The sites of Norman Estata, Anse des Pères and Hope Estate with a contribution to the 'La Hueca problem'

This paper explores the long-term endurance of “breath” as a schema of personhood in the Austronesian-speaking world, from a comparative-ethnographic approach to the “Man with No Breath” figure featured in Philippine epics. This is one of two contributions from Myfel D. Paluga and Andrea Malaya M.…

Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 1

Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 2

The conquest by Rome brought profound changes to large parts of Europe. Unprecedented infrastructural works were created, towns sprang up, a ribbon of fortresses was laid out along the frontiers.

This dissertation focuses on the question how text and paratext contribute to the way that text in a network-like environment is clearly bordered and at the same time can easily be linked to other texts.

LUXs unites statisticians from all over the university, who are all members of their own faculty. LUXs does not have its own organisational units, but it is coordinated by a Steering Committee.

Some examples of AI-research done at Leiden.

Grammatical gender is famously the most puzzling of the grammatical categories. We have a solid typology of gender systems, yet exciting and unexpected patterns keep turning up which defy easy classification and straightforward analysis. Some of these question, stretch or threaten to cross the outer…

Aesthetic formations and cultural repertoires give meaning to our reality in ways that are never neutral. Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and its global interlocutors, this project brings together a team of scholars from Leiden University who bring in inter-disciplinary, inter-area…

At LUCL, researchers have established the Leiden Hands!Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies.

Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference Amsterdam 2008

Empirical Legal Studies has a methodological and substantive component. Our research projects use qualitative and quantitative methods for the empirical study of the intersection between law and behavior. We are interested in the interaction between empirical and normative questions.

The Advisory Board is an external Advisory Council, to advice the Board of Directors of CML about general strategies, research and education activities and evaluation procedures (Dutch: visitatie).

The aim of the research project is to get insight in the biostratigraphical age and the palaeoecological setting of the Schöningen sites and hominin behavior and subsistence during the late Lower Palaeolithic.

Lecture, CHiLL series

Band 69 | 2014

This book presents the first comprehensive description of Tafi, one of the fourteen Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages, spoken by approximately 4,400 people in the southeastern part of Ghana. The description consists of thirteen chapters and is based on a corpus gathered during two fieldwork periods…

Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 4

Did the Jochids leave their mark on the Grand Duchy, taking into account that the Lithuanian state was one of the main successor states of the Great Horde in the 16thCentury?

Fieldwork

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The main task of the Board of Examiners is to determine whether a student meets the conditions set by the Honours Academy's Education Regulations with regard to the knowledge, insight and skills of the relevant honours programme. The Board of Examiners has to determine this in an objective manner.

The digitisation of society is a worldwide challenge. Not only are robots increasingly taking over human tasks, they are even beating the world champion at solving the most difficult brainteasers.

The central question in this book is whether there is a human right to family unification.

Leiden University and the annual Canal Run both have something to celebrate: 2019 is the year of the 44th Canal Run and the 444th birthday of Leiden University. Come and run with us on 5 April.

The rapid advances in imaging technology enable to see inside the body with ever increasing detail.

Since 2019, the Foundation for Austrian Studies organises an annual lecture in cooperation with the Institute for History.

This project investigates the capacities of EU institutions to coordinate the responses of member states to critical events.

This dissertation provides a comprehensive overview of the grammar of Bantawa, a Kiranti (Rai) language spoken in Eastern Nepal.

Haunted Europe offers a comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland…

Roman Nijmegen is not only the largest archaeological micro-region in the Netherlands, but also one of the most extensively excavated settlement complexes of the Roman period north of the Alps.

The AAM-LR project aims at building a demonstrator of a web service that will help filed researchers to annotate audio- and video-recordings.

Collaborative linguistic research on indigenous languages of Ecuador: description, documentation & materials

Holidaymakers, day-trippers and tourists were able to book a University tour, with a student as their guide.

This research team is concerned with the measurement and modelling of behaviour, cognition, and unobserved traits (e.g., latent variables, missing data). Central aims include the distillation of a complex set of features into lower-dimensional representations (e.g., factor analysis, IRT), determining…

Many important and extraordinary discoveries have been made in Leiden. Roam the city and discover the fascinating stories behind them. All you need is your smartphone!

In this chapter, Linde Desmaele & Luis Simón examine NATO’s strategic adaptation since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Acquiring and maintaining public support is frequently cited as an important requirement for governments fighting non-state actors. But how exactly can public support influence the course of counterterrorism campaigns and thereby contribute to an escalation or de-escalation of violence?

Promotor: G. J. Kroes

SAILS likes to occasionally organise workshops about topics that relate to our programme. On this page you can find more information about previous workshops.

In ancient times, the steppe in the hinterland of Petra (Jordan) was transformed into a green oasis. This project tries to shed insights in the agricultural, water management and societal processes resulting in this transformation. This will be accomplished by practicing an interdisciplinary research…

The aim of this research was to establish if Ebeling's semiotactic theory and method of semiotactic analysis, as described in his works Syntax and Semantics (1978), Een Inleiding tot de Syntaxis (1994) and Semiotaxis, over Theoretische en Nederlandse Syntaxis (2006), could be applied to Modern Japanese…

The aim is to develop methods to assess environmental and occupational exposure to (individual) pesticides, to be applied in epidemiological studies investigating pesticide exposure and human health. Furthermore, we aim to investigate the potential association between exposure to pesticides and Parkinson’s…

A project aimed at understanding the complicated process of religious transformation in one of the centres of the early Muslim world.

Research at the THEOR group is comprised of the following research themes: