179 search results for “petra” in the Public website
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The art of control without repression
How did the Arabs manage to maintain an empire based on Islamic principles for three hundred years? Arab expert Petra Sijpesteijn and her team will be examining this question over the coming five years, focusing on the correspondence of ordinary people. The research is being funded by an ERC Consolidator…
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Researchers from Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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New journal based at the Institute for History: 'Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society'
Diplomatica addresses the broad range of work being done across the social sciences and the humanities that takes diplomacy as its focus of investigation. The journal explores and investigates diplomacy as an extension of social interests, forces, and environments.
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Leiden University's world-renowned collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
Lecture, Studium Generale
- Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture
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Living Texts
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Models Combination in Multi-stage Information Retrieval Architectures
Lecture
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A few remarks on the latest developments at NVIC from director Dr Rudolf de Jong
Dear friends of the NVIC,
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Symposium 'Ethics and Moral Hazard in the Banking Union'
On the 10th November 2016, The Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law organised a symposium on “Ethics and Moral Hazard in the Banking Union” in the historic Academy Building of Leiden University.
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
- BA Spring Semester Arabic & Islamic Studies for students of Dutch and Flemish Universities
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Open Science debate - STIBNITE: developing the next generation organic semiconductors
Conference
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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Book launch ‘The promise of music’
Arts and culture, Book launch
- Ultra-high vacuum exfoliation method for the preparation of large-area single layer TMDC films
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Hall of Fame
Many of our staff and students have won an award, received a grant, obtained an academic fellowship for their quality or have been socially engaged due to their specific expertise. See below for an overview per year.
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Alumni
Since 2009, at ACPA, 86 candidates received their PhD in Creative and Performing Arts. On this page you will find an overview of ACPA's alumni.
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Hall of Fame 2016
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed member of an academic society or have taken on a position in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include…
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In memoriam: Alexander Hendrik (Sander) de Groot (3 april 1943 - 1 april 2024)
Op maandag 1 april 2024 stierf onze leermeester, vriend en gewaardeerd collega Dr. Alexander Hendrik de Groot (Sander).
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The EU’s Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: International and European Perspectives
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Union (EU) and its Member States have adopted wide-ranging legal and political measures to support Ukraine in its struggle.
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How to ask? Politeness strategies in historical letters
Workshop
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Learning from Ancient Water Systems
Lecture
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Introducing: Eurasian Empires projectgroep
The Horizon programme 'Eurasian Empires: integration processes and identity formations' started September 1st 2014. The six PhD students and two Postdocs introduce themselves.
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A Matter of Speech: Language of Social Interdependency in the Early Islamicate Empire (600-1500)
Conference
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Poster sessions
Speech Prosody 2024 includes several poster sessions, the description of which you can find below.
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
- Public graduation presentations
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Formation of Islam: Topics
The FOI project has a number of topics it aims to investigate. These are: State, Economy, Culture and Papyri. You will find links to bibliographies on this page.