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Style and Society in the Prehistory of West Asia
Essays in Honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse
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Does the Election Winner–Loser Gap Extend to Subjective Health and Well-Being?
In this article, Honorata Mazepus, assistant professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, and Dimiter Toshkov, associate professor at the Institute of Public Administration, discuss whether the winner–loser gap extends beyond the political domain to subjective health and well-being as…
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Hodegetics: Language of Vice in Student Advice Literature, 1700-1900
This project analyzes to what extent hodegetical textbooks relied on each other in warning their readers against vicious habits, how much continuity their catalogs of vice displayed, and to what extent vices that persisted throughout the 18th and 19th centuries were associated with easy-to-remember…
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Riches Beyond the Horizon
Long-distance Trade in Early Medieval Landscapes (ca. 6th-12th centuries)
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In search of the origin of all languages
There is a linguistic hypothesis that states that all languages from Europe to India originate from a single mother language: Proto-Indo-European. This language is thought to have been spoken thousands of years ago. Researcher Alwin Kloekhorst plans to use linguistic genealogy to study the very first…
- Week 8: 25-28 February 2018
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Artistic Practices of Historical Sound
Memory, Imagination, and Mimetics in Contemporary Composition and Historical Performance
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Information activities
If you’re considering the English Language and Culture bachelor’s programme and would like to experience what it’s like to study in Leiden University, introductory activities that include an Open Day, Experience Day and Student for a Day, will help you make up your mind.
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Leiden Science Family Day
On Sunday 8 October 2023 the Faculty of Science of Leiden University opened its doors to everyone who is curious to explore the world of science. More than 750 people took a look behind the scenes, watched exciting demonstrations, stepped into the shoes of a scientist at numerous workshops and got to…
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Rick Honings: the power of language
Alternative perspectives and sources of colonial literature haven’t received much attention before now. School books have long ignored the violence that accompanies colonialsm. How can we paint an honest picture?
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Bujangga Manik, or Java in the Fifteenth Century
Alexander West defended his thesis on 20 May 2021
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Prepare for your studies at Leiden University
So you've been accepted onto an exchange or study abroad programme at Leiden University. Congratulations! Now it's time to make preparations for your stay.
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Explore Leiden
Leiden houses the oldest university in the Netherlands, 13 museums, and 23 kilometres of canals with 88 bridges.
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Self-interest versus group interest
People are less willing to give up an interest when in a negotiation situation than when they can do it of their own free will, as Leiden University psychologist Eric van Dijk discovered. Knowledge of this kind can be used by policy makers, for instance, to motivate people to adopt certain desirable…
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Workshops & Demo's
During the Leiden Science Family Day, you can take part in various workshops. You can also watch various demonstrations. Where will you go?
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A comparative perspective on perceived legitimacy: evaluating authorities in democratic and no-democratic contexts
Does the political context (e.g., democracy vs. authoritarianism) influence what makes people perceive authorities as legitimate?
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Boudewijn Lelieveldt: 'AI can help, but not replace, doctors and other healthcare providers'
‘I would never want to be treated by a computer,’ says Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Head of Radiology at the Laboratory for Clinical and Experimental Image Processing and Medical Delta professor in the Bioinformatics group at Delft University of Technology. No matter how intelligent a system, we have to continue…
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Politics: Chinese migration
Chinese organisations increasingly operate across the borders of China, and growing numbers of people from outside China are coming to live there. Professor Frank Pieke believes these movements have a significant effect on central and local government policy in China.
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Experiment Square
Are you the scientist of the future? Come experiment with science at the Experiments Square! Make your own slime, discover how rubber can count, play along with the antibiotics game, discover the power of light and much more!
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(Extra)Ordinary letters: A view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch
In this dissertation, a corpus of 595 seventeenth-century letters (mainly private ones) written between 1664 and 1672 is examined from a sociolinguistic perspective.
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Southern Crossings: Indian activists and the Afro-Asian movement in the early Cold War era
Southern Crossings: Indian activists and the Afro-Asian movement in the early Cold War era
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A mortuary priest
Hieratic Papyrology
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After release: Reintegrating jihadist offenders
Are terrorist suspects willing to reintegrate back into society? Can they reintegrate?
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Yearly expansions
Every year YAL welcomes new members to its community. Below you will find an overview of the expansion of the past few years.
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INFLUEX: Influence of experts on public policy
INFLUEX examines the influence of experts on public policy, aiming to define, measure, and explain their role in democratic policymaking
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Sustainable buildings
During the development of the Humanities Campus, many aspects of sustainability are combined. For example:
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European Lone Actor Terrorists Versus “Common” Homicide Offenders: An Empirical Analysis
The term “Lone Actor” has been applied to a variety of violent individuals who are thought to act out of ideological motivations using terrorist tactics.
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Register
Are you a student or employee at Leiden University, do you work at the Leiden Bio Science Park or do you just want to run for charity, everyone is welcome to register!
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Beyond Photon Pairs
Promotor: Prof.dr. E. R. Eliel, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood
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The Power and Pains of Polysemy: Maritime Trade, Averages, and Institutional Development in the Low Countries (15th–16th Centuries)
The Power and Pains of Polysemy: Maritime Trade, Averages, and Institutional Development in the Low Countries (15th–16th Centuries) investigates the development of General Average and other so-called Averages in the Low Countries on the eve of the early modern period, showing how the various varieties…
- Visualizing Cryptographic Networks of Spies, Diplomats and Scientists, 1603-1701
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Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution. Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe
Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution. Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe. Andrew Shield
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Executive deficits, behavioural problems and early reading development
This study tests whether behavioural problems at a young age are related to early reading and mathematics development.
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Societal impact
Research from the Living Lab is important for society. For example, scientists from the Living Lab discovered that the pesticide thiacloprid is up to 2,500 times more harmful to insects than was thought on the basis of regular lab research. Partly because of this discovery, the European Commission decided…
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Sustainable demolition
Several buildings need to be demolished to make way for phase 2.
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Coherent dynamics in solar energy transduction
Promotor: Huub de Groot, Co-promotor: Francesco Buda
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Egypt beyond representation
This research develops and applies a new approach to study Aegyptiaca Romana from a bottom-up, Roman perspective.
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Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland
Crime is men’s business, isn’t it? Women are responsible for 10 percent of crime in Europe. Yet, if we look at the Dutch Republic in the early modern period, we find that in the towns of Holland women played a much larger role in crime.
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Missing data procedures in multivariate analysis
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- Translation Café
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Pellikaan & Van Willigen, Bilateralism and Nuclear Security
Political scientists Huib Pellikaan and Niels van Willigen (Leiden University) use and elaborate on the theoretical insights from game theory in order to understand nuclear security in changing environment. Now that the relations between the US and Russia have deteriorated and smaller nuclear states…
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Voices of Young Academics
We as Young Academy Leiden are continuously educating ourselves and are listening to the voices coming from our own university, especially the young academics.
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Watañi lāntaṃ: Khotanese and Tumshuqese Loanwords in Tocharian
Contacts between Tocharian A and B and Khotanese and Tumshuqese, four languages once spoken in today’s Xīnjiāng Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China, lack a comprehensive treatment and are still a controversial topic. This work contains the first systematic investigation of the matter from a…
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The indivisibility of pledge and hypothec
What are the historical roots of the indivisibility of pledge and hypothec?
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Local communities in the Big World of prehistoric Northwest Europe
This volume of Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia focuses on how local communities in prehistory define themselves in relation to a bigger social world.
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Women as Agents of Change: How has Women’s Political Mobilization Restructured Political Networks and Changed Local Governance?
Will women’s increasing electoral participation in rural India improve governance? On what terms are women being incorporated into politics – through existing patriarchal and clientelist relationships, or through collective action against the patriarchal and clientelist system?
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El presente incómodo: subjetividad en crisis y novelas cubanas después del muro
This book aims to understand cultural transitions and negotiations between art and politics from 1989 to 2020 through analysis of a series of Cuban novels.