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- Islam adviser to Obama at Opening of Leiden Islam Centre
- Wednesday 14 October will mark the start of the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS), with a conference on Islam, Science and Public Policy. Mayor Cohen of Amsterdam will present his scientific questionnaire, and Dalia Mogahed, Islam adviser to President Obama, will talk on ‘What a billion Muslims really think.’
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- West reads East
- The study of modern literature from the Middle East with Nobel Prize winners such as Pamuk and Mahfoez, is relatively new and there is as yet little international co-operation. The workshop on ‘West Reads East’ held in Berlin on 23 and 24 May in Berlin is the first of its kind. Petra de Bruijn reports.
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- Writing on the plastic of ancient times
- A chest containing inscribed sherds of pottery turns up on an English estate. A group of papyrologists set to deciphering and describing the ‘ostraca’ from the island of Elephantine in the Nile close to Aswan. How did they find their way to an English estate, and what is the story behind their journey?
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- New interpretation of the Kama Sutra
- Herman Tieken has already explained in a previous newsletter that the Kama Sutra is not a sex manual. It was only once he had completed his translation that he saw what no other indologist had previously seen. The book is a parody of a treatise on kingship. Tieken's translation was published last week.
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- New Academic Director of LIAS: Prof. Maghiel van Crevel
- Prof. Maghiel van Crevel has been appointed as the new Academic Director of LIAS as of 17 June 2009.
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- New website Papyrological Institute online
- With information about the Institute, the library and papyrus collection, staff members, research and education. It also provides more general information about Papyrology and links to relevant websites.
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- Report on the LIAS PhD & Postdoc brainstorm
- Brief report on the LIAS PhD & Postdoc brainstorm session of 27 August 2009.
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- LIAS PhD & Postdoc brainstorm
- Thursday 27 August, all LIAS PhD's and Postdocs are invited for a brainstorm session, identifying issues, canvassing ideas and gettings sense of what's good and what could be better. Afterwards there will be drinks.
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- Internal LIAS meeting prior to the Dean's visit
- Invitation by the Academic Director of LIAS, Maghiel van Crevel.
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- Information meeting with the Dean
- Invitation to an information meeting of LIAS members with the dean, 26 June 2009.
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- ‘Phoenix’ LIAS officially opened
- The Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) is the youngest of the seven faculty institutes. It focuses on the study of languages and cultures of Asia and the Middle East. On April 9th, the institute was officially opened.
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- Official opening
- You are kindly invited to join us for the official opening of the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) of the Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University. The opening will take place on Thursday 9 April, 3.30 - 5.30 p.m at the Nonnensteeg 1-3, Leiden. Afterwards there will be a reception.
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- 'As a manager I want to help shape the Leiden Institute for Area Studies'
- Interview in Forum with Ivo Smits, Academic Director of LIAS (in Dutch).
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- Welcome
- The new Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) is one of the seven institutes that make up the new Faculty for Humanities of Leiden University. It was established in September 2008, but remained largely a virtual institute for the remainder of that year and became active as of January 2009.
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