393 search results for “scripts bg leiden” in the Student website
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Researchers from Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Goodbye SPSS, hallo R: ‘Now we can help students who like statistics to excel’
After the summer, the SPSS statistics programme will be replaced by the new ‘R’ software for first year students. Hemmo Smit and Sjoerd Huisman, both lecturers in Methodology and Statistics, initiated this major change in the curriculum. That did not happen overnight.
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Janna Marie Bas-HoogendamFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Leonardo LenociFaculty of Science
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Sharing Digital Humanities Knowledge
If you missed the annual LUCDH Winter School Week of Digital Humanities workshops and Pilot Project Symposium (27 – 31 January 2025) this time around, you’ll have a chance to take part next year. Save the dates for the last week of January 2026!
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Perpetuating Highland Heritages of Bhutan
Jelle Wouters (RTC Bhutan), Erik de Maaker (CADS Leiden) and Radhika Gupta (CADS Leiden) have been awarded a €260.000 grant by the Gerda Henkel Foundation for the research project ‘Perpetuating Highland Heritages of Bhutan’. This 4-year research project focuses on vernacular and unacknowledged heritages…
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Rachel PlakFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Chris VerhoevenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sanne KellijFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Shelley van der Veek
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Anna van 't VeerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Anne UraiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Julian KarchFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ruthie PliskinFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Brenda de GrootFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Floor van MeerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Verena LyFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Franz WurmFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jeshua TrompFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Xiaochen ZhengFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Evert van NieuwenburgFaculty of Science
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Wessel KraaijFaculty of Science
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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Laurens van GestelFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Pam ten BroekeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Guido BandFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jaap-Willem MinkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Fenying ZangFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Chris RiddellFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sander Nieuwenhuis
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Pingtao DingFaculty of Science
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Learning about psychology from inside the pink folds of the brain
In a new video series for the Corpus Kids Academy, researchers Marieke Bos and Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam explain how the adolescent brain develops and how anxiety works. 'We wanted to present the information simply, while still preserving the complexity.'
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Professor by special appointment Mariken Teeuwen: ‘There are so many new possibilities in research on medieval manuscripts’
Mariken Teeuwen started at the Institute for History as a professor by special appointment of Script Culture of the Middle Ages on 1 March. ‘I’m looking forward to doing research together with students.’
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Digital guest lectures for secondary school students: 'The interdisciplinary collaboration gives me energy'
Can a robot perform a religious ritual just like a monk? And what exactly is a religious ritual? Robots and religion seem to be two different subjects, but according to university lecturer Elpine de Boer, both can make us think about what it means to be human and what we consider to be of value. Together…
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Talent for languages test: National Linguistics Olympiad puts language sense to the test for high school students
How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday 28 January, high school students from all over the Netherlands will come to Leiden to ponder a series of language-related puzzles. Their goal? To win…
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New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you'
Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, the Asian part of present-day Turkey. 'A new interpretation in one of the Anatolian languages can have consequences for dozens of other languages.'
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Artificial intelligence and clay tablets: not yet a perfect match
Translating ancient texts, filling in missing parts of clay tablets: articles are popping up more and more often about the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence for researching documents in the oldest scripts. Are we better off leaving the deciphering of ancient texts to computers from now…
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Marijn van Putten: How many ways are there to read the Quran?
How should the Quran be read? The manuscript of this holy book makes different interpretations possible. Researcher Marijn van Putten has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of two million euros to explore centuries-old recitations.
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Two Dialogic Network lectures by Siavash Rafiee Rad and Keramat Fathinia
Lecture
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Jan van RijnFaculty of Science
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ESOF2022: Leiden Law School
EuroScience Open Forum – ESOF - is Europe’s biggest multidisciplinary and prestigious scientific conference. ESOF2022 will take place from 13-16 July 2022 and is hosted by Leiden as the European City of Science (in the Netherlands). The Kamerlingh Onnes Building is one of the locations of the ESOF and…
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Fieldwork in Leiden
How do the residents of the Kooi neighbourhood in Leiden find living there? What can we do about loneliness? In this extraordinary academic year, students have been conducting all sorts of research, in Leiden. They presented their initial findings and recommendations at a Learning with the City meeting…
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Sarah SchraderFaculty of Archaeology
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Got a question about science? Ask Leiden!
Due to its success, the Leiden2022 Q&A has been extended and is looking for even more thought-provoking, interesting or unusual questions.
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Federica LucchiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Arturo García De LeónFaculty of Archaeology
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Andrea BartolucciFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Gert-Jan LelieveldFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Kiki Zanolie
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Michiel van ElkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences