2,596 search results for “cultural anthropology” in the Public website
-
Meet Dr. Kathyrn Brackney, LJSA Member
Dr. Brackney is a modern European intellectual and cultural historian with a Ph.D. from Yale University. Before coming to Leiden, she held postdoctoral teaching posts in the History & Literature program at Harvard University and the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago.
-
We can no longer look at the world as ‘the West and the rest’
Art historian and professor Kitty Zijlmans is on a mission: she wants to get rid of the notion that the West dominates the art world. To no longer put 'the West and the rest', but the exchange between ideas and cultures at the centre of art history. ‘You will see that there has been so much exchange,…
-
‘One day of lessons and the Boa people can read their own language’
Until recently the Congo’s isolated Boa community had never read a single letter in their own language: quite simply, there was no alphabet to describe the language. A crowdfunding campaign by guest staff member Gerrit de Wit has changed that. He plans to use the rest of the money to work with a Congolese…
-
New MOOC: The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World
Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle East under Muslim rule was the world’s beating heart of trade, but also of science and scholarship? Want to learn more? Then sign up for the new MOOC…
-
Sjef Barbiers moves to INT: ‘Especially in times of AI, we need to keep Dutch relevant’
Professor Sjef Barbiers is leaving his job as scientific director of LUCL for the position of scientific director of the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) from 1 September.
-
We Can Change the Defaults: Building Networks of Consent and Spaces of Joy in the Ruins of Social Media
Lecture
-
Temporalities of Futuring: Heritage, Custom and Tradition in the Himalayas
Workshop
-
ReCNTR: My Want of You Partakes of Me
ReCNTR Film Screening
-
Paolo Sartori will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in April 2018
Paolo Sartori is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. In Leiden he will deliver one guest lecture on Twilight of the Persianate: The Vernacularization of Central Asia (18th - early 20th Centuries) on 12 April and a masterclass on How can we…
-
In memoriam Harold M. Hays (1965-2013)
It is with profound sadness that we have learned of the passing of our colleague and friend, Dr Harold M Hays. Harold passed away on Wednesday 20 November, in his sleep, as a result of heart failure.
-
Language as a time machine
About 90 per cent of Austronesian and Papuan languages are under threat of soon becoming extinct. Marian Klamer is the only professor in the world who researches both these language groups. She records languages before they disappear and sheds new light on the history of Indonesia. Inaugural lecture…
-
Back to Morocco
Hayat Essakkati grew up in the Netherlands and studied Public Administration in Leiden. She started her own company in Morocco, the country where her parents were born. 'Moroccan culture and religion are not as conservative as people in the Netherlands often think.'
-
‘Military strikes alone unlikely to fatally undermine Venezuelan government’
What will be the outcome of the US raid on Venezuela and capture of President Maduro? ‘History shows that people usually react to being bombed by a foreign power by rallying around the flag, not turning against their leaders’, says historian Andrew Gawthorpe in The Conversation.
-
"Hello World!" #4 - Lecture by Zane Kripe
The “Hello World!” series focuses on new encounters and new inspiration, inviting seven speakers with hugely varying backgrounds to give us their perspectives on what they see as currently important. The fourth speaker is Zane Kripe, antropologist, and Media Technology MSc programme alumna.
-
China's new heroes: ‘Sacrificing yourself for the community gives you status’
Sacrificing yourself for the greater good: in China, martyrdom and hero worship have been strongly encouraged by the Communist Party for the past decade or so. University lecturer Vincent Chang tells us more about this far-reaching development.
-
PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
-
Floris Harm studied Chinese, just like one of his ancestors: ‘We’re both trying to promote mutual understanding’
When Floris Harm took up his role as director of the Leiden Asia Centre, he made a remarkable discovery on the university website. It turned out that a past family member was one of Leiden University’s first sinologists.
-
Ensnaring tumours in their own web
Erik Danen is looking at how to inhibit tumours that do not respond well to medicine – and he is making some headway. The Professor of Cancer Drug Target Discovery studies the interaction between tumour cells and their surroundings. Inaugural lecture on Friday 10 May.
-
Mirjam Oomens: ‘Healthcare professionals should be cautious about survival prognoses’
Mirjam Oomens was working on her PhD research on language in the consulting room when she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Four years later, she has made it her mission to encourage doctors and other healthcare professionals to make fewer statements about life expectancy. 'Such a conviction can…
-
All eyes on China: the Communist Party Congress is coming up
The world’s attention will shift to China as the Communist Party is set to hold its five-yearly congress beginning on 16 October. We talk to Senior University Lecturer Florian Schneider about how its leader Xi Jinping is expected to cement his place as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Ze…
-
Alex Geurds nieuwe decaan Faculteit der Archeologie
Alex Geurds, hoogleraar Archeologie van Midden-Amerika, wordt vanaf 1 januari decaan van de Faculteit der Archeologie.
-
Jenny AudringFaculty of Humanities
-
Kate BrackneyFaculty of Humanities
-
Pieter ter KeursFaculty of Humanities
-
Janet GrijzenhoutFaculty of Humanities
-
Bruno AllahissemFaculty of Humanities
-
Hester GrootFaculty of Humanities
-
Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
-
Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
-
Ronny BoogaartFaculty of Humanities
-
Esther de VrindICLON
-
Marie Kolbenstetter -
Casper de JongeFaculty of Humanities
-
Yoonai HanFaculty of Humanities
-
Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
-
Nuranisa NuranisaFaculty of Humanities
-
Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
-
Wim van AnrooijFaculty of Humanities
-
Robbert StriekwoldFaculty of Humanities
-
Martin Berger -
Naomi TruanFaculty of Humanities
-
Francianne Dos Santos VelhoFaculty of Humanities
-
Kamila Krakowska RodriguesFaculty of Humanities
-
Geert WarnarFaculty of Humanities
-
Rita de Sousa e Silva -
Bert BotmaFaculty of Humanities
-
Tim SandersFaculty of Humanities
-
Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
-
Maarten van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
-
Ernst van AlphenFaculty of Humanities