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- Non-Liberal States and Global Governance
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Melanie Fink at round-table discussion on the foreign policy role of EU home affairs agencies
On 26 April 2017, Melanie Fink, PhD candidate at Leiden University and the University of Vienna, participated in a round-table discussion on ‘The “agencification” of EU foreign and defence policy: what role for the EU home affairs agencies abroad?’
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Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact
This research project focuses on the extended documentation and investigation of these non-Austronesian (‘Papuan’) languages.
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‘Our students are role models for young children in The Hague’
What better way is there for an alderman to find out where best to put his efforts than to pay a working visit to the university? Hilbert Bredemeijer, Alderman in The Hague for Education, Sport and the Outdoor Space, paid a visit to Campus The Hague on Wednesday 6 October 2021.
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Course Schedule
At the Lak you can participate in a large variety of artistic and creative courses taught by our professional teachers. We offer courses in the following categories: theater and presentation, dance, visual arts, music, photography and writing (literature). All staged art courses come to a close with…
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Biographies De La Radicalisation: Des Messages Cachés Du Changement Social
La radicalisation est devenue un mot désignant notre monde en couleurs négatives. Ce livre cherche à comprendre ce que c'est que la radicalisation au Sahel et aux Pays-Bas?
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Hydrogen dissociation on metal surfaces
Promotor: G. J. Kroes
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Shocks and failure in fragile matter
Vitelli
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Predictive Modelling for Archaeological Heritage Management
A research agenda
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Of War Clubs and Feather Cloaks
Investigating the relations between Tupi Indigenous Knowledge, Museum Collections and the Dutch Colonization of Brazil
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How Arabic influenced Berber, and the typology of contact-induced change
This project investigates the influence that Arabic (esp. dialectal Arabic) has had on the Berber languages of Northern Africa.
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VOILA (Validation of Innovative Lipopeptide Antibiotics)
Examining the therapeutic potential of new semisynthetic lipopeptide antibiotics
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Chemically Accurate Simulation of a Prototypical Surface Reaction: H-2 Dissociation on Cu(111)
Methods for accurately computing the interaction of molecules with metal surfaces are critical to understanding and thereby improving heterogeneous catalysis.
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Project 3: Traditions of Authority
One of the current research projects funded by the profile area Political Legitimacy is
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The Americas
At LUCL, researchers aim to understand, describe, and preserve the linguistic diversity of the indigenous Americas.
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Call for workshops and tutorials
We invite proposals for workshops and tutorials, to be held in Leiden on 01 July 2024 (deadline passed).
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The Tapuia of Northeastern Brazil in Dutch Sources (1628–1648)
This book presents the transcriptions and annotated translations of fifteen key historical documents concerning the Tapuia indigenous people written just before and during the Dutch occupation of northeastern Brazil.
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Summer School
Every year the Leiden Univeristy faculty of Humanitites organizes a linguistic summer school. This year Dr. Alessia Prioletta (Paris) will be teaching a class titled 'Non-Sabaic Ancient South Arabian languages'. The Summer school will be held from July 11 to July 22 at the faculty of Humanities of Leiden…
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The use of animal manure by prehistoric and early medieval farmers
Did early farmers deliberately use animal manure on their fields?
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Efficient and flexible platform to isolate and study bacteriophages
We aim to develop a microfluidic platform that can parallelize testing the performance and characteristics of pure, mixed and environmental bacteriophage samples.
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A grammar of Nchane: A Bantoid (Beboid) language of Cameroon
On the 30th of June, Richard L. Boutwell successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Richard on this achievement!
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From Gesture to Language
Like any language, the natural sign languages of deaf communities differ from each other in their grammars and lexicons. A growing number of studies indicates that sign languages make use of the gestures of hearing speakers to build linguistic structure. This implies that variation and similarities…
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Language and the human past
At LUCL, researchers aim to contribute to a comprehensive and informed perspective on the human past.
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DigiDogon: Digitizing Dogon heritage. The legacy of Abirè, the Dogon prophet
This project aims at recording and safeguarding parts of the intangible cultural heritage of the Dogon in central Mali. A major song cycle, the baja ni, forms an integral part of Dogon funeral traditions. The song cycle is attributed to Abirè, a blind Dogon poet/prophet, probably from the 19th c., who…
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Tell Sabi Abyad – The Late Neolithic Settlement
Report on the Excavations of the University of Amsterdam (1988) and the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden (1991-1993) in Syria.
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Conquering the fortress: New strategies for the treatment of tuberculosis
Can we exploit the cell death machinery of the host to develop new host-directed anti-TB treatments?
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Coherent dynamics in solar energy transduction
Promotor: Huub de Groot, Co-promotor: Francesco Buda
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Chemistry & Chemical Biology approaches toward novel cyclic peptide antibiotics
Can cyclic peptides provide a new generation of antibiotics?
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Enargeia, Living Presence and Persuasion in Roman Rhetoric, Literature, Visual Art and Theatre
Subproject of
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On Multifield Inflation, Adiabaticity and the Speed of Sound of the Curvature Perturbations
Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: G.A. Palma
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The Articulation of a 'New Neolithic'
The meaning of the Swifterbant Culture for the process of neolithisation in the western part of the North European Plain (4900-3400 BC)
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Rule of Law and Development
On 18 May 2011, Dr. Ben Knapen, Minister for European Affairs and International Cooperation, delivered the annual Van Vollenhoven Lecture on “Rule of Law and Development”.
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Morphology
Morphology is the grammar of words. Morphologists study how words are built and what principles govern their form and their function.
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Microbial hitchhiking
How do nonmotile microbes leverage communal motility?
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Impacts of grassland wildfire on invertebrate species
Does a mid-season fire impact invertebrate populations?
- Writing research grant proposals
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Scholarly Personae in the History of Orientalism, 1870-1930
This volume examines how the history of the humanities might be written through the prism of scholarly personae, understood as time- and place-specific models of being a scholar.
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- Human Rights and Climate Change
- Gendering Algorithms for AI Governance
- Transformations in global climate finance
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Research
Research at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) focuses on linguistic variation and diversity. In order to create more awareness and scientific understanding of this topic, research activities are clustered around six (overlapping) umbrella programmes. Many of our researchers are active…
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Theoretical Linguistics
Theoretical linguistics seeks to understand the underlying principles of the nature of human language.
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Language Diversity
Language offers new insights into our history, cultural differences, migration, and the way in which our brain processes information. This knowledge can in turn help us understand what it means to be human, as well as opening the way to many practical applications. In order to realise these goals, linguists…
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Delta-Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Global distribution patterns of distinct mycorrhizal types and ecological drivers of these patterns
What are the global relationships between environmental conditions and abundance of distinct types of mycorrhizal fungi in soil and plant roots?
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Workshop Exploring the Role of Hype in the Future of Quantum Technology
Telling sensationalised stories, exaggerating benefits and understating the risks: creating ‘hype’ about something doesn't sound like something a responsible scientist would indulge in. Or could we also use hype in a ‘good way'? What could we achieve by opening up quantum futures for wider discussions,…
- Mass Atrocity Responses and Public Opinion
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Performing the Sublime. Theatre & Politics in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
The project will clarify that in the search for these new means the treatise On the sublime of ps.-Longinus played a crucial role. However, the project will also place the theatre performances in a broader social and political perspective. These public events and the theatre performances suggest that…
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Sex and gender analysis needs a more prominent role in research
Researchers, policymakers and funders have to take more account of the effect of sex and gender in scientific research. This is the view presented in an advice paper published by LERU, the League of European Research Universities. The lead author is Vice-Rector Simone Buitendijk.