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PhD and prize winner: filmmaker Itandehui Jansen talks about her work
Itandehui Jansen graduated from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam and is currently making films as part of her PhD project at Leiden University. And with great success. Her films have been shown at the IDFA and the Short Film Corner of Cannes, and have won a number of prizes.…
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Sara Brandellero: ‘We need to protect the city from an excess of light’
On 25 September, lights throughout Leiden will be turned off for the Seeing Stars event. What makes the urban night so special? We asked university lecturer Sara Brandellero, who researches cities, night and migration.
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‘City dwellers in Middle Ages no worse off than village dwellers’
City dwellers in the Middle Ages were probably no worse off than people living in villages. Both groups had very different health risks, is Rachel Schats' conclusion from her research on bone material. PhD defence 3 November.
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Thinking Sounds
Besides teaching BA and MA classes at Leiden University and supervising PhD candidates doing artistic research both in Leiden and Ghent, a third major component of Marcel Cobussen’s activities is (of course) doing research.
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Fulbright scholarship takes Sara Polak to Yale
Sara Polak, PhD researcher and lecturer at LUCAS, has won a Fulbright scholarship to work on her research on Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yale University from September 2014 till February 2015.
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Master's Online Experience Day North American Studies: Join two mini lectures!
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Tolkien and fiction-based religions
Markus Altena Davidsen’s PhD dissertation is the first major study of Tolkien Religion. In it, he analyses the religion that is based on the stories by acclaimed British fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien. He also discusses how fiction itself can become religious. Davidsen will defend his dissertation on…
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The multicultural history of soya sauce
The soya sauce in our kitchen cabinets is not a recent acquisition. This sauce is an important element in a long history of exchange between Asia and Europe. This is what Anne Gerritsen claims in her inaugural lecture for the Kikkoman Chair on Friday 12 December.
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From the Sharia to Turkish soap operas
Knowledge of Islam and of Muslim societies is indispensable when trying to properly understand the globalising world, as well as changing Dutch society. Researchers from Leiden are therefore immersing themselves in the languages, culture and religion of Muslim societies. Their work and insights can…
- Spring School Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Landscape History and Ecology
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International Studies - Webinar Mini-lecture and Live Q&A (REGISTRATION CLOSED)
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Nationalism Studies – From the State of the Art to Future Challenges
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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The Resistance of the World
This project will construct an inventory of possible conceptions of the resistance of the world to scientists’ claims and theories.
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Assessments of Past Science
Is it possible to formulate a new conceptual foundation for attributing an evaluative role to historiography of science, without relinquishing the historiographic sensitivity of recent work in the discipline?
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1st year students information session “Start your career during your studies”
Career and apply for jobs
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Master's Online Experience Day Film and Photographic Studies: Join a lecture!
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Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods and Tools for New Approaches to Literary Studies
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International Studies - Webinar Mini-lecture and Live Q&A (REGISTRATIONS CLOSED)
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Master's Online Experience Day Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Research MA)
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Vidi grant for Angus Mol: ‘Historical games are like time machines’
How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.
- BA Spring Semester Arabic & Islamic Studies for students of Dutch and Flemish Universities
- GTGC lunch seminar: Eve Darian-Smith and Phil McCarty on Global Studies Methods
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Studying the History of Technocratic Reasoning in Digitized Parliamentary Debates
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Master's Online Experience Day Book and Digital Media Studies: Thesis taster
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Master's Online Experience Day Book and Digital Media Studies: Meet the lecturer
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Master's Online Experience Day Religious Studies: Meet the Lecturer and online try-out lecture
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Netherlands and Japan united by a tradition of mutual curiosity
A delegation from Leiden University visited various universities in Japan at the end of March. The strong ties between the Netherlands and Japan are still based on a long tradition of knowledge exchange.
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Stancetaking and morphosyntactic variation: Insights from two case studies of complementizer (that)
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Petra Sijpesteijn
Arabist and papyrologist Petra Sijpesteijn has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for her research on the early Islamic Empire. The five-year ERC grant will fund the research project
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The influence of English on Belgian Dutch: Studying the suspects, Addressing the allegations
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Lunch Series '23/'24
- MA Fall Semester Arabic & Islamic Studies for students of Dutch and Flemish Universities
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Call for papers: Digital Disruption in Asia: Methods and Issues
How do digital technologies affect both Asian societies and the methods we use to study them? Conference in Leiden on 23-25 May 2016. Deadline abstract submission: 15 February 2016.
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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Studying intra- and inter-brain neural synchrony during naturalistic face-to-face communication
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Female Researchers in the Spotlight for Physics & Astronomy Ladies' Day
On Thursday November 15th, Leiden University organizes its Physics & Astronomy Ladies' Day for female high school students. To mark this festive day, we put the spotlight on five female researchers, who talk about their experiences working in science.
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How a Taiwanese organisation strengthens local communities through recycling
Most people think of waste as something dirty that needs to be disposed of as soon as possible, but Olivia Yun-An Dung's dissertation aims to show that this does not always have to be the case. For this purpose, she focuses on Tzu Chi recycling in Taiwan. There, an army of elderly volunteers has been…
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Impedance analysis of electrochemical system: recent advances on the study of capacitive systems
Lecture
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Supporting Primary Justice in Insecure Contexts, South Sudan and Afghanistan
How can the emergence of primary justice systems be facilitated and furthered?
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Synthesis and biological evaluation of spirocyclic antagonists of CCR2 (chemokine CC receptor subtype 2)
Source: Bioorg Med Chem, Volume 23, Issue 14, pp. 4034-49 (2015)
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Fifty years of teaching and research in Egypt: ‘Visit to Cairo a highlight for students’
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Thousands of students and researchers from eight partner universities in the Netherlands and Flanders have been able to gain valuable experience in Egypt through the institute. Good reason for a celebrat…
- Job offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval Manuscript Studies - Deadline for application
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2012 Vrije Competitie Grants for two LUCL members
LUCL is glad to announce that two of its members have been awarded an NWO Vrije Competitie Grant.
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10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA 2023)
Conference
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Co-registration of eye movements and fixation-related potentials to study human cognition
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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NWO grant Yra van Dijk for international Holocaust research
Yra van Dijk obtained a NWO 'Internationalisation in the Humanities' grant. Together with Ernst van Alphen she will collaborate with 8 European and Israelian partners in researching 'Digital Memory of the Holocaust'.
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How contact affects social formulae: a case study of greeting routines in Southern African languages
Lecture, Interactionality seminars
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Theological pamphlets reveal passionate religious debate
They might not have had Twitter, but they did have brochures (pamphlets), the Roman Catholics and ‘modern’ Protestants between 1840 and 1870. In these, they launched a passionate attack on each other’s ideas. Ineke Smit has catalogued the brochures from the collection of the University Library and outlined…
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Leiden Students help Create The Hague Manifesto to celebrate UN @ 70
The Hague Project Peace & Justice, in cooperation with Dr. Alanna O’Malley of the Leiden University Institute for History, organized a one-day conference on October 23rd, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the United Nations. Students of the ‘A History of the United Nations’ elective course of the…
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Arabic papyri shed new light on origins of Islam
Research on papyri has provided new insights into the history of the origins of Islam. Petra Sijpesteijns’s book,'Shaping a Muslim State', is based on these ancient Arabic letters and documents. Her new research on a Viennese collection of untranslated papyri is expected to produce more discoveries.
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Research Day of the National Research School for Literary Studies (OSL)
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