456 search results for “theory historiography” in the Public website
-
Computational aspects of class group actions and applications to post-quantum cryptography
Most of current public-key cryptography is considered insecure against attacks from sufficiently powerful quantum computers. Post-quantum cryptography studies methods to secure information resistant against such attacks. One proposal is isogeny-based cryptography, which bases its security on computational…
-
Links between cohomology and arithmetic
Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven
-
From Homo Economicus to Political Animal
Who is Economic Man? Every economic paradigm presupposes an anthropology, a theory of human nature. This project explores the anthropologies presupposed and produced by ancient Greek economic texts, and the specific knowledge forms that shape these anthropologies.
-
Scholarly temptations: self-discipline and desire in Victorian Britain.
How did British scholars and scientists in the period of discipline formation envision, experience and resist scholarly temptations?
-
Development of highly accurate density functionals for H2 dissociation on transition metals
Metals surfaces form a group of effective catalysts for the reaction of small molecules such as hydrogen (H2).
-
Meet this year's Lorentz Professor Renata Kallosh: 'Lorentz is my hero in physics'
Professor Renata Kallosh (Stanford University), one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists, will be this summer’s Lorentz Professor at the Leiden institute for theoretical physics. Her main areas of interest are cosmology and string theory. She studied physics in Moscow, where she also obtained…
-
Complex multiplication of abelian surfaces
Promotor: Peter Stevenhagen
-
Female Spies or 'she-Intelligencers': Towards a Gendered History of Seventeenth-Century Espionage
By analysing neglected (continental) spy centres and integrating these groups of female intelligencers into the traditional, male-orientated historical narratives, this project will proceed towards a gendered history of early modern espionage.
-
Reproducing past, present and future: colonial visions and experience in Asia in the residencies
Reproducing past, present and future: colonial visions and experience in Asia in the residencies
-
Sustaining total war: Militarisation, economic mobilisation and social change in Japan and Korea (1931-1953)
This project investigates the effects of the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945) and the Korean War (1950-1953) on the production, distribution, preparation and consumption of food in transwar Japan and Korea.
-
Facing the enemy
How were war heroes and war criminals created, and how do these images relate to the historical context?
-
Exploring the Dutch Empire: Agents, Networks and Institutions, 1600 - 2000
Dr. Cátia Antunes and prof. Jos Gommans both edited and contributed to this interesting book, that consists of articles that offers a new insight into the macro and micro worlds of the global Dutchman in Asia.
-
A war of words: What ancient Manchurian history does to Korea and China today
Why does the past elicit this intense activity in the present? What does the past mean for the present, and what does it do to it? A WAR OF WORDS will engage this complex of Chinese claims to Manchu-Korean ancient history, South Korean reactions, public discourse and cultural expression in both states,…
-
Valorization of Scientific Knowledge: Philosophy, History and Policy
This project aims to situate the current policy concept of ‘valorization of scientific knowledge’ in historical and epistemological perspectives. Conceptual understanding of the utility of scientific practices is developed in dialogue with historical analyses of the politics of knowledge in European…
-
Challenging monopolies, building global empires in the early modern period
How did free agents in the Dutch Republic react to the creation of colonial monopolies (VOC and WIC) by the States-General? This project answers this question by looking at the role individuals played in the construction of an informal global empire parallel to the institutional empire devised by the…
-
Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon their Own
This book argues that Armenians around the world – in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I – developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial…
-
Institute for Area Studies: Asia & the Middle East
The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) is devoted to the study of places in the human world from antiquity to the present time in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.
- Open Science Coffee Formalizing theories
-
The Lazy Mindreader: a new perspective on “mindreading” from the study of language and narrative
How is social cognition shaped by our knowledge of language and stories?
-
Counting problems for number rings
Promotor: H.W. Lenstra
-
Real-time foresight: preparedness for dynamic innovation networks
Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer
-
Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions.
-
On the amount of sieving in factorization methods
Promotoren: R. Tijdeman, A.K. Lenstra, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele
-
Stochastic resetting and hierarchical synchronisation
Stochastic resetting is simple enough to be approached analytically, yet modifies stochastic processes in a non-trivial way.
-
The Enforcement of European Union Law
How to explain the apparent high success rates of the EU infringement procedures, which are the major tools for enforcing EU law, against the member states?
-
Identity processes during health behavioral change
To what extent and how do identity processes influence health behavior?
-
Natalia Donner
Faculty of Humanities
-
Femke Bakker
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
-
Robert Zwijnenberg
Faculty of Humanities
-
Francesco Ragazzi
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
-
Elena Burgos Martinez
Faculty of Humanities
-
Garnet Akeyr
Science
-
Christoph Niessen
-
Interpreting particles in dead and living languages: A construction grammar approach to the semantics of Dutch ergens and Ancient Greek pou
In this dissertation, the types of context Dutch speakers need to interpret the poly-interpretable word ergens ‘somewhere/anywhere’ are studied.
-
In search of the atoms of mathematics
Combining geometry and number theory. That is what Dr Jan Vonk of the Institute of Mathematics receives a Vidi grant for today. ‘By fusing these two disciplines we may be able to solve a century-old mathematical problem.’
-
CPP Colloquium “A cultural theory of deliberation”
Lecture
-
Gabriel Paiuk – Sound Theory (The Clouds)
Arts and culture, Concert
-
Dual Complexes of Semistable Varieties
This thesis is comprised of three chapters covering the theme of studying semistable varieties by looking at their dual combinatorial objects.
-
Mathematician Peter Koymans wins KWG PhD prize
Leiden PhD student Peter Koymans has been declared ‘best mathematics PhD student’ by the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (KWG). He received the prize at the Dutch Mathematical Congress (NMC) on 24 and 25 April. With his talk about his research into the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture, Koymans left eleven…
-
Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective
The aim of the Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective (which is allied to the Society of Dutch Literature (MNL)) is to support research into the literature of and about the Dutch Indies, from the era of the Dutch East India Company to the present. Starting in 1986, the collective has published its own…
-
Wilma Wentholt
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
-
Liesbeth Minnaard
Faculty of Humanities
-
Neurobiological and Environmental Determinants of Parenting and Child Development
-
-
Bert Mooiman receives NWO doctoral scholarship
On 20 December 2013, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announced that 37 teachers will be conducting doctoral research funded by a Doctoral Scholarship. Using this scholarship, teachers are enabled, in addition to their educational activities, to conduct research leading to…
-
Ab initio molecular dynamics calculations on reactions of molecules with metal surfaces
Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes
-
Hajj: Global Interactions through Pilgrimage
Every year, in the last month of the Islamic calendar, millions of Muslims from around the world come together in Mecca to perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that all capable Muslims should perform at least once in their lives. In 2013, the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden organised the exhibition…
-
XII Annual Convention, Austria Centers Edmonton, Calgary, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, 1-4 September 2018
Impressions by Oene de Haan - PhD candidate at Utrecht University.
-
Special Issue: Missions, Powers and Arabization in Social Sciences and Missions
This is a Special Issue of the peer-reviewed journal 'Social Sciences and Missions', which provides a forum for exploration of the social and political influence of Christian missions worldwide.
-
Leiden University and the war
Leiden University commemorates its victims of the war and pays tribute to all members of the university community who resisted injustice. Rudolph Cleveringa, for instance, the dean of the law faculty who gave a protest speech in 1940 after his Jewish colleagues were fired. We honour their memory through…
-
Fighting monopolies, defying empires 1500-1750: a comparative overview of free agents and informal empires in Western Europe and the Ottoman
How did “free agents” (entrepreneurs operating outside of the myriad of interests of the centralized, state-sponsored monopolies) in Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire react to the creation of colonial monopolies (royal monopolies and chartered companies) by the central states in the Early Modern…