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4,273 search results for “cultural history” in the Public website

• Literary Studies: French Literature and Culture French Literature and Culture (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying French Literature and Culture? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

• Media studies: Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

• Literary Studies: Italian Literature and Culture Italian Literature and Culture (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Italian Literature and Culture? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

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  Lennart Bes Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Unravelling East Africa’s Early Linguistic History (LHEAf) Research project

  This project investigates the rich linguistic history of the crucial language groups in East Africa and includes a search for words that indicate earlier lost languages. These outcomes, combined with recent archaeological and genetic research, will contribute to a new understanding of East Africa’s…

• Poetry @ Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019 Event
• Workshops @ Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019 Event
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  Jürgen Zangenberg Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Thijs Porck Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Forged in the Great War : people, transport, and labour, the establishment of colonial rule in Zambia, 1890-1920 Research output

  The territories that would make up what is today the Republic of Zambia officially became British in 1891. However, this did not equate to an on-the-ground presence of colonial authority capable of affecting the destiny and daily lives of people.

• Contact Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (BSc)

  Do you have any questions about the international bachelor's programme in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology? Contact us!

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  Thinley Dema PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Jochem van den Boogert Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)

  Are you thinking about studying a master in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology in Leiden? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

• Culture: text and images in Japan Research Dossier: Asia

  One of the ways of understanding another culture better is to examine what people experience when they read a text, or look at an image. Leiden experts have a lot of knowledge in this field, for example on culture in ancient Japan.

• Cultures of Collecting: The Leiden Anatomical Collections in Context Research project

  The general aim of the project is a description and analysis of the Leiden anatomical collections from a humanities perspective. The project investigates how historical and cultural practices and concerns have shaped anatomical preparations and how exhibitions of the anatomical body have informed cultural…

• Civitates Hispaniae: urbanization on the Iberian Peninsula during the Roman Empire Research project

  How do we explain the fact that certain areas had many large cities, while other areas were studded with large numbers of small towns and yet other areas had very few urban agglomerations of any kind?

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  Wim van den Doel Dean LDE / Professor

  Administration and Central Services

• Quiet Rebels? A Social History of Political Rhetoric Research project

  Speeches and speech acts have been crucial in settling the question at the centre of every political debate: who gets what, when and where?

• Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)

  Join the Master's in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. Specialise in ethnographic research and gain valuable skills.

• A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942 Research output

  In A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia.

• Surreal Geographies. A New History of Holocaust Consciousness Research output

  Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced from the immediate postwar period up to the present moment, Kathryn L. Brackney investigates changing portrayals of Jewish victims and survivors.

• The Fate of Anatomical Collections Research output

  The changing status of anatomical collections from the early modern period to date.

• Ñuhun Ñuu Savi: Land and language as cultural heritage of the People of the Rain Research project

  The research focuses on the understanding of symbolic stratigraphy of the land (through time) from the worldview of the People of the Rain (one of the Indigenous Peoples of southern Mexico), by studying contemporary cultural heritage in communities of the Mixtec Highlands.

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  Bart Verheijen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Inge Ligtvoet Secretary

  Faculty of Humanities

• Programme structure Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (BSc)

  The international bachelor's programme in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology covers three years, allowing you to establish a firm foundation and specialise in topics that you find interesting.

• Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects Research output

  On 11 November 2021, Evelien Campfens defended the thesis 'Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. N.J. Schrijver and Prof. W.J. Veraart (VU Amsterdam).

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  Edmund Hayes University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Review Reworking Culture by Erik de Maaker Research output

  'Reworking Culture is based on the author’s ethnographic engagement with people in and around the village of Sadolpara in the West Garo Hills in highland Northeast India (HNEI), where he conducted more than 20 years of fieldwork.'

• Squaramide-based supramolecular materials for 3D cell culture applications Research output

  A new type of tripodal squaramide-based supramolecular hydrogels is developed and studied.

• CIA and Crypto AG rewrite history – Clingentael Spectator Research output

  It recently emerged that a Swiss firm secretly owned by the CIA and the West German intelligence service BND had been selling manipulated coding equipment to numerous governments, including allies, to spy on them through a Swiss cover firm for years.

• Online Experience Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Event

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  Stijn Bussels Scientific Director LUCAS/Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• representation of post-nuclear landscapes in contemporary art and culture Research project

  How does contemporary art and culture represent nuclear contamination in post-nuclear landscapes?

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  Robert Stein Senior University Lecturer in Medieval History

  Faculty of Humanities

• Kids Activities @ Middle Eastern Culture Market Event
• Building tabernae Research project

  This project focuses on urban commercial space in Roman Italy and deals with the impact of economic growth on urban communities in the late Republic and the Imperial period (200 BCE – 300 CE).

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  Andrew Shield Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Lionel Laborie Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Pieter Slaman Assistant Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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  Nira Wickramasinghe Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Inge Kraus Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• Dutch guest workers in 18th century Spain. The Leiden-Guadalajara migration circuit Research project

  From 1717 onwards, many Dutch textile workers emigrated to Spain, recruited in the Netherlands through Spanish intermediary agents and diplomatic staff. Bourbon Spain wanted to strengthen its economy by founding royal factories and was in desperate need for skilled foreign labour. This example of labour…

• Roman Fake News? Documentary Fictions in the Roman Empire Research project

  How can theories about modern disinformation help to understand how Roman documentary fictions functioned?

• Classics (800 BCE−600 CE) Research project

  This research cluster aims to analyse and interpret the formation and transmission of Graeco-Roman culture by exploring the relationships between cultural products (texts, objects, practices) and their societal and historical contexts.

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  Jeroen Duindam Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Teaching Chinese Language and Culture (MA)

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  Suzanne Adema University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ilios Willemars University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities