2,915 search results for “museum collective and society” in the Public website
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    Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
        
    Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).… 
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    Chat with a student
    
    Do you have a question about studying at Leiden University or student life in Leiden? Do you want more information about the Heritage and Museum Studies master's specialisation? Chat with a current student for answers to your questions! 
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     Paul Wouters Paul WoutersSocial & Behavioural Sciences 
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    "Storia de Nhas Pais" interviews’ collection officially handed over to Rotterdam City Archive
        
    A collection of interviews from the oral history project 
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    Is politics boring and far removed from you?
        
    On 22 May, the Dutch House of Representatives invited one hundred citizens to pose critical questions regarding the Ministries’ annual reports. This followed on from the annual ‘Accountability Day’. Caspar van den Berg, Associate Professor of Public Administration, helped think about how citizens could… 
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    Kick-off MOOC Music & Society
        
    On January 9 the ACPA kicked off their first MOOC Music & Society. And with 1700 (!) applicants we dare to say it is a success! 
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    “Heritage and the Question of Conversion”: Internships in Work Package 3B of Pressing Matter
    
    Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums is a large-scale research project funded through the Dutch National Research Agenda, and led by Wayne Modest and Susan Legêne (Vrije Universiteit). Work Package 3 on “Value” phrases its main research question as follows:… 
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    Book Launch Research Handbook on End of Life Care and Society
    
    Book launch 
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    Middle Eastern Library and take a closer look at our Middle Eastern collections
        
    An evening program in the University Library and Middle Eastern Library in Leiden for everyone who has something to do with the Middle East; from Tajikistan to the Mahreb and from Istanbul to Sanaa. View the oldest books and clay tablets from the collection and listen to the most fascinating stories… 
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    Why Leiden University
    
    Leiden University offers ambitious students a great environment in which to reach their potential. 
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    MoRRI Annual event 2020: RRI across Europe: Exploring the science society interface
        
    On January 29th, the first annual event of the SUPER MoRRI project will be held in the Lipsius building in Leiden and will be thematically organized around engaging the public with research and innovation. Registration is free; hope to see you there! 
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    'Society would flourish with new farming styles’
        
    ‘The climate crisis is the greatest threat we face,’ says Leiden University environmental scientist Paul Behrens. ‘And yet, there is hope. In the near future, I think we will wonder why we didn’t make these changes earlier.’ 
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    Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa
    
    This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world. 
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    Zane KripeFaculty of Science 
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    Prof.dr. Ad IJzerman appointed as Secretary of The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities
        
    As of May 2015, Prof. dr. Ad Ijzerman has been appointed as Secretary of The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. 
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    Why do birds flock? Shedding light on collective motions in heterogeneous populations
        
    Leiden physicists Alexandre Morin and Samadarshi Maity study self-organisation and flocking phenomena. They shed light on flocking, which helps to understand how it is possible that birds in a flock don't collide. With plastic microbeads, they create an experimental setup and they developed a mathematical… 
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    Doing justice to Indonesia's multicoloured society
        
    A poor woman from Java plucks three cocoa fruits from a plantation, to use as seedlings. The judge convicts her of theft, but she is not sent to prison. This is one of the examples of legal differentiation that Adriaan Bedner, Professor of Law and Society, will be examining in Indonesia. Inaugural lecture… 
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    eighty-year-old Leiden Papyrological Insitute has a small but great collection
        
    The Leiden Papyrological Institute celebrated its eightieth birthday on Monday 19 January. Its collection of papyri – including paper, potsherds, pieces of wood and even lead – covers the period from 300 B.C. until after 800 A.D. and is entirely of Egyptian origin. The institute’s anniversary is being… 
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    Libraries as Links in Learning: Making the Meaning of Manuscripts
    
    This project investigates the professionalisation of university libraries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, through the lens of the medieval manuscript holdings. Taking Leiden University Library as a starting point, it sheds light on the changing practices surrounding the conservation,… 
- Week 2: 14-20 January 2018
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    Public lecture by Ziv Epstein (Stanford), "From Collective Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence and Back Again"
    
    On Tuesday 23 January the Creative Intelligence Lab and Media Technology MSc program welcome Ziv Epstein from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI to Leiden. He will give the public keynote to close off our 7th annual Social Technologies Symposium, entitled "The Art and Science of Social Scrying:… 
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    turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
        
    Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries… 
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    Entrepreneurial students who care about society
        
    Students of the minor in Innovation, Cocreation and Global Impact present their idealistic projects. Watch the film! 
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    Archaeology (MA/MSc)
    
    Studying archaeology at Leiden University is all about studying societies and cultures from the past, trying to reconstruct them and bring them back to life. You will apply your interest in the past to make a meaningful contribution to resolving present-day societal issues, such as migration, globalisation… 
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    Jacqueline Meulman receives honorary membership at statistics society VVSOR
        
    Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics Jacqueline Meulman received an honorary membership during the annual meeting of the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVSOR). This makes her the eleventh honorary member of the society. 
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    Leiden Healthy Society Center: making Leiden the healthiest city in the Netherlands
        
    How can the people of Leiden age as well as possible? And what is needed to reduce health disparities? That is the mission of Leiden Healthy Society Center, a new partnership between the Municipality of Leiden, Leiden University and many other partners in the city. 
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    Women Writing, Writing Women in Nigeria
    
    How are the narrative concerns of Nigerian female writers constructed in relation to the structure to their society? 
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    Online voorlichting - Werken in een museum
    
    Career and apply for jobs 
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    Is ‘LDE Space & Society’ for me? (and 4 other questions)
        
    Bridging the gap between the space sector and society, together with students from other disciplines. That’s the aim of the LDE Space & Society Honours Programme, which is launching this year. Applications close 6 October 2024. Read on to discover if it’s for you! 
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    Women of the present
    
    What better way to represent women in the present than to ask them? The Museums Matters Class decided to ask Leiden’s Leading Ladies to loan an object which they felt encompassed their time here, from those in their undergraduate to one of the 23 female professors, with many positions in between. 
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    DAG Lecture: A Semantic ETL Pipeline for Large-Scale Provenance Research
    
    Lecture 
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    Career prospects
    
    What is your preferred career path? Would you prefer a job that involves communication? Or do you want to work on research projects in a museum environment? Or would you like to continue in academia? You will find that your Arts, Media and Society degree is a perfect preparation for the career of your… 
- Leidse lezingen over de Arabische taal en cultuur
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    Online college at ACPA with MOOC Music & Society
        
    The Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) will start in January 2017 with their first MOOC through Coursera: Music & Society. MOOC stands for massive open online course and is a relatively new phenomenon of open access and free internet education in the United States. Big… 
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    Untold Stories: representation, heritage and museums
    
    Conference, D&I Symposium 
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    Six-feet society in pictures
        
    The six-feet society is being built up rapidly; arrows and planes made of tape, circles and stripes of chalk, fences and other barriers are popping up around us. Danica Mast, PhD-student at LIACS, collects photos of all these solutions on her website www.1meter50.nl, now that her research is partly… 
- Week 1: 6-12 January 2019
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    Separating AI fact from fiction at the AI & Society Conference
        
    Researchers and policymakers are welcome to attend the AI & Society Conference in The Hague on Friday 23 June. The SAILS interdisciplinary research programme will be taking a nuanced look at the state of the art of AI technology. And offering fresh perspectives. 
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    The Dutch Network Science Society Symposium 2022 was a success
        
    Back after pandemic interruptions, the Dutch Network Science Society Symposium took place on May 19th, 2022. The event brought together researchers from around The Netherlands studying complex networks and representing various disciplines, including mathematics, physics, neuroscience, computer science,… 
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    Thijs Porck elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
        
    Thijs Porck, university lecturer of medieval English at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS). 
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    Call for Proposals | Forum: Diplomacy and Domestic Society
    
    This HJD Forum will look at the implications for diplomacy of greater people involvement in diplomacy, as part of the wider governance process. The Forum will interrogate the functions and practices of varying modes of people engagement in external relations in terms of diplomatic innovation. Such participation… 
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    Public Leadership Challenge: Autonomy in the digital society
        
    Thursday afternoon 31 May the Public Leadership Challenge took place in the Living Lab, of Leiden University The Hague. During this afternoon a diverse group of professionals, academics and students focused on the challenge of autonomy in the digital society. Working together on this complex and interesting… 
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    ‘Scandals mean society is actually doing well’
        
    Whereas the Netherlands Court of Audit used to conduct an investigation once a year, the average civil service organisation now has a few per year to contend with. Is so much going wrong nowadays? Not at all, says Professor by Special Appointment Sjoerd Keulen. ‘It’s one of the methods that makes democracy… 
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    Restricting student numbers will cost society billions
        
    A cap on the number of international students at the five broad-based Randstad universities will have a drastic effect on the Dutch economy. The gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to decline by approximately 4 to 5 billion euros. Regions, businesses and society as a whole will feel the consequ… 
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    Career prospects
    
    Open up a world of opportunities with your master's degree in Archaeology from Leiden University! 
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    Pre-master’s programme
    
    The pre-master's is a bridging programme for students who have applied for the MA Arts and Culture, but who, according to the Board of Admissions, still have deficiencies in their educational background. Once you have completed the pre-master’s programme, you will be admitted to the relevant specialization… 
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    “The Waste of Society as Seen through Women’s Eyes”: waste, gender, and national belonging in Japan
    
    Rebecca Tompkins defended her thesis on 21 March 2019 
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    Things Change: Black Material Culture and the Development of a Consumer Society in South Africa, 1800-2020
    
    This book is the first systematic analysis of the changes in the use of goods and services by households of Black South Africans since the early nineteenth century. 
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    Archaeology of Syria – From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (ca. 16,000 -300 BC)
    
    This book is the first comprehensive presentation of the archaeology of Syria from the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC. 
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     Anne Gerritsen Anne GerritsenFaculty of Humanities 
