711 search results for “politics amanda” in the Student website
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Dr. Henry in Nature: How Ancient People Fell in Love with Carbs
In 2011, Dr. Amanda Henry published her findings from dental plaque picked from the teeth of Neanderthals who were buried in Iran and Belgium between 46,000 and 40,000 years ago. Plant microfossils trapped and preserved in the hardened plaque showed that they were cooking and eating starchy foods including…
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Yasco HorsmanFaculty of Humanities
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Protecting Democracy in Europe: Tom Theuns Presents His New Book at the European Parliament
On 10 December 2024, the European Parliament played host to an insightful presentation of ‘Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy, and the Future of the EU’, the new book by Tom Theuns, Assistant Professor at Leiden University. Hosted by MEP Thijs Reuten (PvdA/S&D) and his team, the event…
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Jeroen MolenaarFaculty of Science
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Sophieke LemsFaculty of Science
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Roy SnijckersFaculty of Science
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Anna WitteveenFaculty of Science
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Iris van WissenFaculty of Science
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Danxia ZhaoFaculty of Science
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Romy DijklandFaculty of Science
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Kauthar ParkerFaculty of Science
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Marloes van OosterhoutFaculty of Science
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Johan ChristensenFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Mark RutgersFaculty of Humanities
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Aitor Burguet-Coca studied fire-use from Palaeolithic to Bronze Age: ‘This gives us an image on different uses of fire across prehistory’
For the following years, Dr Aitor Burguet-Coca will be a returning face at the Faculty of Archaeology. He will join Dr Amanda Henry’s team with his expertise on prehistoric fire use and the methodologies that studying ancient hearths requires.
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The Ethics Committee at Archaeology: ‘Think ahead before starting your research, that’s the point’
In the past decade many academic journals have started to require that researchers provide evidence of ethical review when submitting papers, for example when working with human participants or human remains.. In order to support researchers to ensure their projects are able to meet these expectations,…
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Jeanne VietSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Transforming Society: 'Oligarchic Rivalry: US–China Tariffs and the Global Politics of Inequality'
In a new Transforming Society article, Salvador Santino Regilme, Associate Professor and Chair of the International Relations Program at Leiden University, critiques the Trump administration’s US–China tariff war as a covert instrument of domestic class warfare.
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Jay HuangFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Madeleine HosliFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Toon KerkhoffFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Clare FenwickFaculty of Law
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Anna NotsuSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Leiden researchers explain shock PVV victory
Geert Wilders and his PVV party have won the 2023 elections. What was the deciding factor for this victory?
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Mediterranean hunter gatherers navigated long-distance sea journeys well before the first farmers
Small, remote islands were long thought to have been the last frontiers of pristine natural systems. Humans are not thought to have been able to reach or inhabit these environments prior to the dawn of agriculture, and the technological shift that accompanied this transition. A paper recently published…
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‘Vastgelopen formatie te wijten aan afrekencultuur'
Expert in public affairs and politics Arco Timmermans advised the informer Kim Putters.
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system was supposed to elevate the colony, but turned out to be token politics
In the late 19th century, the Dutch government introduced a tax system in the Dutch East Indies, with the intention of transforming the colony into a modern state. PhD student Maarten Manse wrote his thesis on this development and discovered how grandiloquent colonial ideals became bogged down in daily…
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Noa SchonmannFaculty of Humanities
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Archaeologist interviewed about the carnivore diet
The carnivore diet, a fact or just a trend?
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‘New Rutte IV administrative culture will be difficult to create’
The Rutte IV cabinet is more or less complete. It includes more women than ever. For the first time ever, the Netherlands will have two ethnic minority ministers, and ministers without political experience but with plenty of professional expertise will also be making their debut. However, political…
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PE_PP talk: The political cost of tax reform
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Adina Akbik wins Student-led Teaching Award
This September, Adina Akbik received the Political Science Teaching Award at Leiden University. Created by student members of the Bachelor's and Master's Programme Committees (OLC), the award recognises remarkable teaching at the Institute. Akbik was chosen from five finalists after receiving several…
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Just to be sure... At any cost?
Security seems to most people a basic necessity of life, a prerequisite for a good life. But if you think about it a little longer and deeper, as political philosopher Josette Daemen has done, you realise that security sometimes comes at the expense of other important goods, such as freedom and equality.…
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Ruben Verheul
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Fotini Vassou
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Eldad Vainstoc
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Tilko Arne Swalve
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Thomas ScarffSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Solving the Pachakutik party puzzle
The Ecuadorian Pachakutik party is one of the oldest indigenous political movements in Latin America. Despite not being very successful at the polls and hardly having organisational resources at its disposal, Pachakutik is still part of Ecuador’s political landscape. In her dissertation, Political Scientist…
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Peter PelsSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Havar SolheimFaculty of Humanities
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Judith PollmannFaculty of Humanities
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'We are already going to see this effect of the coalition agreement in the coming weeks'
Few details, relatively few words. The coalition agreement presented is one of the shortest in the past 20 years, Arco Timmermans knows. Consequently, the outlines were not negotiated for very long, which has its advantages and disadvantages. 'Over the next few weeks, we are mainly going to see the…
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Roos van der Haer
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Casper Wits in POLITICO on the EU's China Policy
University lecturer Casper Wits wrote an opinion piece on the ongoing diplomatic tensions between the European Union and China for POLITICO. In this article, he argues that 'rather than shrinking from the fight, the EU must develop a China policy that prioritizes progressive values and human rights.…
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Janet ConnorFaculty of Humanities
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Yoonai HanFaculty of Humanities
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Andrei PoamaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Aleena Karim
Faculty of Humanities
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Patricio SilvaFaculty of Humanities