1,847 search results for “world s representation” in the Staff website
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Antje Wessels will investigate the world of fragments with NWO grant
Professor Antje Wessels has received an NWO Open Competition grant to research fragmentary texts.
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Data Management Plan course for PhD's
Didactics, Career development
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Steven Truxal delivers presentation at 15th European Civil Aviation Conference
Professor Steven Truxal was invited to address the 15th European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) Forum of Directors General in Paris on 6 December 2022.
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Frontiers of Children's Rights: A Summer School for Professionals
Study information
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Discover the Realities of North Korea: An Evening with Defectors Lee Young-Hyeon and Lee Byung-Lim
Lecture
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Rowie Stolk
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sony Jean
Gelieerde instellingen
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy
Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.
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‘There are great similarities between drama as an art form and the legal world’
The Lucia de Berk case or the suicide of Slobodan Praljak at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: certain trials keep popping up in media. In her dissertation, Tessa de Zeeuw examines the cultural appeal of such cases and analyses artistic responses. ‘Artworks sometimes have…
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experiments but equations: how Daoyi Wang uses math to understand the world
How do you study the growth of microorganisms, the spread of epidemic diseases or the healing of wounds, without actually performing experiments? Daoyi Wang, PhD candidate at the Mathematical Institute, worked on a specific mathematical model that can describe the growth of microorganisms and many other…
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How the world can achieve climate goals with clean hydrogen production
Hydrogen can help to solve the climate problem. At least, if we start producing it in the right, clean way. Leiden researchers mapped out the global environmental impact of hydrogen production and looked ahead to 2050. They published their work in Energy & Environmental Science.
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Book Talk: A Modern History of China’s Art Market
Lecture, China Seminar
- Transformation and refurbishment of Dean’s office and Faculty Room
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Meet Dr. Kathyrn Brackney, LJSA Member
Dr. Brackney is a modern European intellectual and cultural historian with a Ph.D. from Yale University. Before coming to Leiden, she held postdoctoral teaching posts in the History & Literature program at Harvard University and the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago.
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Sophia Nauta
Faculty of Humanities
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Rick van Well
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Staff symposium on student well-being 'Today's Students'
Conference
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Who’s on the JUL board?
The JUL board consists of 4 volunteers. In addition, the board is represented within the various university units by an ambassador.
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Plastic's Legacy: From Single-Use to Sustainable Solutions
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Monique Arntz
Faculteit Archeologie
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Leonardo Carmignani
World Archaeology
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The Content Outsider: Israel's Role in Regional Ordering
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Brave New World 2023
Conference
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PhD candidates: attend Una Europa's One Health Summer School
Research
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Guy Livingston
Faculty of Humanities
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Frits Meijerink
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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How to create a balanced lobby register? Researchers develop assessment framework on behalf of Ministry
How to represent and assess legitimate interests? On behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations, Caelesta Braun and Bert Fraussen developed the framework ‘Afwegingskader Legitieme Belangenvertegenwoordiging’ (Assessment Framework Legitimate Interest Representation). The researchers…
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Brexit’s second anniversary - a reading list
On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union. New regulations, agreed upon by both parties took effect on 1 January 2021. What impact did Brexit have politically? Do British and European citizens now have different opinions of one another? And why did the Brits want to leave…
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Menno Schilthuizen
Science
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Kritika Sharma
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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van Dillen studies how we make choices in an information-overloaded world
Due to technological and societal developments, we are being flooded with more information than our brains can process. How does this affect our decision-making, both as individuals and as a society? And can we learn to make better choices? This is what Lotte van Dillen will explore with her profess…
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A meaningful view of diversity? You'll find it in art
What does it mean to be a migrant in a big city? According to assistant professor Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues, artists have the answer to that question. In a new ERC-funded project, she will explore the representation of contemporary urban diversity in films, performance art, written literature and spoken…
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Sampling the course and the campus on the Bachelor’s Open Day
It’s Saturday and electric minibuses ride back and forth bringing prospective students to Leiden University’s various faculties. They want to see for themselves whether that interesting-looking programme will suit them.
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Ælfric’s Afterlives: Copying, Editing, Studying, Teaching and Remembering the Most Prolific Author of Old English
Conference
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Imagining Christian Kingship in Sigismund II Augustus’s "Genesis" Tapestries at Wawel Castle (1553)
PhD defence
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Your (life) partner's career - The Dual Career Programme
Leiden University offers a Dual Career Programme (DCP) to assist the life partners of new academic staff (on pay-roll) in finding employment in The Netherlands. The programme is offered in close cooperation with nearby universities of Delft and Rotterdam.
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Building up and taking leave: here's what you need to know
Are you working full-time? In that case you are entitled to 152 hours of leave per year. However, at Dutch universities, an additional 80 hours are added thanks to the collective labour agreement (cao). How does this work exactly? Emiel Turlings explains how leave works.
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Nadine Akkerman: ‘It’s an incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping up in her work. Now there’s Spycraft, a popular history book exploring the espionage techniques used by early modern spies, which she has co-written with…
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New Year’s reception 2022: towards a new kind of social science
On 11 January 2022, the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences opened the new year during a livestreamed reception. Dean Paul Wouters and Executive Director of Studies Kristiaan van der Heijden were the hosts. After several faculty prizes were awarded, our Dean expressed a new year’s resolution…
- Your opinion counts: LGBT+ Network survey on LGBT+ community’s needs
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World Peace: visions from Tolstoy
Debate, Seminar
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Austria’s Present Past: A visual journey through Austrian history 1925 – 2025
Lecture, Annual Lecture Austrian Studies Leiden
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application: A critical reflection on child safeguarding from a children's rights perspective
PhD defence
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Transforming Nepal’s Political System: Party Positions and Public Opinion (2004-2012)
PhD defence
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Japan and the World
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Sociolinguistics Circle 2025
Conference
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Executive Board column: Annetje Ottow on Brussels, Africa and societal impact
Within the scope of innovating and connecting – the theme of our new Strategic Plan – I paid a visit to Brussels last week. It is important to give Leiden University a face in Brussels and to show our expertise, on Africa for instance.
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How “giving voice” may lead to silence
Do we break the silences in our research participants’ stories? When is it ethical to write and not write about what remains unspoken in the social worlds we study? And when we encounter silences, how do we document them? These were just some of the many questions discussed during the vivid and inspiring…
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Slight increase in percentage of female professors in Leiden
The proportion of professors at Leiden University who are female has risen slightly to 32.0%. These are the results of the Women Professors Monitor 2024 released by the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH). This puts Leiden University above the national average of 28.7%.
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Farewell event for Mark Rutgers on a unique day in the university’s history
With the red flag flying proudly on the Academy Building (Leiden University was on strike for the first time in its history!), the farewell event for former dean Mark Rutgers was held in the Telders Auditorium. After eight years, he has passed the baton to the interim dean, Henk te Velde.