934 search results for “world s representation” in the Staff website
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Representation
The organizations below represent the interests of postdocs within and outside Leiden University.
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Stephan VerschoorFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Emmanuel s SarabweAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Water worlds
Lecture, Blue History Network Graduate Forum
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Luc Sträter - Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Numbers are not an exact representation of an objective reality
Tim van de Meerendonk explores how farmers, insurance advisors and local politicians in India try to make sense of insurance figures through their moral convictions.
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Cynthia van Vonno
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Objects: Material culture and the dynamics of innovation in the ancient world
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Student and staff representation in challenging times: ‘We need each other more than ever’
The bodies representing student and staff interests met at the start of the academic year for a day of training. New and familiar faces had come together to learn more about their role as council members and meet the Executive Board − and each other.
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Steven DenneyFaculty of Humanities
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Core curriculum course Humanities in a Digital World
From 2026-2027, the Faculty of Humanities will add a new core curriculum course to its education: Humanities in a Digital World. The new course will prepare all students for their role as humanities specialists in the digital society. The course has been developed by experts from different study programmes…
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Marijn NagtzaamFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Censorship in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature
How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of mass murder – despite heavy censorship – found a place in Indonesian literature. PhD defence 31 March.
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Sancisi-Weerdenburg Lecture: The Achaemenid Persian Empire and World History
Lecture
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Victoria NystAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Stephan RaaijmakersFaculty of Humanities
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Manolis FragkiadakisFaculty of Humanities
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Rogier CreemersFaculty of Humanities
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Reconfiguring Human–Animal Relations in Bhutan and the Himalayan Buddhist World
Lecture, CADS Research Seminar
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Peter VerhaarFaculty of Humanities
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Lies PunselieFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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Karin de WildFaculty of Humanities
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hard time with uncertainty? This may influence how you perceive the world
Always taking the same route to work, going for that one dish in restaurants and going on the same holiday each summer: this may ring a bell for those who don’t like uncertainty. Researchers are now discovering that this aversion affects how we understand the world.
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‘History has long been written mainly from a male perspective’
Historian Seran de Leede delved into the life of Lie Alma (1909–1990), the courageous woman from the Dutch province of Drenthe who spoke out against fascism in the 1930s and remains a source of inspiration to this day.
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Matthijs WesteraFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden Law School rises in QS World University Ranking
Leiden Law School has moved up three places in the global ranking of law faculties and is now in 21st place.
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities
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Aron van de PolFaculty of Humanities
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Nancy KulaFaculty of Humanities
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Alexandra PrégentFaculty of Humanities
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming'
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debunks the idea that the Second World War took the Netherlands by surprise. ‘From 1935 onwards, all major political parties wanted to invest in the military.’…
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Languages and Cultures of the World Page is now online
In accordance with the Faculty Strategic Plan, the thematic page on Languages and Cultures of the World has been launched. It provides an overview of the university's expertise in the field of Languages and Cultures. This theme is one of the four core areas that position the expertise of the Faculty…
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Qurʾān Interpretation: Kyai Saleh Darat’s (d. 1903) Fayḍ al-Raḥmān and the Javanese Mystical World
PhD defence
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Sayeh MohammadiFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nina van CapelleveenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lettie Dorst: ‘Translation programmes change how we interpret the world’
Associate Professor Lettie Dorst has received a Vidi grant to research how machine translation programmes such as Google Translate and ChatGPT translate words and expressions used metaphorically. This still regularly goes wrong, resulting in far too literal, incorrect and sometimes incomprehensible…
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Katrien KlepFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ann SkeltonFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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receives grant to research forgotten Dutch slavery in the Indian Ocean World
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe will research forgotten lineages with an NWO Open Competition grant, in particular the afterlife of Dutch slavery in the Indian Ocean World.
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Staging the Heroine
Conference
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Herta Mohr: Headstrong female scientist in a man's world
As a twelve-year-old girl, Nicky van de Beek became intrigued by the tomb chapels in Saqqara, Egypt. Now she is doing her PhD on them, just like another Leiden Egyptologist decades earlier. Herta Mohr persevered with her research during World War II. Now she is the namesake of the first Leiden building…
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Second World War victims commemorated in Hour of Remembrance
On 4 May, Leiden University remembered the victims of the Second World War from our university community. Alumni, students and present and former staff of the University came together for this Hour of Remembrance.
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Song Tan
Faculty of Humanities