2,026 search results for “colonial development” in the Public website
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Collegecolumn: Waarom onze samenwerking met Indonesië zo belangrijk is
Samen met een groep enthousiaste wetenschappers bezocht ik deze maand verschillende universiteiten en andere kennisinstellingen tijdens een kennismissie in Indonesië.
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Archaeologists in action: stories from the field
During the summer, staff and students of the Faculty of Archaeology travel to all parts of the world, initiating or joining fieldwork projects. Read some of our students' stories here!
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Farewell to Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa: Tireless advocate for D&I
Aya Ezawa bade farewell as Diversity Officer of Leiden University at a celebration in the Academy Building on 11 June. Since her appointment in 2019, she has been a tireless advocate for culture change and a champion for diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities for all.
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Living and Dying with the State
The state, and specifically the idea of nationality, is almost all-determining in social life in the Netherlands. It determines how people identify, how we interact with each other, and what (in)equality in society looks like. However, ultimately, the idea that we can divide people into different nationalities…
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Professor Pieter ter Keurs: 'People collect to function'
Professor Pieter ter Keurs has spent his entire career studying collecting. Now, he is retiring. ‘I hope the focus on collections will carry on.’
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Alumnus Marlon Titre: ‘Film is often the start of a conversation’
Marlon Titre (1982) studied at Royal Conservatoire The Hague, did his PhD and studied at Leiden University, earned several other qualifications and is now, among others, Director of Filmhuis The Hague. Who is this multi-talent?
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Developing a Proof of Concept on the digital documentation of Theban Tomb 45 (Luxor, Egypt): some recent results
Lecture
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Ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity: Looking back and moving forward
Conference, Symposium
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Double inaugural speech: how social context influences processes in the brain
It’s not a regular occurrence at Leiden University: two professors giving their inaugural lecture on the same day. Berna Güroğlu and Ellen de Bruijn specialise in related disciplines: they both research the influence of social context on processes in the brain – Güroğlu in adolescents and De Bruijn…
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Dark Matters
PhD defence
- Global Questions Seminar
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Field Notes: An Interactive Session on Housing, Land, and Property in Global Hotspots
Debate
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[Cancelled until further notice] Connected Histories of Migration Control: The Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the ‘West.’
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Researchers debunk earlier study: babies may not be able to learn language rules after all
For two decades, language experts were certain that babies were able to learn language rules from as young as the age of seven months. However, recent research carried out by a consortium of four Dutch baby labs led by researchers from Leiden cast doubts on this certainty. We spoke to researchers Andreea…
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Are tropical forests threatened by democracy?
Democracy may lead to more deforestation in the tropics. So write environmental scientist Joeri Morpurgo and his colleagues in the prominent scientific journal Biological conservation. They found that competitive elections are associated with more loss of tropical rainforest than elections without competition.…
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Fragmented Marginalities: Dispossessed Peasantry and Migrant Labour Communities in Urban North India
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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What happens on the schoolyard? Sensors on clothing reveal painful patterns
Wat gebeurt er op het schoolplein? Sensoren op kleding openbaren pijnlijke patronen
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Cells with stress: predicting drug-induced liver and kidney damage
How can we prevent drug-induced liver and kidney damage? PhD candidates Marije Niemeijer and Lukas Wijaya investigated what happens in the cells during the onset of this damage: a stress response. Both focused on a different subtopic and made some interesting discoveries.
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Combatting tax avoidance, the OECD way? The impact of the BEPS Project on developing and emerging countries’ approach to international tax avoidance.
PhD defence
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Laura Heitman uses her expertise to fight cancer
Seven talented female scientists join the fight against cancer of the Oncode Insitute. Laura Heitman of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research is one of the new Junior Investigators. ‘I hope to discover new druggable targets’.
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Artificial intelligence as the co-pilot for drug discovery
There are more molecules that could conceivably be candidate drugs than there are stars in the universe. How can we ever efficiently identify those molecules? Professor of AI and Medicinal Chemistry, Gerard van Westen: ‘I’m going to use artificial intelligence as the co-pilot to make an automated search.’…
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Workshop: Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights
Conference, Workshop
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The Journey from Monolingual to Multilingual Language Policy in Ethiopia: Politics, challenges and opportunities
Lecture, This Time for Africa! Series
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Quantum optics for asylum seekers
The Clinical Epidemiology department at the LUMC has set up a series of lectures for asylum seekers. The series has become a huge success.
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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"I Now Declare You…”: Marital Status as Legal Technology in South Africa, Past and Present
Commission on Legal Pluralism - Keynote Lecture
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The Concept of Living Customary Law Revisited
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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Religiosity and Knowledge in Muslim Context in West Africa: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Boko and Adini
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
- Applied African Linguistics
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Zionism: An Emotional State
Lecture, Public Lecture
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Descolonizando Tiempo, Espacio y Conocimiento
PhD defence
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African Languages as Medium of Instruction in higher education: what has happened after Prah?
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
- Global Questions Seminar
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Seeing new things with old eyes
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Geographies of Repression and Resistance
Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel
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Migration in a Changing World
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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CPP Annual Lecture 'Refugees and the Politics of Inhumanitarianism'
Lecture
- GTGC lunch seminar: human rights for governing digital platforms
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa): One database to rule them all?
Lecture
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African Languages as Medium of Instruction in higher education: what has happened after Prah?
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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VVIK Lecture: Court politics in the Vijayanagara successor states
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Prehistoric language contact in Southern Africaː Khoisan traces in modern Bantu languages
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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Panel discussion: Silencing Palestine
Panelbijeenkomst
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Why is Civilization Unsustainable?
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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LUCAS Conference Narratives 2024
Conference