1,431 search results for “contemporary india” in the Public website
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Education
The Leiden Institute for Philosophy has a unique profile in the Low Countries and is one of few of its kind worldwide. It takes a global and comparative perspective of philosophy, whereas most philosophy programs restrict themselves to European and Anglo-American philosophical traditions rooted in Greek…
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People
Overview of the Leiden Asia staff per area or country.
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Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890: Intercultural Engagements with Architecture and Craft in the Age of Travel
This beautifully illustrated volume investigates the social life of objects moving between the Middle East and the West, revealing the range of agencies and subjectivities involved in their trade and reuse.
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Contemporary Approaches in Dialectology
Lecture, Special Topics in Dialectology (2023)
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About
The Modern and Contemporary Cluster is the largest within LUCAS and home to more than 100 staff members and PhD candidates.
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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Development of a low cost technology for in-situ treatment of groundwater for potable and irrigation purposes (TiPOT)
Description of Development of a low cost technology for in-situ treatment of groundwater for potable and irrigation purposes (TiPOT) (2004 - 2007)
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Contact
The Modern and Contemporary Studies cluster is part of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).
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Religion: Buddhism in Asia
Many people in Asia and the West are attracted to Buddhism. This is because of this religion’s ‘image’ of being exotic and authentic.
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Challenging monopolies, building global empires in the early modern period
How did free agents in the Dutch Republic react to the creation of colonial monopolies (VOC and WIC) by the States-General? This project answers this question by looking at the role individuals played in the construction of an informal global empire parallel to the institutional empire devised by the…
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Global and Comparative Philosophy (MA)
This Global and Comparative Philosophy master’s programme is unique in Europe. It offers comparative perspectives from around the world that will enable you to be part of the next generation of thinkers: someone studying and shaping philosophy for a globalised 21st century.
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Research
The Modern and Contemporary Cluster is the largest within LUCAS and home to more than 100 staff members and PhD candidates. Hosting a diverse group of young and advanced scholars, it offers an especially fruitful and dynamic environment for interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Why Nixon Went, and Trump Stuck Around
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective
The aim of the Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective (which is allied to the Society of Dutch Literature (MNL)) is to support research into the literature of and about the Dutch Indies, from the era of the Dutch East India Company to the present. Starting in 1986, the collective has published its own…
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Pellikaan & Van Willigen, Bilateralism and Nuclear Security
Political scientists Huib Pellikaan and Niels van Willigen (Leiden University) use and elaborate on the theoretical insights from game theory in order to understand nuclear security in changing environment. Now that the relations between the US and Russia have deteriorated and smaller nuclear states…
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Women as Agents of Change: How has Women’s Political Mobilization Restructured Political Networks and Changed Local Governance?
Will women’s increasing electoral participation in rural India improve governance? On what terms are women being incorporated into politics – through existing patriarchal and clientelist relationships, or through collective action against the patriarchal and clientelist system?
- Regional Approach to Financial Statecraft: Japan and India in the Face of Rising China
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5. Contemporary Approaches in Computational Dialectology
Course, Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)
- US Diplomacy
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Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka
Bandura Witharana defended his thesis on 27 September 2018
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Negotiating Power and 'Constructing' the Nation: The Engineering Profession in Sri Lanka
This project explores the community of engineers in Sri Lanka and their role with regard to three domains of inquiry.
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Playing Politics: Media Platforms, Making Worlds
Both play and politics have the potential to create worlds in which new rules apply, meanings are created, and possibilities emerge for collaboration, strategy and creative solutions. In this sense, play and politics have always been very much alike. But what happens to this kinship in a post-digital…
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The conspiracy of subjectivity: myth and materiality in twenty rst century ballet practice
This research project problematizes the applicability of ballet within a contemporary choreographic practice.
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The unexpected norm-setters: Intelligence agencies in cyberspace
Ilina Georgieva published an article in the journal Contemporary Security Policy on the norm-setting role of intelligence agencies.
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Contemporary Issues Facing the International Criminal Court
Panel Discussion
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Back to the Present
A post-colonial approach to the concept of time in the past and present Maya culture
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Bachelor programme structure
Study all aspects of human life in the past and take on a broad, historic perspective in the specialisation World Archaeology. Or investigate the role of cultural heritage in society in the specialisation Heritage and Society.
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Interests of states: insight into global politics
All players on the world stage operate strategically in order to safeguard their interests. Political scientists at Leiden University cast light on this volatile interplay of forces. Their research helps voters, NGOs, governments and international organizations make smart choices in this complex and…
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PhD position in Social Anthropology
Social and Behavioural Sciences, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
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The Skandapurāṇa Project
Uniting an international consortium of scholars, the Skandapurāṇa Project comprises a team of researchers working in fields across the Humanities. We are creating a critical edition of a foundational work of purāṇic literature and, in doing so, tracing the dynamics of a textual tradition to better understand…
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Time and persistence
Contemporary Maya Calendars
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Politics and Aesthetics
Politics and Aesthetics is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.
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Politics of Withdrawal Media, Arts, Theory
'Politics of Withdrawal' considers the significance of practices and theories of withdrawal for radical thinking today.
- Conflict, Peace and Security
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Film and Video Intermediality
The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images
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Healthy food, healthy world
What does it mean to eat healthily and responsibly? This question is gaining a new urgency now that in many countries undernourishment is being overtaken by diseases of affluence, such as obesity, and we are also becoming more aware of the environmental impact of our eating habits. It’s time to take…
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Play and Media
Play and Media is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.
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Nietzsche’s Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy
Nietzsche has often been considered a thinker independent of the philosophy of his time and radically opposed to the concerns and concepts of modern and contemporary philosophy. But there is an increasing awareness of his sophisticated engagements with his contemporaries and of his philosophy's rich…
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Arts, Media and Society (BA)
Visual art today is strongly interlinked with today’s society, a connection which is reinforced and deepened by social and other media. In Arts, Media and Society you will explore this relationship and analyse how it reflects and impacts the issues of our time, while also learning practical and academic…
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Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities
Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).
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Buddhist and Hindu Metal Images of Indonesia: Evidence for shared artistic and religious networks across Asia (c.6th-10th century)
Mathilde Mechling defended her thesis on 28 january 2020.
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Figuring rural development: concepts and cases of land use, sustainability and integrative indicators
Promotores: Prof. dr. G.R. (Geert) de Snoo, Dr. E. (Ester) van der Voet
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V.S. Srinivasa Sastri: A Liberal Life
This book explores the Indian tradition of liberalism through a critical intellectual biography of Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri (1869–1946).
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When Should the Majority Rule?
Honorata Mazepus, Assisstant Professor at Leiden University, researched the topic of Madisonian Judgments in Five Cultures, together with three other authors.
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The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives
The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives explores the dramatic and engaging story of a global institution that brought together activists across geographical and political borders for the goal of eradicating colonial rule worldwide.
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Working on Labor. Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen | Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 9
This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor.
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The Imperial Discipline: Race and the Founding of International Relations
This book questions the accepted origins of the field of International Relations (IR). Commonly understood to have emerged from the horrors of WW1 with the goal of bringing about world peace, the authors argue that on the contrary, IR came from a somewhat less noble tradition – that of the Round Tab…
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Buddhist Astrology and Astral Magic in the Tang Dynasty
Jeffrey Kotyk defended his thesis on 7 September 2017
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Representations of the Overseas World in the De Bry Collection of Voyages, 1590-1634
This book reveals how one publishing firm's editorial strategy helped to legitimate European colonialism in the early modern era.
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Genetic diversity in the lion (Panthera leo (Linnaeus 1758)): unravelling the past and prospects for the future
Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo