2,388 search results for “cultural history” in the Public website
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French Language and Culture (BA)
France isn't just a country of great writers, thinkers and the well known 'savoir-vivre', economically it is also of great importance to the Netherlands and the rest of the world. Study the French language and culture and acquire skills that provide great opportunities for an international career!
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The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South - INVISIHIST
The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…
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MENA Cultures and Global Aesthetics
Aesthetic formations and cultural repertoires give meaning to our reality in ways that are never neutral. Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and its global interlocutors, this project brings together a team of scholars from Leiden University who bring in inter-disciplinary, inter-area…
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Italian Literature and Culture (MA)
This MA programme offers an excellent qualification in Italian literature and culture on an advanced level through lectures and seminars led by specialists in the field.
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French Literature and Culture (MA)
Develop your knowledge of French and Francophone literary works and genres with the Master’s programme in French Literature and Culture at Leiden University.
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
e.p.m.zwinkels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
w.h.willems@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 6 5374 5961
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Christine Mertens
Faculty of Humanities
c.m.m.mertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Bianca Angelien Claveria
Faculty of Humanities
b.a.claveria@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4165
- History of Diplomacy
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MENA Cultures and Global Aesthetics
Aesthetic formations and cultural repertoires give meaning to our reality in ways that are never neutral. Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and its global interlocutors, this project brings together a team of scholars from Leiden University who bring in inter-disciplinary, inter-area…
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English Literature and Culture (MA)
The one-year, English-taught master's programme in English Literature and Culture focuses on the interaction between literature and key political and social issues such as identity, migration, memory and the metropolis, but also between literature and the literary tradition, and literature and film.
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Culture and Society in Morocco
Do you want to do your minor in Morocco? Then choose the minor Culture and Society in Morocco! You'll about Moroccan culture, society and languages, and a solid training in ethnographic research methods.
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Italian Language and Culture (BA)
Ti amo Italia! Immerse yourself in the country of Michelangelo, Dante and Prada. Study one of the most popular languages in the world and discover why Italy has filled an exemplary role for so many centuries and still does. As a graduate of the Bachelor's programme Italian Language and Culture you will…
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About this minor
Cultural Anthropology Development Sociology explores how people assign significance to different aspects of their lives and with one another.
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Nichiran kankei-shi o yomitoku [Revisiting the History of Dutch-Japanese Relations]
Nichiran kankei-shi o yomitoku [Revisiting the History of Dutch-Japanese Relations] is a new, two-volume Japanese publication with a chapter written by Wulan Remmelink. Both volumes offer a new look on the historical relations between Japan and The Netherlands during the Edo period by examining various…
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Vulnerability and the associated levels of social resilience is what fascinates the researchers at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. What links a Japanese fisherman after the tsunami at Fukushima with a Ghanaian goldminer in an increasingly industrialised work environment?…
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Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities
a.t.gerritsen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4692
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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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Savage Masks: Specters of Native Americans and the Revisiting of History
How to related figures of savages to conceptions of history?
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World Cultural Council Awards 2017
The World Cultural Council (WCC) and Leiden University are pleased to announce that the 34th Award Ceremony will take place on Wednesday 8 November 2017 in Leiden. This year Professor Omar M. Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, USA,…
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Aesopian Fables 1500-2010: Word, Image, Education
This project aims to study the Aesopian fable from 1500 to the present day in its complex relationship between text, illustration and education, adopting a broad, transnational perspective.
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Law, Culture and Development
Law is of major importance for socio-economic development. Ideally, law organizes human interaction in a way that promotes justice and legal certainty and protects vulnerable groups from exploitation and arbitrariness.
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International Relations: Culture and Politics
Are you thinking about studying International Relations: Culture and Politics? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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The social history of labor in the Iranian oil industry (1908-1954)
This PhD research sets out to unravel and explain the socio-structural and cultural impacts of oil-industrialization on the local Bakhtiari community in general and the industrial laborers it provided in specific.
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Museums, Heritage and Material Culture
Research on the global field of museums, heritage, commemoration, consumption and material culture
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
We are very happy to welcome you to spend a semester or year studying with us at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/Development Sociology (CA-DS). Here you will find practical information on studying CA-DS in Leiden as an exchange student.
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology is a social science. Anthropologists investigate the ways in which people give meaning to different aspects of their life and the way they interact with each other.
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Ivo Smits
Faculty of Humanities
i.b.smits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2545
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
h.w.van.den.doel@bb.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2922
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Alp Yenen
Faculty of Humanities
a.a.yenen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2943
- Language and Culture Education: German
- Language and Culture Education: English
- Language and Culture Education: Dutch
- Language and Culture Education: French
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History: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Are you thinking about studying Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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Mapping the Ocean: Georeferencing Maritime History
Maps play a crucial role in our view of the past, yet few historians are sufficiently skilled in cartography to genuinely integrate maps into their research. This project breaks down the long-standing barriers between history and cartography by inviting emerging scholars (ResMA) to reflect on maps as…
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Culturally responsive teaching in Dutch multicultural secondary schools
Unraveling culturally responsive attitudes, noticing skills, knowledge and reasoned practices of expert teachers.
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Renewing the cultural identity of Canadian Indians
The artefacts that still remain from the traditional culture of the indigenous Yukon, Canada, are spread over dozens of museums throughout the world. Yukon Indian Ukjese van Kampen carried out research to bring this culture to light. This is the subject of his dissertation entitled ‘The history of Yukon…
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The evolution and plasticity of life histories upon variation in nutrition: on aging focused integrative approach
Promotores: Prof.dr. P.M. Brakefield, Prof.dr. B.J. Zwaan (Wageningen Universiteit)
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The cultural turn in intelligence studies
This article explores an emerging “cultural turn” in intelligence studies, which, if fully realized, could entail the expansion of the discipline to include new methodologies and theories, and a more integrative understanding of historical causality that locates intelligence agencies within the widersocio-cultural…
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Dutch Language, Culture and Society (MA)
In the master’s programme in Dutch Language, Culture and Society at Leiden University you will study the language and culture of the Netherlands from the Dutch Golden Age – the time of Rembrandt and Vondel – until today’s dynamic and muliticultural society.
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Manon van der Heijden
Faculty of Humanities
m.p.c.van.der.heijden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2670
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English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes
The second major collection of papers from the Bridging the Unbridgeable project.
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Book: Sonic Modernities in the Malay World, A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s)
Sonic Modernities situates Southeast Asian popular music in specific socio-historical settings, hoping that a focus on popular culture and history may shed light on how some people in a particular part of the world have been witnessing the emergence of all things modern.
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Assessing the Impacts Of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage in The Netherlands
This project aims to identify, quantify and map the exposure of Dutch national monuments to four climate change effects: flooding, waterlogging, drought and heat.
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information activities MSc Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
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The history of the possessions of the “Teutonic House” and the bailiwick of Utrecht, 1231-1619
The acquisition and administration of the possessions of the “Teutonic House” in Utrecht, and its dependencies, in the Middle Ages until c.1600.
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The Dark Middle Ages: Language of Vice in Histories of Science, 1700-1900
In comparing a selection of 18th-century histories to a representative sample of 19th-century histories of science, this project inquires: Which early modern vices persisted into the 19th century and to what extent were those vices embodied in anecdotes, conveyed through commonplaces, or symbolically…
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Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present (MA)
In the master’s programme 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 national politics and identities in Europe are conceived.