1,021 search results for “christianity in the modern world” in the Staff website
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Submitting in the rest of the world
For some grants applying as a foreign institution is possible, and for that reason we have registered Universiteit Leiden in the USA. Approach the Grant Development team as soon as you intend to apply at a funder outside Europe. More information and tips and tricks will follow.
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Submitting in the rest of the world
For some grants applying as a foreign institution is possible, and for that reason we have registered Universiteit Leiden in the USA. Approach the Grant Development team as soon as you intend to apply at a funder outside Europe. More information and tips and tricks will follow.
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Submitting in the rest of the world
For some grants applying as a foreign institution is possible, and for that reason we have registered Universiteit Leiden in the USA. Approach the Grant Development team as soon as you intend to apply at a funder outside Europe. More information and tips and tricks will follow.
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Ernestine van der Wall
Faculty of Humanities
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will be organized by the Grotiana Foundation, the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam, the Grotius Centre for International…
- In Praise of Solidarity - World Refugee Day 2024
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Peter Liebregts
Faculty of Humanities
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Raymond Fagel
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Tiffany Bousard
Faculty of Humanities
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Marion Pluskota
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk Kern
Faculty of Humanities
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Stefan Landsberger
Faculty of Humanities
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Tsolin Nalbantian
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadine Akkerman’s 'Spycraft' in Harper’s Magazine: ‘Diverting history‘
In Harper’s Magazine, reviewer Dan Piepenbring discusses the latest book by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman. ‘Spycraft’ showcases how and why messages were ciphered in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
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Lecture Spring 2022: 'Christiani et Ceteri. The Treatment of Christians in the Roman Empire'
Lecture
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Mirjam Wever
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Archaeological excavations in Romania show life of earliest modern humans in Europe
In a new article in the journal Scientific Reports, Leiden archaeologist Wei Chu and colleagues report on recent excavations in Western Romania at the site of Româneşti, one of the most important sites in southeastern Europe associated with the earliest Homo sapiens. The site gives an important glimpse…
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Gerhard de Kok
Faculty of Humanities
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Jesse Sarneel
Faculty of Humanities
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Ekaterina (Kate) Pukhovaia
Faculty of Humanities
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Gerrit van Uitert
Faculty of Humanities
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Aad van Mastrigt
Faculty of Humanities
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Andrew Sorensen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Wei Chu
Faculteit Archeologie
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Maria Pereira Bastiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Eric van Hoof
Bestuursbureau
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Faculty of Humanities
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Renske Janssen is the winner of the LUCAS Dissertation Prize 2021
The LUCAS Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Dr. Renske Janssen for her PhD thesis Religio Illicita? Roman Legal Interactions with Early Christianity in Context.
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Ruurd Halbertsma
Faculty of Humanities
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Miguel John Versluys
Faculteit Archeologie
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Hans-Martien ten Napel on Tocqueville and modern democracy
Recently, Hans-Martien ten Napel was in the news on the above subject several times.
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Thijs Vos
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ionica Smeets
Science
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Modern Arabic titles in catalogue searchable in Arabic script
Modern Arabic titles in the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) can now also be consulted in original Arabic script. Taking away the need to transliterate titles, has made searching for Arabic source materials in the catalogue much easier and more efficient for users.
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Indira Huliselan
Faculty of Humanities
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Mahmood Kooriadathodi
Faculty of Humanities
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Papers) Classics Colloquium: Migrants and Membership Regimes in the Ancient Greek World
Research
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Judith Pollmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Mysterious metal depositions were ‘the most ordinary thing in the world’
In Bronze Age Europe many bronze objects such as axes, swords and jewels were deliberately left at specific spots in the landscape. PhD research by Leiden archaeologist Marieke Visser shows that these practices were expressions of people’s relationship with the world around them. ‘It was a completely…
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Bramesada Prasastyoga
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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ERC Starting Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century'
In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own vernacular was thought to reveal a great national past. But why, then, was Old English studied by Germans, Danes, Italians and many other nationalities…
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan van Leeuwen, modern horror says more about our society than we think. He has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize for his research into addiction…
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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Rizal Shidiq
Faculty of Humanities
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Tommie van Wanrooij
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicolette Mout
Faculty of Humanities
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Léon Buskens
Faculty of Humanities