2,354 search results for “history landscape” in the Public website
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14 Veni grants awarded to Leiden researchers
Fourteen promising researchers from Leiden University have been given the opportunity to realise their research plans for the coming years thanks to a Veni grant from the NWO. This year, these subsidies have been granted to studies of the influence of noise on the great tit, the conditions necessary…
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Nine Leiden projects awarded first NWO Science Diplomacy Fund
The projects of nine researchers at Leiden University have received funding through the new NWO Science Diplomacy Fund. The Fund is for scientific activities that will improve relations between the Netherlands and other countries.
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Sada Mire’s Leiden Experience: "the Johnny Cash of Archaeology"
Pioneering in the archaeology of Somaliland, hosting international TV and radio shows, and producing a very successful MOOC: Dr Sada Mire already has a formidable track record.
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Drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde and dr Sjef Houppermans presented with high French honour
“Very French and very impressive.” Those are the words drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde used to describe the reception at the French embassy residence in The Hague on 2 June 2015. There, she and dr. Sjef Houppermans were presented with an distinction for their remarkable services to the French language…
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How two metal detectorists discovered a complete Roman treasure
In 2017, in an ordinary field, two brothers from Brabant discovered more than 100 ancient coins. The Leiden historian who examined the coins concluded that they constituted a genuine Roman treasure. Here follows a reconstruction in three acts.
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’Society would flourish with new farming styles’
‘The climate crisis is the greatest threat we face,’ says Leiden University environmental scientist Paul Behrens. ‘And yet, there is hope. In the near future, I think we will wonder why we didn’t make these changes earlier.’
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Publications
Below is a chronological list of the most recent to oldest publication from the MultiGreen project.
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De schaduwzijde van erfgoedbescherming
World Heritage status comes at a cost to the local population’s human rights. PhD Candidate Sophie Starrenburg explains the drawbacks of poetic terms such as ‘the cultural heritage of mankind’.
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Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
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Publications
Recent publications
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The Processes of Conversion to Islam in Contemporary Spain: From the Betrayal of Spain to Community Insertion
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
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IBL Spotlights - Development & Disease
Lecture
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Turning academics into researchers: The development of National Researcher Categorization Systems in Latin America
Seminar
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Dutch Alumni Bay Area Event
Alumni event
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LCCP Research Seminar: After the Universal - On the Language of Co-Existence
Lecture
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The Political Economy of an Enigma: Exploring Vietnam's Domestic Dynamics and International Role
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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SAILS Lunch Seminar
Lecture, seminar
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Legitimation and nationalism in official Chinese Television Documentaries
Lecture, China Seminar
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The thousand war-battalions of the btsan: everyday demons in Ladakh
Lecture
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Religious Discourse and Tribal Affiliation in Early Islamic Ifrīqiya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Political Economy of Vaccine Diplomacy: Explaining Varying Strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Diplomacy
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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LCCP Lecture The Social Dimension of Critical Phenomenology
Lecture
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Byblos Workshop
Conference
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
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Multi-level approaches for the proteoform characterization of therapeutic antibodies by mass spectrometry
PhD defence
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Before Temples
PhD defence
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Unveiling Media Accessibility: From Research to Practice and Back
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Live Q&A with OpenAI: AI and the Future of Humanity
Debate, Live Q&A
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Roundtable on the Future of Yemeni Studies
Conference, Roundtable
- NIPV lecture series: A closer look at the Dutch crisis governance system
- Anthropology in The Netherlands
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Fire in Human Evolution
Conference
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Monthly Reads | Project 0100
Each month we will be spotlighting material we have been reading, or that have been recommended to us that relate to AI and a particular theme.
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Digging for a Liveable Planet?
Lecture
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Global Challenges: The Regime of Lukashenka
Lecture
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Decoding the molecular makeup of the human ovary through single-cell transcriptomics
PhD defence
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms - January 2024
Lecture
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Perceptions of China’s Sexual Economy
Lecture, China Seminar
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Towards an Archaeology of Malaria
International Symposium on Malaria Studies
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Workshop ‘Disinformation and Human Rights in Context’
Conference
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Elephants in the Room
Lecture
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Representative Assemblies in Interface Zones: The Cases of Poland and the Netherlands in Post-Napoleonic Europe
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
- Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)
- Toogdag: The Concept of Justice in a War Era: The Cases of Gaza, South-Sudan, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Sufis in Afghanistan: Contemporary Navigations of Religious Authority across Political Changes
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Philosophy/Japan Studies: Befriending Things on a Field of Energies
Lecture
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Global China’s Human Touch?
PhD defence