848 search results for “seconden world war” in the Staff website
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The Future of Conventional Deterrence in Europe
Panel discussion
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From lone genius to cocreator: how AI is changing the role of composers
Who is the real creator when a musician uses AI? This was the burning question for Adam Lukawski, himself a composer. During a fascinating premiere at Amare, The Hague’s cultural hub, he demonstrated what cocreation sounds like.
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Three Leiden researchers awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Three researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The subsidy will allow the researchers to set up their own projects and put together a research team.
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MEPs’ visit highlights importance of knowledge about Global South
Two MEPs visited Leiden University on Friday 30 January. Their visit underscored the vital importance of the university’s expertise on Africa, Asia and Latin America in a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape.
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Lennart Kruijer wins Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize with thesis on ancient Commagene
The prestigious Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize is annually awarded to the five best dissertations published in the year before in the fields of Humanities, Social sciences and Law. During a festive ceremony in Utrecht Lennart Kruijer received the award from the hands of professor Bas ter Haar…
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How do our language rules come about?
Many of the language rules we use today were formulated in the 17th and 18th centuries. In a dual track at the universities of Leiden and Brussels, PhD candidate Eline Lismont investigated why some rules became successful while other rules were quickly forgotten.
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Researchers crack the rules of unknown board game from the Roman period
Researchers have used AI to reconstruct the rules of a board game carved into a stone found in the Dutch city of Heerlen. The team concludes that this type of game was played several centuries earlier than previously assumed.
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‘Humans are storytellers’: the power of stories in language development of children and AI models
What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’
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Across World Orders: Information, Trust, Control, and Those in- Between in the Qing-Tibetan relationship (1636-1727)
PhD defence
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exomoons Observational signatures of tidally induced volcanism in other worlds
PhD defence
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Symposium: Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy
Conference
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Symposium: Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy
Conference, Symposium
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Frans Willem KorstenFaculty of Humanities
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Meet our new colleague Letty ten Harkel: ‘I am interested in what happens when different cultures come together’
In August 2022 we welcome our new colleague Dr Letty ten Harkel as Assistant Professor in Roman and Post-Roman Archaeology. For the past ten years she has built up an impressive track record in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Read the interview about her background and research…
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From sovereignty at sea to self-determination: the geopolitics of Greenland
Who holds rights to Greenland’s surrounding waters and natural resources? Which interests are at stake and for whose benefit? We put these questions to Hilde Woker, who specialises in the law of the sea in the Arctic.
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New publication affirms academic legacy of Hanna Stöger
In summer 2018 classical archaeologist Hanna Stöger passed away. At that moment she was in the midst of several cutting-edge research projects on the use of space in the Roman city of Ostia. To make sure that her groundbreaking work would not go unpublished, long-time colleagues Hans Kamermans and Bouke…
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Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)
In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.
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Was Suriname expensive or not? ‘The economic situation has never been properly assessed’
His Surinamese neighbours in Amsterdam gave Russia expert and economic historian Isaac Scarborough an idea: a re-evaluation of the Surinamese economy in the twentieth century. An NWO XS grant will enable him to make a start on this.
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Worlds shaped by words: A cross-linguistic investigation into the neural mechanisms of lexico-syntactic feature production
PhD defence
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Disorienting Empire
Conference, Workshop
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Jaap Corthals
Jaap Corthals is a Dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre. Working title ' The Conditions of Possibility for Philosophical Methodology'.
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Vincent NiochetFaculty of Archaeology
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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Mohammed Raiz ShaffiqueFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Herman SiemensFaculty of Humanities
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Rutger HoekstraFaculty of Science
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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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Susanna de BeerFaculty of Humanities
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Bart CustersFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gelijn MolierFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Christina Pasvanti GkiokaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Andrew SorensenFaculty of Archaeology
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Victor KlinkenbergFaculty of Archaeology
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Jacqueline VelFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Arie-Jan KwakFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nathal DessingFaculty of Humanities
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Karolina PomorskaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Tessa van BuchemFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Bruno VerbeekFaculty of Humanities
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Philippe van GruisenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Simone van der HofFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Szilvia BiroFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Kees WaaldijkFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Martin BergerFaculty of Archaeology
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Nina van CapelleveenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Edmund HayesFaculty of Humanities
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Carlotta RigottiFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid