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Foreign student ambassadors share their enthusiasm for Leiden 22 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
Leiden University wishes to attract additional students from five particular countries. Each of these countries has an enthusiastic student ambassador. Who are they? And what role do they play?
China Seminar | Confucianism as a World Religion 22 Aug 2013 | 02:49 pm
Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn’t? On Wednesday 28 August, Anna Sun will give a lecture and present the main arguments of her recent book: "Confucianism as a World ...
Academic Language Centre organizes Open House 15 Aug 2013 | 02:56 pm
On Thursday 5 September, the Academic Language Centre will hold its biannual Open House in the Lipsius Building. Would you like to learn a new language or do you want to boost your knowledge of a lang...
Kinneret Regional Project: ‘A unique learning experience’ 5 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
A first series of excavations at Horvat Kur in the Galilee carried out under the auspices of the Kinneret Regional Project has now come to an end. ‘The project has been a unique learning experience,’ ...
Sharing knowledge about social media in Africa 1 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm
Africa is online. Leiden Africa expert Mirjam de Bruijn is fascinated by the fast development of mobile telephony and social media in Africa. She maintains a website on the topic, focusing on isolated...
NWO Internationalisation in the Humanities grant for dr. Maria Boletsi 29 Jul 2013 | 03:12 pm
The research project on the history of the concept "barbarism" in Europe from the 18th century to the present has been awarded with a NWO Internationalisation in the Humanities grant. With this grant ...
ERC Starting Grant for prof.dr. Remco Breuker 24 Jul 2013 | 03:56 pm
Professor of Korean Studies Remco Breuker has been awarded a subsidy from the European Research Council to study the dispute between both Koreas and China on the history of Manchuria.
Ban Ki-moon to give 2013 Freedom Lecture 24 Jul 2013 | 02:11 pm
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon will be the speaker at the fourth Freedom Lecture in Leiden on 28 August, in the Pieterskerk. The Freedom Lecture is an initiative of Leiden Univers...
What do ordinary Muslims think of Islam? 15 Jul 2013 | 01:57 pm
Islam experts Léon Buskens (Leiden University) and Thijl Sunier (VU Amsterdam) believe that people underestimate the role of ordinary Muslims. The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO...
Léon Buskens co-recipient NWO grant research on Islam in the Netherlands 3 Jul 2013 | 02:50 pm
Prof. Dr. Léon Buskens (director of NISIS and LUCIS) and Prof. Dr. Thijl Sunier (VU University Amsterdam, chairman of NISIS), have been awarded a NWO grant for their research proposal “Making Islam Wo...
