Wat zijn de grondslagen van de regulering van godslastering, en op welke wijze heeft, zowel in juridische als in niet-juridische zin, godslastering zich de laatste decennia ontwikkeld?

Mattias Brand verdedigde zijn proefschrift op 10 april 2019.

This thesis describes the development of improved formulations and alternative delivery strategies for polio vaccination.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water, Co-promotores: L.T.M. van der Ven, A.S. Kienhuis

​Hoe verwerkt ons brein prikkels en informatie? Waarom is ons brein zo gevoelig voor fake-news? Doordat het leven van jongeren steeds meer online plaatsvindt, worden zij ook vaker blootgesteld aan fake-news. Valse informatie kan schadelijk zijn voor de gezondheid en het welzijn van jongeren. Om dit…

Op 23 oktober 2019 verdedigde Yoram Stein zijn proefschrift 'Spinoza's Theory of Religion: The Importance of Religion in Spinoza's Thought and Its Implications for State and Society'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. P.B. Cliteur en prof.dr. A.A.M. Kinneging.

The research presented in this thesis concerns one of the most important questions in software engineering of our time: how can we make sure that software is free from memory safety bugs?

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African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation

On May 30 and 31, a workshop will take place at the Dutch Art Historical Institute in Florence (NIKI). This workshop aims to further our understanding of how late medieval societies reconciled the partially contradictory ideals and expectations of Ecclesia and Iustitia at a collective and individual…

Promotores: B. van de Water; P. Hogendoorn; J. Bovée Co-Promotor: E.H.J. Danen

Proefschrift van de politicoloog Luzia Helfer (Universiteit Leiden), die in Nederland en in Zwitserland onderzocht op basis van welke criteria journalisten politiek nieuws selecteren en hoe politici besluiten wel of niet te reageren op het nieuws.

De 21e eeuw is getuige van een revolutie in ons begrip van rationale punten op oppervlakken en hoger-dimensionale variëteiten, en het is binnen dit vakgebied dat dit project zich bevindt.

In the summer school 'Medieval Religion' students will be challenged by specialists in the field of medieval religion to position and develop their own research in relevant scholarly and cultural contexts. The instructors will give masterclasses from their own specialties. Deadline for registrations:…

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics fails to explain several observed phenomena and is incomplete. In order to resolve this problem, one may extend the SM by adding new particles.

Religion and ethnicity are inextricably linked in discourse within and about Central Asia. One common narrative suggests that as a result of differences between historically sedentary and nomadic populations, ethnic Tajiks and Uzbeks are naturally more religious and more likely to radicalise than their…

Op 27 juni 2019 verdedigde Barry Bussey zijn proefschrift 'The Legal Revolution Against the Accommodation of Religion: The Secular Age v. The Sexular Age'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. dr. P.B. Cliteur.

This thesis contributes to studying primordial cosmology theories and their detectability in future observations.

It has now been well established that shocks and turbulent motions in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) generated through cluster mergers can produce large-scale synchrotron emission.

This book explores the spiritual potential of faith, mysticism and transcendence in answer to the dangers of a mythologised state and the sacro-sanctification of (liberal) democracy and its rule of law.

Taxonomy as a science has accumulated data and knowledge for more than 250 years.

The development of new environmentally sound technologies is seen as a key route towards achieving sustainability.

The University of Groningen is organizing a summer school on the topic of Medieval “Lived Religion” this summer. In this interdisciplinary summer school Masters and PhD students will be challenged by leading specialists dealing with textual and material sources of medieval religious cultures. They will…

De negende Network Europe Conference in Edinburgh werd in juni 2017 gehouden en was georganiseerd door het Europa Instituut in Zurich.

Galaxies in the Universe are distributed along the intricate framework of the Cosmic Web. Groups and clusters of galaxies comprise the densest regions in this network, and therefore, are excellent cosmic laboratories to study different aspects of galaxy evolution in extreme environments.

On 8 October 2021 (15.00-17.00) Prof. Dr Lena Liepe (Linnaeus University, Sweden) will hold a lecture entitled: "Exhibiting the Sacred: Holy Matter in Museum Displays".

Source: Structure , Volume 22, Issue 8, pp. 1120-1139 (2014)

In this thesis, the role of mast cells in atherosclerosis and novel therapeutic strategies to inhibit atherosclerosis progression are discussed. The first part of the thesis specifically focuses on the relation between mast cells and advanced human atherosclerotic plaque characteristics.

Promotor: J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-Promotor: A. Kros

Dr. Irma Mosquera Valderrama onderzoekt in haar ERC-project de rol van de OESO (Organisatie voor Economische Samenwerking en Ontwikkeling) en de EU bij de totstandkoming van internationale fiscale wetgeving en streeft ernaar voorwaarden te scheppen waaronder zowel ontwikkelde landen als ontwikkelingslanden…

Promotor: B.van de Water, Co-promotor: L.S.Price

Advanced mass spectrometry of glycosphingolipids takes the central stage in this thesis. Investigations focus on characterization of glycosphingolipid metabolism in health and disease with emphasis to the detection and accurate quantitation of known and so far unknown glycosphingolipids and closely…

Thirty years ago, mutations in the BRCA1 gene were first linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, establishing a genetic basis for cancer development.

Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability' laat zien hoe de eco-geologische creativiteit van de aarde verweven is met de landvormen, culturen en wereldvisies van moderne Himalayagemeenschappen. Het boek laat casestudies zien uit Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim,…

Polymyxins are clinically used antibiotics, discovered in mid-20th century. Once abandoned due to excessive nephrotoxicity, they are now used increasingly to address infections caused by multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria.In this thesis, we describe the development and synthesis of analogues…

Promotor: J.P. Abrahams, Co-promotor: T. Grüne

Within this thesis the central stage is taken by the discovery and investigation of transglycosylation of sterols. First, investigation focuses on the development of a method to accurately detect and quantify glucosylated metabolites in biological materials.

Until the 1990s, the only known planets were those in our Solar System. Three decades later, several thousand exoplanets have been discovered orbiting stars other than the Sun, and substantial efforts have been made to explore these strange new worlds through spectroscopic analyses of their atmosphe…

Hoe kwamen vroegmoderne mensen achter nieuwe kennis? En maakte dat hen meer bereid om innovatie te accepteren? In dit project wordt onderzocht hoe en met welk effect nieuwe kennis zich verankerde onder het bredere publiek in de vroegmoderne Lage Landen.

In this thesis, the discovery and optimization is described of chemical tools to study the N-acylethanolamine (NAE) biosynthetic pathway.

Hoe kunnen theorieën over moderne desinformatie helpen om te begrijpen hoe dat werkte in de Romeinse tijd?

The dissertation offers new tools and insights to computation and modelling of topological phases, with an emphasis on the aperiodic setting.

In het kader van de zomerschool "Medieval Religon" geeft prof. Christopher M. Bellitto (Kean University) op 26 juni een keynote lezing getiteld "Politics and Religion in the Middle Ages and Today: Thoughts of an American Medievalist". Deze lezing is ook toegankelijk voor geïnteresseerden die niet deelnemen…

Taking as a point of departure the Italian American community in Boston and its process of collective remembrance surrounding Saint Anthony’s Feast, we addressing the limits and potential of montage.

Op 15 juli 2019 heeft Hans-Martien ten Napel de aftrap gegeven voor een nieuwe serie over het recht op vrijheid van godsdienst en levensovertuiging op het interdisciplinaire Religion and Global Society Blog van de London School of Economics.

In this Yearbook you will find some fascinating examples of what was done in 2021, not only by ourselves, but also by our international colleagues.