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• Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700 Research output

  The Revolt in The Netherlands erupted in 1566 and tore apart the Low Countries. In Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700 Jasper van der Steen explains how public memories of the Revolt in the Habsburg Netherlands in the South and the Dutch Republic in the North diverged and became the objects…

• Housing an Ageing Society: Institutionalisation in the Netherlands after 1945 Event - 18 May 2026

  Lecture, Economic and Social History Brown Bag Seminar

• Exploring Innovations and Opportunities in the Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis Event - 22 May 2026

  PhD defence

• Clinical Challenges and Innovations in the Treatment of Pelvic fractures Event - 12 May 2026

  PhD defence

• The Golden Mean of Languages; Forging Dutch and French in the Early Modern Low Countries (1540-1620) Research output

  In The Golden Mean of Languages, Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both Dutch and French were local tongues. The fascination with the history, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Dutch and French…

• Food production and food procurement in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (2000-500 BC) (2000) Research output

  ASLU 7 - A.E. de Hingh

• An interview with NATO on gender and counter-terrorism News - 6 May 2021

  An interview with Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges David van Weel, and NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Clare Hutchinson

• Contact in the Prehistory of the Sakha (Yakuts): Linguistic and Genetic Perspectives Research output

  This study analyses the prehistory of a northeastern Siberian population, the Sakha, from both a molecular-genetic and a linguistic perspective.

• ethnically mixed relationships of immigrants from Dutch former colonies in the Netherlands, 1945-2005 Research project

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• Virtual Foresight Exercise with Europol News - 1 December 2020

  Early November, Professor of European Law Jorrit Rijpma contributed to Europol's Virtual Foresight Exercise to address the future impact on serious and organised crime in the EU. Human trafficking, smuggling and other forms of organised cross border crime fall within the competence of Europol.

• an information system for the integrated analysis of land use change in the Far North of Cameroon Research output

  Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

• The role of hearing signers in the development of channel specific structures in sign languages of deaf communities Research project

  In this project, the hypothesis that language contact crucially impacts the development of spatial grammar and phonology is investigated.

• Characteristics and conditions of reflective dialogue in the context of Dutch primary school teachers that collaborate and work together Research project

  Reflective dialogue is an effective instrument for professional learning of teachers. This research considers the characteristics, development, stimulating and limiting conditions for reflective dialogues in the context of Dutch primary school teachers who collaborate and learn together. The goal is…

• Is it one Nile? Civic engagement and hydropolitics in the Eastern Nile Basin: the case of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia Research output

  What determines civic engagement in transboundary hydropolitics and why has it been muted in the Eastern Nile Basin?

• Disentangling the roles of social and biophysical factors in the evolution of linguistic diversity in South America Research project

  This project combines an extensive new open database on linguistic distributions, spatial modelling and areal linguistics in order to disentangle the roles of social and environmental factors on the emergence of linguistic diversity patterns of South America.

• The role of hearing signers in the development of channel specific structures in sign languages of deaf communities HANDS!Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies

  In this project, the hypothesis that language contact crucially impacts the development of spatial grammar and phonology is investigated.

• Nanodata – Data providing services in support of research and policy in the field of nanosciences and nanotechnologies Research project

  This project, commissioned by DG Research and Innovation, aims to provide information for policies that lead to the creation and improvement of the conditions which will allow researchers and European industries to safely master the properties of nanomaterials and to innovate with nanotechnology.

• Admission and application (Re)Imagining Port Cities: Understanding Space, Society and Culture

  Are you interested in the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minor (Re)Imagining Port Cities? Find out more about admission and application below.

• The Geopolitics of Japan: 2025 Event - 28 May 2025

  Debate, BASIS The Hague, Universiteit Leiden

• images in prints by Keisai Eisen (1790–1848) ideals of beauty and gender in the Late Edo Period consumer society Research output

  On the 15th of July Sawako Takemura successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

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