3,958 search results for “collection” in the Public website
-
Students work on bacterium that makes sustainable plastic
A group of biology students are working on a solution to the world’s plastics problem by getting bacteria to make biodegradable plastic.
-
Collaboration across borders: virtual learning between Leiden University College and Myanmar
Jyothi Thrivikraman set up a Virtual International Collaboration project with a university in Myanmar.
-
In search of hidden voices
Nearly all documents from the 16th and 17th centuries were written by more than one person but attributed to only one author. Professor Nadine Akkerman wants to rectify this oversight in her research on scribes.
-
Why search engines and chatbots are becoming more alike
Search engines are getting better at answering our questions. And chatbots are increasingly likely to search the internet for relevant sources. ‘Search engines and chatbots will become more closely entwined’, says Professor Suzan Verberne.
-
Music to our ears: How playing an instrument affects the adolescent brain
What impact does growing up in a musical environment or during the COVID-19 pandemic have on the brain development of teenagers? This was the focus of psychologist Lina van Drunen’s PhD research, which studied hundreds of twins. Her findings reveal that practising music slows brain development, presenting…
-
Gilles van Wezel steps down as SD of the IBL: Hubertus Irth appointed as temporary replacement
Gilles van Wezel will step down as Scientific Director (SD) of the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) as of June 17th. He has held this position since September 2018. Van Wezel will be temporarily succeeded by Hubertus Irth, the current SD of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR). Irth…
-
Open Science Coffee: a hands-on introduction to preregistration
Lecture
- Feedback session NPOS2030 Ambition Document
-
Intersecting Global Trends: antidemocracy and anti-environmentalism
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
-
Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
Lecture, Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
-
Photo exhibition 'People of Leiden'
Arts and culture, Fototentoonstelling
-
Untold Stories: representation, heritage and museums
Conference, D&I Symposium
-
"From Epistemicide to ‘Epistemic Disobedience'" by Anne-Maria Makhulu
Lecture
-
Film Screening: Foragers
Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel
-
In the Making #3: Kristoffer Gansing and Francesco Ragazzi (ReCNTR), Artistic Research and the Techno-aesthetics of Infrastructure
Lecture, Conversation
-
With kind regards: 22 November 2022
Lecture
-
NICA Mini Symposium 'Fernand Deligny on Cinema and the Image'
Conference
-
What (and Where) on Earth is Waqwaq?
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
-
Crash Course in Greek Palaeography
Two-day Seminar
-
UBH 2022 - Upsetting Binaries & Hierarchies
Conference
-
2021: This was the year of our faculty
2021 was an eventful year once again for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). Hybrid, working from home, online education, on-campus education, face masks, self-tests, keeping distance, quarantine and the coronavirus. Words that have now become a standard part of our vocabulary when…
-
Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives
In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…
-
Social Science Matters: Open Science
On 20 September 2019, the opening drinks for the Open Science Community Leiden will be held at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Open science is the approach to science aimed at making scientific research accessible, reproducible, and freely available to people within and outside the academic…
-
Twinkle, twinkle, giant star
Up above the world so high a giant star twinkles. Could an 83-year-old astronomer unravel the mystery of this megastar? ‘At times I thought: that’s it! I give up! It’s beyond me.’
-
Social Science Matters: The surveillance society
Those who know their dystopian classics will inevitably associate the concept of surveillance society with the all-knowing oppressive force characterized as Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel 1984. However, surveillance permeats our society in many more subtle aspects than our worst fears about spy…
-
A hornets’ nest: Leiden University during the Second World War
‘That hornets’ nest in Leiden must be destroyed,’ said Dutch National Socialist Party member Robert van Genechten in November 1942. He was referring to Leiden University. Why this hatred? Emeritus Professor of University History Willem Otterspeer has written a book about Leiden University during the…
-
Reconstruction of linguistic history using dialect data
Lecture, Special Topics in Dialectology (2023)
-
Living Texts
Lecture, Studium Generale
-
Scales of Luminosity
Lecture, Walks and Talks
- ELS lab meeting - Journal Club: Daily surveys on social stressors at work and their influence on marital behaviors at home by Helen Pluut
-
Mara Buchbinder - Scritping Death
Lecture, Online webinar
-
Discontinuous Constituency and BERT: Two Case Studies of Dutch
Lecture
-
LKV guest lecture: Yuki Kihara
Lecture
-
Book launch “Style en Society in the Prehistory of West Asia – Essays in Honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse”
Conference, Book launch
-
Joan van der Waals colloquium by Ming Guo
Lecture
- Masterclass Heraldry (3 ECTS)
-
LIBC SYLVIUS Lecture
Lecture
-
Florence Nightingale Colloquium Avishek Anand
Lecture
-
Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
-
SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, seminar series
-
CPP Colloquium "Legitimate disobedience and epistemic humility"
Lecture
-
Proto-Indo-European Loanwords in Proto-Kartvelian: A Reconsideration
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
-
Unconscious Listening: The Constitution of Genres of Listening in Buenos Aires
Lecture, LUCL Sociolinguistics Series 2022/2023
-
Online exhibition: The Space Between (AI and games)
Exhibition
- GTGC lunch seminar: human rights for governing digital platforms
-
Food Citizens?
Lecture, Research Seminar
-
SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Tom Heyman
Lecture
-
Public Leadership in the Digital Age
Debate
-
A feminist approach to the right to self-determination
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
-
A Global South Divided: Rising Powers in International Environmental Politics
Lecture, China Seminar