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Leiden Slavist in Ukraine: ‘My love for Russia has faded’
To read Chekhov in the ‘original’. That was what motivated Arie van der Ent to study Slavic languages and literature with Karel van het Reve at Leiden University. ‘My love for Chekhov hasn’t faded,’ says Van der Ent from his home 60 kilometres south of Kyiv. ‘But it has for the rest of Russia.’
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Sara Brandellero: 'the news coming from Brazil is chilling'
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro called the COVID-19 disease “a minor illness”. With more than 200.000 confirmed corona cases today (May 18) however, Brazil is quickly becoming one of the world’s emerging coronavirus hot spots. How long can Bolsonaro continue to downplay the corona crisis? We asked…
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How does palliative care develop within various cultural settings?
How do local, non-institutional ideas about end-of-life care influence professional palliative care and vice versa? These questions will be answered by medical anthropologists Annemarie Samuels and Natashe Lemos Dekker in the coming years.
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‘Creating propaganda has been democratised’
University lecturer Peter Burger has been researching the reliability of stories for almost 30 years. Whether political news item or urban myth, he debunks falsehoods and half-truths on an almost daily basis. He recently received a prize for his complete oeuvre.
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Doctor of tropical medicine on Terschelling
Operating on tsunami victims, coordinating emergency aid during a civil war and the croaking of frogs in the surgery: Menno Swier worked as a doctor of tropical medicine in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. He is now a GP on Terschelling and here too there is never a dull moment.
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Fifty years of diplomatic relations with China: an ‘open and pragmatic’ partnership
This year, the Netherlands and China reflect on fifty years of diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level. How has the relationship between the countries developed over the past half century? An interview with university lecturer Vincent Chang.
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While doing research on victimhood, Criminology student Sara suffered a serious injury and became a victim herself
In the middle of doing research for her master’s thesis, Sara Kalf (24) was hit by a car and got seriously injured. After a long period of rehabilitation and hard work, this week she can finally add her signature to the wall of the Academy Building’s ‘Sweat Room’.
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Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
A team of Leiden astronomers used the latest set of data from ESA’s Gaia mission to look for high-velocity stars being kicked out of the Milky Way, but were surprised to find stars instead sprinting inwards – perhaps from another galaxy.
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Leiden Islam Academy: sharing knowledge and making contact
The aim of Leiden Islam Academy is to share the broad knowledge of Islam existing in Leiden University with various parties within society, and to bring people together. After three years of preparation, the launch meeting will take place on 7 December.
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How to address sensitive subjects in class?
The war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza or the global rise of the far-right: topics that stir up emotions but are also regularly discussed in classes at Political Science. Moreover, with a diverse group of students, there is a great diversity of life experiences, backgrounds and opinions.…
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Minister Ollongren impresses with personal speech: 'Our strongest weapons are people'
After 2.5 years as defence minister, it is time for Kajsa Ollongen to hand over the baton. In front of a packed audience, she gave her farewell speech at Leiden University in The Hague on Tuesday, which included personal lessons and memories, from sleeping on the ground with the prime minister to the…
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With kind regards: October 2022
Lecture
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
- I wouldn't start from here making the case for Outcome Trajectory Evaluation
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ASCL Seminar: Subaltern Metropolitan Adventure and Colonial Mediation in Nigeria
Lecture
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LTA lunchlezing Tsolin Nalbantian
Lecture
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Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
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Proud to be First!
Lecture
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On the Origins of 'The Origins of Inequality'
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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LAMS Lecture Perennialist Traditionalism and Modern Philosophy
Lecture
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Remnants of the Semitic case system in Old Aramaic
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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Can we overcome Orientalism with Multiculturalism? A Methodological Reflection on Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Lecture
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Asia Academy #09: India's Democracy
Lecture
- BA Spring Semester Arabic & Islamic Studies for students of Dutch and Flemish Universities
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Book Launch | Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
Book Launch
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Documentary series #1: Memories of Communism in Lebanon - Two Videos by Marwan Hamdan
Documentary screening
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Revolutionary Parents: Intimate Cultural Memories of the Arab Left
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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POSTPONED - Roundtable - Russia’s War on Ukraine: Perspectives from and Impacts on Non-European Actors
Debate
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Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Jewish Magic from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Lecture
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LUCAS PhD Alumni Network Event 2022
Alumni event, Job market Preparation for PhD's
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Publish or Perish: Religious Zaydi publishers in Yemen during the 1990s
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
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Chair of UN Studies in Peace and Justice
From 1 August 2018, Alanna O'Malley was appointed as Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice, focusing on the ‘lesser-known actors’ of the UN: women, the youth, the agents of informal diplomatic networks within the UN and actors from the Global South. This Special Chair has been created…
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Translating Jurjani: Why read an eleventh-century text about Arabic poetics?
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Political Symbolism and Conspiracies in Turkish State-Sponsored Historical TV Series: A Case Study of Payitaht Abdulhamid
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The Need for Teaching a More Accurate and Inclusive History of Science: The Case of Islamic Contributions to Math and Sciences
Debate
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The United States and the War in Gaza: History, Politics, and Culture
Debate, Panel and Q&A session
- The Anthropocene is a prospective epoch/series, not a geological event
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Rice Eaters in the Land of Cheese
PhD defence
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Neo Pan-Arabism and the Quest for Legitimacy of the Maghrebi Leadership
Lecture, research seminar
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Global Privateering
Conference, Project launch