4,062 search results for “grant and plant studies” in the Public website
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theory as the “B side” of modal theory: The English progressive as case study
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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language learning - Experiences and insights from conducting a PhD study
Lecture
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Lecture: To Eat or Not To Eat: Leveraging Chemical Proteomics for the Study of Macrophage Phagocytosis
Lecture
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School's out! But not for head teachers
Many head teachers will have to try and fill staffing gaps this summer. Assistant Professor Kim Stroet, who is researching pupil motivation, is worried about the teacher shortage in the Netherlands, but can see a development that may help solve it.
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Secondary school students grapple with Dutch texts: ‘I liked the feminist part best’
University lecturer Olga van Marion invited pupils from Ashram College in Alphen aan den Rijn to take part in a series of Dutch workshops organised at the University. Some the students and workshop leaders reflect on the busy morning.
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Geslaagde studentenconferentie 'empirisch-juridisch onderzoek en het privaatrecht'
Waarom is empirisch-juridisch onderzoek van belang voor de rechtspraktijk en het wetenschappelijke onderzoek? Op die vraag kregen masterstudenten van de afstudeerrichtingen civiel recht, ondernemingsrecht en financieel recht antwoord tijdens het congres over empirisch-juridisch onderzoek en het privaatrecht…
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LUC Alumnus admitted to the Prestigious Yenching Academy
LUC Alumnus, Vera Kranenburg, from the Class of 2018 is admitted to the prestigious Yenching Academy. Vera has been selected as one of the Yenching Scholars in the fifth cohort at the Yenching Academy of Peking University.
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Evelien Campfens in the New York Times on looted art in museums
In an article by the New York Times, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens discusses the difficulties surrounding the ownership of looted art.
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Peter Liebregts guest lecturer in Canterbury
At the invitation of the Centre for Early Christianity and Its Reception (CECIR), Peter Liebregts, Full Professor of Modern Literatures in English (LUCAS), visited the University of Kent in Canterbury from March 17 to 20, to give a lecture and a masterclass.
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‘I want to work with Indonesia in the present day’
Alumnus Rennie Roos lives and works in Indonesia. What took him there, what does he do there and what inspires him?
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Raising the bar for classification and outcome assessment for clinical studies in axial spondyloarthritis
PhD defence
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A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana
PhD defence
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Streaming the Sagas: a live role play in the North-European Age of Heroes
Hwæt! You've heard of the adventures of the mighty Beowulf. You've heard of the brave folk standing beside him, and the awe-inspiring foes standing against him. But where their legend still lives, their tale ended long ago... Let us begin a new saga, let us find new heroes, weave a new story - by the…
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2022: 'After Lights Out: Studying Classics in a World War II Internment Camp'
Lecture
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Report of the Conference: “China, the Netherlands and Europe”, 9th of February
How do Chinese view the Netherlands, and what do they experience here? These and other matters were discussed February 9th at the conference: “China, the Netherlands and Europe” which took place in Leiden. The conference, organized by the LeidenAsiaCentre, also marked the opening of the Leiden Asia…
- Public lecture "Conserving Art and Nature: how to deal with change" in Naturalis
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Career Talk with Maurien Olsthoorn
Debate, Career Talk
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The value of languages (to their users and communities)
Conference
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POSTPONED - The world of the Greek epigram. Studying Inscribed Funerary Poetry from the Hellenistic and Roman Greek East
Conference, Research Seminar
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Lotte Melenhorst: 'No evidence for mediatisation of lawmaking'
The widespread idea that politics is mediatised needs to be revised. Although media attention heavily influences some political processes, this is not the case when it comes to lawmaking. Lotte Melenhorst, a political scientist at Leiden University, analysed three heavily covered legislative processes…
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Sarah Cramsey appointed professor: ‘I want to uncover the underrepresented stories in history’
Sarah Cramsey was appointed professor by special appointment of Central European Studies at the Institute of History on 14 September. 'I am keen to incorporate different scholarly approaches into my work and raise the profile of Central European Studies in Leiden.'
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Dialects as the key to Japanese prehistory
Japanese was not always the language spoken in Japan. Researchers link the arrival of the language in Japan with the migration of farmers around 400 BC. Linguist Elisabeth de Boer has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to carry out research on the further spread of the language in Japan.
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Archaeologist Nathalie Brusgaard investigates human-animal relations as Assistant Professor
Dr Nathalie Brusgaard both studied and finished her PhD at the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden. After a few years spreading her wings, she is now back. As the new Assistant Professor in the World Archaeology department, she will continue her research on the relationship between prehistoric humans and…
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Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the "Ethnic Revolution" in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946
Lecture, Book Launch
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Meet Dr. Lital Abazon LJSA Member
Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses ranging from Introduction to Zionism to World Cinema.
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LUCIS launches Passion in Profession video series
What inspires scholars who study the history, cultures, religions and languages of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia? LUCIS interviewed scholars about their work and research in the video project “Passion in Profession”. The videos are available online now.
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Jovan Pesalj’s doctoral dissertation ‘Monitoring Migrations: The Habsburg-Ottoman Border in the Eighteenth Century’
In recent years, the public discourse on immigration in Europe and in the United States has often focused on efforts to increase security and restrict traffic on external borders. How old is this phenomenon of states attempting to control migrations on external borders? What were the motives and the…
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The enduring impact of Egypt on Western culture
The material and intellectual presence of Egypt is at the heart of Western culture, religion, and art from Antiquity to the present. In his book ‘Beyond Egyptomania. Objects, style and agency’, archaeologist Miguel John Versluys not only presents the Nachleben of Egypt as a major constituent of (European)…
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Ammodo Science Award to bring cultural heritage to life through play
A team of Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage.
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What the spider tales of Indians in the Caribbean reveal about our fragility and powers of endurance
Last week, Ajay Gandhi, Assistant Professor at the Leiden University College, wrote an article about how spider's webs can explain the dynamics of social beings.
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Maribel Fierro
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Maribel Fierro, Research Professor at the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid), to Leiden. She is the third Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University…
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Esa Kasmir: ‘Online video classes give me a reason to change out of my pajamas’
Esa Kasmir (21) is a third-year student in International Studies and is doing a minor in Philosophy. How does he cope with the present situation and how does he keep in touch with friends and family?
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Neanderthals knew what they were doing when it came to making the oldest known glue
Adhesives are an incredibly important part of every day life. They help hold together everything from shoes and mobile phones to satellites in space. But we didn’t invent adhesives: Neanderthals did, to make handles for stone tools over 191,000 years ago. Leiden researchers now found that Neanderthals…
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Combining classic and novel tools in the study of Historical Collections of Chinese Materia Medica in the Netherlands
PhD defence
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Engineered 3D-Vessels-on-Chip to study effects of dynamic fluid flow on human induced pluripotent stem cell derived-endothelial cells
PhD defence
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Meet Prof. dr. Jürgen K. Zangenberg, LJSA Co-Initiator and Member
Prof. Zangenberg came to Leiden in 2006 as Professor for New Testament and Early Christian Literature and is now Chair for the History and Culture of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.
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Anoma van der Veere: ‘In Japan, the awkward little masks symbolise the government’s failure’
Leiden Asia Centre researcher Anoma van der Veere argues that the Japanese government has failed to respond properly to Covid-19. There were difficulties with implementing government measures aimed at limiting the spread of the virus – in some cases those measures were not even taken seriously. How…
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International PhD Seminar on Slavery, Servitude & Extreme Dependency
Conference
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Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-history
Lecture
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Performing identity and buying love: self-expression and iyashi in the dansō escorting business
Lecture
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The future of experiencing the past
The Faculty of Archaeology experiments with innovating their teaching methods, using 3D scans and visualisation technology to enable active learning. 'It makes archaeological material more accessible. Especially when it comes to fragile materials, it allows nearly anybody to analyse them.'
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Between Diversity and Decolonisation: Museums as Media, and the Representation of Ainu in Museums in Japan
Lecture
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When images are not worth a thousand words: from cinematic multimodality to enhanced subtitling
Lecture
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“Was the Habsburg Empire an Empire?”
Lecture, Fourth Annual Leiden Austrian Studies Lecture
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Geslaagde studentenconferentie 'empirisch-juridisch onderzoek en het privaatrecht'
Waarom is empirisch-juridisch onderzoek van belang voor de rechtspraktijk en het wetenschappelijke onderzoek? Op die vraag kregen masterstudenten van de afstudeerrichtingen civiel recht, ondernemingsrecht en financieel recht antwoord tijdens het congres over empirisch-juridisch onderzoek en het privaatrecht…
- multi-scale and multi-lingual circulation of knowledge an empirical study of the available data sources in Latin America
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Lessons of Democracy: Mothers’ Education and Learning Activities in late-1950s Japan,
Lecture
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Florian Schneider wins LUS Teaching Prize
Florian Schneider has earned the title of Leiden University Lecturer of the Year. Sinologist Schneider was nominated by his students and crowned winner of the LUS Teaching Prize at the opening of the academic year by the board of the Leiden University Student Platform (LUS).
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Keuzegids consumer guide: six top programmes at Leiden University
Leiden University has six top bachelor’s programmes, according to Keuzegids universiteiten 2024 consumer guide to universities published on 30 November 2023. This once again puts the university in third place among broad universities ranked according to top programmes.
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The Myriad Avatars of Izumi Shikibu in Medieval Japan
Lecture