981 search results for “english language and culture” in the Staff website
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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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Luning and Hein receive LUF grant
Luning and Hein receiving a LUF grant to research the intricate relationship between infrastructure projects and their impact on geopolitics, economics, politics, and culture in Africa
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Patient to plastic surgeon: ‘I want to look like my selfie.’
An image has great powers of persuasion. It is said that ‘a picture is worth more than a thousand words’. But these days, images can easily be manipulated with severe consequences. ‘Perhaps it’s time to reconsider the value we attach to images’, says Elize de Mul, whose PhD thesis deals with ‘digital…
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NWO and ERC grant for research on Chinese infrastructure
In the coming years, Hilde De Weerdt gets to spend over three million euros. She received grants from both the European Research Council (ERC) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for research on Chinese infrastructure. ‘It is great that it is also possible to develop large projects in the social sciences…
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Many animals, but little biodiversity in children’s picture books
Dutch children’s picture books are full of animals, but mainly mammals are portrayed. Especially pets and exotic animals are popular. A large part of the Dutch fauna is less visible, but biologist Michiel Hooykaas of Leiden University sees plenty of opportunities for a more biodiverse book world.
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Executive Board column: From the outside looking in (and vice versa)
We know more together than alone. To increase our university’s impact on the region, we have to be open to the world outside. This is how we strengthen our ties and create new opportunities for teaching and research.
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A staff exchange with your European peers: ‘Everyone could benefit from this’
Fancy seeing how your job is done at a university abroad? Project Managers Christina Schlüpen and Jeannette de Wolf from the Leiden Institute of Chemistry did just that. They both spent a week shadowing a European colleague: one in Bologna and the other in Berlin. This was through the Una Europe alliance,…
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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A grammar of Ashéninka
PhD defence
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With kind regards: October 2022
Lecture
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Words and Warning Messages: Communicating Deterrence in Theory and Practice
Lecture
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Masterclass ''Unconventional Textual Sources''
Lecture, COGLOSS Masterclass
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Film Screening: Crip Camp
Arts and culture, Conference | D&I Symposium
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Exhibition 'De Bonte Collectie'
Arts and culture, Expositie
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Documentary Screening: Amigo Secreto (+ Q&A with the director)
Arts and culture, Screening
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Responsible Extended Reality (XR) Workshop
Workshop
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Join our Young Liveable Planet Excursion to Amsterdam
Arts and culture
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Nature Calls
Arts and culture, Performance
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Opening exhibition Kieran Smith
Arts and culture
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Wall Formula Tours
Arts and culture, Tour
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LUCAS Conference 'Practices in Comparative Medievalism'
Conference
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A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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LUCAS Conference Narratives 2024
Conference
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POSTPONED - Arabic Echoes and Persian Refrains: Devotional Poetry and Intersonicality in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century North India
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Land for Food: Property contests in capitalist heartlands
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Book Launch | A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
Lecture, Book Launch
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Arabic Echoes and Persian Refrains: Devotional Poetry and Intersonicality in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century North India
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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ASCL Seminar: Animals in Africa - Human-animal relationships through the lenses of decoloniality and ubuntu
Lecture
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Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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A new impetus for EU enlargement?
Lecture, Seminar
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Opening exhibition: Silk Road Cities
Exhibition
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Concert and book launch "The Oud: An Illustrated History"
Arts and culture
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Christmas Carol Concert at Leiden University
Arts and culture
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Colloquium Translating the Samguk yusa
Lecture, Colloquium
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Theatre (acting) & Improvisation
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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AI & Art: Aesthetics and Politics of Artificial Neural Networks
Arts and culture, Artist Lecture & Workshop
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Who did all the work? The hidden labour of colonial science
Conference, Workshop
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Phraseology in Children's Literature
PhD defence
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Delivering Meaningful Justice to Indigenous Victims of International Crimes
Conference
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A Conversation on Helen Thompson's 'Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century'
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Italy From Facism to Democracy. And Back?
Lecture, Seminar
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Intimate Legal Interactions Meeting - Power and Projects: Reflections on Agency
Debate
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The Camel’s Hobble: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on the Practical Intellect
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Is ‘Great Ming’ a Dynasty?
Lecture
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Tamas David-Barrett
Lecture
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The Politics of Education in Contemporary Vietnam
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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In Situ Graduate School: Textile and Dyes as Transnational, Global Knowledge
Course
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What is happening in Yemen?
Debate