488 search results for “sanskrit literary cultural” in the Student website
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An educational tool? Japanese children's books were more than that
It was long thought that the early development of Japanese children's books served mainly as a propaganda tool of the state: the literature was supposed to have been written to shape children into perfect citizens. PhD student Aafke van Ewijk nuances this image. Children's book writers wanted to have…
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UNESCO Recognizes Manuscripts First Voyage Around the Globe and Hikayat Aceh as World Heritage
UNESCO has recognized an international set of fifteen manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat Aceh manuscripts as World Heritage. The manuscripts are inscribed in the global UNESCO Memory of the World Register. This list contains documentary heritage…
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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: ‘Only creativity can save the world’
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer delivered the Huizinga lecture on Friday 8 December in a packed Pieterskerk. The writer seized the opportunity of the 52nd edition to point out the importance of creativity, both for artists and scientists.
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Asia Academy #04: The Korean Wave
Lecture
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Memory Politics and Contentious Heritage in Anṣār Allāh/Ḥūthī Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Arabic Echoes and Persian Refrains: Devotional Poetry and Intersonicality in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century North India
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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POSTPONED - Arabic Echoes and Persian Refrains: Devotional Poetry and Intersonicality in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century North India
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Leiden Translation Talk 5 April: Pseudotranslation and reading under the bombs in Iran
Lecture
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Book Launch: Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam
Lecture
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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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POSTPONED - Gastro-Politics & Gastro-Ethics of Diversity: Negotiating Islam in an Entangled World
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Caribbean Literature - A Reading List
Caribbean literature holds a unique position in the world. Literature produced in the Caribbean region is extremely diverse, not only because of the wide variety of languages spoken, but also due to distinct colonial legacies that exist in the archipelago. Despite cultural specificities, the region…
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ASCL Seminar: Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House
Lecture
- Faculty Roundtable: Societies, Emotions, and Receptions in (Modern) Literatures
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Witches and Snowflakes: Nurturing Feminist Ethnography in Times of Crises
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Ñii Ñu’u - Sacred Skin
Film screening and Q&A
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other projects will receive funding from the JEDI Fund in 2023.
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Gioconda Belli: ‘La poesía es la palabra llevada al máximo de su capacidad expresiva’
Aprovechando la conferencia Spinoza, Nanne Timmer, Universitair Docent LUCAS, le hace unas preguntas a la escritora y Premio Reina Sofía Gioconda Belli sobre su poesía y su lugar en la Nicaragua de hoy.
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Sufis in Afghanistan: Contemporary Navigations of Religious Authority across Political Changes
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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45th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL45)
Conference
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Leiden Humanities Faculty Symposium
Symposium
- Medieval Fragmentology and the Fragmented Old English Glossed N-Psalter
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Renaming Ambiguity: Modernist Dream Encounters in Islamic Indonesia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Career College: Working in Education
Career and apply for jobs
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'Hello World!' lecture, by Frans W. Saris
Lecture
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Workshop: Other Forms of Understanding Language / Andere vormen van taalbegrip / Otras formas de entender el lenguaje
Course, Workshop
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Our Hirāk: The Tishreen Revolution
Lecture, LUCIS Meets
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Neutrino: Documentary & Q&A with the directors
Studium Generale
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Crash Course in Greek Palaeography
Two-day Seminar
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
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Symposium on Ukraine in images, words and sounds
Conference
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2024