This proposed research uses ego-documents from visual artists that were not intended for publication to reassess the scholarly debate on the demise of the Russian Avant-garde aesthetic in the twenties and early thirties of the 20th century.

Eén van de gehonoreerde projecten is Bridging art, design and technology through Critical Making van onze hoogleraar Prof. dr. Janneke Wesseling en dr. Florian Cramer (Willem de Kooning Academy).

Het was weer gezellig druk in het Rijksmuseum van Oudenheden! Op 22 juni is de zomertentoonstelling ‘Books that made History’ van Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden (UBL) en het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO) geopend. In de tentoonstelling zijn 25 Leidse boeken uit de collecties van de UBL te zien die…

Promotor: B.van de Water, Co-promotor: L.S.Price

In close collaboration with the Center for Medieval Studies (Fordham), Centre for Medieval literature (Odense and York) and Centre for Medieval Studies (York), the University of Ghent organizes an Autumn School for PhD- and MA-students in Medieval Studies (18-22 October 2021). It will be organized in…

During embryonic growth, cells proliferate, differentiate, and collectively migrate to form different tissues at the right position and time in the body.

In June 2024, the University of Groningen organizes a summer school, titled "Things that Matter". The Summer School explores challenges in digitizing source materials, questioning distinctions between physical and digital copies. It delves into the impact of virtual collections and criteria for digitization,…

In de serie tafelgesprekken ‘Van kluis naar kussen’ krijgt de kijker een blik achter de schermen van de Bijzondere Collecties. In deze speciale uitzending staat de zomertentoonstelling 'Books that made History' van de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden en het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden centraal. In de…

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The basic program comprises a total of twelve courses organized by the Research School, that have been purpose-developed for training and support of PhD students and Research MA students who specialize in Medieval Studies (history, art history, and literary history, in particular).

In this thesis, we used genetically engineered mouse models and a variety of cell-culture based assays to identify genes and pathways that are involved in the development and treatment of invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC).

Pharmaceutical companies, governments and the general public have become increasingly aware that animal models used in drug testing lack vital aspects to serve as an accurate representation of human biology. As models of the human body should become more physiologically relevant, animal models no longer…

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-Promotor: E. Vijgenboom

The experiences of ethnic ‘Other’ females have – until recently – been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious and dynamic…

Proefstuderen kan alleen offline op locatie? Nee hoor! Bij onze faculteit zijn we eind 2019 gestart met het project Online Proefstuderen en Verplichte Matching, en daarvan is nu de eerste module Online Proefstuderen gereed, al in gebruik en draait zelfstandig. Deze Online Experience English Language…

From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular…

Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).

Op 6 januari promoveert Kefan Bao. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Kefan!

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.

The clinical potential of applying synthetic lethality to cancer treatment is famously demonstrated by the BRCA1/PARP1 paradigm: a tumor specific defect in BRCA1 – a component of the DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathway homologous recombination (HR) – results in a remarkable sensitivity to PARP1…

Did the Jochids leave their mark on the Grand Duchy, taking into account that the Lithuanian state was one of the main successor states of the Great Horde in the 16thCentury?

World Teachers Festival 2024 - Celebrating and exploring language, culture, diversity and criticality in teaching and learning

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This thesis explores squaramide-based supramolecular polymers and hydrogels, enhancing their mechanical strength for 3D cell culture.

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

Chinese materia medica (CMM), comprising a diverse array of natural substances from plants, animals, and minerals, has been integral to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) throughout history. This study investigates the dynamic evolution of CMM, noting shifts in species for improved therapeutic effects…

Menig student ziet op tegen het schrijven van een scriptie. De praktijkgerichte scriptie van masterstudent Laura Robustella laat zien dat het wél meer dan de moeite waard is. Op basis van haar masterscriptie ontwikkelde ze een kunsttentoonstelling.

In juli zal een aantal onderzoekers van de Afdeling Jeugdrecht een paper presenteren op de 'Culture, Dispute Resolution and the Modernised Family' conference in Londen, georganiseerd door het International Centre for family law, policy and practice te Londen.

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Intensive 5-day programme on the world-famous Antwerp-based printing and publishing house founded by Christopher Plantin in 1555. International experts will discuss how it developed the production and distribution of religious books and related illustrations and prints in the following centuries.

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (AMT) has abundantly been used for scientific research for identifying valuable traits.

Op Things That Talk, een website opgericht en ontwikkeld door Fresco Sam-Sin, beschrijven studenten en onderzoekers objecten van vandaag en lang geleden. Inmiddels zijn meer dan honderd objecten aan bod gekomen. Willemijn Waal, Emma Verweij en Frank van den Boom werken mee aan de content.

In oktober werd Sophie Starrenburg gekozen tot lid van het coördinerende comité van de ESIL ‘Interest Group on the International Law of Culture’. Ze zal hierin samenwerken met Giovanni Carlo Bruno (Italian National Research Council), Andrzej Jakubowski (Polish Academy of Sciences) en Lucas Lixinski…

Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw, Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES, Leiden

Presents a novel philosophical account of psychedelic experiences, arguing that they can be induced by means other than psychedelics — such as meditation and yoga.

Death in all types of melanomas is generally caused by metastasis. Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common intraocular melanoma, there are currently no (patient-derived) animal models that faithfully recapitulate metastatic dissemination of UM.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Plant exudates appeared long time ago in the history line of life in the early Devonian. They are typical saps produced by specialized cells.

Tijdens de vroege moderne tijd werden veel middeleeuwse manuscripten in stroken perkament gesneden, die opnieuw werden gebruikt om de bindingen van nieuw gedrukte boeken te versterken. Tot voor kort kwamen deze hergebruikte stukjes middeleeuwse manuscripten alleen aan het licht wanneer de vroege moderne…

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. One of its symptoms is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta.

Actinobacteria are well known for the production of bioactive natural products, many of which have applications in the fields of human, animal and plant health. Subject of this thesis are the anthracyclines, glycosylated aromatic polyketides with potent anticancer activity.

Acidobacteria is a widely distributed phylum but their functional roles in ecosystem processes are still largely elusive.

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