What's on?

: DUSANE IV; Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East, held in Leiden on 27 March 2010.; Read more

: Studium Generale: Identity in the Middle East; A series of lectures about Identity in the Middle East: Use and Abuse of the Past. Held on Thursday nights in the Lipsius building, entrance is free.; Read more

: SMES/LUCIS Lectures; A schedule of the SMES/ LUCIS lecture series, spring semester 2010.; Read more

: Leiden Seminar on Global Interactions - Friday March 19th; Friday March 19th Chris Goto-Jones and Peter Pels will deliver a presentation on their research project on futurities (forms of the future): "Tomorrows from Elsewhere: On Science Fiction, Developmentalism, and the Politics of Comparative Futurities". The seminar is open to MaRes students and higher. Registration is not required.; Read more

: NINO Lectures; Lectures of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East in 2009-2010. The next lecture will be on April 22nd, by prof.dr. H.J. Stroomer.; Read more

: Programme Student Assistant Research; Talented bachelor students with a non-western parent can apply till April 1 for this challenging programme!; Read more

: Vacancies for PhD positions; Starting September 2010 the Leiden Institute for Area Studies has three full time (38 hrs) vacancies, available as 4 year PhD positions. As well as a 3 year Post-Doctoral fellowship, starting in 2011, in the VICI project "Buddhism and Social Justice: Doctrine, Ideology and Discrimination in Tension," headed by Prof dr. Jonathan A. Silk.; Read more

: EuroCores Grants: Cognition, Communication, and Culture; The ESF has just published the Call for Outline Proposals for Collaborative Research Projects under the EUROCORES programme 'Understanding and Misunderstanding: Cognition, Communication and Culture'.; Read more

: VICI Grant for prof.dr. J.A. Silk; The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a VICI grant to prof.dr. Jonathan Silk for his project 'Buddhism and Social Justice: Doctrine, Ideology and Discrimination in Tension'.; Read more

: NWO Grant for prof.dr. Touraj Atabaki; The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) announced on December 22 that it awarded a grant of € 530.000 to a proposal presented by Prof. Touraj Atabaki which entails the launch a grand project on the social history of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry. The NWO award enables a team of PhD and Post-Doctoral researchers to study, for the period of four years, the centurial history of the Iranian oil industry (1908-2008).; Read more

: NWO grant for Chris Goto-Jones and Peter Pels; Congratulations to Chris Goto-Jones, and to Peter Pels (Cultural Anthropology / Development Sociology), who have jointly been awarded an NWO Cultural Dynamics Grant for "The Future is Elsewhere: Toward a Comparative History of the Futures of the Digital (R)evolution".; Read more

: Willem van Gulik decorated; Willem van Gulik, professor in Material Culture studies and Art History of East Asia, has been appointed Commander in de Order of Oranje-Nassau by Queen Beatrix on Monday 23 November. Mayor Henri Lenferink adorned him with the corresponding decorations after his farewell speech.; Read more

: NWO Veni grant for Paul van Els; NWO has awarded a Veni grant to 143 young, recently promoted researchers this year. 18 of these have been granted to researchers from Leiden. Every awardee receives 250.000 euro with which to conduct research for three years. LIAS member Paul van Els is one of the receivers of a Veni grant.; Read more

: Holger Gzella member of the Young Academy; Ten new members will soon join the KNAW Young Academy. They are researchers working in a variety of different disciplines who have been selected for their scientific achievements and received their PhDs less than ten years ago. Holger Gzella will be one of these new members.; Read more

: Chris Goto-Jones Dean of Leiden University College; Chris Goto-Jones, currently Professor of Modern Japan Studies, will take up duty as Dean of the University College as Professor of Comparative Philosophy & Political Thought.; Read more

: New Director of Studies and Heads of School; LIAS is proud to announce our new Director of Studies, Petra Sijpesteijn, and two Heads of School.; Read more

: LIAS prizes & grants; Prizes and grants recently awarded to LIAS members.; Read more