1,236 search results for “digital society” in the Public website
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Linda Louis
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
l.b.louis@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8838
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Alex Ingrams
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.r.ingrams@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9901
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Rüya Akdag
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
r.akdag@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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More laws, more problems? The role of (Roman) law in society according to Cornelius Tacitus
Whether implicitly or explicitly, we all have ideas about how the law is supposed to function, whose interests it should represent, and what role it should play in society. This project explores the ways in which these questions are addressed in the works of the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus…
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Learner–learner interaction in digital learning environments: what and how are we measuring?
Galikyan’s dissertation examines how the multidimensionality of learnerlearner interaction data and the multifacetedness of learner-learner interaction itself impact the measurement of learner-learner interaction in digital learning environments.
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Emergence of rebellious digital press in Chile: Divergence, engagement and impact. Journal of Communication
A new publication on changes in the relationship between news and their public in Chile
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Late Ceramic Age Societies in the Eastern Caribbean
Introduction
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Staying healthy with big data
By analysing the metabolism using big data techniques, we can identify health risks at an earlier stage. Thomas Hankemeier, professor of Analytical Biosciences at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, explains how that works.
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Synagogue: Self-Perceptions of Jewish Identity in a Modern Canadian Society
Noah Millman defended his thesis on 26 May 2015
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Foreign intelligence in the digital age. Navigating a state of 'unpeace'.
The Hague Program for Cyber Norms, a research program at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, published its first policy brief, in which Dennis Broeders, Sergei Boeke and Ilina Georgieva explore the role of intelligence agencies in cyberspace and the (im)possibilities of oversight and regulation…
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A new Digital Lab@Veth!
The Digital Lab is open! This new lab is meant for staff and students who are looking for a place to work, experiment, and find support for their digital research. There’ll be a kickoff event, with live digital demos and a roundtable on “the Humanities in a Digital World” on Friday October 29 in the…
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KNOWMAK – Knowledge in the making in the European society
KNOWMAK project aims at developing a web-based tool, which provides interactive visualisations and state-of-the-art indicators on knowledge co-creation in the European Research Area (ERA).
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Child Sexual Abuse in the Digital Era: Rethinking Legal Frameworks and Transnational Law Enforcement Collaboration
On 11 June 2020, Sabine Witting defended her thesis 'Child Sexual Abuse in the Digital Era: Rethinking Legal Frameworks and Transnational Law Enforcement Collaboration'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen and Prof. S. van der Hof.
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Zane Kripe
Science
z.kripe@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Stefan Landsberger
Faculty of Humanities
s.r.landsberger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Profile 4. Monasteries and society in the Northern Netherlands
Since my master's thesis on the landed property of the Frisian monasteries in the Middle Ages I am highly interested in the do ut des-aspects of the relation between religious houses and the lay world. Key words here are: property, power, patronage and the role of religious institutions in the 'salvation…
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Tax and Society: Building a Sustainable and Fair Tax System
Tax scandals, like the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, and the Pandora Papers, have made taxation a major topic of public debate. Learn more about this in the new minor Tax and Society: Building a Sustainable and Fair Tax System.
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sustainability & circularity-based decision support systems (industrial digital twins)
Science, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)
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(Re)positioning Modern Concert Music in Contemporary Society
For several years, contemporary composed music has been critiqued among others by funds, sponsors, and festival organizers for having lost contact with their audiences. This music has increasingly become a pursuit of a privileged, well-situated, and higher educated public, and is most often confined…
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(Re)Imagining Port Cities: Understanding Space, Society and Culture
Port cities develop at the intersection of international trade and commerce and at the interface between sea and land. What does the future of port cities look like with urbanization, sea level rise, new migrant flows and the disappearance of old industries? This is addressed in the minor (Re)Imagining…
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Nina van der Knaap
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
n.van.der.knaap@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Deep Hanging Out in the Age of the Digital; Contemporary Ways of Doing Online and Offline Ethnography
A brief review essay on some of the work that has been recently published in the emergent field of digital ethnography.
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Exploring Early Medieval English Eloquence: A Digital Humanities Approach with A Thesaurus of Old English and Evoke
This special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik (Brill, 2021) brings together articles that explore new digital ways of analyzing and annotating Old English vocabulary.
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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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Digital tools for sign language research: towards recognition and comparison of lexical signs
On the 9th of April, Manolis Fragkiadakis successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Manolis on this achievement!
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Hoko Horii
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
h.horii@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7260
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MOOC: The Importance and Power of Music in our Society
Online cursus The Importance and Power of Music in our Society
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Vacancies: 2 PhD positions in Digital Archaeology
The Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University is a partner in the new university-wide Data Science research programme that advocates the use of data science in various fields of research.
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A treasure trove of legal data
Data science offers great opportunities for legal research, according to Simone van der Hof and Bart Custers (eLaw). But at the same time, we have to keep an eye on the unwanted side effects of big data - such as ethnic profiling.
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Culture, History and Society (BA Major of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges)
Today, globalization makes us all aware of how closely we are connected to, and often dependent upon, the actions of people who are distant from us. Human migration and economic liberalization have confronted local communities with changes happening on a global level. How can we devise ways to share…
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The World of the Fullo. Work, Economy, and Society in Roman Italy
The World of the Fullo takes a detailed look at the fullers, craftsmen who dealt with high-quality garments, of Roman Italy. Analyzing the social and economic worlds in which the fullers lived and worked, it tells the story of their economic circumstances, the way they organized their workshops, the…
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Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945: "Aliens in Uniform" in Wartime Societies
Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945:
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Hagar Taha
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
h.a.m.taha@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Anke Klein
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.m.klein@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6673
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Michiel Westenberg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
westenberg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3628
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Diederik Meijer
Faculteit Archeologie
d.j.w.meijer@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2444
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Mapping Historical Leiden: A Dynamic and Digital Atlas (Phase 1 & 2)
The map application includes information from old and new buildings archaeological projects. This makes it possible to investigate whether water facilities (wells, cisterns) and waste facilities (cesspits, sewers) were the privilege of Leiden’s wealthy elite in the late 16th and 17th centuries or whether…
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Data Science in Digital Health in Uganda
On 27 February, 2019, Kampala International University (KIU) was the venue of the conference ‘Digital Health and Development in Data Science in Uganda’. Professor Mirjam van Reisen from the Leiden Centre of Data Science was one of the main speakers.
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Spirited narratives of purpose and progress: church-society engagement alongside the (Company-) state
Spirited narratives of purpose and progress: church-society engagement alongside the (Company-) state
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Discrimination and Privacy in the Information Society; Data Mining and Profiling in Large Databases
Latest technological developments in data mining and profiling.
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State, Society and Labour: A Social History of Iranian Textile workers, 1906-1941
This research investigates everyday lives and workplace experiences of Iranian workers employed at textile industry, which was the second biggest industry after oil following the latter’s discovery in 1908.
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Working visit by Minister Van Engelshoven focuses on digitisation of education
How does online learning strengthen the quality of higher education and what are the barriers to implementing this more broadly? Minister of Education Ingrid van Engelshoven talked about this issue with pioneering lecturers and students from Leiden University, Erasmus University and Delft University…
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Marcus Specht joins PERL as Professor of Digital Education
Marcus Specht, director of the LDE Center of Education and Learning, has been appointed as Professor of Digital Education since November 15. He has joint appointments at the three LDE universities. In Leiden he will join Felienne Hermans in the Programming Education Research Lab (PERL).
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Joost Grootens
Faculty of Humanities
j.grootens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Irene Vikatou
Faculteit Archeologie
e.vikatou@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Marlon Kruizinga
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.v.kruizinga@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Anastasia Nikulina
Faculteit Archeologie
a.nikulina@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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First SAILS Symposium 'The future of AI is human': a photo impression
On October 14, the first symposium of the university-wide initiative SAILS took place. Scientists from Leiden University and other Dutch universities came together to share their enthusiasm and expertise in the field of Artificial Intelligence in a festive symposium, in the atmospheric Museum of Eth…
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Call for papers: Digital Disruption in Asia: Methods and Issues
How do digital technologies affect both Asian societies and the methods we use to study them? Conference in Leiden on 23-25 May 2016. Deadline abstract submission: 15 February 2016.
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The Relationship between State and Religion in a Changing Dutch Society
In recent decades, the Netherlands’ struggle with multiculturalism has caused an upsurge in public interest in the relationship between state and religion. In this, the Dutch address a subject relevant not just to them, but to all of Europe.