3,177 search results for “urban studies” in the Public website
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Explorations in History and Globalization
Considering the ways in which the ‘global turn’ is changing the theory and practice of historical disciplines, Explorations in History and Globalization engages with the concept and methodology of globalization, challenging traditional divisions of space and time to offer a range of perspectives on…
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Schouwburgstraat Community Garden
In September 2023, we started transforming a under-utilised outdoor space into a greener and more biodiverse garden in which all students and staff of the Schouwburgstraat can relax and enjoy.
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Social Forces, States and Hydropolitics of the River Nile: Case Studies of Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan
This research aims to investigate how different social forces interact with hydropolitics in the Eastern Nile Basin and what are the constraints of engagement.
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Wilt Idema
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
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Paula van den Berg
Science
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Paul van Els
Faculty of Humanities
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Hisashi Owada
Faculty of Humanities
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Marc Buijnsters
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Jamaseb Soltani
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim Mickler
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Leonardo Carmignani
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jan Just Witkam
Faculty of Humanities
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Eric Jorink
Faculty of Humanities
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Chi Zhang
Faculteit Archeologie
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Astrid Vandendaele
Faculty of Humanities
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Jacobine Melis
Faculteit Archeologie
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Sarah Wolff
Faculty of Humanities
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Lotte Nagelhout
Faculteit Archeologie
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Analysing Roman cities with an ERC Advanced Grant
How many cities were there actually in the Roman Empire? And why did some regions only have a few cities, while others consisted of a tight urban network? Luuk de Ligt, Professor of Ancient History, wants to know the answer to all these questions. With the ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million awarded to…
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Sustainable futures
How can we organise society so as to keep our planet habitable for us and for all other life forms around us? To answer this question, Leiden researchers collaborate across disciplines, from biology to data science, and from environmental economy to archaeology.
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Jacqueline Hylkema
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de Baar
Faculty of Humanities
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Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
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Ahab Bdaiwi
Faculty of Humanities
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Jean-Pierre van der Rest
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ariadne Schmidt appointed professor of the Cultural History of Leiden
Ariadne Schmidt will be appointed professor by special appointment of the Magdalena Moons chair at Leiden University. From 1 September 2018 she will carry out academic research and teach on the cultural history of the city, in particular of Leiden.
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The agency of the Burgundian-Habsburg duchesses and the creation and continuation of court-city relations in the Low Countries (ca. 1430-1503)
In this project diverse aspects of the duchesses’ roles in the complex and dynamic relations between town and crown are studied on the basis of systematic research in the account books of four cities (Ghent, Bruges, Leuven and Mechelen) in the Burgundian Netherlands (ca. 1430-1503).
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The Social History of Labor in the Iranian Oil Industry
This dissertation studies the formation of the wage laboring class in the Iranian oil industry during the first decades of the 20th century.
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Experience Day: being a Humanities student for a day
What is it like to study at the Humanities Faculty of Leiden University? Soon-to-be students of International Studies and Urban Studies experienced a day at university during the Experience Day in The Hague and found out what their studies are really about.
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Egypt and the Augustan Cultural Revolution
As part of the VIDI 'Cultural innovation in a globalising society: Egypt in the Roman world', this research explores manifestations of Egypt in the material culture of Augustan Rome. This period was a crucial turning point for the urban landscape of Rome, which was characterised by cultural diversit…
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Governing Delivery Platform Companies
With both national and international companies operating in the market, the expansion of global platform capitalism raises concerns and critique. To counter a perceived erosion of local authority, various countries, particularly in Europe, have introduced anti-trust legislation against such BigTech…
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Networks and cooperations
Both on a personal and institutional level, the staff of Leiden CADS collaborates with:
- Urban Health Programme
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Theorizing Technologically Mediated Policing in Smart Cities: An Ethnographic Approach to Sensing Infrastructures in Security Practices
Smart digital infrastructures predicated on myriads of sensors distributed in the environment are often rendered as key to contemporary urban security governance to detect risky or suspicious entities before or during a criminal event takes place. At the same time, they often involve surveillance of…
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Repertorium van de Stadsrechten in Nederland
Systematisch geordend naslagwerk voor alle stadsrechten in Nederland
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Crime and gender: a comparative perspective. England and the Netherlands, 1600-1800
The central aim is to systematically study differences in gendered crime patterns in the records of different types of courts in various English and Dutch cities in the early modern period.
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A Crusader, Ottoman, and Early Modern Aegean Archaeology
Built Environment and Domestic Material Culture in the Medieval and Post-Medieval Cyclades, Greece (13th – 20th Centuries AD)
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Analysing Roman cities with an ERC Advanced Grant
How many cities were there actually in the Roman Empire? And why did some regions only have a few cities, while others consisted of a tight urban network? Luuk de Ligt, Professor of Ancient History, wants to know the answer to all these questions. With the ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million awarded to…
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Archaeologist Roos van Oosten in Quest Historie
Roos van Oosten's research on medieval cesspits stood on the basis of an article on this subject in Quest Historie, a Dutch magazine about history.
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Gli artigiani e la città
Over the last decades, the systematic investigation of urban settlements in Central-Tyrrhenian Italy led to the discovery of a growing number of contexts revealing both direct and indirect evidence of artisanal workshops. Such research commitment has yielded a vast amount of new data that greatly contribute…
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Project schedule
The area will undergo major changes, in a phased plan. Teaching will continue during this period. The existing education buildings will be tackled one by one. Some of the buildings will be reconstructed, and for others the building shell will undergo renovation. The Humanities Building is expected to…
- Forgotten heroes
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Application procedure
Every student who wants to apply for the bachelor’s programme Urban Studies at Leiden University will need to start at Studielink. The application procedure consists of three steps.
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Yasco Horsman
Faculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk: “Introducing Surreal Geographies, a new book in Holocaust Studies”
Lecture, Lunch Time Talk
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Ton Anbeek van der Meyden
Faculty of Humanities