Events

• 31 Mar
  Film screening + Q&A Exile and a digital elsewhere
• 03 Apr
  Lecture | LUCIS What's New?! Series The Historical Topography of Medina: Faith, Power, and Memory in Early Islamic Arabia Aila Santi
• 08 Apr
  Middle East Studies Lecture Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire Petra Sijpesteijn
• 08 Apr
  Lecture Emotional Regimes in Israel/ Palestine Orit Rozin (Tel Aviv University)
• 09 Apr
  Lecture | China Seminar Following Fate or Falling in Love: The second marriage of the Kitchen God’s wife in the rewriting of Chinese Folk Literature in the 1950s and its enduring legacy Wilt Idema
• 10 Apr
  PhD defence The Unseen Saints of Islam: Sufi Ritual and Religious Worldmaking in Java W. Widodo
• 10 Apr
  Lecture | LUCIS What's New?! Series "Attention Users, Please Refrain from Modifying Your Ataris": Corporate Region-Locking Practices and Creative Computing Responses in Türkiye Ivo Furman
• 14 Apr
  Lecture | Annual Lecture Austrian Studies Leiden Austria’s Present Past: A visual journey through Austrian history 1925 – 2025 Hans Petschar (Austrian National Library)
• 17 Apr
  Lecture | Lunch Research Seminar The private and public sides of Weibo: combining economic and political economy perspectives Mengdi Zhu
• 17 Apr
  Lecture | LAC Asia Academy Asia Academy #18: ChatGPT vs Deepseek: China's Rise as AI Power
• 17 Apr
  Lecture | LUCIS What's New?! Series Making Concentric Circles: The Performative Aspects of Sufi Devotional Practises and Modes of Constructing a Reality Wahyu Widodo
• 24 Apr
  Lecture | LUCIS What's New?! Series Lebanon as Laboratory: Experimentation, Extraction, and Survival in Beirut Harry Pettit
• 25 Apr
  Lecture | Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress The Price of Freedom. Manumission in Eighteenth-Century Galle, Sri Lanka Pouwel van Schooten
• 28 Apr
  Lecture | Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series If You Encounter Strife, Return to Yemen Nathalie Peutz (NYU Abu Dhabi)
• 28 Apr
  Lecture | Symposium There and Back Again: Spirit Travels in Western Religious Traditions (13th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity) Bastiaan van Rijn, Sarah Perez