1,899 search results for “middle east noort afrika” in the Public website
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Nick Tomberge
Faculty of Humanities
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Victor Klinkenberg
Faculteit Archeologie
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Bleda Düring
Faculteit Archeologie
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Vincent Chang
Faculty of Humanities
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Athina Boleti
Faculteit Archeologie
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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Asian Modernities and Traditions
The research profile ‘Asian Modernities and Traditions’ (AMT) aims to raise the strength and visibility of research, teaching and dissemination on Asian studies at Leiden University.
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What’s in a plant?
Tracking early human behaviour through plant processing and -exploitation.
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Diplomacia y comercio en la Europa Atlántica medieval
This book is a result of the collective research project Urban Societies in the Port Towns of Atlantic Europe in the Late Middle Ages. It studies the connections between diplomacy and trade from a comparative and transnational perspective throughout medieval Atlantic Europe.
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Cushitic influence on Bantu in East Africa
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Maria Ulfah and Her Vision of a Humanistic Postcolonial Asia
In 1933, Maria Ulfah Santoso was the first Indonesian women to earn a law degree. During her studies in Leiden University she became involved with Indonesia;s nationalist movement. She went on to be Indonesia's Social Minister, as the first female cabinet member. In this article, historian Wildan Sena…
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'Biologists also need to be a bit of a data analyst’
Biologists today have to be able to work with big data. Data analysis skills should be taught from the start of the degree programme, or - even better - in secondary school. This is the message of Vera van Noort, new Professor of Computational Biology. Inaugural lecture 22 January.
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Biophysicists unravel exact folding of a single gene
The way genes are folded determines their activity in our body. Leiden biophysicists are now the first to unravel this structure molecule-by-molecule. Publication on December 1st in Nature’s Scientific Reports.
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Growing awareness of sustainability and the environment
From underground heat exchangers at the Bio Science Park to drinking taps to replace water coolers. With its new environmental policy plan, Leiden University will become greener in the coming years.
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Tanzania
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden Law School with the University of Dar es Salaam.
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Kenya
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden Law School with three universities in Kenya.
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Upcoming Fourth LEAC Conference – 27 November 2018 at Strathmore University Law School
On 27 November 2018, the Center for Legal and Comparative Studies of the East African Community of Leiden University (LEAC) is organizing, in close cooperation with Strathmore University Law School, the University of Nairobi Law School and the IRID, the Fourth LEAC Conference on the topic “Teaching…
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A Typology of Verbal Derivation in Ethiopian Afro-Asiatic Languages
The general objective of this thesis is to determine a typology of verbal derivation in Ethiopian Afro-asiatic languages.
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Online tools
This section provides an overview of online tools for the study of the medieval Low Countries. The websites linked down below are often times both available in Dutch and English.
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Globalizing Regionalism and International Relations
Building on the recent initiative to truly globalize the field of international relations, this book provides an innovative interrogation of regionalism.
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Organic Farmers as Green Entrepreneurs: Exploring the impact of FPOs on organic cultivation in Sikkim (Northeast India)
Charisma K. Lepcha (PI, Sikkim University), Pradyut Guha (co-PI, Sikkim University), Rajib Sutradhar (co-PI, Christ University Bangalore) and Erik de Maaker (Leiden University) have been awarded a two-year grant of USD 18.000 to conduct research on the impact of ‘green farming’ on the sensitive mountain…
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Geometry in ornament: On the history, theory and science about the presumed universality of geometrical patterns and its cognitive foundation
Knowledge and culture subproject 3:
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Mission Statement
The Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Arabia aims to promote research on the ancient languages and cultures of Arabia, and to disseminate this knowledge to the broader public.
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A Grammar of Ts'amakko
This dissertation presents the first full grammatical description of bago ts'amakkilo ('mouth of the Ts'amakko'), or simply Ts'amakko. It is a Cushitic language, spoken in Southwest Ethiopia and belongs to the Dullay cluster of Lowland East Cushitic. The number of speakers is about 10,000. The data…
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Promoting international criminal justice
How should the international community of states respond to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity? How can the perpetrators of international crimes be brought to justice? How can international crimes be prevented? How can the international community of states promote international consensus…
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Towards a working model of industry and higher education collaboration in enhancing engineers’ soft skills for better employability
The discussion on employability of higher education graduates has been around for several years, with more emphasis in the 21st century. Yet, universities are still challenged in the pursuit of providing work-ready graduates who can meet industry expectations.
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Tell Balata Archaeological Park
The project aims at contributing to the safeguarding of Palestinian cultural heritage and the enhancement of economic situation through tourism development, by presenting and managing one of the most important archaeological resources, the archaeological site of Tell Balata.
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Lectureship in the Political Economy of Japan (1,0 fte)
Humanities, Institute for Area Studies, Japanese Studies
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Synthesis
Abrupt Climate Change and Cultural Transformation
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Layered loyalties: the Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820-1850)
This dissertation, Layered Loyalties: The Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820-1850), studies the Natuurkundige Commissie.
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LUCIP workshop: Meeting in the Middle
Conference
- Week 6: 10-16 February 2019
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The formation of Islam: The view from below
By examining the impact of Islam on the daily life of those living under its rule, the goal of this project is to understand the striking newness of Islamic society and its debt to the diverse cultures it superseded. Questions will be the extent, character, and ambition of Muslim state competency at…
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Admission and Application
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Middle Eastern Studies at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Rolf Bremmer
Faculty of Humanities
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Geeske Langejans
Faculteit Archeologie
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
- Week 4: 28 January – 3 February 2018
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The Palaeoproteomic Identification of Pleistocene Hominin Skeletal Remains:
Towards a Biological Understanding of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition
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Die Diathesen Aktiv vs. Medium und die Verbsemantik im Vedischen der Ṛgveda-Saṃhitā
This dissertation provides a detailed description of the interaction between verb semantics and the two grammatical voice categories in the Vedic Sanskrit of the Rigveda.
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Lobbying for Brazil and Taiwan – lobby groups to the Companies and the States General
How did free agents cooperate with the VOC and the WIC, through lobbying for private interests within the Companies as well as at the highest political levels?
- Forgotten heroes
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Routes of Exchange, Roots of Connectivity
The archaeology of Afro-Eurasian networks across land and sea (1st millennium CE)
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Afroasiatic middle t- and its protean history
Lecture, Lectures in Historical Linguistics and Philology
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Tell Sabi Abyad – The Late Neolithic Settlement
Report on the Excavations of the University of Amsterdam (1988) and the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden (1991-1993) in Syria.
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The anthropological signification of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in Visayas and Mindanao epics
This paper explores the long-term endurance of “breath” as a schema of personhood in the Austronesian-speaking world, from a comparative-ethnographic approach to the “Man with No Breath” figure featured in Philippine epics. This is one of two contributions from Myfel D. Paluga and Andrea Malaya M.…