652 search results for “origins of human main” in the Student website
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Maarten LamersFaculty of Science
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Laurie Cosmo: ‘Dutch museums have a very contemporary exhibition practice’
University lecturer Laurie Cosmo, having grown up in New York, came to the Hague from Rome, Italy, where she fell under the spell of the Kunstmuseum. ‘I loved the building even before I worked at Leiden University.’
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Nadine Akkerman: ‘It’s an incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping up in her work. Now there’s Spycraft, a popular history book exploring the espionage techniques used by early modern spies, which she has co-written with…
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Leiden University’s humanities in top 30 of Times Higher Education Rankings
Leiden University's humanities have one of the top places in the Times Higher Education Rankings. This year, we were placed 26th.
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Considering to apply for a PhD in the Humanities grant? Join the webinar
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Striking similarities in how humans and other primates search for food
How unique is the human capacity for learning and adapting to an environment? In field research – in the rainforest and Artis Zoo – primatologist Karline Janmaat is studying how humans and other primates adapt to their environment in their search for food. She will give her inaugural lecture as Professor…
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No new election student section Humanities Faculty Council – seat allocation adopted
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Sophie StarrenburgFaculty of Law
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Titia LoenenFaculty of Law
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Tim EnweremFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Niels van DoesumSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Kristof GombeerFaculty of Law
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New method for extracting human DNA from archaeological objects yields success
An international team of researchers led by Leiden archaeology professor Marie Soressi and Leipzig senior geneticist Matthias Meyer has recovered the DNA of a woman belonging to an Ancient North Eurasian population from a 20,000-year-old pendant. This is the first time DNA analysis has been used to…
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Researchers get free rein with new Social Sciences and Humanities Labs
There was a lot of interest. In front of nearly a hundred researchers, supporting colleagues and Martijn Ridderbos, the Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board, Lotte van Dillen, Research Director of Psychology and Saskia Goedhard, Director of Humanities Operations jointly opened the new lab with a classic…
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Giulia PinzautiFaculty of Law
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Wouter HinsFaculty of Law
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Christopher DugardFaculty of Law
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Bill SchabasFaculty of Law
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Ton DietzAfrican Studies Centre
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Horst FischerFaculty of Law
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Harry WelsAfrican Studies Centre
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Carolina Lisboa PintoFaculty of Law
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Tuomas AiveloFaculty of Science
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Gerard Persoon
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Marie Schwed ShenkerFaculty of Law
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Jaap van den HerikFaculty of Law
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Joe Powderly co-edits volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law
The volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law, co-edited by Grotius Centre, Associate Professor Joe Powderly, and Dr Amy Strecker (Associate Professor, UCD), has been published by Brill/Nijhoff.
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Alies JansenFaculty of Humanities
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Papers symposium on experimentation and innovation in human-environmental links across the Americas
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Feeling safe at Humanities: an all-gender toilet in every building
The university is committed to providing an accessible learning and working environment for students and staff. They should be able to feel at home at our faculty. That is why there is now an all-gender toilet in every humanities building to contribute to that feeling of recognition and safety.
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in Leiden Global on ‘bridging the gap between technology and the humanities’
External PhD Candidate Liselore Tissen was interviewed by Leiden Global about her work, in which she uses 3D printing. Recently she made a copy of a decorative human skill this way.
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Hans Franken Lecture by Jan Kleijssen, former Human Rights Director at the Council of Europe
On June 30, eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies of Leiden University organised the annual Hans Franken Lecture. This year the lecture was delivered by Jan Kleijssen, former Human Rights Director at the Council of Europe.
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innovative research presenting a new method for recovering ancient human DNA
Since the publication of the article in the interdisciplinary journal Nature, over 200 news outlets have showcased the pioneering research.
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Professor Joanita Vroom investigates medieval Greece with The Packard Humanities Institute grant
In 2024, Professor Joanita Vroom received a substantial grant from the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) in support for her Hinterlands of Medieval Chalcis Project (HMC Project) in Greece. PHI, a California-based non-profit organization, is dedicated to archaeological research as well as to the preservation…
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‘Humans are storytellers’: the power of stories in language development of children and AI models
What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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Jan SleutelsFaculty of Humanities
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Jiang WuFaculty of Humanities
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Olga LundyshevaFaculty of Humanities
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Walter Nkwi GamFaculty of Humanities
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Ramira van der MeulenFaculty of Science
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Ian SimpsonFaculty of Archaeology
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Sandrine GalloisFaculty of Archaeology
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Eduardo Herrera MalatestaFaculty of Archaeology
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Hilde GunninkFaculty of Humanities
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Archaeological Forum: Wei Chu and Jennifer Swerida
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What drives humans? How Mariska Kret manages to touch science with her emotion research
In zoos, at festivals and in a mobile lab at the market: everywhere, Mariska Kret tries to understand human and animal emotions with her distinctive behavioural research. Now she has received the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus of €1 million for her efforts.
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This is how artificial and human intelligence work together to strengthen democracy
How should the municipality of Eindhoven organise the reception of asylum seekers? What is the best electoral system for the Dutch Parliament? Governments regularly ask citizens for their opinions. Computer scientist Michiel van der Meer has improved the method used for citizen assemblies. He will defend…
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Vacancy: Research-Assistant Data Management Humanities (apply before 10 June)
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