With this (online) workshop the Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC) will open museums up to amongst others contribute more critically to how we understand the brutal legacies of colonialism. | read more
The Online Peer-Coaching sessions for PhD students are organised within the framework of Africa 2020. Moderator Karin Nijenhuis discusses peer-coaching (or, intervision), which is a way of sharing issues with peer PhD students. | read more
In this conversation, as part of the Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC) Thinking With series, Macarena Gómes-Barris will discuss her work on theorizing the violence of extractive (resource-based) economies. | read more
Het LeidenAsiaCentre en De Balie presenteren de tweede sessie van de serie “The many faces of modern China”. Deze serie behandelt uiteenlopende perspectieven op de veelzijdige ontwikkeling van China. | read more
This conference will focus on how Deaf studies research can contribute to addressing challenges faced by Deaf signers in African countries. How can we address restricted access to and participation of Deaf people in society? | read more
Dr. Elmira Köchümkulova (University of Central Asia) and Dr. Ali Mozaffari (Deakin University) present their work on heritage politics in Asia (Kyrgyz oral tradition and the relationship between development, design and heritage) | read more
Hoogleraar Zeger van der Wal, Universiteit Leiden en het CAOP, zal in dit webinar bespreken wat de coronacrisis betekent voor leidinggevenden in het publieke domein en wat het nieuwe normaal vraagt van hen in termen van leiderschap. | read more
Roshni Sengupta, Jagiellonian University Krakow, in this lecture seeks to answer the question how the Muslim is currently identified in a Bollywood (Indian Hindi cinema) film narrative. | read more
The LeidenAsiaCentre organises a webinar with the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies to launch their report on the challenges posed by the Digital Silk Road. | read more
Op zaterdag 26 en zondag 27 september organiseert Museum De Lakenhal de jaarlijkse Kunstroute. Bezoekers kunnen ateliers van meer dan 150 professionele Leidse beeldend kunstenaars en kunstinstellingen bezoeken op locaties verspreid over de stad. | read more
Marijn van Putten is gespecialiseerd in de taalgeschiedenis van Arabisch en Berber. Hij zal tijdens deze lezing, georganiseerd door het LUCIS, spreken over het begin van de Koranische manuscripttraditie in de 7e eeuw. | read more
Op maandag 28 september is schrijver Abdelkader Benali te gast in de online boekensalon van de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden (UBL). Hoofdconservator Garrelt Verhoeven interviewt Benali over zijn essay. | read more
De Hortus botanicus Leiden besteedt in deze online tentoonstelling aandacht aan Amerikaanse planten die op het moment dat het schip de Mayflower naar Amerika vertrok bekend waren in onze streken. | read more
This exhibition of eighteen photographs form a selection of work provided by scholars of LeidenGlobal partners, reflecting their vision on the theme ‘Heritage on the Move’. Have a look at the online photo exhibition and the background information. | read more
Laat je rondleiden door zeven ruimtes van Museum De Lakenhal waar verschillende museumexperts vertellen wat er allemaal te zien is. Deze digitale tour is 360 graden zodat je een goede indruk krijgt van het museum. | read more
Het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden heeft kleine, online pop-up tentoonstellingen gemaakt. Bezoek bijvoorbeeld de tentoonstelling over Egyptische familiebanden, gezichtsuitdrukkingen op beelden en het vorstengraf van Oss. | read more
The African Studies Centre Leiden presents the kick-off of the iAfrica Film Festival. On 1 October, the film ‘Stop Filming Us’ will be screened in Leiden, followed by a discussion with the director and other guests. | read more
Ga samen met Glenn Helberg, winnaar van de Black Achievements Awards in 2019, in gesprek in een College Tour-achtige setting over de stelling: ‘Polarisatie is een onderdeel van het koloniale systeem’. | read more
Textiles play a central role in social, economic, and spiritual interactions. This conference explores the lives of textiles - their displacements and transformations - within the Asia-Pacific region and between the region and the rest of the world. | read more
In this lecture, Shiqiao Li (Weedon Professor in Asian Architecture School of Architecture, University of Virginia) will argue that the normative methods of urban analysis are too narrow to account for the full realities of cities in Asia. | read more
South Africa’s Bill of Rights has not prevented assaults on members of the growing and increasingly vocal LGBTI community. Dr. Iain Edwards and Prof. Marc Epprecht discuss their book on working class homosexuality in South Africa. | read more
Tijdens deze alumnidag 'Slavische Taal- en Letterkunde, Ruslandkunde, Russisch-Duits, Russische Studies en MA Russian and Eurasian Studies', zal naast een lezing en quiz ook afscheid worden genomen van studiecoördinator Titia Bouma. | read more
Jeroen Windmeijer is een bestsellerauteur die bekendheid verwierf met zijn 'Leidse trilogie'. Tijdens deze schrijfdag zal hij ingaan op enkele schrijf- technieken, maar ga je vooral zelf schrijven met de Hortus Botanicus als bron van inspiratie. | read more
In this Japanese Studies lecture, prof. Adam L. Kern moves beyond the Euroamerican hegemony in comics theory. Drawing on historical Japanese examples, he proposes that “comix” be broadly defined as any verbovisual text in spatiotemporal design. | read more
In this conversation, as part of the Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC) Thinking With series, Ila Nagar will discuss her work notably in her book Being Janana: Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India. | read more
The Online Peer-Coaching sessions for PhD students are organised within the framework of Africa 2020. Moderator Karin Nijenhuis discusses peer-coaching (or, intervision), which is a way of sharing issues with peer PhD students. | read more
Vicky Finn (Diego Portales University and Leiden University) speaks in this seminar on the 'Noncitizen Migrant Enfranchisement in Democracy and Dictatorship in Chile, 1925 and 1980'. | read more
This conference brings together varied specialists to explore how non-literate systems of information storage were used in the Near East from the late Neolithic, and why they persisted into the first millennium BC. | read more
Curator Arnoud Vrolijk laat in deze lezing zien hoe de Koran door de eeuwen heen in Nederland vertaald, bewerkt en gedrukt werd, met veel voorbeelden uit de collecties van de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden. | read more
Viola Müller (Utrecht University, History) discusses in this lecture, that is part of the Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar, illegality and immobility in 19th-century Americas. | read more
Brave New World is an annual conference where culture, philosophy, science, technology & storytelling collide. It discusses what ethical & societal impact new technologies can have on human life, before the innovations are introduced in society. | read more
Tijdens dit college gaat Hoogleraar Koreastudies Remco Breuker in op de Kim-dynastie. Hoeveel macht heeft Kim Jong-un nu echt? Hoe financiert het regime zijn kernwapenprogramma? En wat is het einddoel van Kim Jong-un? | read more
During this day, several experts talk about new perspectives in the teaching of oral interaction of Italian as second language. It will conclude with a round table on Italian as Second Language in Dutch high schools. | read more
The Online Peer-Coaching sessions for PhD students are organised within the framework of Africa 2020. Moderator Karin Nijenhuis discusses peer-coaching (or, intervision), which is a way of sharing issues with peer PhD students. | read more
The conference focuses on the Dutch-Indonesian collaboration. Researchers, policy makers and societal stakeholders are invited to present results from research, discuss collaboration and make new connections. | read more
The first edition of the Week of Indonesia-Netherlands Education and Research (WINNER) will focus on achieving sustainable development goals and strengthening Dutch-Indonesian research and education. | read more
The demand for higher education and for qualified researchers and teachers is exploding in Africa. The aims of this conference are to sketch out the knowledge landscape in contemporary Africa and to bring together research on knowledge. | read more
By integrating textual sources from different geographic areas, this workshop explores the complexity of slavery in the early-Islamic empire. It addresses questions about the realities of slavery and the terminology 'slave' & 'slavery'. | read more
Jason E. Laffoon discusses in this talk new insights from isotope bioarchaeology. He is interested in integrating bioarchaeological and biochemical approaches to the study of patterns of mobility/migration, diet, and exchange. | read more
Jacomine Nortier (Utrecht University) presents an analysis of functional aspects of multilingualism in old songs in this lecture that is part of the Sociolinguistics Series of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. | read more
This advanced winter programme focuses on the field of preventing, detecting and responding to violent extremism and gives insight in the opportunities and challenges of various approaches. | read more
The Annual Meeting offers an opportunity for advanced students and researchers of the ancient Near East in the Netherlands to meet and exchange ideas about ongoing and envisioned research projects. | read more
