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Dutch ships built by North Koreans in Polish shipyards 06 February 2018
North Korean labourers are still being forced to work in the European Union. According to researchers, including Professor of Korean Studies Remco Bre...
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New book: Markus Davidsen publishes book on supernatural fiction used as religious texts 19 January 2018
How do religious narratives persuade their readers to believe their message? And how can it be that some readers even come to treat fantasy and scienc...
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Obituary Meerten ter Borg (1946-2017) 19 January 2018
On the 26th of December 2017, Emeritus Professor Meerten ter Borg passed away. He was 71 years old. Ter Borg passed away at home in the presence of ...
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Remco Breuker on North Korea: ‘We have actually run out of time’ 19 January 2018
Since it was announced that North Korean President Kim Jong-un is ready to launch an intercontinental nuclear missile, fear of a nuclear war is growin...
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Svetlana Gorshenina will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in February 2018 12 January 2018
Svetlana Gorshenina, Associate Lecturer at Collège de France, Paris, will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar from 17 February until 25 February 2018...
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1 March: Deadline AMT2 Research Funding (final round) 11 January 2018
The deadline for the final round of AMT2 Research Funding is 1 March 2018, 17 hrs CET. Application is open to all academic staff of Leiden University.
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Call for papers 'Nationalism and International Order' (21-23 November 2018) 02 January 2018
Nationalism is commonly regarded as posing a challenge to international stability and regional and global order more generally. Arguably, nationalism ...
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Leiden University to welcome Al-Babtain visiting professors in Arabic culture in 2018-2019 13 December 2017
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) and the Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation will join hands in promo...
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Call for Papers: 'Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-2000' 30 November 2017
On 8 and 9 May 2018 the Workshop 'Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-20...
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‘The study of cuneiform texts is still an open field’ 28 November 2017
The oldest forms of literature and law originate from Mesopotamia (3000 BC until AD 70), as do important discoveries in science and technology. All th...
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Lisette Atsma: how a Korean and Asian Studies alumna became an ICT specialist 20 November 2017
She studied Korean and Asian Studies and, four years after graduating, is now working as a specialist for an ICT secondment company. This is the story...
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Charles Melville will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in November 2017 13 November 2017
Charles Melville, Professor of Persian History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College, will be the Central Asia Visiting Profes...
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Call for papers: Modalities of Displacement in South Asia 07 November 2017
‘Displacement’ has emerged as a keyword in studies of South Asia, across research in historical, anthropological, geographical, and cultural studies. ...
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Online course for diplomats bridges perceptions between Islamic and Western worlds 06 November 2017
Professor Maurits Berger is presenting an online course, starting on 6 November, on the images that Islam and the West hold of one another. The course...
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15 December: Deadline AMT2 Research Funding (final round) 02 November 2017
The deadline for the final round of AMT2 Research Funding is 15 December 2017, 17 hrs CET. Application is open to all academic staff of Leiden Univers...