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Augmented Realities: Japanese Literati Painting, Circa 1700–1800
Lecture
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Visual Construction of the Dutch: From the Perspective of the “Tōjin”
Lecture
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When religion did not(?) matter in the Balkans: confessionalization in early modern Southeastern Europe
Lecture
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Extracurricular
Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.
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Care and the Jewish Experience
Conference, Second Conference of the Leiden Jewish Studies Network
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Crossing Borders: An afternoon of Music and Words
Lecture
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The connected Caribbean. A socio-material network approach to patterns of homogeneity and diversity in the pre-colonial period
The modern-day Caribbean is a stunningly diverse but also intricately interconnected geo-cultural region, resulting partly from the islands’ shared colonial histories and an increasingly globalizing economy.
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Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany
Debate, Book Launch
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The Myriad Avatars of Izumi Shikibu in Medieval Japan
Lecture
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Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey Introduces the Film “Obchod na Korze”
Lecture
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Spatial Narratives of Historical Experiences: 3D Visualizations of Prisoner Art as Tools for Knowledge Production and Transfer at Holocaust Memorials
Lecture, Austria Centre Leiden Lunch Talk
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Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan
Lecture
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Minecraft in Morocco: virtual building blocks bring the past to life
Getting young people excited about history is quite possible without books. Researchers from Leiden travelled to Morocco to work with schoolchildren on reconstructing cultural heritage in the popular video game Minecraft. The result: one virtual 14th-century city gate – and 20 teens with a greater appreciation…
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Unveiling the Written Heritage of the Siak Sultanate: An Ethnographic Study on the Access and Interpretation of the Archives of Sultan Syarif Kasim
Lecture
- Evening Lecture Series: Practitioners in War
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Introducing 'Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One Direction' (Purdue Univ. Press, 2024)
Lecture, Austria Centre Leiden Lunch Talk
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A Spiritual Lacuna? Austria-Hungary's Religious Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Lecture, Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk
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‘Working together on the basis of mutual respect is enriching and satisfying’
Since 2017 guest researcher Gerrit de Wit has been working together with Congolese linguists and the Boa community to develop the oral Boa language into a written one. He tells us about 2 unique projects, which are steadily unearthing and describing the structure of a new language.
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When images are not worth a thousand words: from cinematic multimodality to enhanced subtitling
Lecture
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Historicism: A Travelling Concept
Throughout the twentieth century, scholars, artists and politicians have accused each other of “historicism.” But what exactly did this mean? Judging by existing scholarship, the answers varied enormously. Like many other “isms,” historicism could mean nearly everything, to the point of becoming mea…
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Ellis Annual Lecture 2023: The Place of Archives in Modern African Studies: A Searchlight on the Patronage of National Archives of Nigeria, Ibadan
Lecture
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From Slavery to Freedom
Conference, Webinar
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Debunking Myths about China: The Determinants of China’s Official Financing to the Pacific
Bob van Grieken and Jaroslaw Kantorowicz published an article in the journal Geopolitics which explores the determinants of China's official financing of Pacific Island states.
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“Was the Habsburg Empire an Empire?”
Lecture, Fourth Annual Leiden Austrian Studies Lecture
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Marketing Nostalgia: Packing and Unpacking the Everyday Lives of Children in Japan
Lecture
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An Evening of Druze Voices
Lecture, Event
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On behalf of the Austria Centre Leiden, The Embassy of the Czech Republic in The Hague and The Czech Centre in Rotterdam, you are warmly invited
Lecture, Book talk
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The Inauguration of the Fonds Oostenrijkse Studiën at the Leiden University Fund (LUF)
Inauguration
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Book Launch for Dr. Kate Brackney's 'Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness'
Lecture, Book Roundtable
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Urban green infrastructure for biodiversity and ecosystem services
Urbanisation is steadily increasing with estimates expecting that 68% of the global population will live in cities by 2050. To accommodate the rural to urban transition, large quantities of land are transformed from natural to urban lands.
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It costs money to borrow money, but how much and for how long?
Minou van der Werf advocates applying insights from social psychology to financial behaviour. Even small practical interventions can help people to make sensible financial choices, Van der Werf discovered as a result of her field studies. PhD defence 10 December.
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‘My students don't stop at a six!'
During the opening of the academic year, true to tradition the LUC Teaching Prize will be awarded to the University's best lecturer. Get to know the nominees. This week: Florian Schneider.
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Regenerative medicine
Repairing organs, tissues and cells to fight chronic diseases.
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Inhibitors and probes targeting mannanases
This thesis describes the synthesis and biochemical evaluation of a variety of cyclophellitol based activity-based probes and inhibitors targeting various endo- and exo-acting retaining glycosidases. In the last two decades a variety of probes and inhibitors for (hemi)cellulose degrading enzymes have…
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Multiway Analysis
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Adaptation strategies, water management and social changes: the case of Turkmenistan
The main question I want to answer is about the mutual influence between the cultural and settlements changes that occurred between the Bronze and the Early Iron Age in Margiana and the management of water resources.
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LUCAS “Modern and Contemporary Studies” Research Cluster 3rd annual conference 'Environment as Lens: Rethinking Humanities Research through the
Conference
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Lotte van Dillen starts the European collaborative project Work Hard, Play Hard
Lotte van Dillen has been awarded a NWO funding for a research project in collaboration with Wilhelm Hofmann of the University of Cologne and Henk van Steenbergen of Leiden University about hedonic compensation.
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Former Leiden Colleague Sven Vleeming honored with ‘Festschrift’
On February 2nd, 2018, Professor Sven P. Vleeming of Trier University was presented with a ‘Festschrift’ to celebrate his retirement last summer. The book was presented to him, in the presence of friends and colleagues from the Netherlands and abroad, by the editors: his former Leiden colleagues Koen…
- Doing Fieldwork with the Police: Methodological and Ethical Considerations
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Discretion and decision making seminar
On 20 & 21 April 2017 international researchers in the field of law and society and criminology presented their work in Brussels and shared ideas on discretion and decision-making.
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Watch our Vitality and Ageing Webinar On demand
Want to find out more about our master’s programme? Or are you wondering what questions are asked during the Q&A about the content or careers of Vitality and Ageing? Than watching our webinar would suit your curiosity!
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The energy transition under the nanoscope: Gravitation funding for ANION project
Bringing together chemists and physicists to thoroughly investigate how electrochemical processes work on the smallest scale. That is the goal of the new Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute of the Netherlands, or ANION for short. The consortium receives a Gravitation funding of 23.6 million euros…
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Eye-contact in childhood and adolescence
Effects of age and social anxiety
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The Military Perspective: Sea Power in International Security
Lecture
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The Military Perspective: Commanding Air Power
Lecture
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AI in Neuroscience: Development of Methods to make Personalized Predictions for Migraine and Stroke from E-Health Sensor Data
The research of this PhD project can be subdivided into two main disease areas: migraine and stroke. For both we will be investigating how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques can be used to study these afflictions, their (early) detection, and their potential treatment.
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Internetconsultatie nieuwe terrorismewet roept veel weerstand op
In navolging van Duitsland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk, wil de ministerraad een nieuw wetsvoorstel, om verheerlijking van terrorisme en steunbetuiging aan terroristische organisaties strafbaar te stellen. Wim Voermans, hoogleraar Staatsrecht, duidt de zaak in Dagblad Trouw.