4,812 search results for “de world van talen en culture” in the Public website
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‘Sometimes simply staying alive is a form of resistance’
How do harrowing war experiences affect different generations? Students have made a video about poignant family stories. They interviewed other students and writer Dubravka Ugrešić. The premiere of the film was on 4 May during the online Hour of Remembrance. Watch this online memorial.
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Asia Academy #17: South Korea's Political Rollercoaster
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Towards a Polymaternal State: Sheinbaum, Stepmotherhood and the Mexican Presidency
Lecture
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Pianoconcert Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin
Arts and culture, Pianoconcert
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Disorienting Empire
Conference, Workshop
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Maribel Fierro
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Maribel Fierro, Research Professor at the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid), to Leiden. She is the third Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University…
- De Novo Cyclic Peptides: A RaPID Approach to Chemical Tool Development
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“Armez-vous des sciences”? The Creative Lives of African Universities
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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Symposium: Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy
Conference, Symposium
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Corey WilliamsFaculty of Humanities
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Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam
Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.
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Beyond Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Julian van der Kraats
Lecture
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Book presentation: In Staat van Beleg - Aeneas Tacticus
Lecture, Book presentation
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Elaine van Ommen Kloeke
Lecture
- IBL Spotlight - Akos Kovács and Patrick van Hage
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Van woorden naar daden: (doen) wat werkt in suïcidepreventie
Inaugural lecture
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Het op atomaire schaal afbeelden van chemische reacties op oppervlakken
Inaugural lecture
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Genner Llanes-Ortiz’s Leiden Experience: ‘Indigenous stories contain knowledge from deep past’
Back in 2016, Genner Llanes-Ortiz joined the Faculty of Archaeology as an assistant professor in the Heritage of Indigenous Peoples research group. Genner works on the crossroads of anthropology, archaeology, heritage, and human rights. ‘I am investigating how contemporary indigenous peoples are re-connecting…
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Leiden strengthens ties with Latin America and Caribbean
Astronomical observations in Chile, research into native heritage or the treatment of eye diseases in Brazil - Leiden is researching a large number and a wide variety of different topics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Researchers and representatives from 20 countries met on 11 May in Leiden to…
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Van Marum Colloquium: Active surface adsorbate structure and complex materials exploration with Bayesian optimization
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Catalyst Design at Extremely Small Sizes: From CO2 Reduction to Ammonia Production
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Hydrogen interactions with metal surfaces: nuclear spin conversion and adsorption
Lecture
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How Dutch Brazil was lost
The Amsterdam media played a major role in the rise and fall of Dutch Brazil, the colony held briefly by the Dutch West India Company in the 17th century. This is the conclusion reached by Professor of Maritime History Michiel van Groesen in his book ‘Amsterdam’s Atlantic’.
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Sara Polak: ‘Corona unveils great social inequality in the US’
Following China and Italy, it appears that the United States is becoming the next epicentre of the coronacrisis. Can the US handle this crisis? Is president Trump dealing with the situation correctly? We asked Leiden America expert Sara Polak.
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Meet Dr. Lital Abazon LJSA Member
Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses ranging from Introduction to Zionism to World Cinema.
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Leiden Essay Film Festival
Festival
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The development of the Tocharian accent
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Paul Christiaan Flu: a Surinamese professor in a time of war
Paul Christiaan Flu, originally from Surinam, was a brilliant tropical doctor, who in 1938 rose to the position of Rector Magnificus of Leiden University. The war years brought his lightning career to an abrupt end: his son was murdered and he himself was imprisoned in a concentration camp. A sad family…
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The forgotten history of Dutch slavery in Guyana
When we think of the history of Dutch slavery, the areas that spring to mind are primarily the Antilles and Suriname. However, until the end of the eighteenth century there were also Dutch plantation colonies in neighbouring Guyana. Bram Hoonhout’s book ‘Borderless Empire’ describes this forgotten h…
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Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Scholarship in Antiquity on the Occasion of the Eightieth Birthday of Arie van der Kooij
Symposium
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Double standards in the prosecution of violent fathers
The prosecution of violent fathers is regularly abandoned, supposedly ‘in the best interests of the child’. Assistant professor Mojan Samadi responds in an interview with RTL and Investico: ‘It’s problematic if you accept this argument as a matter of course.’
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Pieter Slaman: German occupation lengthened mandatory education
Assistant professor and dual PhD candidate, Pieter Slaman writes in Binnenlands Bestuur about the fact that the German occupier lengthened the period of mandatory education in The Netherlands.
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project
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Van Marum Colloquium/RISE Lecture: Quantum-Derived Kinetics of Photo/electrocatalysis on Metals
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Large-Scale Polymer Synthesis by Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerizations with Molecular Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Exploring the Interfacial Properties and Electrocatalytic Activity of Platinum-Palladium Single Crystal Alloys
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Playing to strengths : the advantages of using boron doped diamond electrodes in electrochemical research
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Technological Developments for EC-STM Measurements: Single-molecule Reaction Measurements and Development of Electrodeposited
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Tale of Two Beamers: results from recent improvements in two molecular beam scattering instruments
Lecture
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Descriptive Linguistics: Interactive idea sharing session
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistic Seminars
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Views on Africa
In the media, we hear a lot of worrying news from Africa: refugees, attacks, Ebola, starvation, corruption... But Africa is much more than that: it is a continent in transition, with developments occurring at breakneck speed. African Studies scholars from different academic disciplines in Leiden conduct…
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Archaeological Forum: Aris Politopoulos and Dennis Braekmans
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: New frontiers in modeling nanoporous materials and their applications at the crossroads of quantum mechanics, statistical
Lecture
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Was Suriname expensive or not? ‘The economic situation has never been properly assessed’
His Surinamese neighbours in Amsterdam gave Russia expert and economic historian Isaac Scarborough an idea: a re-evaluation of the Surinamese economy in the twentieth century. An NWO XS grant will enable him to make a start on this.
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Van Marum Colloquium: Concerted Cation-Electron Transfer at Pt(111)/Perfluoro-Sulfonic Acid Ionomer Interface
Lecture