4,813 search results for “takes en culture van de world” in the Public website
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The forgotten history of Dutch slavery in Guyana
When we think of the history of Dutch slavery, the areas that spring to mind are primarily the Antilles and Suriname. However, until the end of the eighteenth century there were also Dutch plantation colonies in neighbouring Guyana. Bram Hoonhout’s book ‘Borderless Empire’ describes this forgotten h…
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Scholarship in Antiquity on the Occasion of the Eightieth Birthday of Arie van der Kooij
Symposium
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Pieter Slaman: German occupation lengthened mandatory education
Assistant professor and dual PhD candidate, Pieter Slaman writes in Binnenlands Bestuur about the fact that the German occupier lengthened the period of mandatory education in The Netherlands.
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Meet Dr. Lital Abazon LJSA Member
Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses ranging from Introduction to Zionism to World Cinema.
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Paul Christiaan Flu: a Surinamese professor in a time of war
Paul Christiaan Flu, originally from Surinam, was a brilliant tropical doctor, who in 1938 rose to the position of Rector Magnificus of Leiden University. The war years brought his lightning career to an abrupt end: his son was murdered and he himself was imprisoned in a concentration camp. A sad family…
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Leiden Essay Film Festival
Festival
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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Corey WilliamsFaculty of Humanities
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Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The development of the Tocharian accent
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Paneldiscussie: Een Rijkdom aan Talen
Debate, Paneldiscussie
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Just Public Algorithmic Systems – What does it take?
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium/RISE Lecture: Quantum-Derived Kinetics of Photo/electrocatalysis on Metals
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Exploring the Interfacial Properties and Electrocatalytic Activity of Platinum-Palladium Single Crystal Alloys
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Technological Developments for EC-STM Measurements: Single-molecule Reaction Measurements and Development of Electrodeposited
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Large-Scale Polymer Synthesis by Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerizations with Molecular Oxygen Reduction Reaction
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Van Marum Colloquium: Tale of Two Beamers: results from recent improvements in two molecular beam scattering instruments
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Van Marum Colloquium: Playing to strengths : the advantages of using boron doped diamond electrodes in electrochemical research
Lecture
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project
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Van Marum Colloquium: New frontiers in modeling nanoporous materials and their applications at the crossroads of quantum mechanics, statistical
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Proton-coupled electron transfer at interfaces: the importance of non-ideal isotherms
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Van Marum Colloquium: Concerted Cation-Electron Transfer at Pt(111)/Perfluoro-Sulfonic Acid Ionomer Interface
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Van Marum Colloquium: Voltage-Driven Water-Dissociation Catalysis: Fundamentals to Applications Advanced Bipolar Membrane Technology
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Van Marum Colloquium - Probing the surface chemistry of water and carbon dioxide with qPlus-STM/AFM
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Van Marum Colloquium: Unraveling the mechanism of CO2 catalytic reduction by an iron porphyrin through spectroelectrochemical analysis
Lecture
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Views on Africa
In the media, we hear a lot of worrying news from Africa: refugees, attacks, Ebola, starvation, corruption... But Africa is much more than that: it is a continent in transition, with developments occurring at breakneck speed. African Studies scholars from different academic disciplines in Leiden conduct…
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Was Suriname expensive or not? ‘The economic situation has never been properly assessed’
His Surinamese neighbours in Amsterdam gave Russia expert and economic historian Isaac Scarborough an idea: a re-evaluation of the Surinamese economy in the twentieth century. An NWO XS grant will enable him to make a start on this.
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Descriptive Linguistics: Interactive idea sharing session
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistic Seminars
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Can Parkinson's be stopped by unravelling protein fibres? Anne Wentink finds out with a Vidi grant from NWO
In brain diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, proteins clump together to form fibres. ‘Chaperone proteins’ unravel those fibres, but in the test tube biochemist Anne Wentink saw that this can also cause new problems. She is going to find out what happens inside cells to determine what a drug…
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Sada Mire’s Leiden Experience: "the Johnny Cash of Archaeology"
Pioneering in the archaeology of Somaliland, hosting international TV and radio shows, and producing a very successful MOOC: Dr Sada Mire already has a formidable track record.
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Van Marum Colloquium: Thermodynamic modeling of the electrode-electrolyte interface - Double-layer capacitance, Solvation number, Validation
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Exploiting Single Nanoparticle and Spectro-Electrochemistry to Explore Solvent and Anion Adsorption at Metals
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Jopie van der Hart-van der HoekFaculty of Science
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Ingrid van der Geest-van Dongen
Health, safety and environment
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Annette van der Helm-van MilFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Rianne van der Kleij-van der Sluis
Social & Behavioural Sciences
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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LUCIP Colloquium "Humans as Heaven: Innaecheon 人乃天, and the Resilient Spirit of Korean Democracy and the Korean Wave"
Lecture
- Adriaan Gerbrands Lectures
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Reducing or Reinforcing Gender Bias? A Study on the Application of ChatGPT in Translation from a Feminist Perspective
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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The Historical Topography of Medina: Faith, Power, and Memory in Early Islamic Arabia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Veiled references to the Armenian genocide
No criticism is allowed in Turkey of the mass murder of Armenians that took place a century ago. PhD candidate Alaettin Carikci examined how contemporary artists, authors, film directors and museums have nonetheless found indirect ways of expressing their criticism.
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
- CADS Research Seminars
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Esther Van Landeghem
Faculty of Science
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Irene Van EldereFaculty of Humanities
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Astrid Van WeyenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Ben Van RompuyFaculty of Law
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Tod Van Gunten
Social & Behavioural Sciences