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Student Maureen Kuijs about receiving the 2020 Global Korea Scholarship 29 June 2020
Maureen Kuijs, third-year BA Korean Studies student, is one of the students that received the 2020 Global Korea Scholarship this year. With this schol...
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A broader perspective on the war 07 May 2020
Leiden researcher Ethan Mark has a mission, he explains in the alumni magazine Leidraad. He wants us to take off our Eurocentric glasses when we study...
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In memoriam: Prof. Dr. Barbara Henriëtte Flemming (28 mei 1930 - 22 maart 2020) 29 April 2020
On 22 March 2020 passed away due to heart failure emerita professor Turkish Language and Culture Barbara Flemming: a great loss for her partner Dr. S...
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‘I miss the books and papers from my office’ 20 April 2020
Our lecturers had just a week to convert their lessons into online formats. It was an enormous challenge because by no means everyone at Leiden Univer...
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Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape published 15 April 2020
In Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape: Narrative, Place, and the Śaiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India, Elizabeth A. Cecil explores the sacred geo...
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Skandapurāṇa Volume III now available in Open Access 15 April 2020
Skandapurāṇa III presents a critical edition of the Vindhyavāsinī Cycle (Adhyāyas 34.1-61, 53-69) from the Skandapurāṇa , with an introduction and ann...
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Summer School in Languages and Linguistics is now open. 09 March 2020
The Leiden Summerschool in Languages and Linguistics, including courses in Papyrology, is now open. BA/MA/PhD students are welcome to attend.
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Asghar Seyed Gohrab: ‘Teaching keeps me young and sharp’ 09 March 2020
Associate Professor Asghar Seyed Gohrab considers it his role to tell students about Iran, the country where he was born and raised. His research focu...
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Walking in a city of the dead 09 March 2020
They call their team ‘The Walking Dead’: Leiden Egyptologists Lara Weiss, Huw Twiston Davies and Nico Staring. A fitting name for a group that conduct...
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Journalistiek in Irak tweegesprek met Judit Neurink en Sakir Khader 05 March 2020
LUCIS organiseerde op woensdag 4 maart een speciale avond over journalistiek in Irak. Journaliste Judit Neurink en programmamaker Sakir Khader verteld...
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Christopher Green: ‘You cannot generalize North Koreans' self-understanding’ 24 February 2020
The notion of North Koreans as brainwashed and unable to think critically about their heritage and what it means to be North Korean is pervasive. More...
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‘Fantasies about coronavirus are more contagious than the disease itself’ 05 February 2020
Fake news about ‘patient zero’ and hyperbolic headlines warning about the ‘yellow peril.’ Leiden researchers have spotted fake news galore about coron...
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In Memoriam: Erik Herber (1969-2020) 03 February 2020
The Japanese Studies community at Leiden University is deeply saddened by the sudden loss of our colleague, Erik Herber. He was not only an esteemed s...
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Collaborative International Research Grant for dr. Corey Williams 20 January 2020
Dr. Corey Williams (Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Global Christianity) has received a Collaborative International Research Grant from the Am...
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Conference Call for Papers: Historicizing the Shiʿi hadith Corpus 14 January 2020
From 24-26 June 2020, the Leiden University Centre for Islam and Society (LUCIS) and Shiʿi Studies Unit of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (I...