964 search results for “world s representation” in the Student website
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Walter Nkwi GamFaculty of Humanities
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Nancy KulaFaculty of Humanities
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Nina van CapelleveenFaculty of Law
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming'
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debunks the idea that the Second World War took the Netherlands by surprise. ‘From 1935 onwards, all major political parties wanted to invest in the military.’…
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Sayeh MohammadiFaculty of Law
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Keiko YoshiokaFaculty of Humanities
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Suzy DuivenvoordeFaculty of Law
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Miguel John VersluysFaculty of Archaeology
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Untold Stories: representation, heritage and museums
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Lettie Dorst: ‘Translation programmes change how we interpret the world’
Associate Professor Lettie Dorst has received a Vidi grant to research how machine translation programmes such as Google Translate and ChatGPT translate words and expressions used metaphorically. This still regularly goes wrong, resulting in far too literal, incorrect and sometimes incomprehensible…
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Ann SkeltonFaculty of Law
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Lucy OpokaFaculty of Law
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Katrien KlepFaculty of Law
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
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Nivja de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Alies JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Herta Mohr: Headstrong female scientist in a man's world
As a twelve-year-old girl, Nicky van de Beek became intrigued by the tomb chapels in Saqqara, Egypt. Now she is doing her PhD on them, just like another Leiden Egyptologist decades earlier. Herta Mohr persevered with her research during World War II. Now she is the namesake of the first Leiden building…
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Rehana DoleFaculty of Law
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Sofia de JongFaculty of Law
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‘Human Rights and the World Cup Qatar’ debate: ‘World Cup football is never just about sport’
Various guests with a background in human rights, law, politics and international relations will be taking part in the ‘Human Rights and the World Cup Qatar’ debate on Friday 30 September. Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) Secretary-General and Leiden alumnus Gijs de Jong will be there to provide…
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Anna-Alexandra MarholdFaculty of Law
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Yoonai HanFaculty of Humanities
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Jelena ProkicFaculty of Humanities
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Picturing West Lake: the Representation of An Iconic Place in Tu and Hua
Lecture, IIAS/LIAS Masterclass
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Why the world is quantum
During the Bachelor Honours Class ‘The world is quantum’, students from various disciplines learned about the rules of nature on the smallest scale: quantum mechanics. What opportunities and dangers do they see for their field of study?
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Onwards to noble death! War representation in the manga of Shigeru Mizuki
Lecture
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Prevent children becoming victims of a data-driven world
It is becoming increasingly common to collect data from children and young people through digital means. The impact of this so-called ‘dataveillance’ on children, who are monitored from birth via smartphones and Fitbits, is great.
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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
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Vincent Chang in various media outlets on Chinese commemoration of World War II
Assistant professor Vincent Chang spoke in various media outlets about the Chinese commemoration of World War II.
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Course: The World of Sandro Botticelli (6ECTS)
Education
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Egbert FortuinFaculty of Humanities
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Bart van der BoomFaculty of Humanities
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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TED Talks for a better world
At the conference of the Honours College Science & Society, students present TED Talks on a social issue of their interest. ‘It brings together everything they have learned in the past two and a half years.’
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Leiden researchers explain shock PVV victory
Geert Wilders and his PVV party have won the 2023 elections. What was the deciding factor for this victory?
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Casper WitsFaculty of Humanities
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Byvanck Professor Caroline Vout wins London Hellenic Prize for 2022 book
This year's London Hellenic Prize is awarded to Caroline Vout for her excellent study of representations of the human body in sculpture, Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body.
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Marit RuitenbergSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Unveiling the hidden world of wood
For four years, Vicky Beckers examined thin slices of wood under a microscope, mapping the anatomy of two plant families. Her research helps identify different wood species, benefiting both the timber trade and archaeology.
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Journal established at LIACS reaches world top
An impact factor of 3.2 in the Web of Science journal index. And in the first 10% of Elsevier's Scopus index. The International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (IJMIR), founded at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), has become one of the most important multimedia j…
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 4th in QS World University Ranking
It is the ninth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University Rankings by Subject looks at criteria like academic reputation and citation ratios.
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Leiden Assessors Council (LAssO)
Leiden Assessors Council (LAssO)
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Elizabeth (Liesbeth) de LangeFaculty of Science
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Faculty of Archaeology ranks 7th in QS World University Ranking
It is the sixth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World University Rankings by Subject looks at criteria like academic reputation and citation ratios.