899 search results for “history landscapes” in the Staff website
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Karwan Fatah-BlackFaculty of Humanities
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Lionel LaborieFaculty of Humanities
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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen JacobsonFaculty of Humanities
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
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Book Landscapes of Survival sheds new light on the habitation of the Jordan deserts
December 2020 saw the crowning publication of the Landscapes of Survival project by Professor Peter Akkermans. Its main topic is human habitation in marginal environments like the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. ‘The people living here built their own society, and they would not have viewed it as…
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Alanna O'MalleyFaculty of Humanities
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Miko FlohrFaculty of Humanities
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Buzzing decline: Dutch landscape is losing insect-pollinated plants
The Netherlands is losing plant species that rely on pollination by insects. Leiden environmental scientist Kaixuan Pan demonstrates this after analysing 87 years of measurements from over 365,000 plots. The news is alarming for our biodiversity and food security. ‘75 per cent of our crops and 90% of…
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Claire WeedaFaculty of Humanities
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Peter MeelFaculty of Humanities
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Ship channels and their landscapes require radical reconsideration
Han Meyer, Carola Hein, Paul van de Laar and Sabine Luning, argue that in the current moment of major crises these ship channels necessitate radical reconsideration.
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Huizinga Lecture 2024: 'We Are the Times: History in Times of Crisis'
Alumni event, Lezing
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Getting students away from screens... and into the landscape
Leiden University's International Honours College, Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) experienced empty halls and empty classrooms this past year on the residential campus on the Anna van Buerenplein in The Hague due to the global pandemic. Dr Paul Hudson designed a Covid-proof course that enabled…
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How the world made the West: a 4000-year history
Keynote lecture
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Merel BrüningFaculteit Archeologie
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Stefan van der VormScience
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Maaike de WaalFaculteit Archeologie
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Tuna KalaycıFaculteit Archeologie
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Peter KopICLON
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Klaas WorpFaculty of Humanities
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Maja VodopivecFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Julia FoudraineAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Isabelle DuijvesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Junjie HuangFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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The Washington Post review of Eric Storm’s Nationalism: ‘Grand scale history’
The Washington Post reviews Nationalism by university lecturer Eric Storm. In this book, Storm explores how nation-states became the dominant political organizational form.
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Alistair KeffordFaculty of Humanities
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Eefke de HaanFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Giliam de ValkFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Starting grant for the investigation of the forgotten landscapes of World War II
PhD candidate Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart has received the Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds grant from the Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF) to work on a research project focusing on the landscapes of the Second World War. ‘We will combine citizen science with deep learning to uncover traces of the c…
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Erik OdegardFaculty of Humanities
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Book Launch: Lifting the Fog: The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022)
Book launch
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Large-format landscapes: why Northern-Netherlandish artists drew on extra-large paper outdoors
In the 16th and 17th centuries, many Northern-Netherlandish artists drew outdoors to train their hands and eyes, and to record landscapes and nature. In her inaugural lecture on 21 March 2022, Yvonne Bleyerveld, Professor by Special Appointment of Art on Paper and Parchment, draws our attention to a…
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Adam FaircloughFaculty of Humanities
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Gert OostindieFaculty of Humanities
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Roos StolkerFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Kim BeerdenFaculty of Humanities
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Indira HuliselanFaculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities