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Poiesis and the Performance Practice of Physically Polyphonic Notations
This research revolves around the philosophical and linguistic elements that naturally belong to the process of learning music scores, including complex contemporary repertoire distinguished by physically decoupled notations or physical polyphonic notations.
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Programme structure
The curriculum in the first semester provides an overall introduction to public international law and international criminal law. The second semester is more track-specific and focused on interaction.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for African Studies (research) at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Tycho van der Hoog
Afrika-Studiecentrum
t.a.van.der.hoog@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2946
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Akinyinka Akinyoade
Afrika-Studiecentrum
a.akinyoade@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6701
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Janine Ubink
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.m.ubink@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7493
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The Great War Analogy and the Sino-American Security Dilemma: Foreboding or Fallacious?
Drawing on the analogical lessons of the Great War, this article uses applied history to analyze how the four parallels discerned can help us make sense of contemporary Sino-American rivalry
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Barbarism and Its Discontents
This study interrogates contemporary and historical uses of barbarism, arguing that barbarism also has a disruptive, insurgent potential.
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Cyber-noir: Cybersecurity and popular culture
New article on popular culture influences on cybersecurity experts, available Open Access at Contemporary Security Policy, part of a special issue edited by dr. Myriam Dunn Cavelty.
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EU H2020 RISE Social Media Analytics
LIACS is a partner in RISE_SMA, an interdisciplinary, international network combining excellent scholars and practitioners to enable vigorous knowledge sharing and to develop solutions for contemporary challenges for Social Media Analytics (SMA).
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The emergent artistic object in the postconceptual condition
This dissertation investigates the fabric and the infrastructure of contemporary artistic production.
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Vision
Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) at Leiden University aims to advance knowledge and practice on how we govern – and could govern – major world-scale changes in contemporary society. These global transformations include hegemonic and other geopolitical shifts, ecological changes,…
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Tiempo, Paisaje y Líneas de Vida en la Arqueología de Ñuu Savi
This work focuses on the interpretation of the archaeological remains of the Mixtec culture in Southern Mexico on the basis of the knowledge, perceptions, economy and worldview of contemporary descendant communities.
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Time, History and Ritual in a K’iche’ Community
This work analyzes ritual practices and knowledge related to the Mesoamerican calendar with the aim of contributing to the understanding of the use and conceptualization of this calendar system in the contemporary K’iche’ community of Momostenango, in the Highlands of Guatemala.
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Beyond borders : broadening the artistic palette of (composing) improvisers in jazz
In this on-line dissertation, jazz saxophonist Dick de Graaf investigates a variety of compositional and improvisational models and techniques in contemporary jazz and Western art music, and discusses possible applications of these materials in current jazz practices.
- Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies
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The Case against Animal Rights: A Literary Intervention
This thesis aims at thinking through the ethical position of animals in a way that differs radically from the manner in which this ethical position is thought within contemporary animal rights discourse.
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The Modern Arabic Book: Design as Agent of Cultural Progress
Huda Abi-Fares defended her thesis on 10 January 2017.
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Historicising Art and Literature
Historicising Art and Literature is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.
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Beyond Dissemination: Hindustani Identifications at the Nexus of Tradition and Modernity
An interdisciplinary cultural analysis of how the Hindustani double migration informs contemporary processes of identification and problematises the juxtaposition of tradition and modernity.
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Education
The purpose of LENS – to foster, coordinate and support research in the area of the visual arts and visual media of photography, film, video and digital media – is connected to the objectives of the Master program Film and Photographic Studies.
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Memory and Identity
Memory and Identity is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.
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Antiquity: Greeks and Romans in Context
This new handbook by Frits Naerebout and Henk Singor places the history of the Greeks and Romans within the larger context of the contemporary Eurasian world.
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Mobility, Globalisation, and Interculturality
Mobility, Globalisation, and Interculturality is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.
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Conflict continuities
Many conflicts in Africa have been studied and described as location and time bound. Yet conflict is rarely confined and contained, and instead reaches across communities, borders, and generations.
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Compact Cinematics: The Moving Image in the Age of Bit-Sized Media
Compact Cinematics challenges the dominant understanding of cinema to focus on the various compact, short, miniature, pocket-sized forms of cinematics that have existed from even before its standardization in theatrical form, and in recent years have multiplied and proliferated, taking up an increasingly…
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Intermediality, Media Practices and Media Literacy
Intermediality, Media Practices and Media Literacy is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.
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Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan: Land, Courts and the Plurality of Practices
Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan analyses the hybridity of law systems and the plurality of legal practices in rural and urban contexts of contemporary Sudan, shedding light on the complex relation between Islam and society.
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Extra-curricular
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Direitos negados, patrimônios roubados
Desafios para a proteção dos conhecimentos tradicionais, dos recursos genéticos e das expressões culturais tradicionais dos povos indígenas no cenário internacional
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Recalibrating India’s Middle East Policy
After an initial suggestion of a move toward Israel, India’s Prime Minister Modi has signaled a significant recalibration of his government’s engagement with the Middle East region. Now, India seems to be prioritising strong ties with the Gulf states.
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The Arts of Memory. The Remembrance of the Armenians in Turkey.
This study is an attempt to reconstruct the muted violent past by breaking the monopoly of the Turkish state over the memory of the Armenian genocide.
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African Languages as Medium of Instruction in higher education: what has happened after Prah?
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Colloquium - An intercultural reflection on the ethics of technology: An African perspective
Lecture
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Transnational Pentecostalism in the Age of #MeToo: Sexual Violence and Harassment from Lagos to Los Angeles
This initiative is intended to support generative research collaborations between and among scholars located in different geographical regions who wish to pursue focused, joint projects in any area of the study of religion.
- Small States Diplomacy
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De Olinda a Holanda: o gabinete de curiosidades de Nassau
Book by Dr. Mariana Françozo resulting from her research into the collection of count Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen, governor of the Dutch colony in Northeastern Brazil between 1637 and 1644.
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Information activities
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African Languages as Medium of Instruction in higher education: what has happened after Prah?
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world.
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Medieval and Early Modern History: Europe in its Global Context
Leiden’s Institute for History has an exceptionally strong expertise in premodern European history in its global context, with specialists whose interests cover virtually the whole continent. We have a strong track record in leading larger research teams and work together with colleagues across Europe…