215 search results for “modern rhetoric” in the Staff website
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’
How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with his colleague Arco Timmermans, he developed a digital guest lecture on how to present a convincing story.
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LUCAS “Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics” Research Presentations
Exhibition
- LUCAS Modern & Contemporary Cluster
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Modernization of the library finished
The renewed library is built in the middle of wing B on the ground floor. The entrance opens onto the central hall.
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Jill JefferyFaculty of Humanities
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Hoe te leven, klassiek of modern?
PhD defence
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Mila van NieuwenhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Charlotte van der VoortFaculty of Humanities
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Joost AugusteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Frans Willem KorstenFaculty of Humanities
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Enes SütütemizFaculty of Humanities
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Chie AritaFaculty of Humanities
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Jacobine MelisFaculteit Archeologie
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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the Law: Skepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials’ – Lecture by Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University)
Lecture
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Peter LiebregtsFaculty of Humanities
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
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Henrike JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Ronny BoogaartFaculty of Humanities
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Tiffany BousardFaculty of Humanities
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Henk KernFaculty of Humanities
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Stefan LandsbergerFaculty of Humanities
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Archaeological excavations in Romania show life of earliest modern humans in Europe
In a new article in the journal Scientific Reports, Leiden archaeologist Wei Chu and colleagues report on recent excavations in Western Romania at the site of Româneşti, one of the most important sites in southeastern Europe associated with the earliest Homo sapiens. The site gives an important glimpse…
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Casper de Jonge: 'By broadening the canon we keep antiquity modern'
On 1 May, Casper de Jonge will be appointed Professor of Greek Language and Literature. ‘Greek literature did not come from Athens alone: authors from Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor also wrote in Greek.’
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Alex ReunekerFaculty of Humanities
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Rhetoric and Debate : A Toolkit for Historians
Lecture, PCNI Research Group State of the Art Meeting
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Gerhard de KokFaculty of Humanities
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Jesse SarneelFaculty of Humanities
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Ekaterina (Kate) PukhovaiaFaculty of Humanities
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Gerrit van UitertFaculty of Humanities
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Aad van MastrigtFaculty of Humanities
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Andrew SorensenFaculteit Archeologie
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Wei ChuFaculteit Archeologie
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Maria Pereira BastiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Eric van HoofBestuursbureau
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Beatriz Santiago BelmonteFaculty of Humanities
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Follow the Modern Greek Language Course in Athens
Education
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Hans-Martien ten Napel on Tocqueville and modern democracy
Recently, Hans-Martien ten Napel was in the news on the above subject several times.
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Modern Arabic titles in catalogue searchable in Arabic script
Modern Arabic titles in the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) can now also be consulted in original Arabic script. Taking away the need to transliterate titles, has made searching for Arabic source materials in the catalogue much easier and more efficient for users.
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Revolutionary Historiography: How Leftist Debated the Historical Sociology of the Ottoman Empire in Cold War Turkey
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Judith PollmannFaculty of Humanities
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will be organized by the Grotiana Foundation, the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam, the Grotius Centre for International…
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan van Leeuwen, modern horror says more about our society than we think. He has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize for his research into addiction…