4,521 search results for “arts in the spotlight” in the Public website
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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Roos van OostenFaculty of Archaeology
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Henk te VeldeFaculty of Humanities
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Corinne HofmanFaculty of Archaeology
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Joanita VroomFaculty of Archaeology
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Wouter Veenendaal
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty of Humanities
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Volunteer in the Hague
Are you passionate about peace, justice, and democracy, and keen to get involved in The Hague’s vibrant international community? This is your chance! The Global Transformations and Governance Challenges programme is leading Leiden University's participation in the Just Peace Festival!
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NVIC in the News
The New York Times published a long article about the DNA investigation that the FBI has done on the mummified head of Djehutinakht from Dayr al-Barsha. Our assistant director for Archaeology and Egyptology, Dr Marleen de Meyer, excavated the room in which the head was found in 2009.
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Online Experience Leiden University College The Hague
Study information, Online Experience
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Online Experience Leiden University College The Hague
Study information, Online Experience
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Looking inside the tent: questions for deep history
Lecture
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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College Tour de Podcast with Will Koopman
Debate, College Tour de podcast
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College Tour de Podcast with Pjotr Sauer
Debate, College Tour de podcast
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Book presentation: Van Bedaja tot Madonna: de Javaanse beeldsnijder Iko
Lecture, Book presentation
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Book presentation: In Staat van Beleg - Aeneas Tacticus
Lecture, Book presentation
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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Student for a Day - MSc Crisis and Security Management, spec. War and Peace Studies
Study information
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the nature and properties of dark matter using the stellar kinematics in the centres of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies
Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe. Its properties cannot be explained with the known laws of physics and elementary particles.
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undisclosed trauma: A social network study on support and well-being in the context of childhood sexual abuse
Childhood sexual abuse is a common problem, with approximately one in five girls and one in 13 boys worldwide experiencing some form of sexual abuse before the age of 18. Despite its high prevalence, many individuals remain silent about these experiences, often delaying disclosure for years, with one…
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Rescue excavations in the Caribbean
Alongside the incredible devastation brought by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in the fall of 2017, the storms have had an extremely damaging effect on the archaeological site of Sauteurs Bay on the North coast of Grenada. This unique and important site is now left exposed and vulnerable to the elements.
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Indigenous Knowledge of Medicinal, Aromatic and Cosmetic (MAC) Plants in the Utilisation of the Plural Medical System in Pirgos and Praitoria for
Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer
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Conference programme AHBx
Aquí pueden encontrar el programa del congreso.
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Voicing the colony
This project studies travel writing about the Dutch East Indies written between 1800 and the end of the Second World War. By analyzing both Dutch travel texts and Indigenous travel texts in Javanese and Malay, it presents a new, double-voiced perspective on (the historiography of) the Dutch colonial…
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The Critical Visitor
The Heritage Sector at a Crossroads: The way of Intersectionality. This project investigates how heritage institutions can achieve inclusion and accessibility within their organization, collection, and exhibition spaces that meets the breadth of demands placed by today’s “critical visitors.” Fifteen…
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Leiden Medievalists Blog meet-up
Lecture
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Education as motor of change
Arts and culture, Film & dialogue
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Driving Men and Women to Engage in Far-Right Social Movement Activism in the Present-Day United States
In the present-day United States, to what degree(s) are far-right men and women similar and/or dissimilar in their motivating factors for engaging in far-right social movement activism?
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Platform Thingsthattalk brings together historical objects
Using the motto 'Exploring humanities through the life of objects' the Thingsthattalk platform gives a voice to historical objects that are usually kept behind closed doors. Objects from various Leiden collections are going to be made public and placed within a historical and user context.
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Energy transition: let’s opt for a combined approach
Despite the rapid progress in solar and wind energy, a completely clean energy supply remains a huge challenge. Heavy industry, aviation, shipping and road transport are not yet able to do without carbon-based fuels. To reach the climate goals, in these industries energy consumption should be CO2 neutral. In…
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Opening Gorlaeus Building celebrated grandly
Confetti, stilt walkers and the new Einstein Fountain. On Monday, 2 September, the Gorlaeus Building of the Faculty of Science was festively opened. Together with Constantijn van Oranje, our students cut the ribbon. Dean Jasper Knoester: ‘The building is ready, now it is up to our students and researchers…
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Freon-40 may not be a useful marker of life
Observations made with the ALMA telescope in Chile and ESA’s Rosetta mission, have detected the faint molecular fingerprint of methyl chloride in gas, a chemical commonly produced by industrial biological processes on Earth, around both an infant star and a comet. Methyl chloride, also known as Freon-40,…
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Teaching innovation: Training students to give LU talks
Lights out, spotlight on, the LU talks begin. In the small Imperium Theatre, next to the Leidse Schouwburg, students take turns walking up to the round blue carpet. There they have five minutes to present their first LU talk to lecturers, fellow students, and the camera. ‘Extremely useful and instructive’…
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Physics Nobel Prize for former Leiden Lorentz Professor
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their work on the measurement of gravitational waves. Thorne was Lorentz Professor in 2009 in Leiden. Physicist Jan Willem van Holten explains why this is such an important discovery. ‘A new branch of astrophysics…
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NKI-AVL and LUMC are joining forces in immunotherapy
Strengthening a cancer patient's own immune system so that the body itself can better destroy cancer cells. This is at the heart of immunotherapy, the most promising progress in cancer treatment in recent years. In order to drive this development further, the Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van…
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More attention than ever for digitalisation within the government: ‘A good thing’
Minister of Digitalisation Alexandra van Huffelen will give a guest lecture on the government’s ambitions in the field of digitalisation on Monday 12 September. Bram Klievink, professor Digitalisation and Public Policy and founder of The Hague Centre for Digital Governance will act as mediator. ‘Digitalisation…
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Mission successful: deposits on small plastic bottles
After years of lobbying by environmental activists, a deposit scheme for small plastic bottles is to be introduced on 1 July 2021. One of the leaders in the fight is alumnus Merijn Tinga. The university will have collection points for plastic bottles and is also supporting the Plastic Spotter citizen…
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man’s problem? Comparing post #MeToo policy and awareness training in the Dutch and French cultural sectors
Why do sexual violence policies still fail to systematically address men and masculinities, when the need for cultural change among men has been central in public debates since #MeToo?
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Larger Than Life: The Ommerschans hoard and the role of giant swords in the European Bronze Age (1500-1100 BC)
This book aims to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding this exceptional group of larger-than-life Bronze Age blades.
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Somayah ElsayedFaculty of Science
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Arno KnobbeFaculty of Science
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Isaac ScarboroughFaculty of Humanities
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Anja Schoots-SnijderICLON
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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Laura SteenbergenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Matthijs WesteraFaculty of Humanities
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Marian HickendorffFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Toon KerkhoffFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs