528 search results for “medieval islamic history” in the Staff website
-
Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
-
Henk te Velde
Faculty of Humanities
-
Tessa de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
-
Krista Murchison receives Veni grant for ‘Righting and Rewriting History’
Krista Murchison, University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, received a Veni grant of 250.000 euros. Her Veni-project will explore the ‘immaterial archive’ and its social and historical significance by digitally recreating manuscripts that were destroyed during World…
-
Social media
Social media is a good way to meet others or to hear about the latest news and developments. It is an excellent way to tell people about what you are doing and to hear what they are up to too. But social media also has its downsides: disinformation, trolling, disrespectful comments and even the misuse…
-
Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
-
NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from?
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a grant from NIAS to map their origins.
-
Renaming Ambiguity: Modernist Dream Encounters in Islamic Indonesia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
-
Weishuo Li
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Mette Langbroek
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Joanita Vroom
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Léon Buskens
Faculty of Humanities
-
Daphne Wong-A-Foe
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
-
Ian Simpson
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Loes Oudenhuijsen
Afrika-Studiecentrum
-
Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities
-
Jürgen Zangenberg
Faculty of Humanities
-
Fan Lin
Faculty of Humanities
-
Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
-
Exhibition Books that made history
From Galileo Galilei to Albert Einstein and from Anna Maria van Schurman to Anton de Kom: only a selection of the 25 authors who's books and ideas had extraordinary historical impact, in some cases even to this day. Leiden University Libraries and the National Museum of Antiquities jointly present the…
-
Letty ten Harkel
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Jonathan Ouellet
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Afshin Ellian
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Sculptures provide more diverse view of University’s history
Three new initiatives will provide a more diverse view of Leiden’s academic history, literally and figuratively: a historical study on the background of students and scientists, a new book about the Academy Building, and two new sculptures of female scientists, Ewine van Dishoek, Professor of Molecular…
-
Raymond Fagel
Faculty of Humanities
-
Koen Marijt is crazy about history: 'So much has happened within one kilometre of Rapenburg'
Anyone who has taken a walk through the centre of Leiden before might have come across him, an attentive group of tourists gathered around. After studying history, Koen van Toen, or Koen Marijt, started his own business. He now organises historical walks, among other things.
-
The Processes of Conversion to Islam in Contemporary Spain: From the Betrayal of Spain to Community Insertion
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
-
Religious Discourse and Tribal Affiliation in Early Islamic Ifrīqiya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- Forgotten heroes
-
Alex Tutwiler
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Fransiskus Widiyarso
Faculty of Humanities
-
Jelle Plesman
Faculty of Humanities
-
Anne Heyer
Faculty of Humanities
-
Jos Raadschelders
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
-
Surya Suryadi
Faculty of Humanities
-
LUCAS Conference 'Practices in Comparative Medievalism'
Conference
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series
-
Fatiha Azzarhouni: ‘Even during Covid, Ramadan is about fasting'
Mosques with limited opening hours, fewer family visits and fewer events: for the second time, Ramadan was different due to Covid. Islamologist and deputy director of the Leiden Islam Academie Fatiha Azzarhouni looks back on a special month.
-
University history complete: Otterspeer presents fourth volume
At the Dies Natalis Willem Otterspeer, Professor Emeritus of University History, presented the fourth and final volume of Groepsportret met Dame, his series on the history of Leiden University. De 'Strategie van de Aanpassing' covers the period 1876-1975. Otterspeer talked about his book in a podcast…
-
A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward
Exhibition, Photo exibition
-
Diederik Smit
Faculty of Humanities
-
Se Young Jang
Faculty of Humanities
-
LUCAS Medieval and Early Modern Cluster Meeting
Lecture
-
Maria Zisimopoulou
Faculty of Humanities
-
Koen de Ceuster
Faculty of Humanities
-
Michael Herzfeld
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
-
Leonor Alvarez Francés
Faculty of Humanities
-
Leonor Faber-Jonker
Afrika-Studiecentrum
-
Cisca Hoogendijk
Faculty of Humanities
-
Patrick Gouw
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden