3,280 search results for “tales en culture van de world” in the Public website
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Vici grants for three Leiden researchers
Three Leiden researchers will each receive a Vici grant of 1.5m euros. They are historian Cátia Antunes, cell biologist Dennis Claessen and archaeologist Marie Soressi. This grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) will give them the opportunity to form their own research group over the next five…
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Public Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe: Theatrical Entertainments for the State Journeys of English and French Royals into the Low Countries
One way for governments to conduct foreign policy and promote national interests is through direct outreach and communication with the population of a foreign country. This is called public diplomacy. Historians such as Helmer Helmers and William T. Rossiter have shown that printed media were already…
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Hanna Swaab
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Ingrid Leijten on radio about freedom of expression
On 12 November Ingrid Leijten was a guest on Dutch NOS NPO Radio 1 programme Met het Oog op Morgen. She was asked to speak about the right to freedom of expression.
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Historian Katja Happe new Cleveringa Professor
German historian Katja Happe is the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. She will give the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November 2019. She conducts research into the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, and wrote the critically acclaimed book 'Veel valse hoop' (Much False Hope).
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How Leiden University reopened after the war
Students were able to continue their studies in September 1945 after the University had been closed for several years during the Second World War. This moment was celebrated for four days, with the traditional cortège, commemorative services and a party in the Botanical Garden. Queen Wilhelmina was…
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Workshop "The Crisis of the Land, World, Territory and Belonging"
Conference
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Steven LauritanoFaculty of Humanities
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Alistair KeffordFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew BroadFaculty of Humanities
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Joost AugusteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Masoud KianiFaculty of Humanities
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Maria del Carmen Parafita CoutoFaculty of Humanities
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Kim BeerdenFaculty of Humanities
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Dr. Amy Strecker receives Global Interactions BREED Grant
Dr Amy Strecker (Heritage Dept., Faculty of Archaeology) has recently been awarded a LGI BREED grant to develop her project on property and spatial justice in international law. Building on her previous research into landscape protection from cultural heritage, environmental and human rights perspectives…
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Criticism from Dutch civil servants about the Government's stance on war in Middle East
Two open letters are currently circulating among civil servants in the Netherlands calling for the Dutch government to take a different stance towards Israel. Wim Voermans, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law in Leiden, says in a national radio broadcast that this is an unusual and unique…
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Maria Gabriela Palacio LudeñaFaculty of Humanities
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Amadou AdamouFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs Vos
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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International Mother Language Day: Mother Languages in Motion
Festival
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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty of Humanities
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1200 North Korean posters in one database
Korea specialist Koen De Ceuster has combined 1200 posters from North Korea in one database. He believes the posters are extremely valuable for researchers who want to make a more in-depth study of this closed country. The database will be launched on 15 June in Leiden.
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‘Heritage decisions limit our ability to imagine alternative forms of society’
It is difficult to imagine a society other than a hierarchical nation-state. This is in part because we neglect alternative forms from the past, argues archaeologist Lewis Borck in the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology.
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Royal honour for Gert Oostindie
Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honour by Leiden mayor Henri Lenferink after giving his valedictory lecture, ‘The future of the colonial past’, in the Academy Building of Leiden University…
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Luc Verhey appointed member of the Dutch Council of State
Luc Verheij, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law (Kircheiner chair) at Leiden Law School has been appointed as a member of the 'Raad van State', the Dutch Council of State. Verheij was already a State Councillor at the Advisory Division since 2011. He will continue to fulfill this role…
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A broader perspective on the war
Leiden researcher Ethan Mark has a mission, he explains in the alumni magazine Leidraad. He wants us to take off our Eurocentric glasses when we study the Second World War. We have focused on ourselves for far too long; after 75 years, it’s about time we listened to stories from the rest of the worl…
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Zulfadhli NasutionSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Diah AngendariSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Michael HerzfeldSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Keerthi Sridharan VaidehiFaculty of Humanities
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Tirza CramwinckelFaculty of Law
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Petr Koluch
Faculty of Humanities
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Hannah Busch
Faculty of Humanities
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Tony FosterFaculty of Humanities
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Diederik PomstraFaculty of Archaeology
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Miyuki KerkhofHonours Academy
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Ang LiFaculty of Archaeology
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Niels van der SalmFaculty of Humanities
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Siyun WuSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Olli LittunenFaculty of Humanities
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Sjef BarbiersFaculty of Humanities
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Brigitte TheeuwesICLON
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Ruurd HalbertsmaFaculty of Humanities
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Carlos Campello Pereira Porto SoaresFaculty of Humanities
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Tingyu LiFaculty of Humanities
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Özümcan Çekiç
Faculty of Humanities
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Andreas KrogullFaculty of Humanities
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Joanna Greenland
Faculty of Humanities