Lisa Cheng speaks two Chinese languages, as well as English and Dutch. She is a strong supporter of the European Commission's wish that every European citizen learns to speak several languages. ‘Speaking three languages is not that difficult.’
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‘Friends can achieve a great deal together’
On 29 January, the Mayor of Leiden, Henri Lenferink, was awarded Leiden University’s Scaliger Medal. The longest-serving Mayor of Leiden was presented with the medal by the University’s longest-serving Rector Magnificus, Carel Stolker. Lenferink was awarded the medal in recognition of his achievements…
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LUC Student Wins Nobel Peace Prize Essay Competition
Natalia Sobrino-Saeb, third-year student at Leiden University College The Hague, won the challenge by the Ignitor Fellowship Program held by the Nobel Peace Center for her essay on the threats to journalism in Mexico. On December 10th Natalia met the Committee of the Ignitor Fellowship in Oslo and attended…
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In the Making #3: Kristoffer Gansing and Francesco Ragazzi (ReCNTR), Artistic Research and the Techno-aesthetics of Infrastructure
Lecture, Conversation
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In the Making #2: Etienne Kallos, Searching for a Diasporic Time Image
Lecture
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Liveable Planet congres: Lokaal beleid voor een leefbare planeet
Unfortunately, this Liveable Planet event is in Dutch. Please stay tuned for the next English event! Op 14 april van 13:00 tot 16:00 vindt in Leiden een het Liveable Planet congres plaats over lokaal en integraal beleid voor het aanpakken van duurzaamheidsdoelen (o.a. Global Goals en het klimaatakkoord)…