News and eventsNadine Chahine, designer of Arabic typefaces and external PhD candidate at Leiden University, has been named in Fast Company's 2012 ranking as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. ‘I see type as the means to engage in the larger context of culture and society,’ commented Chahine.
Prof. Kenneth Marcus, a history specialist affiliated to the University of La Verne in California, is an expert on the influence of American and European refugees on the culture and music of southern California. Marcus will be visiting Leiden in the spring semester to lecture in the BA minor American Studies and the new master's programme in North American Studies.
AMT Guest lecture and China Seminar by Professor Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Research Director at CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
This symposium is organized by the Institute for Cultural Disciplines, Leiden University, in cooperation with the Laboratoire de linguistique et de littérature allemande, Luxemburg University, as part of the CORE-project “Multilingual Literature.” The symposium is supported by the National Research Fund, Luxembourg.
Iconography at Large: Temples in Egypt and Cambodia. Speakers: Olaf Kaper and Marijke Klokke.
On Wednesday 30 May, Dr. Lucia Dolce (University of London) will give a guest lecture entitled 'Of monks and embryos: visualizing Tantric practice in Medieval Japan' .
Twelve Chinese PhD candidates in the Netherlands who are funded by the China Scholarship Council met with Leiden staff on 26 April 2012 to exchange experiences. Ten days earlier Leiden had welcomed a delegation from Peking University.
Coen Maas shows how politicians use the Middle Ages as a rhetorical argument. It happens today, and it happened in the early modern period (1500-1800). Maas examined how people at that time thought about the Middle Ages. He used old manuscripts as a new source. PhD defence 15 May 2012.
The three MA programmes in Literary Studies, English Language and Culture, and History in the Leiden University Faculty of Humanities have received strong evaluations in the Selection Guide for Masters’ Programmes 2012.
On Monday 11 June 2012, Léon Buskens will accept his professorship "Law and Culture in Muslim Societies" at Leiden University by delivering his inaugural lecture, entitled: "What is sharia? A plea for an anthropology of the ordinary". The lecture will be in Dutch. Time: 16.15 hrs. Location: Academy Building, Groot Auditorium (Rapenburg 73, Leiden).
LUCL Leiden and the Italian department of the University of Leiden are happy to announce the first Italian Dialect Meeting (CIDSM in Leiden + Italian Dialects in Diachrony) to be held at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics on May 24-26, 2012.
Due to Easter, the Queen's Birthday, Liberation Day, Ascension Day and Whitsun Day the buildings of the Faculty of Humanities will have limited opening hours.
Two ground-breaking international research programmes have launched a new collaboration to explore the policies and governance conditions that are needed if Africa is to match the economic and social achievements of Southeast Asia. David Henley, Professor of Contemporary Indonesia Studies in Leiden, is one of the programme leaders.
Leiden University has maintained its excellent worldwide reputation, according to the Times Higher Education World Reputation Ranking published on 15 March. Leiden University has maintained its position within the 81-90 category in this top 100 of universities worldwide.
Leiden University is to have a visiting professorship in Georgian Languages, Cultures and Society. The official kick-off, organised in collaboration with the Georgian Embassy, will be held on Friday 23 March. One of the dignitaries present will be Sandra Roelofs, first lady of Georgia, who will be a member of the board of the professorship.
Comparison between babies and song-birds when they are learning a non-existent language—a study of this kind has never been tried before. But this is what Claartje Levelt, Carel ten Cate (Leiden University) and Jelle Zuidema (University of Amsterdam) are attempting.
‘This trip gives you the chance to experience at first hand what you learn about in your study programme,’ says Lars Moll, third-year student of Middle Eastern Studies, and one of the students who joined the April excursion to Istanbul organised by Professor Hans Theunissen from Leiden's Department of Turkish Studies.
A cultural delegation from Taiwan has presented 175 books and journals to Leiden University. The gift is meant as thanks for all the research carried out by the university on the subject of the indigenous peoples of Formosa, as Taiwan was called in the past.
The Board of the Faculty of Humanities is intending to create a broad bachelor's programme in the area of language, culture and media. Consideration is being given to consolidating the present French, German and Italian bachelor's programmes. It will in future be possible to study these subjects within a more flexible system. This proposal will have no effect on the master's programmes offered.
How do you study the complicated relations throughout history between the religious minorities of the Middle East and the Muslim majority? What role does language play in this context? How do these processes of inclusion and exclusion impact the way people dress?
