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4,419 search results for “culture history” in the Public website

• Civitates Hispaniae: urbanization on the Iberian Peninsula during the Roman Empire Research project

  How do we explain the fact that certain areas had many large cities, while other areas were studded with large numbers of small towns and yet other areas had very few urban agglomerations of any kind?

• Quiet Rebels? A Social History of Political Rhetoric Research project

  Speeches and speech acts have been crucial in settling the question at the centre of every political debate: who gets what, when and where?

• Surreal Geographies. A New History of Holocaust Consciousness Research output

  Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced from the immediate postwar period up to the present moment, Kathryn L. Brackney investigates changing portrayals of Jewish victims and survivors.

• A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942 Research output

  In A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia.

• Ñuhun Ñuu Savi: Land and language as cultural heritage of the People of the Rain Research project

  The research focuses on the understanding of symbolic stratigraphy of the land (through time) from the worldview of the People of the Rain (one of the Indigenous Peoples of southern Mexico), by studying contemporary cultural heritage in communities of the Mixtec Highlands.

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  Jürgen Zangenberg Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Wim van den Doel Dean LDE / Professor

  Administration and Central Services

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  Robert Stein Senior University Lecturer in Medieval History

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Fate of Anatomical Collections Research output

  The changing status of anatomical collections from the early modern period to date.

• Programme structure Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (BSc)

  The international bachelor's programme in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology covers three years, allowing you to establish a firm foundation and specialise in topics that you find interesting.

• Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects Research output

  On 11 November 2021, Evelien Campfens defended the thesis 'Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. N.J. Schrijver and Prof. W.J. Veraart (VU Amsterdam).

• Squaramide-based supramolecular materials for 3D cell culture applications Research output

  A new type of tripodal squaramide-based supramolecular hydrogels is developed and studied.

• Review Reworking Culture by Erik de Maaker Research output

  'Reworking Culture is based on the author’s ethnographic engagement with people in and around the village of Sadolpara in the West Garo Hills in highland Northeast India (HNEI), where he conducted more than 20 years of fieldwork.'

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  Thinley Dema PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Lennart Bes Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Slaving Zones. Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery Research output

  In Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery, fourteen authors—including both world-leading and emerging historians of slavery—engage with the ‘Slaving Zones’ theory.

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  Edmund Hayes University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• CIA and Crypto AG rewrite history – Clingentael Spectator Research output

  It recently emerged that a Swiss firm secretly owned by the CIA and the West German intelligence service BND had been selling manipulated coding equipment to numerous governments, including allies, to spy on them through a Swiss cover firm for years.

• Online Experience Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Event

  Study information

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  Inge Ligtvoet Secretary

  Faculty of Humanities

• representation of post-nuclear landscapes in contemporary art and culture Research project

  How does contemporary art and culture represent nuclear contamination in post-nuclear landscapes?

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  Andrew Shield University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Stijn Bussels Scientific Director LUCAS/Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Kids Activities @ Middle Eastern Culture Market Event
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  Kim Beerden University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Pieter Slaman Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Thijs Porck Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Building tabernae Research project

  This project focuses on urban commercial space in Roman Italy and deals with the impact of economic growth on urban communities in the late Republic and the Imperial period (200 BCE – 300 CE).

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  Remco Breuker Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Michiel van Groesen Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Classics (800 BCE−600 CE) Research project

  This research cluster aims to analyse and interpret the formation and transmission of Graeco-Roman culture by exploring the relationships between cultural products (texts, objects, practices) and their societal and historical contexts.

• Teaching Chinese Language and Culture (MA)

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  Lionel Laborie Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nira Wickramasinghe Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Roman Fake News? Documentary Fictions in the Roman Empire Research project

  How can theories about modern disinformation help to understand how Roman documentary fictions functioned?

• When speech becomes emotional: cross-cultural vocal emotion recognition in Dutch and Korean Research output

  On the 16th of December, Yachan Liang successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Yachan on this achievement!

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  Minja Sarovic Education coordinator

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• The assembly history of the milky way nuclear star cluster Research output

  Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven

• Vacancies: four PhD positions in History News - 25 September 2015

  The Institute for History announces vacancies for three PhD positions on Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective and one PhD position to conduct research on the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).

• Converting cultural heritage into usable data Research Dossier: Data Science

  How can we make the information in handwritten historical research reports accessible and searchable? Data scientists at Leiden University are working with other universities on a method that will improve access to cultural heritage.

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  Bart van der Steen Head Faculty Liaison & Services

  Leiden University Libraries

• Microfluidic 3D cell culture for high throughput screening Research output

  There is an urgent need for more physiologically relevant cell culture methods to guide compound selection in pre-clinical stages of the drug development pipeline.

• European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948 Research output

  This open access book investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine during the British Mandate (1918-1948) through the lens of the birth of cultural diplomacy.

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  Jeroen Duindam Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Empirical signatures of universality, hierarchy and clustering in culture Research output

  In this thesis,

• Graduation ceremony bachelor programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Event - 12 October 2026

  Festival, Graduation Ceremony

• Moving Romans. Urbanisation, migration and labour in the Roman Principate Research project

  To what extent was labour-induced migration important to the functioning of the towns and cities of Roman Italy?

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  Ilios Willemars University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Museum Temporalities: Time, History and the Future of the Ethnographic Museum Research output

  Museum Temporalities analyzes how museums relate to time. It explores the hidden temporal assumptions and practices that define museums. How might these assumptions help us to better understand and address museums’ often problematic and painful relationship to the colonial past?

• Diversifying the Collections: Inclusive Citizenship and Public Histories of Exclusion Research project

  In educational settings such as museums, universities and schools, white, male, able-bodied and rational subjects still dominate. Although there has been a lot of theoretical work on processes of in- and exclusion through racialization, sexualization, and disabilization, we still know very little about…