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Sanskrit across Asia and Beyond News - 11 May 2017
The exhibition ‘Sanskrit – Across Asia and Beyond’ tells the story of Sanskrit’s more than 3,000-year-long existence. It displays manuscripts and objects from Leiden University Library, complemented with objects from the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen. The exhibition runs from May 18 to August…

Website Leiden Asia Year available News - 12 September 2016
The programme for the Leiden Asia Year in 2017 is now available. Rector Carel Stolker launched the new website leidenasiayear.nl at the opening of the Academic Year of Leiden University on 5 September.

Loan agreement South Asia Collection News - 7 October 2016
The UBL and the Friends of the Kern Institute (VVIK) signed a loan agreement for the collection of South Asia, especially India, and Tibet.

Successful Asia Day on Indonesia News - 17 September 2018
Leiden University Libraries is looking back at an exciting Asia Day with a focus on Indonesia: interview about the Dutch colonial war in Indonesia, a roundtable with experts about Indonesian politics, economy and the Euro-Indonesian relationship, a keynote lecture about Malay manuscripts and digitization,…

This was the Leiden Asia Year News - 18 December 2017
2017 was the Leiden Asia Year. Leiden has had connections with Asia and built up extensive knowledge of the continent over many centuries. This Leiden-Asia link has been in the spotlight for the past year.

Marijke Klokke Senior University Lecturer Art and Material Culture of Southeast Asia
Faculty of Humanities

Digitised manuscripts, old prints, photos and maps of Southeast Asia available in Digital Collections News - 9 April 2020
Part of the Leiden University Libraries’ (UBL) collections on Southeast Asia is now available in digital form for research, educational purposes and the general public. The collections consist of manuscripts, old prints, photos and maps of Southeast Asia, which have been made available via Digital Collections.…

Libraries acquires major 19th-century photography collection on South East Asia News - 22 October 2018
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently acquired a major collection of 19th-century photographs on South East Asia. The collection comprises more than 3,700 photographs of the Netherlands East Indies and mainland South East Asia, including Singapore, Myanmar, Penang and Malacca. The photographs are…

Gabrielle van den Berg Professor Cultural History of Iran and Central Asia
Faculty of Humanities

Elena Paskaleva Assistant Professor Critical Heritage Studies of Asia and Europe
Faculty of Humanities

Asian Special Collections
The Asian special collections comprise tens of thousands of rare books, thousands of manuscripts, maps, prints, drawings and photographs, and hundreds of archives.

Paul Kessler Prefect / professor by special appointment of Botanical gardens and botany of South East Asia
Science

Rizal Shidiq University Lecturer, Economies in South and Southeast Asia
Faculty of Humanities