836 search results for “as a modernities and transition” in the Student website
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Frans Willem KorstenFaculty of Humanities
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Maartje JanseFaculty of Humanities
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Master's student of Arts and Culture develops own exhibition: 'A very enriching experience'
Many students dread writing a thesis. Master’s student Laura Robustella's practice-based thesis shows that it is well worth the effort. She developed an art exhibition based on her master’s thesis.
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Why standing as a candidate for University participation pays off
Do you want to promote the interests of students or staff? If you do, put yourself forward as a candidate for the University Council or the Faculty Council between 5 and 8 April. Two council members, PhD candidate Elisabeth Kerr and Law student Mante Kaaks, tell us about their experiences.
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National(ist) Media: Platform, Participation, and the Rise of Digital Populism in Japan
Lecture
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Study success
Your path to study success: a good start, study skills and personal development.
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Wim van AnrooijFaculty of Humanities
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Willemijn TuinstraFaculty of Humanities
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Dimitris Kentrotis ZinelisFaculty of Humanities
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Daný van DamFaculty of Humanities
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Timothy de ZeeuwFaculty of Humanities
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Goran BouazizFaculty of Humanities
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Anna-Luna PostFaculty of Humanities
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Executive Power and the Crisis of Modern American Democracy
Lecture
- Presenting the wonders of early modern encyclopaedic collections in Leiden
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A quirky block of rubber as a calculator
PhD candidate Jiangnan Ding explores how you can design a thick slab of rubber in a way that it might act as a mechanical computer bit. This so-called mechanical metamaterial is pushed in a specific way to change its shape. ‘With a very simple material, we might be able to do simple calculations in…
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‘Faculty should feel as comfortable as a living room’
What does the future of student welfare look like? Throughout this academic year, our faculty has been working hard to answer that question. Ruben van Gaalen, study coordinator, and Femke Weerdmeester, student of Dutch Language and Culture, look back on the past and towards the future.
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
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Peter Verstraten over het succes van Koreaanse films
What makes South Korean films successful? In the first part of the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave', University Lecturer Peter Verstraten discusses the recent success of South Korean cinema.
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Dutch Research Council pilot programme funding for seven researchers
Seven researchers from Leiden University have made a successful application to the Open Competition SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) XS, a Dutch Research Council pilot programme.
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Casper Wits in POLITICO on the EU's China Policy
University lecturer Casper Wits wrote an opinion piece on the ongoing diplomatic tensions between the European Union and China for POLITICO. In this article, he argues that 'rather than shrinking from the fight, the EU must develop a China policy that prioritizes progressive values and human rights.…
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy
Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.
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Dorine SchellensFaculty of Humanities
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and Sexual Violence: Reflections on Methodologies for Trauma in Early Modern France
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Nadine Akkerman’s Spycraft reviewed in several publications
Nadine Akkerman's book Spycraft, which she co-wrote with historian of science Pete Langman, has garnered top publications, with reviews featured in The Telegraph, Literary Review, The Spectator, History Today, and the Times Literary Supplement.
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’
How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with his colleague Arco Timmermans, he developed a digital guest lecture on how to present a convincing story.
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Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan
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and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts
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China as a laboratory for the rest of the world
Professor of Modern China Florian Schneider researches what people do with technology and what technology does with people. Social media, for example. And then mainly in China.
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Who are we?
Meet the FLO committee 2024! To ensure that the FLO-days are tailored to students' needs, the FLO committee is made up of student representatives of each student association within the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. With the collaboration of Emile, Itiwana, Spil and Labyrinth we plan to…
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Science, Society and Self
This Honours College track empowers you to address societal challenges by enhancing new skills and competencies.
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Kate PukhovaiaLeiden University Library
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Ton Anbeek van der MeydenFaculty of Humanities
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Tatiana Vargas OrtizFaculty of Humanities
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Annetje Ottow: 'Stand as a candidate for a co-participation body!'
Organisation
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Mirjam van ReisenFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Irini SifogeorgakisFaculty of Archaeology
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Klaas van WalravenAfrican Studies Centre
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Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible'
Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference
Conference
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
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Jooyoung Hwang
Faculty of Humanities
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Marleen BarthFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Jeffrey JhanjanFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Ritsart PlantengaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Marleen Baba-Krieger
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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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.’…