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Theoretical Physics: ‘The problems I study can come from anywhere in society’
The financial sector, supply chains and ecology. Not necessarily topics you might associate with physics, yet it’s exactly what new professor Diego Garlaschelli is dealing with. The common thread? Complex networks.
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Archaeologist Annelou van Gijn lectures at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
During her lecture, Professor Annelou van Gijn explored user-wear analysis and experimental archaeology, showing details about past human life.
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New Science Library Open
From study places to consulting collections and from a meeting with your faculty liaison to getting books after opening hours: the new Science Library offers it all. The library moved to a brand new location in the Gorlaeus building and will be open starting 15 April.
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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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The public manager in the 21st century
Managers in the public and semi-public sector work in an increasingly complex and unpredictable environment, which demands new knowledge and competences but also offers tremendous opportunities. This will be the view presented by Zeger van der Wal, professor by special appointment in Public Administration,…
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Humans of Humanities
In the Humans of Humanities series, we will do a portrait of one of our researchers, staff members or students, every other week.
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‘We want to ensure that literature is once again voiced by its own society and resonates beyond it’
For decades, the trade in pocketbooks prescribing how to be a good Muslim flourished in East Africa, but in recent years the number of books in circulation has been declining. University lecturer Annachiara Raia is the recipient of an Impact Explorer grant to revive this tradition, in cooperation with…
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Sharing knowledge about social media in Africa
Africa is online. Leiden Africa expert Mirjam de Bruijn is fascinated by the fast development of mobile telephony and social media in Africa. She maintains a website on the topic, focusing on isolated, marginalised and conflict-ridden areas in Middle Africa.
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Emergency recording of Chontales style sculpture at the El Gavilán site, Central Nicaragua
The scientific interest in stone sculpture has been present in the archaeological investigation of Nicaragua from the mid 19th century onward.
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Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria)
Leiden University and the Netherlands National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) are jointly involved in the intensive archaeological exploration of Northern Syria, by means of field surveys and large-scale excavations at a number of archaeological sites in the Balikh basin: the Tell…
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Basic Program 2024-2025
The basic program comprises a total of twelve courses organized by the Research School, that have been purpose-developed for training and support of PhD students and Research MA students who specialize in Medieval Studies (history, art history, and literary history, in particular).
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Barend Barentsen on increase in strike action
With inflation skyrocketing, more and more workers are willing to take action for better working conditions. From regional transport to municipal officials, and from healthcare staff to pharmacy workers, it’s one strike after another in the Netherlands.
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Research themes
LUCAS hosts a wide variety of research. Here we outline some of the most important research themes.
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Cyan BaeSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Helena Landwehr
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Emmanuel Ogwuche OkpeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nika Kratsashvili
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Duygu Uysal DincolFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Faizal RiantoFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ruben van de VenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sarah StevensFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ivan DunduroFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maximilian Wachter
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Jan Meijer
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Yuan Yi ZhuFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rosalba Icaza GarzaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Alexandros Ntaflos
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Manuel Cabal LopezFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Christofer TalvitieFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Eleftherios KarchimakisFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Kiara Thais Castaman DiazFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Alessia AspideFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Pouria MirelmiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Stefan Cetkovic
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Jonathan PhillipsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Josh RobisonFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marco VerschoorFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jelke BethlehemFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Floris Mansvelt BeckFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Frits Meijerink
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Carina van de Wetering
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The Future of Dying: End-of-Life Care in a Time of De-medicalized Death
This project investigates ethnographically how patients, their relatives, and healthcare professionals in the Netherlands make decisions about end-of-life care. We study the new dilemmas around what constitutes
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'Dionysus never looked so beautiful'
The renovated National Museum of Antiquities will re-open for the public on 15 December. Conservator Ruurd Halbertsma, Leiden Professor of Archaeology, explains why the renovation was needed: 'More visible cohesion between cultures, more context and more artistic lighting.'
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana
From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana at the Rapenburg in Leiden, kept in the Leiden University Library, Rotterdam researcher Erik-Jan Bos discovered a hitherto unknown…
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NWO KIEM Grant for LUCAS researchers
Together with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and creative partner Big Orange, Laura Bertens, Sara Polak, Yra van Dijk, and Thony Visser will investigate possible uses of the voice in cultural memory.
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Experience Day Science for Sustainable Societies
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Osteoarchaeology: The Truth in Our Bones
We are pleased to announce that on the 30th of September Dr. Andrea Waters-Rist from the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University (The Netherlands) will be launching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) all about human osteoarchaeology!
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The Chinese Queer Collection - A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics at Leiden University
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