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The Śākadvīpīya (or Maga) Brāhmaṇas are Hindu sun worshippers mainly settled in Rājasthān and Bihār. They claim to have come from Iranian lands in ancient times and brought some Iranian customs and religious elements into their sun cult. According to some sections of the Sāmba- and Bhaviṣya-purāṇa,…

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Prof. P.R. Rodrigues Prof. P. Boeles Summary: Het concept ‘vrijwillige terugkeer’ is een cruciaal maar vaak slecht begrepen onderdeel van de EU-Terugkeerrichtlijn, die regels stelt voor de terugkeer onrechtmatig in EU-lidstaten verblijvende migranten. Vrijwillige terugkeer biedt hun de kans…

PhD defence

Leiden European City of Science 2022, in collaboration with the New European Bauhaus initiative of the European Commission and the Urban Health Campus Almere Leiden, present a programme entitled ‘Urban Health’ on Thursday, the 13th of October 2022. The multidimensionality of health in an urban environment…

PhD defence

Prof. W. van der Does Prof. A van Minnen (Radbout University) Prof. M. Schoorl Summary: Fysiek of seksueel misbruik in de kindertijd kan langdurige psychische klachten veroorzaken zoals een posttraumatische stress stoornis (PTSS). ‘Prolonged exposure’ (PE), een vorm van gedragstherapie, is…

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In 2022, every euro in the Netherlands lost about 10% of its value, price increases comparable to the stagflation period of the 1970s. In the same year, the value of the Argentine peso halved, while prices in China only rose by 2%. How well do we understand the economic mechanisms behind inflation?…

Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.

Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel

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This presentation discusses novel visual analytics and non-linear dimensionality reduction techniques for large, high dimensional datasets. Focusing on the non-linear embedding technique tSNE, we developed Dual tSNE and linked-view tSNE to enable fast and interactive identification of clusters and functionally…

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Education, Organisation, Research

From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana at the Rapenburg in Leiden, kept in the Leiden University Library, Rotterdam researcher Erik-Jan Bos discovered a hitherto unknown…

Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate and postdoc in the framework of the 'Anchoring Innovation' program. Below, they introduce themselves!

Ambroise Paré, Thomas Sydenham and Herman Boerhaave: all were great medical innovators in their time. We know far less about the 19th-century Russian physician and scientist Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov. PhD candidate Inge Hendriks researched him in Dutch and Russian archives and collections. She discovered…

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,…

LUNHA strives to redefine global health by prioritizing justice, fairness, and inclusion in Africa. Through collaboration with diverse stakeholders, LUNHA aims to reshape global health research and foster a broader engagement with social sciences and humanities.

World Heritage status comes at a cost to the local population’s human rights. PhD Candidate Sophie Starrenburg explains the drawbacks of poetic terms such as ‘the cultural heritage of mankind’.

Internationalisation is an important pillar of the Strategic Plan of Leiden University and Leiden Law School. The driving force behind internationalisation at our faculty is the Office for International Education (known as BIO). The Head of BIO is Anette van Sandwijk. Now the current political climate…

The story of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh, is world famous. But did you know that the Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals too? The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden recently put a bunch of animal mummies through a CT scanner. This was in collaboration with Canon Netherlands…

Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their research ideas in the coming three years.

Changes to halt further biodiversity loss are more urgent than ever and feasible, says IPBES, the United Nations biodiversity panel. In two reports released this week, the panel calls on governments worldwide to develop coherent policies that address biodiversity, climate change, water, food and health.…

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Conference

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…

Please register at least 4 days in advance at l-peg@hum.leidenuniv.nl to receive a copy of the paper and attendance details.

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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