1,274 search results for “nature american history” in the Student website
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Ibrahim Harun DemirelFaculty of Humanities
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Ysbrand LamersFaculty of Humanities
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Mariana GabaFaculty of Humanities
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Joaquin Fernandez Abara
Faculty of Humanities
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Saskia van Anen
Faculty of Humanities
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Pichayapat Naisupap -
Alliance Mango Kubota
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Carlos Rilling Tenorio
Faculty of Humanities
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Marinus van Hekken
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David Home Valenzuela
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicole Pereira Ríos
Faculty of Humanities
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Felipe Cousiño
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim LubbersFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Christiaan van Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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Sarah CramseyFaculty of Humanities
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Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations'
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society' project. Researchers will reconstruct how seventeenth-century scientists recorded and shared their groundbreaking microscopic discoveries. We…
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Exhibition honours Niels Stensen, pioneer in medicine and geology
Seventeenth-century Danish scientist Niels Stensen made groundbreaking discoveries in the anatomy of the body and of Earth. This Leiden alumnus’s theories are still relevant, as an exhibition at the Oude UB shows.
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Henk te Velde on ABC Nightlife about Queen Wilhelmina
82 years ago Queen Wilhelmina fled to England. Henk te Velde tells about her on the Australian radio show 'Nightlife'.
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Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery
Lecture
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'Rome after Rome': a unique student-scholar exploration of early medieval Rome
Debates about the ‘end’ of the Roman era, how, when, and even if it ended, are still very much alive and raging. However, what happened after the (long) late antique period is a lesser-known and lesser-studied subject. The post-Roman past needs, however, as much energetic investigation and discussion.…
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
- Potluck Spring Dinner & Leiden University History Tour
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Difficult message for policymakers from two Leiden reports on circular economy
You should start working now, and the positive results will only be seen long after your term has expired. That is just about the worst thing you can say to politicians and policymakers. Yet that is exactly the message of two recent reports on sustainable resource use from the Centre for Environmental…
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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War
In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?
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Laurie Cosmo: ‘Dutch museums have a very contemporary exhibition practice’
University lecturer Laurie Cosmo, having grown up in New York, came to the Hague from Rome, Italy, where she fell under the spell of the Kunstmuseum. ‘I loved the building even before I worked at Leiden University.’
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Southeast Asia as method, History as prevention Decentering the history of measles (to better control the disease?)
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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History and change in Sign Language Phonology
Lecture
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Ancient Roman cuisine was varied, international and accessible to all social classes
Banquets for the rich, porridge for the poor and a standard diet of bread, olive oil and wine. Just a few assumptions about the Roman diet.
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Anthropologist Andrew Littlejohn on NU.nl: 'With Trump taking office, the tide is turning on disaster management'"
More than twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the southern United States with nearly 1,400 deaths. Due to climate change, the lessons from this disaster are more relevant than ever, but the Trump administration seems to be ignoring them by cutting funding for disaster management. Anthropologist…
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Uncovering the role of Social Democracy in the History of European Competition Policy
Lecture, CHEI Seminar - Book launch
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Antje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna CwiertkaFaculty of Humanities
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Sarah Cramsey: 'We know very little about which systems influence our first thousand days'
It is one of the most personal and simultaneously most universal experiences of human life: caring for a young child. Professor Sarah Cramsey has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to investigate how factors such as nationality, political systems, and religion influence the first thousand days after…
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‘You have no love for truth’: 19th-century British scientists accused each other at every turn
Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a hundred years ago. PhD candidate Léjon Saarloos researched British scientists around the year 1900 and their idea of what makes a good - and therefore…
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Historical research helps improve biodiversity in the Leiden city centre
The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does justice to the city’s heritage. Researcher Fenna IJtsma delves into historical greenery to offer inspiration.
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Wreck in the Wadden Sea: ‘Objects tell the story’
More than 40 years ago, a wrecked merchant ship was found in the Wadden Sea. PhD student Geke Burger looked at this archaeological find from a historical perspective.
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‘Plastic politics’: how ideological debate was supplanted by abstract jargon
Over the course of the 20th century, politicians increasingly came to rely on experts. Their language was peppered with terms like ‘policy pathways’ and ‘evaluation frameworks’. This made debates more abstract and less ideological.
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’
GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in social communications isn’t new, says Associate Professor Marika Keblusek. She has been awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Competition (Large)…
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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An Encroaching Sea: Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India 1860-1950
Hybrid Book Talk | SSEALS
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Lucinda Truijers-JansenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Merel Vesseur-van LeeuwenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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Melania Brito Clavijo
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Rob Cullum
Faculty of Humanities
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Ana Cardozo de SouzaFaculty of Humanities
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Daniela Vicherat MattarFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Nikki MulderFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences