News and events
- Jewellery in context
- Jewellery has a history stretching back over 100,000 years. Yet it has only been studied seriously as a phenomenon since the fifties. 'Resulting in misconceptions and tunnel vision,' in the opinion of Marjan Unger. On 17 March she will defend her doctoral dissertation on a multidisciplinary vision of jewellery.
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- ECLL Workshop 16 March 2010
- On 16 March, there will be a workshop on Chinese linguistics. During this workshop, there will be lectures on historical issues, dialects, contact situations and corpora.
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- Practical Philosophy Colloquia
- On Thursday 18 March 2010 Tim Bayne (University of Oxford) will give the next lecture of the Practical Philosophy Colloquia 2009-2010.
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- Career event Humanities 2010
- On 19 March 2010 the annual career event for students of the Humanities Faculty will take place: the Arbeidsmarktcongres 2010. Students of philosophy, (art) history, religious studies, linguistics and cultural studies come together to gather information about the current job opportunities. Workshops and speeches will be given, and during the job fair and ‘speed dating’ you’ll be able to get yourself noticed for a job or an internship.
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- 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.
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- Workshop: Mood and modality in the indigenous languages of the Americas
- On 25 and 26 March, LUCL will host the workshop 'Mood and modality in the indigenous languages of the Americas'.
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- Lustrumconcours "Wetenschap en Wereld"
- In the coming months, a public spectacle for the “Wetenschap & Wereld” (Science & World) concours will be developed at the LUCL Phonetics Laboratory. Our spectacle will take place in the “Lustrumweek” of June 11 through 18 2010.
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- Lecture series 'Media and Journalism'
- Until the end of March, Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on 'Media and Journalism'.
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- Graduate Seminar 2009-2010
- Next Graduate Seminar: Seventh session, 14 April. Carolien Stolte will give a presentation.
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- 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'.
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- Loss and gain: the art of literary translation
- On Tuesday 9 February the translators of the work of Dame Antonia Byatt met in Leiden to discuss their work with the author herself. The day before, Byatt had receied an Honorary Doctorate from Leiden University at the Dies natalis. 'Can we say that the art of translation is the art of loss?'
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- 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.
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- China Seminar
- Lectures that will be presented during the spring term of the China Seminar.
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- Opening East Asia Library
- The new East Asia Library is now open with two exhibitions in the new reading rooms. Subjects of the exhibitions are architecture and migration in contemporary China and Anime.
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- General Announcement
- General Announcement for the International Conference "Assessing the State of the Nation: Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexico at the Bicentenario, 1810-2010". Leiden, 13-14 May 2010.
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- NIASD Summer Course
- The Netherlands Institute for Academic Studies in Damascus (NIASD) invites you to participate in its Summer Course, "Christian and Islamic Art and Architecture", June 20 - July 11, 2010.
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- Conference ''Truth and Method' Fifty Years After: Gadamer's Influence on the Humanities', Leiden 26-28 August 2010 / Call for papers
- Almost fifty years ago, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method (1960) appeared. Among philosophers and theologians, this classic study of interpretation has enjoyed a spectacular reception history.
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