1,416 search results for “history of news” in the Staff website
-
Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
-
Improving the environment of people with dementia with the help of new software
Can we improve the living environment of people with dementia with software and smartwatches? Daniela Gawehns did research in a care facility for people with dementia as part of the project 'Dementia back in the heart of society'. This way, she tried to find out whether an open living environment leads…
-
Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
-
Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
-
Dirk Alkemade
Faculty of Humanities
-
Alexander Geurds
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Maria van der Schaar
Faculty of Humanities
-
Carel Smith
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Miguel Mira
Faculty of Humanities
-
Anna Smulders
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Tommy van Avermaete
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
-
Four Leiden Scientists: 'Environmental risks of new pesticides with nanoparticles insufficiently examined'
The environmental risks of new pesticides containing nanoparticles are inadequately researched, according to four Leiden scientists in the scientific journal Environmental Science & Technology. They call for an examination of the long-term and environmental effects of pesticides containing nanoparti…
-
Gerhard de Kok
Faculty of Humanities
-
Miko Flohr
Faculty of Humanities
-
Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
-
Luc Bulten
Faculty of Humanities
-
Alanna O'Malley
Faculty of Humanities
-
Claire Weeda
Faculty of Humanities
-
Students kick-off next construction phase of new Gorlaeus building
And the construction has started! Students of the Leiden Science study associations ceremoniously hammered down the first poles of the new Gorlaeus on Tuesday morning. By doing so, they initiated the second phase of the construction of the second part of the new building.
-
Peter Kop
ICLON
-
Klaas Worp
Faculty of Humanities
-
Maja Vodopivec
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
-
Julia Foudraine
Afrika-Studiecentrum
-
Jiayi Xin
Faculty of Humanities
-
Isabelle Duijvesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
-
New professor of Medieval History Philippe Buc: 'I am just like a shepherd'
A shepherd, but also a comparativist and historian with very broad interests. That is how Professor Philippe Buc describes himself. As of 1 August 2021, he will hold the chair of professor of Medieval History at the university. In an introductory interview, Buc introduces himself, his research and his…
-
Eefke de Haan
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
-
Giliam de Valk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
-
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.'
-
Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
- News
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
-
Adam Fairclough
Faculty of Humanities
-
New staff
Are you about to start your new job at Leiden University? Or did you just start? Below we have summarised the most important information for new employees.
-
Jeroen Duindam appointed new academic director of the Institute for History
The Institute for History has a new academic director. Professor of Early Modern History Jeroen Duindam will take on this role from 1 September. ‘You can only do this job properly if you make time for it.’
-
A History of Alorese (Austronesian)
PhD defence
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
-
Pablo Isla Monsalve
Faculty of Humanities
-
Giles Scott-Smith
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
-
Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
-
Bernhard Rieger
Faculty of Humanities
-
Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
-
André Gerrits
Faculty of Humanities
-
Jan-Bart Gewald
Afrika-Studiecentrum
-
History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
-
Guidelines for news articles
How do you write a good news article? Here are a number of guidelines to help you.
-
Jonathan Stökl
Faculty of Humanities
-
Antje Wessels
Faculty of Humanities
-
Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
-
and Scientific Analysis in the History of Philosophy, History of Political Thought, and Intellectual History
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar