2,484 search results for “american studies” in the Public website
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Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities
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Reasserting America in the 1970s: US Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America's Image Abroad
Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest.
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How the eating habits of a limited group of Americans determine sustainability
Masses of hamburgers, steaks, cheese and a lot of eggs: Americans love their animal products. But researcher Oliver Taherzadeh discovered that only a relatively small group of high-volume consumers need to modify their diet to achieve an enormous environmental gain.
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Ben Van Rompuy speaks at OECD-IDB Latin American and Caribbean Competition Forum
Ben Van Rompuy, assistant professor of EU competition law, was an invited expert at the 23th Latin American and Caribbean Competition Forum (LACCF) organised in Quito, Ecuador on 28-29 September 2023.
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Book Review of Sofia Ranchordas’ scholarship in the American Journal of Comparative Law
The prestigious American Journal of Comparative Law (2016, pp. 790-4) just published a book review of Sofia Ranchordas monograph ‘Constitutional Sunsets and Experimental Legislation’ (Edward Elgar). The book is partially based on her PhD dissertation for which she was awarded a cum laude doctorate degree…
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Conditions for a successful interregional approach: the case of EU-Latin America
Analysing the EU’s interregional relations with three Latin American (sub) regions: Central America, Andean Community and Mercosur in order to create a set of conditions to explain the success/failure of EU-led interregionalism
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Invertebrates on the edge
What invertebrates live in the fields and edges? Do the populations change with landscape complexity?
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Briitta van Staalduinen receives Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association
Assistant Professor Briitta van Staalduinen has received the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association, Section on Class and Inequality. Her dissertation, Ethnic Inequality in the Welfare State, aims to reconcile the persistence of ethnic inequalities in expansive welfare…
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Jonathan Stökl
Faculty of Humanities
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Black lives matter: ‘Why the American protests have resonated in the Netherlands’
The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police may have sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and here in the Netherlands, but they are about more than that alone. We asked Karwan Fatah-Black, a historian who specialises in the Dutch colonial history, for his analysis. ‘We…
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Black lives matter: ‘Racism takes different forms but it’s a world issue’
It all started with demonstrations protesting about the death of George Floyd from police brutality in Minneapolis, but the Black Lives Matter protest is spreading like wildfire across the whole of the US. Every day, thousands of people are taking to the streets. We asked American Studies expert Sara…
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What's it like to participate in the Leiden Leadership Programme? Alumni share their experiences: 'You learn things about leadership and can immediately put them into practice.'
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Latijns-Amerikastudies (Spaans/Portugees)
This multidisciplinary minor within the department of Latin American Studies offers the opportunity to combine language acquisition courses in Spanish or Portuguese with modules in the history, literature, culture and cinema of Spanish America and Brazil. Students can choose to follow the Spanish or…
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Literature in Society: Europe and Beyond at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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History and International Studies 1900-Present
The research programme History and International Studies 1900-Present addresses the interconnections and interdependence of contemporary global political, economic and cultural affairs from a multidisciplinary perspective rooted in the humanities.
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Patricio Silva
Faculty of Humanities
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Jacky Nieuwboer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Martine Bruil
Faculty of Humanities
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Roitman & Veenendaal, 'We Take Care of Our Own'
Jessica Vance Roitman and Wouter Veenendaal, researchers at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, investigate the origins, development, and consolidation of political oligarchy in the Caribbean island nation of St. Maarten.
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Fulbright scholarship takes Sara Polak to Yale
Sara Polak, PhD researcher and lecturer at LUCAS, has won a Fulbright scholarship to work on her research on Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yale University from September 2014 till February 2015.
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Development of a Transgenic Mouse Model to Study the Immunogenicity of Recombinant Human Insulin
Mouse models are commonly used to assess the immunogenicity of therapeutic proteins and to investigate the immunological processes leading to antidrug antibodies. The aim of this work was to develop a transgenic (TG) Balb/c mouse model for evaluating the immunogenicity of recombinant human insulin (insulin)…
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Gina van Ling
Faculty of Humanities
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Siavash Rafiee Rad
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske Keijser
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Webb
Faculty of Humanities
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Anoma van der Veere
Faculty of Humanities
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Jessica Roitman
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten Kossmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Michaël Opgenhaffen
Faculty of Humanities
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Rieneke Sonnevelt
Faculty of Humanities
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Ivo Smits
Faculty of Humanities
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Carina van den Hoven
Faculty of Humanities
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Annelou van Gijn
Faculteit Archeologie
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Geert Warnar
Faculty of Humanities
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Isabel Hoving
Faculty of Humanities
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Bruno Braak
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Arnold Mol
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans de Iongh has given a Skype lecture for American students of Duke University
On 23 February 2011, Hans de Iongh gave a Skype lecture for a group of 15 students of the Duke University of North Carolina, USA on the invitation of Dr Andrew Jacobson.
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Política del anonimato en el cine de América Latina
This research aims to address the relationship between cinema and political thought in Latin America, in order to question a limited understanding of cinema politics, which has dominated the field of study since the middle of the last century, and to propose a different one that we will call politics…
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Twitter attacks on Hillary Clinton are about gender, rather than politics
Political scientist Rebekah Tromble (Leiden University) and computational sociolinguist Dirk Hovy (University of Copenhagen) analyse how much hostility and sexism Clinton faces on Twitter, as well as who seems to be behind such attacks.
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Wilt Idema
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
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Paula van den Berg
Science
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Paul van Els
Faculty of Humanities
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Hisashi Owada
Faculty of Humanities
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Marc Buijnsters
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Jamaseb Soltani
Faculty of Humanities