1,277 search results for “culture of the middle east” in the Student website
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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Aris Politopoulos
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marike van Aerde
Faculteit Archeologie
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Alumnus Adrian Young gives lecture on cultural heritage to AHK students
On Monday 9 May, IIASL alumnus Adrian Young gave a very satisfying cross-disciplinary session between law and the arts, on the preservation of heritage in space.
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Interested to learn more about Chinese political and legal culture? This is your chance
Education
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Double Lecture on Ecocritical Perspectives in Japanese Art
Lecture
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Sophie van Romburgh
Faculty of Humanities
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Pepita Hesselberth
Faculty of Humanities
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Skate culture embraced by Olympic Games is now visible in the city
The skateboarding world was highly enthusiastic about the participation of skaters in the Olympic Games in 2021, although there was also a lot of opposition. Researcher Sander Hölsgens observes that the discussion has now abated and that the Games have had positive effects for skateboarders and citi…
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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list
While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers live in trenches, and NATO sends tanks to the Donbas front to force a breakthrough. Has war changed dramatically in recent decades as a result…
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A new administrative culture starts with us
A new administrative culture. Renewed vigour. More transparency. Will it become reality with the new government? And how do you go about achieving it? By all of us striving to change together: not just politicians, but also stakeholders, civil servants, media, and civilians. That was the conclusion…
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Opening of the Herta Mohr Building: brand new and also recycled location for Humanities
Light, open and green: a description that fits the new, renovated location of the Faculty of Humanities. The official opening of the Herta Mohr Building took place on 8 October, and it has many remarkable features: for example, recycled ‘mushroom columns’, a pedestrian bridge to the University Library…
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PhD candidate Diego Salama: ‘UN peacekeeping operations have become increasingly important in Israel-Palestine conflict’
From 1967 to 1982, the United Nations undertook several peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. In his thesis from the Institute for History, Diego Salama examines how these operations were connected and their impact on the region.
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Joe Powderly co-edits volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law
The volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law, co-edited by Grotius Centre, Associate Professor Joe Powderly, and Dr Amy Strecker (Associate Professor, UCD), has been published by Brill/Nijhoff.
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expert Gül Aktürk Hauser investigates climate change adaptation of cultural heritage
Recently, Dr Gül Aktürk Hauser took up the position as Assistant Professor at the department of Heritage and Society. Originally an architect, she got caught up in the study of historical vernacular buildings in northeastern Turkey. Now her focus lies on the impact of climate change on cultural heri…
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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New members of the Cultural Anthropology Programme Committee
The new student members of the Programme Committee (OLC) are Pablo Pandocchi, Benjamin Maldonado, Emily Berube-Palsboll and Nico Lesenfants Ramos.
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Gerrit Dusseldorp
Faculteit Archeologie
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Raymond Fagel
Faculty of Humanities
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Femke Lippok
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mark Rutgers
Faculty of Humanities
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Anna Dlabacova receives ERC Starting Grant for research on late medieval prayer books
Assistant Professor Anna Dlabacova has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. She will use this grant of around 1.5 million euros to conduct research on the Dutch vernacular ‘book of hours’.
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
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Leiden University's world-renowned collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
Lecture, Studium Generale
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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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Education
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Evelien Campfens at LeidenGlobal on cultural heritage protection
How can we best protect cultural heritage in times of war? In an interview with LeidenGlobal, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens talks about her current research project on cultural heritage protection in Ukraine for the European Parliament (EP).
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Adjudication of attacks targeting culture: a new approach
A deliberate attack on a tangible element of a culture, such as a temple, is often also an attack on intangible elements: the religion or religious customs. Equally, the intangible can be attacked without the involvement of the tangible, for example the brutal curtailment of rights. How are these reflected…
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Summer filled with conferences in Leiden
It will be a summer filled with conferences at the Faculty of Humanities in Leiden. In the coming months, there will be something for everyone at the university, especially in the field of languages and cultures of Africa and the Middle East.
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
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Modern Arabic titles in catalogue searchable in Arabic script
Modern Arabic titles in the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) can now also be consulted in original Arabic script. Taking away the need to transliterate titles, has made searching for Arabic source materials in the catalogue much easier and more efficient for users.
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Sander Hölsgens in Belgium Newspaper about changing skate culture
Skate legend Tony Hawk came to Antwerp. Belgium newspaper De Morgen published an article on the changing skate culture. Cultural Anthropologist Sander Hölsgens shines his light on this theme and talks about the democratisation of skate boarding, activism, public space and collective memory of skater…
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Clay tablets dating back thousands of years moved: ‘From receipts to the oldest literary works’
How do you move 3,000 fragile clay tablets that date back thousands of years? This was the challenge faced by staff from the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO). After years of preparation, the Liagre Böhl collection has been moved on trolleys to its new home.
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Athina Boleti
Faculteit Archeologie
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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Vincent Chang
Faculty of Humanities
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First-year Cultural Anthropology students: fill out the survey!
Are you currently a first-year Cultural Anthropology student? We need your help! The Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology is evaluating the way we communicate with prospective students. What are we doing right, what can be done better, which information did you miss before the…
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Nicolette Mout
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Witty
Faculty of Humanities
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Andries Hiskes
Faculty of Humanities
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Daphne Wong-A-Foe
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Nina Jaspers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Katrien Klep
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Geert Warnar
Faculty of Humanities
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Merel Spithoven
Faculteit Archeologie