436 search results for “green literature” in the Student website
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Rianti ManullangFaculty of Humanities
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Suzanne AdemaFaculty of Humanities
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Renske JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Marja Spierenburg in podcast Rethinking Rights and Resources for the Green Transformation.
In the first episode of the podcast series, Andrei Marin, Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, interviews Marja Spierenburg, Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihoods and Scientific Director at Leiden University, along with Diana Vela Almeida, Assistant…
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Caribbean Literature - A Reading List
Caribbean literature holds a unique position in the world. Literature produced in the Caribbean region is extremely diverse, not only because of the wide variety of languages spoken, but also due to distinct colonial legacies that exist in the archipelago. Despite cultural specificities, the region…
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature
How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of mass murder – despite heavy censorship – found a place in Indonesian literature. PhD defence 31 March.
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‘Literature explores all sorts of things that the law is not yet ready for’
As Professor of Literature, Culture and Law, Frans Willem Korsten explores the interplay between literature and law. These are two disciplines that most people wouldn’t immediately connect, but Korsten can see a lot of common ground between them. ‘A fictional story can have a huge impact on law.’
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Mosquitos in town: how to prevent disease risk (and still green your city)
In cities, parks take the blame for mosquito problems. However, the real issue is usually a few streets away. Drains and standing rainwater create ideal breeding grounds for larvae. As a result, controlling adult mosquitoes in parks makes little sense, says environmental scientist Louie Krol in his…
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AI and the green transition: a ‘match made in heaven’?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is often portrayed as a technological saviour for addressing climate change. But there are risks associated with its use, observes Barrie Sander.
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Smart data for sustainable agriculture: less hassle, more green
In supermarkets, consumers are drowning in a sea of sustainability labels. Confusing for them, but also farmers can't see the forest for the trees. Obtaining these labels demands an enormous amount of time and effort. Berent Baris is investigating ways to simplify this process, benefiting both farmers…
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Oussama MacnackFaculty of Humanities
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Adriaan RademakerFaculty of Humanities
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Jörn SoerinkFaculty of Humanities
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Esther EdelmannFaculty of Humanities
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Report: Tracking down green spaces in The Hague in places you don't always want to be
Although there is considerable evidence that nature in the city is beneficial to both people and animals, we still do not have an overall picture of those benefits. To rectify that, a Leiden PhD candidate and a student – armed with a cargo bike – are using The Hague as a life-size laboratory.
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‘Literature is our compass in a turbulent world’
Literature – and films and social media too – helps us understand ourselves and society. That makes literary studies an eternally modern discipline, especially if you dare to combine it with other disciplines, says Nidesh Lawtoo.
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Ineke SluiterFaculty of Humanities
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Green roofs and tile flipping: research in The Hague on the best approach to climate and species diversity
Does a communal garden provide cool air and warm neighbourly relations? Does an additional row of trees increase biodiversity? These kinds of questions are key in the COMBINED project, on which Leiden scientists and residents of The Hague, among others, can work for six years with 4 million euros from…
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Car sharing and second-hand phones not as green as they seem, research shows
Not all sustainable business models have the impact they claim, Leiden researcher Levon Amatuni revealed. Car sharing and phone reuse, for example, have a smaller positive effect than previously thought. Amatuni advises people to ‘pay attention to actual changes in their consumption behaviour rather…
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Judith BosnakFaculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Green light to build revolutionary new experiment at CERN to search for unknown particles
After many years of preparations, CERN has approved a groundbreaking new experiment: the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP). Physicist Alexey Boyarsky was involved from the start. ‘We know there is physics that’s missing and we aim to find it.’
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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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conduct practical research into the Humanities Campus: ‘It needs lots of green spaces and light’
Over the past few months, Urban Studies students have been helping to think about the realisation of the Humanities Campus. To test their knowledge in practice, the future urban specialists gave advice on several different aspects, including thermal energy storage and the new central campus building…
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Eric CezneAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Frans Willem Korsten
Faculty of Humanities
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Christopher Green: ‘Kim feels emboldened to expand North Korea's nuclear arsenal as long as he doesn't create outright instability’
University lecturer Christopher Green was featured in various media after providing a quote to Reuters about the meeting between Xi and Kim.
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Casper de JongeFaculty of Humanities
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Aritri DuttaFaculty of Humanities
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Georgios-Evgenios DouliakasFaculty of Humanities
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Lieke SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Coen van 't VeerFaculty of Humanities
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Judith NaeffFaculty of Humanities
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Panel discussion: Green Colonialism
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Minor in Law, Literature and Society shows inextricable link between law and art
The film Blade Runner as part of the law curriculum? It’s not that weird to Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Law and Society, and Frans-Willem Korsten, Professor of Literature, Culture and Law. ‘The film raises a fundamental question: what’s a human and what’s not?’ From the next academic year onwards,…
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities
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Marcos Neto de CordovaFaculty of Humanities
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Rieneke SonneveltFaculty of Humanities
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Edwin de VetteFaculty of Humanities
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Thomas KluitenburgFaculty of Humanities
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Mitchell van VurenFaculty of Humanities
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NWO and the National Science Foundation China award 1.1M euro to urban resilience research
Arnold Tukker and Mingming Hu (CML) will look for urban resilience solutions in the Dutch-Chinese ReSURE2 project that received 1.1M euro.
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities