Anouk de Koning, associate professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology draws on ethnographic research on welfare in Amsterdam to illustrate how the welfare state influences notions of citizenship. | read more
SGP: seks, godsdienst en politiek, dat zijn de drie onderwerpen waarmee literatuur in de negentiende eeuw ophef kan veroorzaken. Boeken die de openbare mening schofferen en volgens veel critici verboden zouden moeten worden, staan centraal in de lezing. | read more
On the occasion of his 75th birthday Wilt Idema looks back at over fifty years in Chinese Studies. He will discuss the development of his own involvement with the study and translation of China’s vernacular literature of the late-imperial period. | read more
Dr. Catherina Wilson Janssens gives a lecture on urban refugees in Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa, who are active as musician entrepreneurs, in the search for a dignified life in contemporary East and Central Africa. | read more
Prof. Jan Paul Crielaard (hoogleraar meditterane pre- en protohistorische archeologie, VU) vertelt over de crisis in het Middellandse Zeegebied tussen de 13e en 6e eeuw v. Chr. en hoe Cyprus deze opvallend goed wist te doorstaan. | read more
Van Egypte tot Perzië, van de vroeg-islamitische cultuur in het Midden-Oosten tot aan de huidige culturen van Noord-Afrika. Al duizenden jaren gebruikt de mens kohl voor cosmetische doeleinden. Jolanda Bos presenteert haar boek 'Paint it, Black'. | read more
This conference consists of a seminar and exhibition and is co-organised by the Oral Traditions Association and Leiden University. Themes such as architectural anthropology and intangible heritage will be addressed. | read more
The Trans-species perspectives on African Studies research group extends whatever we think and theorize about humans to animals. Dr. Harry Wels discusses three books that present scientific evidence for animal cognition and more. | read more
Chiara Formichi asks the question of how (literate, engaged, middle/upper-class) Indonesians understood and deployed the concepts of modernity and progress in the 1920s-1950s period. | read more
Leila Demarest explores the potential of local newspaper data in research on conflict events in Africa for this Political Science Research Seminar. | read more
Douglas Berger explores how animals are invoked by Chinese philosophers in different periods to model lessons about morality and Hilde De Weerdt traces the circulation of Tang Dynasty mirror literature in early modern Europe and its effects. | read more
Ronit Ricci explores histories and imaginings of displacement related to the island through a study of the Sri Lankan Malays and their connections to an exilic past. | read more
German archaeologist Thomas Terberger presents the results of his ten year interdisciplinary research on the battlefield of the Tollense valley in Northeastern Germany | read more
Amin Ehteshami (Exeter University) looks into the dynamic relation between Fayḍ’s exegetic approach in al-Ṣāfī and his efforts in creating an authoritative hadith compendium in al-Wāfī. | read more
In this LUCIS' What's New Fall Lecture, Post-Doctoral researcher Monika Lindbekk examines how Egyptian law articulates notions of family, marriage and gender in cases of judicial divorce during the period 2008-2015. | read more
This international symposium on Javanese literary history is organised for Willem van der Molen on the occasion of his retirement as a researcher at KITLV, with the purpose to reflect on the best form of a modern history of Javanese literature. | read more
Sean Jacobs, Associate Prof international affairs, reviews the current state of African politics, dominated by political parties promoting nationalism and nativism. What kinds of political alternatives are available? What is the role of scholars? | read more
UNESCO professor Robin Coningham uses case-studies from South Asia to present a series of archaeological interventions led by UNESCO which have attempted to reach a balance between heritage and development, within post-disaster contexts. | read more
Dr Jewellord Nem Singh examines state capacity and the failure to achieve social development in the Philippines. The country is rich in natural resources, yet welfare and social development haven't strengthened. | read more
Dr. Péter-Dániel Szántó (Leiden University) examines evidence for encounters and interaction between different people in the Himalayas in this Friends of the Kern Institute lecture. | read more
Péter-Dániel Szántó will examine some items of direct documentary evidence for encounters between Indians/Newars/Transylvanians and Tibetans. | read more
Vincent Chang (LeidenAsiaCentre fellow) presents his book on Dutch-Chinese relations between 1927 and 1950 and will be accompanied by former Dutch ambassador in China, Ed Kronenburg. | read more
Het Taalmuseum viert de Nederlandse taal met een avond vol theater, muziek en verhalen. Wat vinden schrijvers, dichters en taalwetenschappers het meest bijzondere aan onze taal? | read more
Universiteit Leiden tracht een bijdrage te leveren aan Leiden door het gesprek aan te gaan met diegene die in de praktijk met armoede te maken hebben. | read more
Dit is de internationale conferentie over de geschiedenis van de assyriologie in Leiden. Vijf sprekers blikken terug op de oraties van de vijf Leidse hoogleraren en reflecteren op de ontwikkeling van het vakgebied sindsdien. | read more
This workshop explores the question of how popular songs often have provided room for otherwise suppressed sentiments, colonial trauma, or have facilitated hopes for the better. How do today’s archival practices help (re)popularize once suppressed sounds? | read more
The Chinese government is investing unprecedented resources to reduce and clean up pollution but negative social impacts of a stronger environmental policy should be addressed. Dr Jennifer Holdaway explains how pollution also requires coordination. | read more
Tijdens deze alumni-activiteit van het Leids Historisch Dispuut Merlijin, behandelt Dr. Alexander de Groot het Ottomaanse Keizerrijk en de expansie van het vroegmoderne imperium in Europa en Azië. | read more
IIAS fellow Rocco Cestola (University of Roma) combines the field of Yoga studies with Sanskrit philosophy of language and discusses the literature of Yogadarśana. | read more
Anthony Griffiths (British Museum) introduces the business and products of the sixteenth century European printing industry, which ranged from the everyday to some of the greatest achievements of European art. | read more
Classicus, vertaler en publicist Hein van Dolen houdt een lezing over geloof en politiek op Cyprus tijdens de drie byzantijnse perioden (ca. 330-1192 na Chr.) | read more
Popular author and Netflix presenter Dan Jones presents his new book 'Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Land', in which he tells the balanced story of the first crusade from multiple perspectives. | read more
How can programme chairs and administrators make the curriculum more inclusive? And how do we engage with questions about race and racism? The 'From diversity to inclusion' symposium explores such questions with international Diversity Officers. | read more
This conference seeks to bring together different insights in comparative perspective, to shed light on the many paradoxes, differences and continuities of (post)colonial rule across South- and Southeast Asia. | read more
The international symposium Inward Outward investigates the status of moving image and sound archives worldwide as they intertwine with coloniality, identity and race. The symposium also emphasises the position of Dutch identity in various manifestations. | read more
This workshop centres around past and present state law and state institutions, as well as the wide range of religious and traditional legal political institutions that can be found across Africa. | read more
The NINO Annual Meeting, organised by dr. Ilan Peled (University of Amsterdam) consists of three sessions on Mesopotamia and the Cuneiform World, on Eyptology, Archaeology and Epigraphy and on project presentations. | read more
This conference brings together some of today’s most influential thinkers on African affairs to reflect on the current social, political, religious, economic, and environmental dynamics that characterize the continent. | read more
The most popular work of fiction in Arabic is, or was, the Maqamat of al-Hariri. Michael Cooperson, professor of Arabic at the University of California elaborates on the most recent translation of the 'untranslatable' work in English. | read more
Prof. dr. Joanita Vroom (Faculteit Archeologie, Universiteit Leiden) houdt een lezing over de bijzondere afbeeldingen op Cypriotisch sgrafitto-aardewerk uit de 13de-16de eeuw. | read more
This proposed workshop aims to unpack the layers of the Nile governance on national and transnational levels through emphasizing on water and land acquisition in the Nile bordering countries. | read more