971 search results for “culture geschiedenis” in the Public website
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Carlos Roos Muñoz
Faculty of Humanities
c.m.roos.munoz@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Berry Dongelmans
Faculty of Humanities
b.p.m.dongelmans@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Leonardo Carmignani
Faculteit Archeologie
l.carmignani@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Enrico Odelli
Faculty of Humanities
e.odelli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2188
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Thato Magano
Faculty of Humanities
s.t.magano@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Chi Zhang
Faculteit Archeologie
c.zhang@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ellen Raven
Faculty of Humanities
e.m.raven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Manfred Horstmanshoff
Faculty of Humanities
h.f.j.horstmanshoff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2166
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Peter Bisschop
Faculty of Humanities
p.c.bisschop@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2980
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Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present (research) (MA)
In the research master Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present at Leiden University you will be at the forefront of a new approach to understand how politics and identities in Europe are conceived.
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Hans-Martien ten Napel publishes a volume on democracy as a cultural phenomenon
Hans-Martien ten Napel recently published a volume with Routledge, Culture, Secularization, and Democracy; Lessons from Alexis de Tocqueville, co-edited with Prof. Sophie van Bijsterveld (Radboud University Nijmegen).
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history of eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine and European cultural diplomacy (1860–1948)
This special issue of Contemporary Levant critically explores, at a micro and macro level, the structural role and religious, cultural and political interactions of the Greek-Orthodox, Melkite and Syriac communities in late Ottoman and Mandate Syria and Palestine.
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The Dutch Constitution should be more accessible
The Dutch Constitution is the second oldest constitution in the world after the US Constitution and it dates back to 1814. Wim Voermans, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law and author of the book ‘Our Constitution’ published earlier this year, advocates for a more accessible Constitut…
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Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture, and the Environment
The Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture, and the Environment (BASCE) is a platform for all those who are actively engaged in ecocriticism to discuss their various endeavours with peers from different disciplines and an array of intellectual, creative, or activist pursuits.
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Information activities
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Greek criticism and Latin literature. Classicism and cultural interaction in the late republican and early imperial Rome
This project examines the intriguing relationship between Greek literary criticism and Latin literature in Rome (first centuries BC and AD).
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Without our research, the Netherlands is in danger
The new cabinet threatens to cut nearly a billion euros from higher education. This not only endangers academic work, it is a disaster for the Netherlands itself. The proposed penalty on study extensions and other financial measures will heavily impact students and will reduce education accessibility.…
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Transnational and Cross-Cultural Agents in the 17th Century Overseas Expansion
Why is Crossnational and Cross-cultural agents such as Henrich Carloff and Willem Leyel important when studying Early Modern expansion?
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The Informed Performer- Towards a bio-culturally informed performers’ practice
Playing a musical instrument is generally considered to be a complex human behaviour involving the integration and coordination of a broad range of human functions such as perception, imagination, memory, information processing, emotion, communication, and dexterity.
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Abrupt Climate Change and Cultural Transformation in Syria in Late Prehistory (c. 6800-5800 BC)
This abrupt climate change of 8200 years ago (the so-called 8.2k calBP climate event) has received wide attention among natural scientists, also because of today's rapid climate changes and their impact on our own society. The archaeological implications, however, have not been investigated so far.…
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Periphery Matters: A Cultural Biography of Peking Opera in Hong Kong
Pui Lun Chan defended his thesis on 12 September 2017
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Corridors: How modelling routes through the sea can illuminate early island culture
What are the capabilities or limitations of traveling between islands and how does this reflect seasonal variation? Is it possible to show higher levels of connectivity between islands based on generated pathways between several sites on two separate islands?
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Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland
De Nederlandse geschiedenis is nauw verbonden met die van de wereld als geheel. Door migratie, handel en kennisuitwisseling beïnvloedden mensen elkaar over grotere afstanden en intensiever dan we lang dachten. Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland toonde in meer dan honderd verhalen hoe internationaal de…
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Digital warfare in the Sahel: popular networks of war and Cultural Violence
This interdisciplinary study focuses on (trans)national ethnic and popular networks, combining historical-ethnographic and computational methods to understand the ‘workings’ of networked conflict interfering in the increasingly violent conflict in the Sahel (Africa) and beyond. The project focuses on…
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terpenoid indole alkaloids in Catharanthus roseus cell suspension cultures
Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Verpoorte, Co-Promotores: N.R. Mustafa, A.E. Schulte
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The Cinematic Santri : Youth Culture, Tradition and Technology in Muslim Indonesia
The Cinematic Santri explores the rise and course over the last ten years of cinematic practices among a younger generation of NU associates (Nahdlatul Ulama), the largest traditionalist Muslim group in Indonesia and elsewhere.
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Chris Flinterman
Faculty of Humanities
c.h.f.flinterman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6713
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Carmen van den Bergh
Faculty of Humanities
c.van.den.bergh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2067
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Svetlana Kharchenkova
Faculty of Humanities
s.s.kharchenkova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1180
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The Walking Dead at Saqqara. The Making of a Cultural Geography
The main case study of the project is the cultural geography of Saqqara, the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and its development.
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representation of post-nuclear landscapes in contemporary art and culture
How does contemporary art and culture represent nuclear contamination in post-nuclear landscapes?
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Language with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and their Culture
This 862-page monograph is a grammar of Thangmi, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the districts of Dolakha and Sindhupalcok in central-eastern Nepal.
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Visualizing the classics: Reading surimono and kyōka books as social and cultural history
D.P. Kok defended his thesis on 10 October 2017
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Building cultures of legality: lawmaking and anxiety in the office of the Governor General.
Building cultures of legality: lawmaking and anxiety in the office of the Governor General.
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hydrogels as synthetic extracellular matrices for three- dimensional cell culture
Synthetic hydrogels that mimic the natural extracellular matrix in the biophysical and biochemical cues it provides to cells are in high demand, however the cell phenotypes as they are observed in vivo in numerous cases have yet to be attained.
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Hybrid art in the former Dutch East Indies: the Iko ‘oeuvre’ as shared cultural heritage
This project involves research into the oeuvre of the Sundanese sculptor Iko, who has worked for the Catholic mission in Java and has carved sculptures for a chapel and church in Ganjuran. The images were designed by the Catholic layman Jos Schmutzer and are characterized by a fusion in style and symbolism…
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Knooppunt dagboek. Meertaligheid, discourstradities en de geschiedenis van het Nederlands
Inaugural lecture
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Rights of the Relational Self: Law, Culture, and Injury in the Global North and South
Although official law generally conceives of personal injury victims as individual rights holders, the actual experience of physical injury and its consequences is relational. Indeed, many researchers in the global North as well as the global South have contended that the very concept of the Self should…
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Being Muslim in Indonesia: Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima
Muhammad Adlin Sila examines the range of ways Bima Muslims constitute their Islamic identities and agencies through rituals and festivals. In response to their surroundings, what it means to be a Muslim is constantly being negotiated.
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Studies in Armenian Etymology with Special Emphasis on Dialects and Culture
This dissertation provides an up to date description of the Indo European lexical stock of Armenian (ca. 500 entries) with systematic inclusion of unused data that are found in Armenian dialects.
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Slaving Zones. Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery
In Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery, fourteen authors—including both world-leading and emerging historians of slavery—engage with the ‘Slaving Zones’ theory.
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Developing drawing skill: Exploring the role of parental support and cultural learning
Drawing is one of the most unique human behaviours. Like language, drawing is a mode of communication and a cognitive tool that from an early age allows us to interact with others. Is the early development of drawing skill influenced by the social environment? If so, how?
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'Using mediation in cultural conflicts'
Insults have a stronger effect on people from honour cultures because their honour is at stake. Escalations can be prevented if their sense of honour is left intact or if the perpetrator expresses sincere regret Leiden psychologist Said Shafa has found.
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development of best practice for, predictive modelling on behalf of Dutch Cultural Resource Management
Are predictive archaeological maps a reliable tool to play an important role in the spatial planning? One of the goals of this project was to develop best practices for the production and application of the models.
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A culture medium based approach to optimize the stratum corneum barrier of human skin equivalents
uman skin equivalents (HSEs) are in vitro 3D-skin models that mimic many aspects of the native human skin (NHS) and can be a valuable tool.
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The Modern Devotion. Spirituality and Culture from the Late Middle Ages onward
The Modern Devotion: pone of the most influential religious initiatives in the late medieval Low Countries.
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Comenius grant for more diverse ancient history: 'Especially in the first year of the bachelor, the impact of a project is great'
The History programme has been working for several years to make the curriculum more diverse and inclusive. With a Comenius grant, university lecturer Kim Beerden wants to take the next step.
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Esther Op de Beek
Faculty of Humanities
e.a.op.de.beek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4381
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Elmer Veldkamp
Faculty of Humanities
e.veldkamp@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7233
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Jan Abbink
Afrika-Studiecentrum
g.j.abbink@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727