3,702 search results for “liberal arts and sciences” in the Public website
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Utility Spots, Science Policy, Knowledge Transfer and the Politics of Proximity
How we think about and act on the usefulness of scientific research has epistemological and political implications: what knowledge consists of, how it comes about and to what ends. In this dissertation, I situate the usefulness of scientific research in concrete places for knowledge exchange. The exchange…
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Launch of Marco Bronckers’ Liber Amicorum
Conference, Book launch
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The art of being a teacher
How to keep 80 students with different backgrounds motivated for 3 hours? Stefano Cucurachi knows how! By incorporating current developments, lively discussions and even some improvisation theatre, this assistant professor managed to become Teacher of the Year 2018. ‘You have to find ways of gaining…
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The art of control without repression
How did the Arabs manage to maintain an empire based on Islamic principles for three hundred years? Arab expert Petra Sijpesteijn and her team will be examining this question over the coming five years, focusing on the correspondence of ordinary people. The research is being funded by an ERC Consolidator…
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Michael Meffert
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Conference H2OLAW – Law-Science Interfaces within the Law of the Sea and Fresh Water Law
Conference
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Seminar: 'Data Science meets Humanities'
Seminar 12th of April
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PhD candidate reveals link between North Korea and southern Africa
North Korea is generally thought to be an isolated country. But, according to PhD candidate Tycho van der Hoog from Leiden’s African Studies Centre, the opposite is in fact the case. North Korea actually has strong alliances with countries in southern Africa. Van der Hoog is trying to shed more light…
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Evert Jan van Leeuwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline Hylkema
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Svetlana Kharchenkova
Faculty of Humanities
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BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).
Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.
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Generating Freedom: Hegel's conception of political order
In the light of the fragility of current liberal democracies, this dissertation aims to contribute to rethinking political order by reconstructing Hegel’s account in the Philosophy of Right.
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European Union Decision-Making: Insights from the Natural and Social Sciences (EUDINS)
How do processes of coalition-formation influence patterns of decision-making in the European Union?
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Building a sustainable future: 'Combine the forces of natural and social sciences'
The United Nations has declared May 22 the International Day for Biological Diversity. A moment of global reflection on everything on Earth and its indispensability. Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg stresses the importance of the interaction between natural and social sciences in addressing sustainability…
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Localising global garment biographies
Discover the effects of clothing value and lifespan on buyer-user-producer relationships through collaborative research with Localising Global Garment Biographies.
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Exhibition on art, culture and architecture along the Silk Road
Ornately decorated head pieces and jewellery, images of imposing mosques and photos of local people. The 'Splendours of the Silk Roads' exhibition depicts life and different cultures along this important trade route.
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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Podcast 'Talk That Science' with Maikel Kuijpers as guest
Talk That Science, a podcast with the aim of presenting science in a challenging, new and relevant way. They do this by combining music and science. Talk That Science was founded a few months ago and has grown into a medium where science, music, young adults and scientists come together.
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Celebrating science on our Faculty with sparkling Leiden Science Family Day
Elephant toothpaste, a trip among the stars or a lecture on mathematical juggling: on Sunday 8 October 2023, the Faculty of Science opened its doors for the third edition of the Leiden Science Family Day. A programme jam-packed with workshops, demonstrations, lectures and peeks behind the scenes for…
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Bio Science Park to become Bio Science Campus
The Leiden Bio Science Park (BSP) will become a real campus in the coming years, with more houses, and attractive places where scientists, students and entrepreneurs can meet to discuss their plans.
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African Activism at the UN
Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.
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‘Visual art has been a form of communication since its inception’
Visual art played an important role in the development of cooperative human behaviour. This is the finding of Larissa Mendoza Straffon, a PhD candidate in archaeology, whose dissertation explores the biological and psychological foundations of visual art.
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Simone Dobbelaar
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Chengyi Liu
Science
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Josh Robison
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Patrick Degryse
Faculteit Archeologie
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Clara Bik
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Linda van Leijenhorst
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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José Lourenço
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anniek Kortleve
Science
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Vincent Niochet
Faculteit Archeologie
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Ana Cristina Arcos Marin
Science
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Hannah Kuhn
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anouk van Vliet
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Rick van Well
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Charles Berger
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Nikki Nibbering
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Chris Verhoeven
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Antoine Coudard
Science
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Ruud Koole
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Josi Marschall
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Han van Konijnenburg
Science
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Jinhui Zhou
Science
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Judith Schomaker
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Aleksandrina Skvortsova
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Robert-jan de Rooij
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Josette Daemen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen