4,922 search results for “de world van tales en culture” in the Public website
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Masoud KianiFaculty of Humanities
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Maria del Carmen Parafita CoutoFaculty of Humanities
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Van Marum Colloquium: Ryuhei Nakamura & Hideshi Ooka
Lecture
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Religious Studies students combat loneliness: ‘Simply acknowledging the complexity helps’
Last semester, bachelor’s students in Religious Studies spent a lot of time in community centres in Leiden. The reason: field research into loneliness in the city.
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‘Eldest sons held the power in ancient Egypt’
For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, PhD candidate Steffie van Gompel explains that the reality is somewhat different. ‘In Egyptian families, it was often the eldest son versus the rest of the children.’
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European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’
Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.
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Remote sensing for Roman Mallorca with a Chastelain-Nobach fund
For the past 2 years, Dr Letty ten Harkel has been jointly running an excavation project of a suspected Roman villa site on the Balearic island of Mallorca with colleagues Dr Antoni Puig Palerm and Ritchie Kolvers, MA. The project was recently awarded a LUF Chastelain-Nobach fund to explore the extend…
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CPP/LUCIP Colloquium 'Meritocratic democracy: A cross-cultural political theory'
Conference
- Workshop: Making scholarship look like the world looks
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How crazy is the amount of English in children’s Dutch really? A multi-methods analysis of a youth language phenomenon
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact
This research project focuses on the extended documentation and investigation of these non-Austronesian (‘Papuan’) languages.
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Infinite love in a finite life: why, according to philosopher Errol Boon, we promise each other ‘eternal’ love
In love, we like to use great words. We promise to love each other ‘forever’ and praise the beloved as nothing less than ‘the one’ . Meanwhile, we know very well that we don’t live eternally and that we may find our ‘true love’ one day on the opposite side of the divorce table. So why do we continue…
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Hegemonic Memory Culture and Postmigration: How to Remember the Past in Diverse Societies?
Lecture, Conversation
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Ministers van Staat
PhD defence
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Doorbreking van rechtsmiddelenverboden
PhD defence
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Een wetenschap van verbondenheid
Inaugural lecture
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Scholarship for archaeologist Catarina Guzzo Falci
In the beginning of December 2016 PhD candidate Catarina Guzzo Falci was awarded a scholarship for a collections study by Musée du quai Branly. The Musée du quai Branly has implemented this scholarship programme to document its collections.
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Hunt for archaeological remains without leaving your home
The Heritage Quest project begins on Monday 6 April. Heritage Quest is the first large-scale citizen science archaeology project in the Netherlands: anyone can help find archaeological remains at Utrechtse Heuvelrug, a heavily forested region in the Netherlands. Citizens can thus get involved in scientific…
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Archaeologist argues for circular economy during Carnegie Peacebuilding Conversations
Maikel Kuijpers was invited to join a session on material rights, resource use, and craftsmanship during the Carnegie Peacebuilding Conversations held in The Hague’s Peace Palace in September. Organised by Major Alliance the session brought together a diverse panel to discuss “The Universal Declaration…
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Een onzekere wereld - van complottheorieën naar alarmsignalen in ons brein
Lecture
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Andrew Gawthorpe on The Conversation: ‘US election results suggest Trump’s coalition of voters is collapsing’
In an article for The Conversation, University Lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe comments on the recent elections in the United States and what they mean for President Donald Trump’s position.
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Andrew Gawthorpe on The Conversation: ‘Trump is not an isolationist’
The White House has recently released its national security strategy. University Lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains in The Conversation what we can learn from the document.
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Andrew Gawthorpe on France24 about Trump’s attack on Somalis
University Lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains on France 24 how alleged fraud in Minnesota is being used by Trump as an argument to target Somalis.
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Vincent Chang on East Asia Forum: ‘China globalises its pantheon of national heroes and martyrs’
In an article for East Asia Forum, University Lecturer Vincent Chang sheds light on China’s ambition to globalise its pantheon of national heroes.
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Andrew Gawthorpe on BBC about Donald Trump’s plan to exclude South Africa from the G20: ‘Unlikely’
University Lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe commented on the BBC regarding Donald Trump’s plans to exclude South Africa from the G20.
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Alexander GeurdsFaculty of Archaeology
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Working from home with the Classical and Mediterranean archaeologists: ‘I should have been in Rome right now’
The archaeologists have been working from home three weeks now. Remotely, through Teams, we meet up with Miguel John Versluys’ research team, to see how they continue working in times of corona.
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Ukraine, Gaza, climate and migration: Geopolitics increasingly on the municipality’s plate
From cities that sometimes deviate from national foreign policy to the direct influence of geopolitics on local developments, PhD candidate Pieter Jeroense, director of VNG International, examined seventy years of the internationalisation of Dutch municipalities and observed notable trends.
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Lecture: Inside Gang Governance: How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro
Lecture
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.
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Valedictory lecture prof.dr. J.M.A. van Gerven
Valedictory lecture
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Traitors, profiteers or collaborators: ‘The Jewish Council has long been judged too harshly’
For too long the Dutch collective memory has judged the Jewish Council too harshly. This perspective needs to be adjusted, Bart van der Boom argues in his new book ‘De politiek van het kleinste kwaad’ (lit. ‘The Politics of the Lesser Evil’).
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Leiden researchers call for new guidelines for AI-generated images in journalism
Generative AI presents journalists with new options for image use but also raises ethical questions.
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Valedictory lecture prof.dr. J.P.R. van Merkesteyn
Valedictory lecture
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Book presentation: Israelite Religion
Lecture, Book presentation
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Sara Polak: 'I want to know if what social media is doing to the political game in the US is unique'
Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lecturer Sara Polak has received an ERC Starting Grant to investigate this.
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Mark Westmoreland and Francesco Ragazzi receive a Seed Grant
Dr. Mark Westmoreland (Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology) and Dr. Francesco Ragazzi (Institute of Political Science) have been awarded a Seed grant for their project, ‘Other “ways of knowing”: should we prepare for a post-textual turn in the social sciences?’. The grant amounts…
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Diah AngendariSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Zulfadhli NasutionSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Michael HerzfeldSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Keerthi Sridharan VaidehiFaculty of Humanities
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Tirza CramwinckelFaculty of Law
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Petr KoluchFaculty of Humanities
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Hannah Busch
Faculty of Humanities
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Tony FosterFaculty of Humanities
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Diederik PomstraFaculty of Archaeology
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Miyuki KerkhofHonours Academy
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Ang LiFaculty of Archaeology
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Niels van der SalmFaculty of Humanities