2,054 search results for “contemporary arts and literature” in the Public website
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Temple culture in Ptolemaic Egypt alive and kicking
Egyptian temple culture was thought to be declining in the Ptolemaic era, after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Nothing could be further from the truth, says Egyptologist Carina van den Hoven. Temple culture was very much alive and kicking. PhD defence 16 February.
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Gabriel Paiuk – Sound Theory (The Clouds)
Arts and culture, Concert
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Concert Practicum Musicae students
Arts and culture, Concert
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Lectorate Event of lectorate 'Music, Education and Society' Royal Conservatoire
Arts and culture
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Workshop painting winter landscapes
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Film Screening: Crip Camp
Arts and culture, Conference | D&I Symposium
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WINNER 2022: Week of Indonesia Netherlands Education and Research
Event
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30 appearances out of darkness
Arts and culture, Holland Festival
- Visual Culture (5 ECTS - FULL)
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Ama – a warrior deity in the Avesta, his name and functions, and their Indo-Iranian and Indo-European backgrounds
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Concert Practicum Musicae students
Arts and culture, Concert
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Exhibitions LeidenGlobal 'Crafting Cultures' and '3 Leidsche Mondialen'
Arts and culture
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Painting Winter Landscapes with techniques of the Old Masters
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Young Academy Leiden: bursting with youthful zeal
Great things are expected of Young Academy Leiden. The first 13 members of this society for young researchers will provide the Executive Board with fresh ideas on teaching, research, policy and how to connect with society. The researchers themselves will benefit from the contact with their peers from…
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A few remarks on the latest developments at NVIC from director Dr Rudolf de Jong
Dear friends of the NVIC,
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Helen Pluut new chair of Young Academy Leiden
Young Academy Leiden brings together young researchers, gives them a say in policymaking and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration. Chair Tom Louwerse is passing on the baton to Helen Pluut. ‘Sharing your knowledge and experience with colleagues from other faculties and institutes is so valuable.’…
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Van Engelshoven’s Letter to Parliament calls for more funding for science
‘Academics have descended from their ivory tower, but there’s still too little action or financing.’ Leiden professor of Science Communication Ionica Smeets saw all her wishes come true on 28 January, with the presentation of the Letter to Parliament sent by Minister Van Engelshoven of the Ministry…
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Scaliger medal presented to LERU President Kurt Deketelaere
The first Scaliger Medal was presented on 19 September to Leuven Professor Kurt Deketelaere, President of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). He received the award in recognition of his tireless commitment to promoting European research.
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Dick Stufkens Prize 2020 awarded to physical chemist Mark Koenis
The Dick Stufkens Prize 2020 for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry has been awarded to Dr Mark Koenis. Koenis graduated 21 February with the distinction cum laude on his thesis 'Advanced Spectra Analysis to Determine Complex Structure and Chirality'. He describes…
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Artificial intelligence to extend, not replace human capabilities
Computers are increasingly able to accomplish tasks that are difficult for human experts, such as diagnosing diseases or detecting credit card fraud. While the earliest examples of computational thinking can be traced back to the 13th century, according to Holger Hoos, Leiden Professor of Machine Learning,…
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Klaas van Leest receives Dick Stufkens Prize 2021
The Dick Stufkens Prize 2021 for the best PhD thesis of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) has been awarded to Klaas van Leest for his thesis 'Open- Shell Cobalt Complexes with Redox-Active Ligands; Electronic Structure and Nitrene Transfer Reactivity'. Van Leest, who is now…
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The Power of Expression
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Painting summer landscapes in 6 lessons
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Perceptual drawing: draw your favorite object
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Workshop Landscape Painting
Arts and leisure, Personal development, Arts and leisure
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Spectral Infrastructure - On Unhoused Music, (Im)Possible Realism, and the Unarchivable
Arts and culture, Symposium
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Book launch As Above So Below 🙃 - Ruchama Noorda
Arts and culture, Book launch
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Concert Practicum Musicae students
Arts and culture, Concert
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Presentation outcomes Research Projects 2021 / introduction Research group 2022- Lectorate Music, education and Society (Royal Conservatoire)
Arts and culture
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African percussion (djembé)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Painting animals; make a painting of your favorite animal
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- Program 2024
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Publications
This is a list of scientific publications by students and staff of the Media Technology MSc programme.
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LCCP Working Seminar with Susanna Lindberg: "From Technological Humanity to Bio-Technical Existence"
Lecture
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Josephus Scaliger: famous scholar and grouch
Josephus Justus Scaliger was one of the most famous scholars of his time and yet today his name is likely to be met with blank looks. His correspondence shows that this Leiden professor was also irritable to say the least. Kasper van Ommen will defend his PhD thesis on Scaliger’s legacy on 2 July. Find…
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LCCP Working Seminar with Annemie Halsema "Hermeneutics of the body"
Lecture
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Gert Stulp
Lecture
- BA Fall Middle East Studies Programme
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EUniwell Open Lecture Series | Africa the Conservation Continent of the 21st Century?
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
- Medieval Studies' Day (1/2 ECTS)
- Workshop: Interdisciplinary Research Design for Global Studies
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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme
Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the programme. How was it and what do they expect from this programme?
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Food citizens? Advisory Board Meeting in Gdańsk
In late May 2019, the Food citizens? team traveled to Poland for a project meeting and team outing. This was made possible by the European Research Council’s support and facilitated networks and knowledge-generation.
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Recommendations from the Student Well-being Taskforce
We know from national and international research that many students struggle with psychological problems. How about students in Leiden? Leiden University's Student Well-being Taskforce wants to see more research and has also come up with some advice, ranging from personal buddies and digital support…
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Torino: From food to demands
“Neighborhood solidarity cannot compensate the absence of the State: a response from the local administration is needed”
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Doing Gender in The Netherlands: TRANS* approaches, methods & concepts
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) hosts the annual National Research Day, held this year at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. The NOG Research Day is a dedicated platform for sharing the work of junior and senior researchers of Dutch universities in the fields…
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How a Dutchman contributed to the rapid development of Singapore
In 1960, Albert Winsemius started to help the city state of Singapore achieve its rapid rise out of economic misery. He helped the Singaporean government understand how the Netherlands had managed to rebuild so quickly after the Second World War, with the help of the American Marshall Plan. PhD defence…
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge
Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent symposium, 28 groups of four to five students unveiled their solutions. The commisioners expressed great enthusiasm.
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The Significance of Style
From September 20 to 23, an international Summer School was hosted by the Museums, Collections & Society research programme. PhD candidate in Archaeology Nicky Schreuder attended the Summer School.
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18 Veni subsidies for Leiden, 8 for our faculty!
This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…