This course uses the lives, ideals and achievements of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt to create the idea of a Rooseveltian century. It is an invitation to think critically and historically, and it wants to give you a glimpse of what it means to be a historian at work.

Description of 20th century changes in the Dutch flora: Description and interpretation (1999 - 2005)

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Waarom zijn transnationale en interculturele agenten zoals Henrich Carloff en Willem Leyel belangrijk voor de studie van de vroegmoderne expansie?

On January 8 and 9, a conference will take place at Leiden University, titled: "The Plurality of Early Modern Media: 21st-Century Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities". This conference marks the 25 years anniversary of the Intersections series (published by Brill) and reflects…

Van 27 tot 29 september vindt het Symposium 'Correct, but not beautiful performance: Deciphering the hidden messages in 19th-century notation' plaats op het Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Dr. Anna Scott zal hier één van de keynote speakers zijn.

Op 10 maart opent in Museum De Lakenhal de tentoonstelling David Bailly – Tijd, dood en ijdelheid.

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Promotor: F.J. van Lunteren, E. Jorin

Op 20 december 2013 werd bekend dat 37 docenten promotieonderzoek gaan doen met financiering via de Promotiebeurs van de Nederlandse organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek. Eén van de docenten die de promotiebeurs kreeg toegekend, is theoriedocent Bert Mooiman van het Koninklijk Conservatorium.

As part of an interdisciplinary PhD programme, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry external link (ICON) is hiring a PhD Candidate for the research project ‘Empowering Individuals, Opening Cities: Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’. This opportunity is funded by the administrative…

This pioneering project will answer this question by examining migrants through the eyes of the courts between 1600 and 1900. It aims to reveal patterns of continuity and change in: 1. Treatment of migrants by criminal courts; 2. Violence and conflicts between migrants and native born.

The ERC project Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe (EMERGENCE), led by Thijs Porck (Leiden University) is hiring 1 postdoctoral researcher and 2 PhD's. Details on the individual projects can be found below. Deadline for applications: 1 March 2024.

Onderzoeksastronomen, wetenschappers, beleidsmakers, journalisten en wetenschapscommunicators en -educatoren komen vier dagen bij elkaar om tijdens een symposium over verschillende thema’s uit de astronomie te discussiëren. En iedereen die zich wil mengen in de discussie is de eerste avond van het symposium…

On 4 and 5 November 2021 an ICOG-workshop will be held on the cognitive turn in history. It is possible to attend this workshop online. The participants of the workshop are cultural and intellectual historians of the pre-modern periods and/or of the historiography of academia from a long-term perspective,…

From 5 to 15 April 2024, a course on graffiti in Italy between the seventh and sixteenth centuries will take place at the Dutch Royal Institute in Rome (KNIR). Applicants are encouraged to apply before February 4, 2024.

“Temminck’s Order” is the scientific biography of Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778–1850), a Dutch naturalist and the first director of ’s Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden.

Uniting an international consortium of scholars, the Skandapurāṇa Project comprises a team of researchers working in fields across the Humanities. We are creating a critical edition of a foundational work of purāṇic literature and, in doing so, tracing the dynamics of a textual tradition to better understand…

Met steun van uitgevers en particuliere stichtingen verwelkomen de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden (UBL) en het Scaliger Instituut circa 15 tot 20 Fellows en gastonderzoekers per jaar om materiaal in de Bijzondere Collecties te raadplegen en te onderzoeken. Ook dit jaar ontving het Scaliger Instituut…

How were the Russians, under early modern conditions, able to incorporate this distant, undeveloped and, because frequent nomadic attacks, dangerous territory? And what role did the Kolyvan-Voskresensk plants play in this process?

Enthousiast vertellen Judith Frishman en Jürgen Zangenberg over de intensivering van de samenwerking met de instituten Joodse Studies van New York University, Bar Ilan (Tel Aviv) en Universität Potsdam (Duitsland). 'De eerste gezamenlijke activiteit in dit verband start op 19 oktober met een bijzondere…

A century ago, it was unclear whether the stars in the sky were clustered in groups, or widely spread in the universe.

The use of N fertilizers has increased worldwide in the past century. While this increased input of N has increased food productivity, it has also contributed to decreases in biodiversity, soil quality and environmental health, including increases in greenhouse gas emissions.

Sinds september 2010 werken Geerten Waling en Anne Heyer in het NWO project ‘The Promise of Organization’.

The energy system is at the heart of two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the ambitions of the Paris agreement while fulfilling the growing energy demand associated with the economic aspirations of a growing world population.

Forgotten Lineages explores the paths through which generations of formally enslaved and their descendants gradually forgot their past of enslavement under Dutch and British imperial rule and became local subjects in Sri Lanka and South Africa. It explores why and how forgetting rather than memory became…

This proposed research uses ego-documents from visual artists that were not intended for publication to reassess the scholarly debate on the demise of the Russian Avant-garde aesthetic in the twenties and early thirties of the 20th century.

Security is key to survival for any living organism: life is full of perils and threats, both physically, environmentally, and societally. Security challenges such as terrorism, natural disasters, and cybercrime rank among the most pressing issues of our time, affecting the security and safety of millions…

This dissertation presents a new perspective on the life, work and character of the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and one of the most important and colourful scientists in Dutch history. The image of Van ’t Hoff that emerges from…

Hieratic Papyrology

Mensen die problemen kunnen oplossen zijn hard nodig in een steeds complexere wereld. De Universiteit Leiden is een kweekvijver van talent. We helpen onze studenten hun kwaliteiten te ontdekken, ontwikkelen en gebruiken.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.M. de Groot, Co-promotor: Francesco Buda

Sheltering is an immediate human need and determines well-being andhealth.

Promotores: G. Persoon, R. Schefold

If mankind wants to survive into the 22nd century, we will need to change the way we live drastically. The human impact on our planet is everywhere, we are changing the atmosphere, the oceans and the land, leading to global warming, climate change, loss of biodiversity and pervasive pollution. There…

Lezing, Lezing onderdeel van serie

Op 28 oktober 2021 verdedigde Hein van der Bruggen zijn proefschrift en behaalde daarmee de doctorstitel.

Polymyxins are clinically used antibiotics, discovered in mid-20th century. Once abandoned due to excessive nephrotoxicity, they are now used increasingly to address infections caused by multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria.In this thesis, we describe the development and synthesis of analogues…

This programme aims to make the digitized archival sources of the Kerala and Tamil Nadu Archives more accessible to Indian and international scholars and to the widest possible audience, in particular to the people of Kerala.

Tijdens de 19th International ICE-IEEE ITMC Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE), 24-26 juni 2013 in Den Haag, hebben Christoph Stettina et al. de best paper award gewonnen.

The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics states that a measurement collapses a wavefunction onto an eigenstate of the corresponding measurement operator.

Wist je dat je na succesvolle afronding van de minor Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media de aansluitende masteropleiding kunt volgen? Lees hier meer over de specialisatie Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media (MA) van de masteropleiding Media Studies (MA).

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