A First Overview

In 2019, LUGO started a petition demanding an ambitious sustainability vision for 2030. This petition was formulated based on what LUGO deemed achievable rather than based on the restrictions of the present. We believe that sustainability should be one of the core values of the next central policy…

Mycoheterotrophy is a particular mode of life in which plants obtain carbohydrates from their associated fungal partners, instead of by using photosynthesis.

“Winner CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award 2016” A Cultural History

I am Nargess Asghari. I came to the Netherlands in 2017 to study Linguistics at Leiden University. I wrote my pre-master’s and master’s theses on Iranian Sign Language and Berbey Sign Language (an emerging family sign language in the village of Berbey, Mali), respectively, under the supervision of Dr.…

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Co-Promotor: R.J. Vreeken

This publication brings together two contributions born of different intentions but which are both dedicated to Hellenistic pottery of the Alexandria region.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Co-Promotor: M.R. Hogerheijde

The Early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP) record throughout Europe is characterized by major changes in human behaviour.

The United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union was supposed to be definitively settled several times during the past decade – yet it was not. The 2016 referendum brought about a surge in interest in legal questions, especially of EU law and international economic law. This presented scholars…

Leiden University regularly welcomes members of the Royal Family to attend opening ceremonies, lectures, presentations and unveilings of works of art.

This book presents a comprehensive description of the grammar of Logba, one of the fourteen Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages spoken by approximately 7,500 speakers on the South-Eastern frontier of the Ghana-Togo border. It is the outcome of fifteen months research in Logba speaking communities.

This study links up the concept of place with memory, with the idea of transience and the transition from life to death.

Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts Volume 87 in the series Religion and Society

Agrian History, 5300 BC - AD 1000; C.C. Bakels

Leiden-Yale collaboration uncovers a tale of samurai same-sex love in a library manuscript.

Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping

This volume provides an authoritative, cutting-edge resource on the characteristics of both technological and social change in warfare in the twenty-first century, and the challenges such change presents to international law.

Intermediality, Media Practices and Media Literacy is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.

Dr. at the Department of organic chemistry, Wageningen University - the Nederlands

Both Europe and Latin America face challenges globally and at home. Conflicts over land and resources have been resurgent in recent years.

In our culture, vocal harmonics function as independent musical elements since only a few decades. Thresholds of the audible explores the changing relationship between singers, listeners and harmonics.

Psychoeducational Assessment, Intervention and Rehabilitation (PAIR) publishes high quality articles on theoretical and empirical research regarding psychological and psychoeducational assessment, intervention, and rehabilitation in all areas related to cognitive and socio-emotional development.

Solute carrier (SLC) transporters are a large and diverse class of relatively understudied transmembrane proteins.

On 22 November 2018, Teico Sikkema defended his thesis 'Beginsel en begrip van verdeling'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. mr. W.G. Huijgen and Prof. dr. F. Sonneveldt.

Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan analyses the hybridity of law systems and the plurality of legal practices in rural and urban contexts of contemporary Sudan, shedding light on the complex relation between Islam and society.

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander Co-Promotor: F.M. Spieksma

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the most abundant class of organic compounds in space. The PAH field evolves from the constant interaction between experimentalists, theorists, modellers and observers. While laboratory research and quantum chemical calculations together set up the molecular…

The dissociative chemisorption of methane on metal surfaces is of fundamental and practical interest, being a rate-limiting step in the steam reforming process. The reaction is best modeled with quantum dynamics calculations, but these are currently not guaranteed to produce accurate results because…

What role should the university play in the climate crisis?

My research addresses the function of the much-debated particle -nā in Biblical Hebrew, often translated with “please”, from the point of view of the most important ancient Bible translations (Greek, Syriac, Latin). It combines textual criticism, translation technique, discourse pragmatics, and the…

The Faculty of Humanities

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Co-promotor: S. Bruderer

This thesis investigates aspects of phi-features in non-standard and minority West Germanic languages.

Making a dynamic substance stock model in order to conduct scenario analyses and make forecasts.

The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation.

Islam exists in global history with its richly variegated cultural and social realities. When these specific cultural contexts are marginalized, Islam is reduced to an ahistorical religion without the ability to contribute to humanity. This limited understanding of Islam has been a contributing factor…

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O. van Gaans

Located in the small Kingdom of Commagene at the upper Euphrates, the late Hellenistic monument of Nemrud Daǧ (c. 50 BC) has been undeservedly neglected by scholars

In this thesis, we have studied the potential of the zebrafish larval model in studying the ECS, as a complementary model to the existing rodent models.

This dissertation investigates Extended Lexical Units (ELUs), elements that are bigger than just one word and which are stored in the Lexicon.

Acidobacteria is a widely distributed phylum but their functional roles in ecosystem processes are still largely elusive.

One of the most important puzzles in modern astrophysics is the nature of dark matter.

In recent years, the question why citizens (do not) support democratic innovations has attracted increasing academic attention. In this research note, Van Der Does & Kantorowicz for the first time empirically verify what drives citizens’ instrumental considerations in their evaluation of a DI.

Promotor: A. Kros

Promotor: Christoph U. Keller, Co-promotores: Matthew A. Kenworthy, Frans Snik

Electron microscopy has become an extremely important techniquein a wide variety of elds.

Volume 20 contains eight articles based on research of the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Promotores: W. Th. F. den Hollander, M.O. Heydenreich

Lu, Man defended his thesis on 28 September 2017.