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2,275 search results for “history of science” in the Public website

• BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648). Research project

  Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.

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  Catia Antunes Professor History of Global Economic Networks

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Manon van der Heijden Professor Comparative Urban History

  Faculty of Humanities

• The dynamics of light verbs in the history of West Germanic languages Research project

  The main question of this research project concerns the extent to which light verbs in West Germanic languages participate in processes of language change.

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  Turaj Atabaki Emeritus Professor by special appointment of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bart van der Steen Head Faculty Liaison & Services

  Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden

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  Evelien Walhout Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maria Pereira Bastiao PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ionica Smeets Professor Science communication

  Science

• Book: Sonic Modernities in the Malay World, A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s) Research output

  Sonic Modernities situates Southeast Asian popular music in specific socio-historical settings, hoping that a focus on popular culture and history may shed light on how some people in a particular part of the world have been witnessing the emergence of all things modern.

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  Herman Paul Professor History of the Humanities

  Faculty of Humanities

• Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society Research output

  Astronomer and Marxist Anton Pannekoek was a remarkable figure. This book aims to study the connections between his life as a socialist theorist and as a pioneering scientist through the prism of Pannekoek's biography.

• RISIS – Research infrastructures for the assessment of science, technology and innovation policy Research project

  The RISIS project aims at creating a distributed research infrastructure to support and advance science and innovation studies. This will give the field a strong scientific push forward, and at the same time, provide a radically improved evidence base for research and innovation policies, for research…

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  Anais van Ertvelde PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Louis Sicking University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Robert Ross Professor emeritus of African Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

• Migration History in World History. Multidisciplinary Approaches | Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 3 Research output

  Migration is the talk of the town. On the whole, however, the current situation is seen as resulting from unique political upheavals. Such a-historical interpretations ignore the fact that migration is a fundamental phenomenon in human societies from the beginning and plays a crucial role in the cultural,…

• Start project A New History of Fishes News - 28 January 2015

  The NWO just announced the results of the Vrije Competitie proposals. Paul Smith, professor at the French department is, as a member of LUCAS, one of three scholars within the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University who has been awarded this grant.

• Oil, Labour and Revolution in Iran: A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1973-1983 Research output

  Peyman Jafari defended his thesis on 11 October 2018

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  Nicolette Mout Professor emeritus of European History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ann Marie Wilson Assistant Professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Jos Gommans Professor of Colonial and Global History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  John Kegel Guest Researcher

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities Research output

  This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed ‘epistemic virtues’ such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an integrated history of the sciences…

• Captured on paper: fish books, natural history and questions of demarcation in eighteenth-century Europe (ca. 1680–1820) Research output

  On the28th of September Didi van Trijp successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

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  Anne Land-Zandstra Assistant professor

  Science

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  Ethan Mark Senior University Lecturer Modern Japanese History

  Faculty of Humanities

• Between the Holy Land and the World. A connected history of Christian communities in the Near East via the unpublished photographic collections Research project

  The project ‘Between the Holy Land and the World’ proposes a connected history of the Christian communities in the Near East (1900-1948) by means of a study of unpublished Franciscan and Dominican photographic collections.

• State, Society, and Labour in Iran, 1906-1941: A Social History of Iranian Industrialization and Labour with Reference to the Textile Industry Research output

  Serhan Afacan defended his thesis on 23 June 2015

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  Ako Tsujita PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Manfred Horstmanshoff Professor Emeritus History of medicine

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Suzan ten Heuw PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Chie Arita PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Shenghao Yue PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• "If I deserve it, it should be paid to me": A social history of labour in the Iranian oil industry 1951-1973 Research output

  Maral Jefroudi defended her thesis on 11 October 2017

• Utility Spots, Science Policy, Knowledge Transfer and the Politics of Proximity Research output

  How we think about and act on the usefulness of scientific research has epistemological and political implications: what knowledge consists of, how it comes about and to what ends. In this dissertation, I situate the usefulness of scientific research in concrete places for knowledge exchange. The exchange…

• Profile 3. Sources on Frisian medieval history Research output

  Due to the fact that the Frisian lands lacked major political centers in the Middle Ages and also because most of its monasteries suffered complete destruction in the second half of the 16th century, relatively few written documents concerning medieval Frisian history have survived. To analyze them…

• Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History Research output

  This seminal volume covers the entire global history of urbanization since the rise of cities in Mesopotamia in the 6th millennium BC. Leiden historians Wim Blockmans, Leonard Blussé, Luuk de Ligt and Leo Lucassen contributed survey and thematic chapters.

• History: Ancient History Ancient History (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Ancient History? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

• History ProParte

  About the history of ProParte and its predecessors.

• History: Colonial and Global History History (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Colonial and Global History? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

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  Patrick Dassen University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Joost Augusteijn Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Chris Riddell PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

• Democracy in Europe. A Conceptual History Research output

  As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world.

• Research Programme Colonial and Global History Research project

  The Colonial and Global History Research Programme of the Leiden University Institute for History combines a deep curiosity of transcultural processes such as imperialism, (de)colonization, and globalization with critical historical research on regional societies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

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  Margaret Gold Coordinator external cooperation

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Mariana De Campos Francozo Associate Professor

  Faculteit Archeologie

• The City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present Research output

  Squatters and autonomous movements have been in the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a half-century—from struggles against urban renewal and gentrification, to large-scale peace and environmental campaigns, to spearheading the antiausterity protests sweeping the continent.

• History University organ

  The Flentrop Organ is the third organ to have been built for the Great Auditorium in the Academy Building in Leiden.