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Should we close our borders? Not according to the Classical World! 09 March 2016
Leiden University archaeologists receive multiple awards for research on interaction between the Greek and Roman world and ‘The East’
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Team meeting at Kyoto University 03 March 2016
At least twice a year the Skandapurāṇa team meets to discuss drafts of the forthcoming volume of the critical edition. in March 2016 a five-day meetin...
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Fieldwork in North Korea 19 February 2016
It is difficult to get access to North Korea. That makes scientific fieldwork very difficult. Korea expert Valérie Gelézeau shared her experiences dur...
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Global Interactions welcomes five new postdocs in 2016 16 February 2016
In November of last year Global Interactions made offers to five out of nearly 90 applicants for our grant-writing postdocs. We are pleased to announc...
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Doing Gender in The Netherlands: TRANS* approaches, methods & concepts 16 February 2016
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) hosts the annual National Research Day, held this year at the Leiden University Centre for the...
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How China Studies started in the Dutch East Indies 16 February 2016
Leiden has the most highly regarded China Studies programme in Europe. But how did this knowledge find its way specifically to Leiden? For his PhD res...
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Gabrielle van den Berg receives prestigious VICI grant 15 February 2016
Dr. Gabrielle van den Berg received a prestigious VICI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for her project "Turks, t...
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Vici grants for 7 Leiden researchers 12 February 2016
Seven Leiden researchers have been awarded a prestigious Vici grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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Call for papers: New law, new villages: Changing rural Indonesia 03 February 2016
The 2014 Village Law will likely cause a considerable change in the character of village governance and leadership in the coming years.
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Call for papers: Digital Disruption in Asia: Methods and Issues 03 February 2016
How do digital technologies affect both Asian societies and the methods we use to study them? Conference in Leiden on 23-25 May 2016. Deadline abstra...
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Second Skandapurāṇa Project fieldwork trip 31 January 2016
The Skandapurāṇa Project considers fieldwork to be essential to the study of purāṇic religious topography and the understanding of the socio-political...
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Leiden strengthens expertise on Asia 25 January 2016
The LeidenAsiaCentre will open its doors on Wednesday 27 January. This is the place for applied knowledge on Asia in the Netherlands.
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Ann Stoler - GLASS Scholar (Spring 2016) 25 January 2016
Professor Ann Laura Stoler from The New School for Social Research in New York will be the Spring 2016 Global Asia Scholar. She will visit Leiden Univ...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Petra Sijpesteijn 18 January 2016
Arabist and papyrologist Petra Sijpesteijn has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for her research on the early Islamic ...
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ERC Grants for five Leiden researchers 06 January 2016
The European Research Council has awarded five Leiden researchers an ERC Consolidator Grant. These subsidies of up to a maximum of two million euros w...