De masteropleiding German Literature and Culture van de Universiteit Leiden biedt het grootste aantal Duitstalige mastervakken in Nederland, en omvat literatuur en cultuurstudies van de middeleeuwen tot het heden.

In de masteropleiding Italian Literature and Culture kun je alle aspecten van de Italiaanse literatuur op gevorderd niveau bestuderen, van de middeleeuwen tot nu.

Ontwikkel je kennis van het Frans en Franstalige literatuur en genres met de masteropleiding in French Literature and Culture van de Universiteit Leiden.

De eenjarige, Engelstalige masteropleiding in English Literature and Culture richt zich op de interactie tussen literatuur en belangrijke politieke en sociale kwesties als identiteit, migratie, geheugen en de metropool, maar ook tussen literatuur en de literaire traditie, en literatuur en film.

African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation

In de masteropleiding Literature in Society. Europe and Beyond van de Universiteit Leiden ontwikkel je kennis van de interactieve relatie tussen literatuur en maatschappij, met speciale aandacht voor cruciale politieke en sociale kwesties vanuit een grensoverschrijdend perspectief.

De masteropleiding Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory van de Universiteit Leiden richt zich op de studie van literatuur vanuit een vergelijkend en theoretisch perspectief, en onderzoekt de literatuur van een breed spectrum van talen en culturen uit de hele wereld.

Deze interdisciplinaire onderzoeksmaster biedt het beste van kunst, literatuur en media in een programma vol welontworpen vakken, waarin theoretische en historische vakken worden gecombineerd met vrije ruimte voor specialisatie.

Hoe beïnvloeden hedendaagse auteurs en wetenschappers samen de manier waarop de literaire en culturele stromingen uit het begin van de twintigste eeuw vandaag de dag worden herinnerd?

Op 25 october promoveert Suze Anja Verkade. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Suze Anja!

Promotores: S.F. Portegies Zwart, E. M. Rossi

Learning from small data sets in machine learning is a crucial challenge, especially when dealing with data imbalances and anomaly detection. This thesis delves into the challenges and methodologies of learning from small datasets in machine learning, with a particular focus on addressing data imbalances…

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong

Leids astronoom Elena Maria Rossi is met haar ontdekking van zes supersnelle sterren op NU.nl gekomen. Met behulp van software die de hersenen nabootst, heeft ESA’s Gaia satelliet zes sterren gespot die met hoge snelheid vanuit het centrum van ons sterrenstelsel naar de rand vliegen.

Biological cells, the basic building blocks of all life forms, are surrounded by a lipid membrane. More than half of the membrane is occupied by membrane proteins, which can regulate the cell functionality through specific arrangements.

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: A.J. Knobbe

When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole, it is torn apart by strong tidal forces in a tidal disruption event (TDE).

Patients share valuable advice and experiences with their peers in online patient discussion groups.

The intracluster medium (ICM) is a hot, tenuous and X-ray emitting gas that pervades galaxy clusters.

Patterned detectors are an existing technology that can be found in almost all color cameras.

The work presented in this thesis is based on ALMA surveys of protoplanetary disks in three star-forming regions: Lupus, OMC-2, and NGC 2024.

Het centrum van ons Melkwegstelsel is zo donker en opeengepakt dat het bijna onmogelijk is om te zien wat erin zit. Door de zeldzame hogesnelheidssterren te vangen die uit het centrum schieten, wil astronoom Elena Rossi de mysterieuze omgeving rond het superzware zwarte gat binnenin onthullen. Maar…

As part of the NWO-funded research project ‘The Multilingual Dynamics of the Literary Culture of Medieval Flanders, c. 1200- c. 1500’, we invite proposals for 20 minute papers addressing any aspect of medieval literature and literary culture. We welcome proposals from scholars at all career stages—and…

For optimization problems, it is often unclear how to choose the most appropriate optimization algorithm. As such, rigorous benchmarking practices are critical to ensure we can gain as much insight into the strengths and weaknesses of these types of algorithms.

Promotor: K.E. Schalm, Co-promotor: S.S. Lee

Natural history collections provide invaluable sources for researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds, aspiring to study the geographical distribution of flora and fauna across the globe as well as other evolutionary processes.

Innovation plays an essential role in firms' competitiveness and long-term success. It varies from different types, ranging from run-of-the-mill innovation that brings incremental changes to existing technologies to radical innovation that breaks from existing trajectories.

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Galaxies form and live inside dark matter haloes. As a consequence, they are exposed to the tidal fields generated by the surrounding matter distribution: this imprints a preferential direction to the galaxy shapes, which leads to a coherent alignment on physically close galaxies, called intrinsic a…

Promotor: Roeland M.H. Merks

Promotor: J.P. Abrahams, Co-promotor: T. Grüne

De onstuitbare opmars van de N.V. Zuid-Korea

In dit artikel onderzoeken Wout Broekema, Wouter Jong en Sara Perlstein het ontwerp en de beoordeling van crisisonderzoeken vanuit een leerperspectief.

Promotor: Ronald Cramer, Co-promotor: Serge Fehr

Hydrocarbonylation of alkenes with carboxylic acids in synthesis of carboxylic acid anhydrides is relatively less explored. We herein present a study and optimization of a palladium-catalyzed hydrocarbonylation reaction of alkenes using carboxylic acids as the nucleophile, by which acid anhydrides can…

The marine shipping industry is one of the strongest emitters of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a pollutant detrimental to ecology and human health. Over the last 20 years, the pollution produced by power plants, the industry sector, and cars has been decreasing.

Stars like the sun are born in large molecular clouds existing from gas and dust. During the formation process, the chemical composition of the material can be altered drastically by the changing physical conditions.

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. P.G. van Dokkum (Yale University)

Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…

Freshwater is an important resource, but at a great risk of species decline due to habitat loss, pollution and over-exploitation, and invasive alien species.

The class-imbalance problem is a challenging classification task and is frequently encountered in real-world applications. Various techniques have been developed to improve the imbalanced classification performance theoretically and practically.

In this thesis, we study different curved single crystals because of the diversity of surface structures across their curvature.