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‘How can we translate the language of cells into cancer therapies?’
On 23 April 2021, Professor Alfred Vertegaal from the Department of Cell and Chemical Biology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) delivered his inaugural lecture ‘Unraveling and exploiting cellular communication codes’. Vertegaal used the opportunity to describe how research in the field…
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Clause-typing and evidentiality in Ecuadorian Siona
This dissertation presents an in-depth study of the clause-typing system in Ecuadorian Siona.
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Streaming the Past
Watch and talk along with today’s science of the past during weekly Let’s Plays of popular games and vodcasts on the livestream platform Twitch.
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Summer school: Translation issues and practices from and into Italian, English and Dutch
Conference, Summer school
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Forensic linguistics and speech evidence
Investigating specific language and speech behaviour of people.
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Landscape Protection in International Law
Amy Strecker assesses the institutional framework for landscape protection, analyses the interplay between landscape and human rights, and links the etymology and theory of landscape with its articulation in law.
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Urbanism in the Roman frontier provinces Germania Superior, Raetia and Noricum
What was the nature of the urban network in the Roman provinces of Germania Superior, Raetia and Noricum and how stood this in relation with economic and social developments?
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Globalising Migration History. The Eurasian Experience (16th-21st centuries) | Studies in Global Migration History, Volume: 15/3
This volume edited by Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen aims to quantify and qualify cross-cultural global migrations and was published in the series 'Studies in Global Migration History'.
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Marina Terkourafi in Forbes on the impact of language on perceptions on belonging
What makes for a good team? In a series of articles on teams, Forbes referred to the work of Marina Terkourafi, professor of Sociolinguistics at Leiden University.
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These are the nominees for the Faculty Teaching Prize 2021
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students and a jury decides who will receive the prize. The prize is awarded during the official opening of the academic year on 8 September. This year, students nominated four candidates. We spoke to…
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‘I put my name down for the Humanities Career Event to get a better idea of what I want.’
Many students find their job search really stressful – what will they end up doing after they graduate? What are their career options, their employment opportunities?
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Heritage in the Making: Dealing with the Legacies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
The fifth volume of Ex Novo has the pleasure to host Flaminia Bartolini as guest editor for the special issue titled Heritage in the Making. Dealing with Legacies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. This collection of peer-reviewed papers stems in part from the successful workshop held at McDonald Institute…
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When Art Isn’t Real
How an initially valueless object becomes worth hundreds of millions. And vice versa.
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Decentering Gagaku. Exploring the multiplicity of contemporary Japanese Court music
Andrea Giolai defended his thesis on 3 May 2017.
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Of jars and gongs
Of jars and gongs deals with the traditional ritual art of Ot Danum Dayak subsistence farmers from a stretch of tropical rainforest in the heart of Borneo. Together with the Ngaju, their neighbours to the south, they gloried in one of the most elaborate secondary mortuary rites in the world.
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Non-native EFL teachers’ intercultural identities: A comparison of China and the Netherlands
Students in EFL (English as a foreign language) classes may regard their non-native teachers as successful models of intercultural communication and mediators between the cultures of English-speaking countries (ES cultures) and their own cultures. Teachers who are aware of such roles may introduce and…
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Jay Huang
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Alessandro Aleo
Faculteit Archeologie
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Karen Smith
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicolette Mout
Faculty of Humanities
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Irene O'Daly
Faculty of Humanities
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Dilara Erzeybek
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Stephen Harris
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijke Klokke
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Witty
Faculty of Humanities
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Andries Hiskes
Faculty of Humanities
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Daphne Wong-A-Foe
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Erik Kroon
Faculteit Archeologie
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Simone Casale
Gelieerde instellingen
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Dennis Braekmans
Faculteit Archeologie
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Nina Jaspers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Douglas Berger
Faculty of Humanities
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Ivo Smits
Faculty of Humanities
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Katrien Klep
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Carina van den Hoven
Faculty of Humanities
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Annelou van Gijn
Faculteit Archeologie
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Merel Spithoven
Faculteit Archeologie
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Ernst van Alphen
Faculty of Humanities
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Daniel Turner
Faculteit Archeologie
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Michael Kerschner
Faculteit Archeologie
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Roberto Valcarcel Rojas
Faculteit Archeologie
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Bruno Braak
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Miguel John Versluys
Faculteit Archeologie
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Martijn Manders
Faculteit Archeologie
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Ammodo Science Award to bring cultural heritage to life through play
A team of Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage.
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Dialects as the key to Japanese prehistory
Japanese was not always the language spoken in Japan. Researchers link the arrival of the language in Japan with the migration of farmers around 400 BC. Linguist Elisabeth de Boer has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to carry out research on the further spread of the language in Japan.
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Sybille Lammes new professor of New Media and Digital Culture
Sybille Lammes is leaving Warwick University in Britain to research digital culture in daily life at Leiden University. She will start as professor New Media and Digital Culture on September 1st 2017
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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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