1,854 search results for “influence” in the Public website
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Searching for the wanted and unwanted effects of innovation
How does ICT affect society? Mirjam van Reisen, professor Computing for Society at the Leiden Centre of Data Science, is intrigued by this question. We speak with her about innovation, changes in health care, and mobile human trafficking. ‘Innovation has many benefits, but it can also be very disrup…
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Tracing space ice and the building blocks of life
An unprecedented space telescope, an astrolab that makes space ice and molecules that may lead to the origin of life… The Ice Age project has all the prerequisites to become a very fascinating research project – if it is not one already. Leiden astronomers Melissa McClure, Harold Linnartz and Will Rocha…
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Veni awards for seventeen young Leiden researches
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to seventeen researchers who recently obtained their PhD. This award offers promising young scientists the opportunity to develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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Liveable Communities: project with a sustainable outlook
With the Liveable Communities – Liveable Planet project, Marja Spierenburg, Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood, is showing that scientists are driven by ambition, hope and faith. She is linking Vrouw Vennepolder, a polder in Zuid-Holland, to the UN climate goals.
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Lions in the queue for food
The number of lions in Kenya is decreasing alarmingly, due partly to the encroaching cities and the development of the countryside. Together with local scientists and inhabitants, Leiden biologists are studying how this decline can be halted. ‘Lions are cleverer than we thought.’
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Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Poland for a book they co-edited. How has this affected them? ‘This is an attempt to wear us down.’
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Conference Hazelhoff Centre: Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law, the conference ‘Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets’ was held on the 11th of May 2017 at law firm Stibbe in Amsterdam. The conference attracted an international audience originating from more than five different…
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‘Sickness and health have become a continuum’
Professor of Health Psychology Andrea Evers is one of the coordinators of the national Health and Wellbeing programme and of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) programme that goes by the same name. The aim is to use technology to promote our health. LDE has already been working on this topic for some ti…
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Call for Papers Conference: The "Others" amongst "Us"
The conference 'The
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Lecture on international judicial cooperation by Ard van der Steur and Koen Geens
On Monday 21 November a lecture was given at Leiden Law School of Leiden University by Belgian Minister of Justice Koen Geens and Dutch Minister of Justice and Security Ard van der Steur in which they talked about international judicial cooperation. The lecture focussed on cooperation between the Netherlands…
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Here’s to the next 443 years as a bastion of freedom
‘Praesidium Libertatis is a daily responsibility.’ These were the words of Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker on 8 February during the 443rd Dies Natalis of Leiden University. The University needs to pay continuous attention to open debate if it wants to remain a bastion of freedom.
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American presidents and their special relationship with Leiden
President John Quincy Adams studied in Leiden. His father, John, who was also president, also stayed here and received a lot of support from professor and publisher Johan Luzac. And how are presidents Bush and Obama linked to Leiden?
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Van Marum Colloquium: Making Kinetics at Surfaces a More Exact Science
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Public lecture "Do Smart Devices Make Us Less Smart?"
Lecture
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Wherefore Phonology?
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Lunch Series '23/'24
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The Journey from Monolingual to Multilingual Language Policy in Ethiopia: Politics, challenges and opportunities
Lecture, This Time for Africa! Series
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Contact effects in intonation: Spanish and Quichua in Argentina
Lecture
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Bantu Syntax and Information Structure Conference
Conference
- SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Early Drug Discovery
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Leiden AI Week
Leidse AI-Week
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Webcam eye tracking: yay or nay?
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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The neurocognitive correlates of pausing in L2 speaking and writing
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Lunch Series '23/'24
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Institute for Philosophy Opening Academic Year 2024-2025
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Small Grants Past Research Projects
The LUCDH foster the development of new digital research by awarding a number of Small Grants each year. These are our past awardees.
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Lunch Time Seminars
The biweekly Lunch Time Seminar is an online only event, but it is not publicly accessible in real-time. If you would like to attend one of the upcoming sessions, please send an email to sails@liacs.leidenuniv.nl.
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LIC Lecture: Helical supramolecular polymers - Toward structure-function relationships
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Exploring host-immune-microbial interactions during intestinal schistosomiasis
PhD defence
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CPP Colloquium "Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty”
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Sleep and circadian rhythms: The effects of ketamine, caffeine and anthracyclines
PhD defence
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Multimodality imaging in patients with valvular heart disease and systemic diseases
PhD defence
- Book Presentation: Building the League of Nations and the International Labour Organisation
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Family as a language policy regime: power, agency and negotiations at home
Lecture, Sociolinguistics series
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European and Arab linguistic endeavours and exchanges in interwar Europe (1898-1948): Teaching and learning Arabic
Conference
- Public graduation presentation, Imara Bollinger
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Reducing the chronic disease burden in China
PhD defence
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Chinese calligraphy for everybody
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Biomechanical Studies on Type B Aortic Dissection
PhD defence
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LCCP Lecture Heidegger, Agamben and Biopolitics
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Language choice as a (historical-)sociolinguistic phenomenon: the case of Dutch and French
Lecture, Sociolinguistics series
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Genetic and lifestyle factors in breast cancer prognostication
PhD defence
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Rüya Koçer
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Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ)
CERQ is a questionnaire measuring cognitive coping strategies developed by Dr. Nadia Garnefski and Dr. Vivian Kraaij.
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Late Pre-colonial and Early Colonial Entanglements of Venezuela with the Caribbean
This research project is an integral part of its mother-programme NEXUS1492 ERC Synergy Project directed by Prof. Corinne Hofman. Overarchingly, it aims at understanding and bridging from the archaeological perspective the late pre-colonial and early colonial history of the Southeastern Caribbean macroregion…
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Seasons of Interdisciplinarity
The Seasons of Interdisciplinarity are an initiative by the Young Academy Leiden that started in 2021.
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CCLS Past Events
On this page you can find information about previous CCLS events.
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Submission Guidelines
All manuscripts submitted to Inter-Section need to adhere to these guidelines. Since 01-08-2022 Inter-Section uses APA7 as a reference system. Inter-Section therefore now follows the new Faculty of Archaeology guidelines concerning referencing and bibliography.
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Archived
PhD Research Projects:
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Tales of the Revolt. Memory, Oblivion and Identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700
This research project, that started in September 2008, aims to explore how personal and public memories of the Dutch Revolt in the seventeenth century evolved and interacted to create new political and cultural identities for the societies that eventually were to become the kingdoms of the Netherlands…
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European Homicide Monitor
The European Homicide Monitor (EHM) offers a standardized framework for countries and regions to compare homicide characteristics, patterns and trends.
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Water and Society Lab
How do societies move forward with sustainable, effective and efficient management of Earth's water resources?