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University strengthens ties with Indonesia 02 July 2019The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visi...
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From (no) sex in Japan to environmental policy: ICAS 11 is coming to town 26 June 2019The walls of Paul van der Velde’s study at the International Institute for Asian Studies are full of neat rows of post-it notes. As organiser in chief...
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Divine Encounters in Asia – a photo exhibition 19 June 2019Photographs of sacred rituals and ceremonies in Asia by Bangkok-based photographer and author Hans Kemp can be seen in the front hall of the Leiden To...
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Sanjar Gulomov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in December 2018 28 November 2018Sanjar Golomov is a senior scholar at the Al-Biruni Institute in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In Leiden he will deliver two lectures and one masterclass for ...
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Mavlyuda Yusupova will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in November 2018 29 October 2018Mavlyuda Yusupova will be Central Asia Visiting Professor in November 2018. She will deliver two guest lectures for Leiden MA and PhD students.
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Archaeologist teaches Honours Course in The Hague: “The past is still alive.” 01 October 2018This semester archaeologist Dr Marike van Aerde teaches an Honours Course at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs in The Hague. “In the cours...
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15 September: Deadline AMT2 Research Funding (final round) 30 August 2018The deadline for the final round of AMT2 Research Funding is 15 September 2018, 17 hrs CET. Application is open to all academic staff of Leiden Univer...
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Leiden in 2019 meeting place for researchers and others interested in Asia 05 July 2018Next year in July Leiden University will receive around 1,500 Asia experts from around the world, for the 11th International Convention of Asia Schol...
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Paolo Sartori will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in April 2018 12 April 2018Paolo Sartori is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. In Leiden he will deliver one guest ...
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Remco Breuker on North Korea: ‘We have actually run out of time’ 19 January 2018Since 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 2018Svetlana 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 2018The 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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This was the Leiden Asia Year 18 December 20172017 was the Leiden Asia Year. Leiden has had connections with Asia and built up extensive knowledge of the continent over many centuries. This Leiden...
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Human Rights in Asia: Overcoming the current crisis in Myanmar 12 December 2017On Monday 11 December, human rights activist Ms. Wai Wai Nu delivered the seventh Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture on Human Rights a...
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‘Japan and Leiden aren’t so far apart after all’ 04 December 2017A delegation from Leiden University visited Japan from 18 to 26 November to facilitate cooperation in research and teaching. The delegation also atten...