2,838 search results for “natural america history” in the Public website
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Ñuu Savi: Pasado, presente y futuro
Descolonización, continuidad cultural y re-apropiación de los códices mixtecos en el Pueblo de la Lluvia
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Tazuko van Berkel receives 260 year old prize
The 260 year old prize of the Legatum Stolpianum has been awarded in 2014 to two well written historical studies of high quality and with current significance. Leiden classicist Tazuko van Berkel is one of the two prizewinners.
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Boom2Dust
What was the environmental impact of the industrial mining revolution that transformed southern Africa? Specifically, what was the impact of industrial mining when viewed from a more than human multi-species perspective?
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Eco-friendly farmers do what they say
Farmers who commit to environmentally friendly working methods also actively practise nature conservation in their farming - particularly when this is not financed by the government. These are the findings of research carried out by Anne Marike Lokhorst, who will receive her PhD on 17 September based…
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Who did all the work? The hidden labour of colonial science
Investigating the contribution of interpreters, informants, hunters and guides in the making of colonial scientific knowledge.
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Liesbeth ClaesFaculty of Humanities
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Breaking the Unbreakable: Computational and Biochemical Identification of Polyethylene-Degrading Enzymes
Engineering an efficient microbial enzymatic polyethylene degradation pathway via an innovative combination of biochemistry and computational biology tools for enzyme discovery and characterization.
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Safe anytime-valid inference: from theory to implementation in psychiatry research
Classical statistical methods, such as p-values, are difficult for researchers to apply correctly. They for example do not allow drawing conclusions from a study early, or for extending a study with extra research groups that want to make their data available later.
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski said in his inaugural lecture on 26 November. In her lecture, the second Cleveringa Professor, Barbara Engelking, pointed to the often indifferent…
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Jos Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, to be new interim Vice-Dean
Prof. J. (Jos) Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, will be the interim Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1 March 2025. He will succeed the present Vice-Dean, Mirjam de Baar, who will complete her second term on that date.
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Feminist Foreign Policy under Pressure: Latin America and the Caribbean in Times of Conservative Backlash
Conference
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How the Battle of Heiligerlee became a legend
The Battle of Heiligerlee, on 23 May 450 years ago, is famous as an epic battle in Dutch history. But was it really so momentous? Professor of Early Modern History Judith Pollmann unravels the myths about ‘Heiligerlee’ and the Eighty Years' War.
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Matthew FrearFaculty of Humanities
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Autonomy and Objectivity
The aim of this project is to foster a historiography that does justice both to the realization that scientific knowledge is constructed by local, contingent, and contextual processes, and the claims of science to objective validity.
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NEXUS 1492. New World Encounters in a Globalising World
What are the immediate and lasting effects of the colonial encounters on indigenous Caribbean cultures and societies and what were the intercultural dynamics that took place during the colonisation processes? How can the study of indigenous Caribbean histories contribute to a more sophisticated awareness…
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Floris PlakFaculty of Humanities
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Paul Kalsbeek
Faculty of Humanities
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Elena Dacome
Faculty of Humanities
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Thea Hilhorst
Faculty of Humanities
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Ron Elkhuizen
Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Rudi van MaanenFaculty of Humanities
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Medieval and Early Modern Studies Spring School: Landscape History and Ecology (Gent, 28 May - 1 June 2024)
Climate change, depletion of natural resources, loss of natural and cultural landscapes, and many other (ecological) sustainability challenges urge us to (re)evaluate human interaction with the natural world. This renewed environmental consciousness has invigorated not only scientists working on effects…
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Contested landscapes in the age of encounter
Amerindian settlement patterns and early colonial cartography in Northern Hispaniola
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Suriname
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden University Medical Center with the Anton de Kom University of Suriname.
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JEDI Fund 2025
On this page you will find more information about the selected projects of the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund for 2025.
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Indigenous adornment in a pan-Caribbean perspective
the production, use and exchange of bodily accoutrements through the lenses of the microscope
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Migration
Better discussions and policy on migration, grounded in academic research and expertise.
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Monitoring Migrations: The Habsburg-Ottoman Border in the Eighteenth Century
How old is the phenomenon of states attempting to control migrations on external borders? What were the motives and outcomes of these policies? In his dissertation, Jovan Pešalj examines how migration control on the southern Habsburg border emerged, how they functioned, and what impact they had on migrations.…
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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Sander van der HorstFaculty of Humanities
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Pam de GrootFaculty of Humanities
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Sander Tetteroo
Faculty of Humanities
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Intigam MamedovFaculty of Humanities
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Simon Kemper
Faculty of Humanities
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Margaretha KleijnFaculty of Humanities
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Hendri Schut
Faculty of Humanities
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Research into colonial encounters wins Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship
Archaeologist Corinne Hofman wins the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship 2018/19 for research into the changing world of indigenous peoples as a result of colonialism. “The perspective of indigenous communities is still lacking in most history books.
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Martijn StormsLeiden University Libraries
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Sjoerd RamackersFaculty of Humanities
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Jamel BuhariFaculty of Humanities
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Marijke KooijmanFaculty of Humanities
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Emma SowFaculty of Humanities
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Ajeng Arainikasih
Faculty of Humanities
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Farewell event for Mark Rutgers on a unique day in the university’s history
With the red flag flying proudly on the Academy Building (Leiden University was on strike for the first time in its history!), the farewell event for former dean Mark Rutgers was held in the Telders Auditorium. After eight years, he has passed the baton to the interim dean, Henk te Velde.
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Maia Casna
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Mirjam de BaarFaculty of Humanities
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Ivo SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Martijn Manders