4,038 search results for “history of the middle echt” in the Public website
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Mehdy Shaddel Basir
Faculty of Humanities
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Foreign capital and colonial development in Indonesia
The proposed research program studies the impact of private foreign investment on development in Indonesia during the years c. 1910-1960.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Middle Eastern Studies at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Paul van Trigt
Faculty of Humanities
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Bart van der Boom
Faculty of Humanities
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Kiri Paramore
Faculty of Humanities
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Andrew Shield
Faculty of Humanities
- Teaching Art History and Cultural and Art Education (MA)
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Chinese ceramics and the Dutch East India Company (VOC), first half of the 17th century
On the 30th of September Christine Ketel successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Beyond the trenches
A landscape-oriented chronostratigraphic approach to MIS 5 Middle Paleolithic open-air sites on the European Plain : case studies from Lichtenberg and Khotylevo I
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What soy sauce can teach us about the history of South Korea
‘Three books published within a year – that happens only once in a lifetime!’ This was the reaction of Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University, on the publication of Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War, one of her three new books. The book sketches the colonisation of…
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Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny's Natural History and Mela's De situ orbis (140-1700)
'The World Upside Down. The Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny's Natural History and Mela's De situ orbis (140-1700)', in: Enenkel, K.A.E. & Nellen, H. (Eds.), Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1400-1700).Humanistica…
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Yearbook for Dutch Book History - Call for Papers
The Yearbook for Dutch Book History publishes Dutch and English articles on the book history of the Low Countries, in all time periods (including the Middle Ages). For the 30th Yearbook, to be published in 2023, they welcome in particular contributions for the theme ‘Technology and Transformation’.…
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Thunderstorm: A small cultural history (1752-1830) (in Dutch)
More on the Dutch webpage.
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Ebifananyi. On photographs and telling histories from and about Uganda
In Luganda, the widest spoken minority language in East African country Uganda, the word for photographs is Ebifananyi. However, ebifananyi does not, contrary to the etymology of the word photographs, relate to light writings. Ebifananyi instead means things that look like something else. Ebifananyi…
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Old Age in Early Medieval England, A Cultural History
How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested?
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Crystal Ennis
Faculty of Humanities
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CfP Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-2000
On 8 and 9 May 2018 the Workshop 'Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-2000' takes place at Leiden University.
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Development of visual span in Hebrew and Dutch-speaking prereaders
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Oran Kennedy
Faculty of Humanities
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Digital exhibition 'The surprising Middle Ages' launched
On the occasion of Bart Besamusca's retirement as professor of Middle Dutch text culture in international perspective at Utrecht University on 25 January 2023, the digital exhibition 'The surprising Middle Ages' was created by medievalists from the Utrecht University Centre for Medieval Studies Over…
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Hellenistic economic thought
This subproject of 'From Homo Economicus to Political Animal' analyzes Greek economic thinking of the Hellenistic period.
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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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The historical development of the Dutch posture-verb progressive construction
On the 22nd of February, Ami Okabe successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Ami on this achievement!
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Chat with a student
Do you have a question about studying at Leiden University or student life in Leiden? Do you want more information about the Middle Eastern Studies master's programme? Chat with a current student for answers to your questions!
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Understanding Ghanaian sign language(s): history, linguistics, and ideology
On the 27th of June, Timothy Mac Hadjah successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Timothy on this achievement!
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Gerhard-Jan Nauta
Faculty of Humanities
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Eric Storm
Faculty of Humanities
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Remco Breuker
Faculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline Hylkema
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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Michiel van Groesen
Faculty of Humanities
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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The Palaeoproteomic Identification of Pleistocene Hominin Skeletal Remains:
Towards a Biological Understanding of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition
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Extra-curricular
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Autonomy and Objectivity
The aim of this project is to foster a historiography that does justice both to the realization that scientific knowledge is constructed by local, contingent, and contextual processes, and the claims of science to objective validity.
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Joseph Priestley, Grammarian: Late Modern English normativism and usage in a sociohistorical context
This dissertation the role of the English dissenting minister Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) as a grammarian is studied.
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Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon their Own
This book argues that Armenians around the world – in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I – developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial…
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Call for papers: Second Conference on Middle Period Chinese Humanities
Following the success of The Middle Period Chinese Studies Conference held in 2014 at Harvard University, we welcome paper proposals for the second conference of this kind to be held at Leiden University, September 14-17, 2017.
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Alexander Geurds
Faculteit Archeologie
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Maria van der Schaar
Faculty of Humanities
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Carel Smith
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Dirk Alkemade
Faculty of Humanities
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Kristof Gombeer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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A Typology of Verbal Derivation in Ethiopian Afro-Asiatic Languages
The general objective of this thesis is to determine a typology of verbal derivation in Ethiopian Afro-asiatic languages.
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Hunters of the Golden Age
The Mid Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia 30,000 - 20,000 BP
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WIC-opvarenden (Seafarers of the Dutch West India Company)
Due to the almost complete disappearance of the archive of the Old Dutch West India Company (WIC, 1621-1674) not much is known about the ships and crews of this company. In this project we start the reconstruction of this basic information making use of new digital humanities techniques to extract this…
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The Long Arab Conquest of Central Asia: Urban Change in Merv, Paikent, Balkh and Samarkand (651-821)
This PhD research aims to trace the impact of the Arab conquest, both immediate and long-term, on the material and social organization of Central Asia from 651 to 821 through an “urban change” perspective in four cities: Merv, Paikent, Balkh and Samarkand.