24 Februar: next Seminar Eastern Christianity
The Spring 2012 programme of the Seminar Eastern Christianity offers several lectures on the Near East. Drinks will be served afterwards.
News and events
“Against the ‘zeitgeist’: The Holland I encountered when I came back.”
Alumna Religious Studies Froukje Santing (1956) returned to the Netherlands in 1999 after spending 17 years in Turkey, working as a correspondent for the Dutch daily newspaper NCR Handelsblad . Upon her return, she found a country that had changed under the influence of the 9/11 attacks and the murder in 2004, by a Muslim raised in Holland, of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh, and she felt more and more estranged from her homeland.
6 and 7 February 2012 International Conference Archeology, Architecture and Liturgy
On monday 6 and tuesday 7 february 2012 the International Conference "Archaeology, Architecture and Liturgy. The Synagogue of Horvat Kur in the Context of Ancient Galilean Synagogues" will take place in The Spectrum Zaal in Plexus Complex and in the famous Temple Court of the Rijksmuseum. The general convenor is Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zangenberg, Leiden Institute for Religious studies. Participation in the conference is free, a contribution of 5 Euro is kindly asked as admission to the public lecture. Persons who wish to attend the symposium are kindly requested to make reservation beforehand.
3 October: Siege of Leiden
Due to Siege of Leiden (het Leidens ontzet) the WSD complex will be closed on Monday October 3d. No keys will be issued during this day.
9/11 has had strong influence on research
The attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington changed the world. But what effect did they have on academic research? Maurits Berger, Professor of Islam in the Contemporary West, looks back on 10 years of 9/11.
2-day Introduction Programme in Februari 2012
In this 2-day programme, Leiden students will act as guides and they will show you around Leiden. You will receive a short general introduction to the university, your own faculty, student facilities and the city of Leiden. During these 2 days with varied social activities you will meet many other international students.
Limited opening hours WSD-buildings during summer
During to the summer period, the WSD buildings will have limited opening hours.
Thursday June 30: The Short forms in Near Eastern Sapiential Literature
Round-Table June 30th, 2011 9h30-16h: “The Short forms in Near Eastern Sapiential Literature: Gnomai, Monostichs, Sayings, Proverbs, Riddles.”
Conference 'The Root Causes of Terrorism: A Religious Studies Perspective', Leiden 18-19 May 2011
Most of today's terrorism is motivated by religious claims, or takes place in religiously affected places. Is religion the main cause of terrorism, or does terrorism still arise because of leaders who brainwash and coach future terrorists so that they kill under the banner of religion?
Symposium: Eastern Christianity in Context | 21 May 2011
Following up on the Symposia held in Leiden in 2004 and in Oxford in 2006, a third Joint Graduate Studies Symposium dedicated to Eastern Christianity in Context will be held at Leiden University on Saturday 21 May 2011.
Lecture on Problematic of Chosenness, Prof. dr. Reuven Firestone, tuesday 24th of may 2011
Prof. dr. Reuven Firestone gives a lecture on the problematic of chosenness in monotheist religions.
New Basis for Cooperation Humanities with Bucharest University
On Monday, April 11, the next step was taken in the ongoing fruitful cooperation between the Leiden University Institute for Religious Studies and the Religious Studies Program „Texts and Traditions“ at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of Bucharest University.
Michal Marciak receives Polish Science award
Michal Marciak, a PhD student of LUIRS, has been awarded a prestigious stipend, START by the Foundation for Polish Science.
May 9-13: Course pre-islamic Arabic language and culture
From May 9 to 13, an intensive course on pre-Islamic language and culture will be offered by Michael Macdonald (Oxford University). The course provides insight into the genesis of Arabic language and culture.
Limited opening hours during holidays
Due to Easter, Ascension Day and Whitsunday, the WSD buildings (Witte Singel Doelencomplex) will have limited opening hours:
Lezingenreeks Tibet, De Ander, anders bezien
Van begin april tot eind mei organiseert het Studium Generale een lezingenreeks met de titel “Tibet, de ander anders bezien”. In de reeks zal onder andere aandacht worden besteed aan de religieuze tradities, kunst en de politiek in Tibet.
Thursday 31 March | SMES/LUCIS lecture series | 7th lecture by Céline Trautmann-Waller
On Thursday 31 March, Céline Trautmann-Waller will give a LUCIS lecture entitled: 'Ignác Goldziher, From Mythology among the Hebrews to the study of Islam'. This lecture is part of the SMES/LUCIS lecture series, spring 2011. Time: 17.00-19.00 hours. Location: Lipsius building, lecture room 228 (Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden).
East and West Encounters in the Interwar Period
Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, new Muslim socio-political and intellectual transnational networks had emerged as reaction to the then ongoing East-West encounters.
Tuesday 22 March: The Cost of Orthodoxy
Second Dutch Annual Lecture in Patristics by Professor Dame Averil Cameron fba (Oxford). From the earliest stages, Christians held different views about what constituted their faith, and Christian leaders tried to define it for them and to turn them away from error.
Friday, 25 February: The gospel of Kaundinya: the descent of God in Gujarat and the practice of imitating God.
The Sanskrit text called ‘The Five Topics’( Pañcārtha ), has the form of a commentary on the sūtras of the Pāśupata school. It resembles a gospel in its pretence to communicate a divine revelation, presenting a unique path to hope and salvation to the faithful. Its author, Kaundinya, may have lived in the 4 th or 5 th century AD.
