1,586 search results for “world s representation” in the Student website
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Diana Davila Gordillo
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Stephan VerschoorFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- 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
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Sjoerd j.s. NieboerUniversity Facility Services
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Aleksandra Khokhlova
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jiajie Fan
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Victor MeijersFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Xingni Jiang
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Steven DenneyFaculty of Humanities
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Tom Louwerse
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marijn NagtzaamFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Afrooz Kaviani JohnsonFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Working with the most beautiful plants in the world
Every summer brings a new sense of anticipation in the greenhouse: will the giant waterlilies emerge, how large will their leaves grow, and when will the first flowers appear? For horticulturist Theo Teske, it has been an annual ritual for 27 years – and it never loses its appeal.
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News shaped the seventeenth-century Atlantic world
When people think of Atlantic trade, they often think of sugar, tobacco and cotton. However, there was something else of crucial importance on board seventeenth-century ships: new information about distant lands. In his book An Ocean of Rumours, Professor of Maritime History Michiel van Groesen reconstructs…
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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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Andrew GawthorpeFaculty of Humanities
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Victoria NystAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Bernhard Hommel
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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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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The forgotten deaths of fifteen Chinese workers during the Second World War
On 15 April 1942, members of the Dutch military police on Curaçao shot and killed fifteen Chinese Shell workers. Assistant Professor Vincent Chang has been awarded an NWO XS grant to investigate how this happened and why these Chinese seamen are now being commemorated again after decades of being fo…
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Africa-Europe Relations in a World in Rupture: Foundations and Critical Approaches
Conference, NEAR-ER Summer School
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Lies PunselieFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Peter VerhaarFaculty of Humanities
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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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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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Jan van DijkhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Marie-leen Ryckaert
Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Karin de WildFaculty of Humanities
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Florian Schneider
Faculty of Humanities
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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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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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Physicists from Leiden help create world’s smallest Rembrandt
Museum De Lakenhal is displaying the smallest work of art in the world: a 3D-printed statue of Rembrandt van Rijn, made by sculptor Jeroen Spijker and researchers from Leiden University.
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Matthijs WesteraFaculty 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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Jan SleutelsFaculty of Humanities
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Aron van de PolFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities