831 search results for “discovered of the year” in the Student website
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On the Origins of 'The Origins of Inequality'
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Presentation of the new United Nations Library platform (Online)
Virtual presentation
- Unification of the Mediterranean World Research Seminars 2023-2024
- Unification of the Mediterranean World Research Seminars 2022-2023
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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
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The role of the UN in the conflict in Ukraine
Lecture, Seminar
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Preserving Syrian excavation data: ‘the documentation here in Leiden is the only thing that’s left’
The Faculty of Archaeology used to be involved in several excavations in Syria, before the outbreak of civil war made travel to the region impossible. One of these excavations is the one of tell Hammam al-Turkman, which started in 1981. Student Ruben Hartman, together with archaeologist Dr Diederik…
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Humanities researchers publish a new journal issue inspired by times of crisis
The ninth issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference has been published. This time the theme is ‘Reinventing Boundaries in Times of Crisis.’
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Revolutionary Parents: Intimate Cultural Memories of the Arab Left
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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archaeology can inform critiques of the inevitability of hierarchy, dispossession, and disconnection of the human from the nonhuman
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Mamadou Hébié represents Latvia and the African Union in landmark use of force and climate change cases
Dr Mamadou Hébié, Associate Professor of International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, served last week as legal counsel in the world’s first advisory proceedings concerning climate change before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), on the one hand, and…
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Painting Winter Landscapes with techniques of the Old Masters
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Birds of God - The journey of the birds of paradise
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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NWO grant for research on Aramaic inscriptions: 'Palmyra is more than blown-up tombs'
Two thousand years ago, the Middle East found itself caught between the rise of the Roman Empire in the west and the Parthian Empire in the east. PhD candidate Nolke Tasma has been awarded an NWO grant to investigate how local inhabitants experienced these changes.
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‘Podcast gives its listeners a sense of identity and belonging’
In the Netherlands, when we talk about the United Nations, the conversation is almost always about the member states from the northern hemisphere. But the most interesting players come from the ‘Global South’, Professor Alanna O'Malley and her team argue in a podcast.
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Image - Infrastructure. A visual ethnography of the Port of Suape (Brazil)
Lecture
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2024 Congress of the Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores
Congress
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The 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Working together to fulfil the promise of peace
Conference
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EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa): One database to rule them all?
Lecture
- The global cosmopolis. Past, present and future of the city of Alexandria
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Remembering Olivier Nieuwenhuyse with a festschrift: ‘He would have loved this book’
On November 16 a festschrift in honor of Dr Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was presented in a moving event at the Faculty of Archaeology. Professor Bleda Düring, a personal friend of Nieuwenhuyse, was one of the initiators. ‘If he had been here, he would have loved this book.’
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Mark Driessen's Jordan fieldwork features in Photo Exhibition
The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden features a small photo exhibition on Mark Driessen's fieldwork research project in Southern Jordan. In this small exhibition you will see a selection of nine photos, made in Udhruh. This ancient Jordanian settlement lies fifteen kilometres east of Petra,…
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#HumanRightsWeek: The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe – Experiences of a Former Ambassador
Lecture
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Lecture by geneticist David Reich about the spread of the Indo-European languages
Lecture
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Revolutionary Historiography: How Leftist Debated the Historical Sociology of the Ottoman Empire in Cold War Turkey
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Late Ottoman Istanbul Meets Cinema: Social Impacts of the First Encounter
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Social Europe in the context of the green and digital transition
Lecture, Seminar
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EUniwell Open Lecture Series | Africa the Conservation Continent of the 21st Century?
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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Book Launch - The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
Lecture
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Church and Politics, Humanity and Resistance: The Case of the Bethel Church Asylum in The Hague
Lecture
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Netherlands in a Global Context: Transnational Intellectual Currents of the 19th Century
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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international boycotts work for justice? Understanding the ethics and efficacy of the BDS movement
Panel discussion
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Sic transit gloria mundi: a journey to the end of the Roman empire
Lecture, Ancient History study trip Trier 2022 information session
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Daniel Pauly: The Human Appropriation of the Earth and the Oceans
Lecture
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Open-air cinema in front of the Kamerlingh Onnes Building
Film
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POPcorner presents… COOP & Code of Conduct for students of the Faculty of Humanities
Lecture
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European Music Meets Japanese Culture: a Lecture on the Essence of the Funeral Culture in Japan
Lecture
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Internment in India: Omissions and Exceptions, Incarceration camps of the Pacific War
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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Visit the Embassy of The Republic of Yemen in The Hague
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Individual Attitudes and Perceptions of the Legitimacy of Occupational Pension Plans in Six European Countries
Lecture
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Online mini-symposium 'The effect of the online world on adolescents''
Mini-symposium
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Cross-border International Crimes: the Reach of the ICC's Jurisdiction
Conference
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Investigating ancient irrigation tunnels with a remote controlled car
In ancient times, the desert in the Udhruh region in Jordan was transformed into a green oasis. An intricate network of underground water channels was part of an ancient system of water management, storing water and preventing loss through evaporation. Archaeologist Mark Driessen found a new way to…
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The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The ambiguity of the post-verbal modal morpheme DE in Sichuanese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Research by Leiden archaeologists in The Jordan Times
Recent fieldwork at the vast desert region in north-eastern Jordan has revealed an immensely rich heritage of an area that is difficult to access and archaeologically less known. Professor Peter Akkermans was interviewed about his groundbreaking research in this area, known as the Black Desert.
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Sources and Strategies in Translating the Canonical Readings of the Qur’an: A case study of Sūrat al-ʾAnʿām
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Declassified: How outsiders challenge intelligence agencies on analysis of the Russo-Ukrainian war
Debate
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Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World
Lecture, Studium Generale