1,705 search results for “histories” in the Staff website
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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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The ancient Egyptians were just like us
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a study by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands concludes. If you wanted to prove that you had good taste in ancient Egypt then…
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Life after Security Studies: five alumni share their thoughts about the bachelor programme
Five students who graduated from the Bachelor Security Studies share their experiences. Where did they end up after graduation? Are they still using the skills they gained during their studies?
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Modern Literature from the Middle East - The Reading List
The Middle East has a rich literary tradition, which is steadily gaining a foothold in the West. Modern literary works deal with contemporary issues, such as the legacy of colonialism, the struggles between traditionalism and modernity, the place of women in society and the war in Israel/Palestine.
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Opening academic year
University ceremony
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In the Making #6: Anna Scott, Jed Wentz, Laila Neuman, Emma Williams, Art Without Soul?
Lecture, Conversation
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How do international boycotts work for justice? Understanding the ethics and efficacy of the BDS movement
Panel discussion
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Between the Court and the Village: Uncovering how was Early Modern Warfare Really Waged in Southeast Asia
Lecture, COGLOSS
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AI for Bad: Superpowers, Cydiplo and the Myth of Global Regulation
Lecture
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The future of Europe’s finances
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Learning from Ancient Water Systems
Lecture
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Hip Hop Diplomacy as Subversive Complicity
Guest Lecture
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Methodology & Statistics Alumni meet students in Psychology
Alumni event, Career
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Conservation and study of the Pahari collection of drawings and paintings
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Some Contexts and Practices of S&T Foresight and Impact Assessment in Japan
Seminar
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Book Launch Media / Art / Politics
Lecture
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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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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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Why the Old Cold War Ended, a New Russia-West Cold War Developed, and the Russia-Ukraine Hot War began
Lecture
- LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Crash Course in Greek Palaeography
Two-day Seminar
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Anglophone Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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UBH 2022 - Upsetting Binaries & Hierarchies
Conference
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Online Kress Talks with Felicity Good and Alec Aldrich
Lecture
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Kress Talks with Cynthia Kok and Felicity Good
Lecture
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Celebrating 30 Years of IIAS
Festival
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Conference Mediated Cicero
Conference
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Protecting the Peace Process in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland
Lecture
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Qahramon Yakubov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in April 2023
Lecture
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2023: 'The proper time for marriage: Plato vs. Xenophon on law and persuasion'
Lecture
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Liveable Planet Lunch Series “A Forest of Knowledge – Investigations on foraging cognition in tropical forest foragers”
Lecture
- The global cosmopolis. Past, present and future of the city of Alexandria
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How the Fossil Fuel Industry (ab)uses the Legal System: The Urgent Call for Binding Regulations to Protect People and Climate
Debate, Roundtable discussion
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“The most fun programme there is”: An immersive learning approach to sustainable education
Lecture
- Roundtable: The making of disability / the making of migration
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MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop
Workshop
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Experience and Voice: Library of Colombian Women Writers - Symposium & Workshop
Symposium & Workshop
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Following the Pagla Jahaj ['the crazy ship']: The inevitable journey towards the un/familiar
Lecture
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Leiden Teachers' Academy Education Festival 2024
Festival
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26 Research and Education Grants in 2020 for the Institute of Security and Global Affairs
Whilst 2020 has been an unusual and taxing year for colleagues at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), the Institute nevertheless can look back on an impressive range of successful grant applications during the previous year. This impressive result was achieved on top of excellent results…
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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EUniWell Open lectures series | European standards of Human Rights protection of displaced persons fleeing armed conflicts
Lecture, Part of a series
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The Secondary Homelands of the Indo-European Languages (IG-AT2022)
Conference
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LUCIR/Grotius Centre roundtable: Preventing ‘repeat mistakes’ in war
Lecture
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On not seeing like a state: How archaeology can inform critiques of the inevitability of hierarchy, dispossession, and disconnection of the human
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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CANCELLED - Museum Talk: Negotiating museums and their digital interfaces
Lecture