1,289 search results for “identities” in the Public website
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Episcopacy, Authority, and Gender
Aspects of Religious Leadership in Europe, 1100-2000
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Morena Skalamera
Faculty of Humanities
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
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The coronation ritual of the falcon at Edfu : tradition and innovation in ancient Egyptian ritual composition
Carina van den Hoven defended her thesis on 16 February 2017.
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Legal socialization in law school: two types of professional identity formation and their impact on inclusion and diversity’
Lecture
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Barbarism: History of a fundamental European concept and its literary manifestations from the 18th century to the present
This collaborative project aims to explore the history of the concept “barbarism” in Europe from the 18th century to the present, with a particular emphasis on the role of literature and art in the concept’s shifting functions.
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Culture: text and images in Japan
One of the ways of understanding another culture better is to examine what people experience when they read a text, or look at an image. Leiden experts have a lot of knowledge in this field, for example on culture in ancient Japan.
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Gender in ethnically mixed relationships of immigrants from Dutch former colonies in the Netherlands, 1945-2005
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Diversity and inclusion at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Within the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSW), D&I translates as the diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and identities among both students and staff.
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Memory before Modernity
This synthesis brings together strands developed in the four studies, sets out memories of the Revolt and presents the Low Countries as a case study.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for the research MA Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Study programme
The Urban Studies bachelor’s programme is based on two learning trajectories. One is dedicated to knowledge related to urban issues, while the other focuses on a wide range of practical and academic skills.
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Institute for History
The motto of the Institute for History is: ‘Global questions, local sources.’ Its researchers use local sources to find answers to major historical questions. Without historical analysis, it is impossible to understand and explain the issues in society today. Leiden itself has a rich history, with big…
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Endangered worldviews and heritage
Indigenous Peoples possess unique perspectives of the world that will be lost if their knowledge and heritage are not documented, studied and protected. If we lose this knowledge, we are losing part of our own heritage.
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Andean Mummies Journey to European Museums 1810-1970
A look into the political history of collecting and the collections of Andean mummies in Western European museums from 1830-1930 through archaeology and paleoimaging.
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Between the Wheat & the Waves: a mid-late Anglo-Saxon Settlement in a coastal setting
By comparing the archaeological evidence at Sedgeford and other sites located on both English and Continental coastal zones, what evidence is there for a shared maritime culture between these North Sea communities? Also if evidence is found, can we reveal to some extent a separate coastal identity to…
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Islam in the West
Muslims have lived in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe for centuries. Their arrival in Western Europe, the two Americas and Australia is however relatively recent. Studying how Muslims relate to their Western environment (and vice versa) and the mutual influences of Western and Islamic philosophies…
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Technologies and social agency of painted plaster in the East Mediterranean Bronze Age
This project explored the role of material culture, in casu painted plaster and its technologies, in expressing dynamic social identities and in forging complex interwoven human relationships in the context of the Middle to Late Bronze Age of the Aegean and East Mediterranean.
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Political Science
Politics is about the authorised allocation of values: who gets what, when and how much? This question is relevant at many different levels, in many different places and in very different ways.
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The Relationship between State and Religion in a Changing Dutch Society
In recent decades, the Netherlands’ struggle with multiculturalism has caused an upsurge in public interest in the relationship between state and religion. In this, the Dutch address a subject relevant not just to them, but to all of Europe.
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Sultan for a day, founder for ever
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About the programme
The Master History (study load 60 EC) offers you the chance to determine a study based on your own particular interests and ambitions.
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Museum Studies (MA)
The master’s programme in Museum Studies at Leiden University is uniquely positioned at the intersection of Art History and Museum Studies. Informed by leading interdisciplinary research, this degree provides you with a strong academic foundation for a variety of careers in museums, galleries and heritage…
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About the programme
The one-year master in Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory offers you the choice of four themes and a wide array of study options.
- Latin America
- Middle East & North Africa
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LGBTIQ+ Workplace Inclusion Symposium
Debate, Symposium
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Prince, Pen, and Sword. Eurasian Perspectives
Prince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status, function, and self-perceptions…
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World History For International Studies
Studying change in the course of human history, in different places, through the lens of a diverse set of core themes; World History for International Studies offers readers a set of windows into different debates historians have been conducting.
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Cyber-noir: Cybersecurity and popular culture
New article on popular culture influences on cybersecurity experts, available Open Access at Contemporary Security Policy, part of a special issue edited by dr. Myriam Dunn Cavelty.
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A country of immigrants no more? The securitization of immigration in the National Security Strategies of the United States of America
This article studies the securitization of immigration in the United States of America (U.S.), through the analysis of the National Security Strategies (NSS) published between 2002 and 2017, using a two-layered analytical framework that combines securitization theory and agenda setting theory.
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Iranian orientalism: notions of the other in modern Iranian thought
This study addresses and explains the issue of negative descriptions of the Arab Other in modern Iranian thought.
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Bilingualism and Minority Languages in Europe: Current Trends and Developments
This collection considers such issues as the cognitive, linguistic and emotional benefits of speaking two languages, the perceptions, attitudes and issues relating to identity in minority language areas, and the number of grammatical aspects amongst those who speak these minority languages.
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Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects
On 11 November 2021, Evelien Campfens defended the thesis 'Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. N.J. Schrijver and Prof. W.J. Veraart (VU Amsterdam).
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Gewijd der Jeugd voor taal en deugd: Het onderwijs in de Nederlandse taal op de lagere school, 1750-1850
On December 6th, Bob Schoemaker succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Bob on this great result.
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Legitimacy and Justice
The legitimacy and justice of political institutions and arrangements are among the perennial and defining subjects of the field of political theory. Political theorists who participate in the research cluster ‘Legitimacy and Justice’ engage in both systematic and historical reflection on the ways legitimacy…
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Verbal art of the Fon (Benin)
This publication aims at the analysis of the performance of a corpus of Fongbe stories that I collected in three villages in the south of Benin in 1976 and 1977. The corpus consists of 37 stories (57.000 words). The stories aim at children’s education.
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Stereotype
The role of grave sets in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker funerary practices
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Towards automated identification of metabolites using mass spectral trees
Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: Dr. Theo Reijmers
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Generating Freedom: Hegel's conception of political order
In the light of the fragility of current liberal democracies, this dissertation aims to contribute to rethinking political order by reconstructing Hegel’s account in the Philosophy of Right.
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The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization
This unique collection applies globalization concepts to the discipline of archaeology, using a wide range of global case studies from a group of international specialists.
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Analogy, Technical Reason, and Living Beings: The Role of Analogy in Representing Kant's Concept of Naturzweck
This dissertation concerns the role of analogy in Kant’s “Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment”, especially the role of analogy for the formation of the concept of a natural end (Naturzweck). A ‘natural end’ is a ‘regulative concept’ of the reflective power of judgment, that is, a heuristic…
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Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe
In the Brill series Intersections a new volume has been published, entitled Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe.
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Team 7 Graduation
Our bachelor’s degree programmes do not always align with the level of the master’s degree programmes. In order to tackle this, this team will examine how we can improve that alignment and how the graduation trajectory can play a role in this.
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Vision
Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) at Leiden University aims to advance knowledge and practice on how we govern – and could govern – major world-scale changes in contemporary society. These global transformations include hegemonic and other geopolitical shifts, ecological changes,…
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Ethnicity, Orthodoxy, and Policy in Medieval China: The Political Philosophy of Wang Tong (584?-617)
This research project focuses on the thoughts of ethnicity and political orthodoxy in Medieval China by investigating Wang Tong’s works.