795 search results for “american politics” in the Staff website
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Towards a Muslim Futurist Movement: On the Power of Imagining, Space Building, and Community
Lecture, LUCIS Meets | Masterclass
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Citizen Labor: correcting data and creating value in an Indian land records database
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Daniel Pauly: The Human Appropriation of the Earth and the Oceans
Lecture
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Witches and Snowflakes: Nurturing Feminist Ethnography in Times of Crises
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Bridging the Gap Between Policy Makers and Academia
Career development
- Futures from the frontiers of climate science
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Fragmented Marginalities: Dispossessed Peasantry and Migrant Labour Communities in Urban North India
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Recap of the 2021 Anthrooplogy PhD Conference
After a long period of isolation under pandemic, the PhD candidates of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology seized the opportunity to organize an in-person, on-site event: the CADS PhD Conference for 2021. With the theme "Young Scholars at the Intersection of Uncertainty,…
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Meet the Student workgroup D&I Student Wellbeing
On Monday 14 November 2022, our faculty student workgroup Diversity & Inclusion + Student Wellbeing will start working. The workgroup consists of seven motivated student assistants under supervision of the Faculty Coordinator Susanne Deen will get started on making the topics diversity & inclusion and…
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
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Allocation of the work areas of the Humanities Campus: Who goes where?
It was announced in December that a new draft urban development plan for the Humanities Campus is now ready. In drawing up this plan for the various buildings, outdoor space and traffic routes on campus, the facilities and layout of the buildings themselves were, of course, also considered. Discussions…
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‘Sometimes choosing a different path can take you further’
On International Women's Day (8 March) we take time to consider female emancipation and participation. What does this day mean for Leiden University, and how does it tie in with our aim of becoming more diverse and inclusive? We talked about these issues with Annetje Ottow, who recently became the…
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Teaching Prize winner Ayo Adedokun: teaching is a calling
‘Teaching is not merely a profession; it’s a calling.’ These were the words of Ayo Adedokun on winning the LUS Teaching Prize at the opening of the academic year on 6 September. The prize is for the best lecturer of the year.
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis
How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone in the universe? This was all covered during the celebration of Leiden University’s 449th Dies Natalis.
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‘We moeten diversiteit minder vieren, het moet vanzelfsprekend zijn’
Op welke manieren kan inclusieve communicatie ervoor zorgen dat mensen zich welkom voelen? Hierover ging het D&I-symposium van Universiteit Leiden.
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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Book Launch 'Freedom on the Offensive'
Lecture, Book Launch
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Global Voice Safari: An expedition into World Music
Arts and leisure
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Tiny Gardens Everywhere
Lecture, Leiden University Environmental Humanities Series
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Elsa Charlety | On Zora Neale Hurston
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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The Decade of Revolt? Class Conflict and the State of Permanent Crisis in the Post-2011 Middle East
Conference, Roundtable
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
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Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture by Jason De León
Lecture, Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
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Understanding Continuity and Change in US Counterterrorism Policy Through Policymaker Profiles
PhD defence
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Digital Analyses: Old English Poems and Modern Comics
Lecture
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On the Origins of 'The Origins of Inequality'
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Maxim Osipov - Public Interview By Michel Krielaars
Lecture
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Henriëtte van Lynden lezing: A Decade after the Spring - The Arab World at Crossroads.
Lecture, Henriette van Lynden lezing
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Attitudes and perceptions about democracy and authoritarianism under the new generations in Chile
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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QAnon and Alien Gods: Plausibility Construction in the Cultic Milieu (11th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity)
Lecture, Symposium
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Perceptions of China’s Sexual Economy
Lecture, China Seminar
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Money Matters: Financial Distress and Sustainable Change
Panel Discussion
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The Road to Planetary Defense: Cosmic Collisions, Nuclear Explosions, and the Environmental History of Asteroids and Comets
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Leaving Science: A Large-Scale, Cohort-Based, Longitudinal Approach, 2000-2022
Seminar
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Words and Warning Messages: Communicating Deterrence in Theory and Practice
Lecture
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Our Hirāk: The Tishreen Revolution
Lecture, LUCIS Meets
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In the Making - afternoon sessions on research in the arts
Lecture, Conversation
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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Debate
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Notes on the contemporary Art Novel
Lecture, Seminar
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Lecture by geneticist David Reich about the spread of the Indo-European languages
Lecture
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The history of Medicine and Asia
Conference, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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'Heroic Humanities', in honour of Isabel Hoving
Conference
- Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
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Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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No legal career but a food truck on Bonaire instead
If you study law, you won’t necessarily end up striding round a law firm in tailor-made suits. Alumnus Harrie Schoffelen certainly hasn’t: he made the conscious decision to follow another path in life. Together with his fiancée he runs a successful food truck on the tropical island of Bonaire. ‘Return…
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence
In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate. Archaeology research in Leiden into burial mounds in the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas of the Netherlands yielded this spectacular conclusion.…