824 search results for “literature” in the Staff website
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'Especially now, in-depth knowledge about Judaism and Jewish history is important'
The newly established Leiden Jewish Studies Association aims to bring together Leiden scholars working on Judaism. The first annual conference will take place in Leiden on 6 and 7 December. Leiden professors and co-organisers of the LJSA Sarah Cramsey and Jürgen Zangenberg talk about their plans.
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Mirjam Oomens: ‘Healthcare professionals should be cautious about survival prognoses’
Mirjam Oomens was working on her PhD research on language in the consulting room when she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Four years later, she has made it her mission to encourage doctors and other healthcare professionals to make fewer statements about life expectancy. 'Such a conviction can…
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Small actions by our labs add up to big steps in sustainability
Freezers set three degrees higher, a recycling bin for plastic petri dishes or timer switches installed on equipment: a growing number of Leiden University laboratories are taking small – but effective – steps to reduce their environmental impact, via the internationally recognized Laboratory Efficiency…
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Fact or fiction? Debunking 5 common love myths with researcher Iliana Samara
'You’ll know right away when you meet your true love’ or ‘Opposites attract’: Some persistent beliefs exist about love and attraction, but are they true? Researcher Iliana Samara investigates the dynamics of attraction and explains which love myths we can let go of.
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Leiden archaeologists create open educational resources on agent-based modeling
The past two years, Laura van der Knaap and Professor Karsten Lambers worked on creating open teaching materials on agent-based modeling, funded by Erasmus+ and in collaboration with Danish, Irish and Dutch partners. Programming is an important skill involved in this, which is often seen as intimidating…
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Academic freedom report
What does academic freedom mean? And how do we give shape to it in Leiden? The Academic Freedom Core Team considered these questions and presented its final report on 17 June.
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Jeanette Wagenaar writes about Louise Six: ‘I wanted to give a voice to women in history’
When Jeanette Wagenaar read Simone van der Vlugt's De amulet (The Amulet) at the age of eleven, she decided that she too wanted to write a historical novel one day. Thirty years later, Gooilust, about Louise Blaauw-Six, has now been published.
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Pressure on River Management Leads to more Frequent Flooding
In his new book 'Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands', Paul Hudson Associate Professor of Physical Geography at Leiden University College in The Hague, examines human impacts on lowlands rivers. The past twenty years the pressure on large fluvial lowlands has increased tremendously because…
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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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Fifteen lecturers gain Senior Teaching Qualification
Fifteen passionate lecturers earned their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on Monday 22 January. Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl congratulated them in the Academy Building. Four of these lecturers talk about what motivated them to take the SKO and how it has benefitted them.
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Special donor makes stroke recovery research possible
How do you ensure that people who have had a stroke get the right therapy at the right time? This is the question researcher Jorit Meesters wants to answer.
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In search of hidden voices
Nearly all documents from the 16th and 17th centuries were written by more than one person but attributed to only one author. Professor Nadine Akkerman wants to rectify this oversight in her research on scribes.
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A strong start with the Science Skills Platform
A new academic year means new courses. And that inevitably requires all sorts of new skills: academic writing, searching for sources, setting up a research project... The Science Skills Platform is packed with useful information. This way, you can easily help your students on their way.
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Political scientist Juan Masullo awarded Elise Mathilde Fund/LUF grant for research on public attitudes towards the mafia
Juan Masullo (Leiden University Institute of Political Science) receives a grant from the Elise Mathilde Fund/Leiden University Fund to conduct his research project ‘Forging an Anti-Mafia Culture: Observational and Experimental Evidence from Italy’. Masullo aims to find out what ordinary Italians think…
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Alumnus Asa Splinter: ‘LGBT+ identities are not a burden but a source of inspiration’
Even as a teenager Asa Splinter was determined to study Japanese in Leiden. A HAVO diploma and a change in legislation threatened to throw a spanner in the works, but Asa persevered. After ten years of studying, Asa obtained a master’s degree in Japanese and was nominated for the IHLIA thesis award…
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Jeroen Touwen has started his second term as Vice-Dean: ‘We’re in an upward trend’
Jeroen Touwen has been reappointed as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1 January. ‘The Faculty Board’s role is to serve the organisation: we try to manage the University as effectively as possible with the available resources, so that research and education can flourish.’
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Professor Judi Mesman's portrait festively unveiled in Senate Chamber
A truly special moment in the Senate Chamber of the Academy Building: the portrait of Professor Judi Mesman has been unveiled. 'Leiden University only reserves places in this chamber for its foremost scholars, and you are certainly one of them,' said Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl.
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The paradox of extremist families
PhD candidate Layla van Wieringen examined how extremist beliefs are passed on within households. In her dissertation ‘Rotten Trees, Bad Apples? Understanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Extremism’, she reveals a reality that media and politics rarely address.
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Lecture by Professor Tahera Qutbuddin: Between This World and the Next: Moving Reflections on Mortality and Morality in the Orations of Ali ibn
Lecture | Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Summer School Science Communication
Course
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Perspectives on Taiwan's Cultural and Public Diplomacy
Conference, Workshop
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Can Generative AI Generate Culture?
Debate
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The Palestine Exception
VVI Research Meetings 2024-2025
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Qualitative Empirical Research Methods in Law | Introductory Course for PPP-students
Research
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Design for Engagement in Blended Learning: Insights, Practices, and Challenges
PhD defence
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Poetry’s Haunting: A Symposium on C.P. Cavafy
Symposium
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Participatory Action Research: possibilities and challenges in the humanities
Course, Terra Incognita Masterclass
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Double Lecture on Ecocritical Perspectives in Japanese Art
Lecture
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LUCAS “Modern and Contemporary Studies” Research Cluster 3rd annual conference 'Environment as Lens: Rethinking Humanities Research through the
Conference
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Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision
Lecture and Exhibition
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Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision
Film screening and Book Launch
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Environmental Activism, Indigenous Survival, and Settler Colonialism in the Unist’ot’en Camp’s Resistance against the Coastal GasLink Pipeline
Lecture
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China Fashion Power - Fashioning Power through South-South Interaction: Rethinking Creativity, Authenticity, Cultural Mediation and Consumer
Lecture, China Seminar
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Care and the Jewish Experience
Conference, Second Conference of the Leiden Jewish Studies Network
- Middle East Studies Lectures
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Spinoza Lecture 2023
Lecture
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IBL Spotlight - Science Communication & Society
Lecture
- LUCAS “Role of Experience” reading group
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Pedagogies of "Con/Tact" in unsettling times
Conference, BOCA Workshop
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Data management planning: prepare for fieldwork
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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LUCAS Conference Narratives 2024
Conference
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Museum visit: A talk with Colombian Artist Nika Sorzano
Arts and culture
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Reading Group: Antigone
Reading group
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Book Launch for Dr. Kate Brackney's 'Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness'
Lecture, Book Roundtable
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OSCoffee: Open Science and AI - Synergy or Contradiction
Lecture
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Panel: 'Peace-washing': the case of Palestine
Conference
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Daybreak in Gaza - Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture
Debate, BookTalk
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The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Was There Indeed a Decline of Ambiguity in Islamic Modernity? Deathbed Emotions as a Case Study
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?!
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How AI can support your teaching
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