2,821 search results for “politics in the united states” in the Public website
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'In an ideal world we would recycle everything'
Merijn Tinga hit the headlines in 2016 as the Plastic Soup Surfer. In force six winds, the Leiden biologist ventured across the English Channel on a hydrofoil kiteboard made from plastic bottles. Interview with this Leiden artist who is fighting the mountain of plastic waste and finding his feet as…
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Anoma van der Veere did Japanese Studies at Leiden University
Alumnus Anoma van der Veere did Japanese studies and talks in this interview about his studies in Leiden and his work as a researcher at the Leiden Asia Centre and as Japanese correspondent in Tokyo.
- International conference: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators and the Practice of Compiling
- Seminar 4: The Formation of Discourse Communities in the Early Middle Ages
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Interaction in language, language in interaction - Some exercises in the philosophy of linguistics
Lecture, Interactionality seminars
- Where is the Caribbean in the Dutch WPS National Action Plan?
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Towards a community-based heritage in the Caribbean: Challenges and practices
Symposium
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Colloquium: Plasma Chemistry to aid the Energy and Materials Transition in the Process Industry
Lecture
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Student in war time
Jacques Waisvisz (98) is one of our oldest living alumni. As a Jewish student in the Second World War, he was forbidden from completing his studies. How does he look back at that time, and what was life like afterwards? ‘No one thought that the situation here would become so bad.’
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Digging Deep in the Galilee: 10 Years of Excavations on a Hill with a View
Lecture
- Regional Approach to Financial Statecraft: Japan and India in the Face of Rising China
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ELS lab meeting – Letter experiments to measure compliance in the financial sector by Sarwesh Iswardat
Lecture
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Patterns of language contact in the Tarim Basin in Northwest China
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
- GTGC lunch seminar: Nina Hall on Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era
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FRESH lecture: Applications of "dual" Metallaphotoredox Catalysis in the Synthesis of Quaternary Carbons
Lecture
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LLRC conference: Critical, ethical, and practical use of AI in the language classroom: opportunities and risks
Conference
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SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop
Lecture
- Research skeletons in the closet? Dig them out and improve science
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Global Fishing in the North Atlantic: Archaeological research on Basque fisheries in Canada and Ireland
Conference
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OSCoffee: Doing Open Science in the Humanities: From Public Discourse to Qualitative Data
Lecture
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Alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra: a speaker with a background in neuroscience
Her plan was to obtain a PhD, but, during her master’s, alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra discovered that her true interest lay in applying neuroscience in everyday life.
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Alumni in Indonesia: ‘My experience in Leiden inspired me to try to change the situation here’
Alumni and researchers met at two well-attended alumni dinners in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. The alumni reminisced about their time in Leiden and got to see their lecturers once again.
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Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade coordinators of national centre for science communication
Minister Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science) has appointed Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade as coordinators of a new national centre for science communication. The centre will foster a dialogue between researches and society and will gather and share expertise to make science communication more…
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Research & Funding Opportunities
AMT’s mission includes encouraging innovative high-quality research in Leiden on Asia. On this page you will find an overview of AMT related research projects, grant possibilities, publications and vacancies.
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Publications
Recent publications
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War, peace and commerce in the ancient Tarim Basin: investigating language contact between Khotanese and Tocharian
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Pronunciation variation in the Buckeye corpus: modelling the impact of age and gender
Lecture, Sociolinguistics Series
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How teaching inclusively changes the perspective and dynamics in the classroom
Lecture
- OSCoffee: Doing Open Science in the Humanities: From Public Discourse to Qualitative Data
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Rob Tijdeman appointed Knight
On August 29th Rob Tijdeman held his valedictory lecture in a full house Academy Building as a professor in Number Theory, entitled 'My life as a mathematician'. After his lecture he was appointed, in name of the Queen, Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion by the maior of Leiderdorp.
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Risk factors and long-term consequences for venous thrombosis in the elderly
PhD defence
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The T cell-myeloid axis in the success and failure of cancer immunotherapy
PhD defence
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Evaluating abdominal aortic aneurysm and carotid artery surgery in the Netherlands
PhD defence
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Identification and characterization of novel factors in the DNA damage response
PhD defence
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Bridging the gap, Pelvic floor physical therapy in the treatment of chronic anal fissure
PhD defence
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Let’s tango! professionals lived experience in the transformation of mental health services
PhD defence
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Multimodal Data and Machine Learning in the Study of Psychiatric Disorders
PhD defence
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Blood flow dynamics in the total cavopulmonary connection long-term after Fontan completion
PhD defence
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SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop
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Ethical dilemmas & decision-making in the healthcare for transgender minors
PhD defence
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Triage of stroke patients in the chain of acute stroke care
PhD defence
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Legal knowledge as a tool to improve human rights
Alumna Nadeshda Jayakody (25) from Australia graduated cum laude in Human Rights Law. What did she learn in Leiden that has been most useful? ‘I had to pretend that I already worked for an NGO.’
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The impact of the French wh-in-situ option in the acquisition of L2 English questions: An analysis of transfer
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Language use and language attitudes among Ukrainian refugees in the Netherlands
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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EUniWell Open Lecture Series: The role of science communication in the medical field
Lecture, Part of Open Lecture Series
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Small Grants Past Research Projects
The LUCDH foster the development of new digital research by awarding a number of Small Grants each year. These are our past awardees.
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Maternal mortality and morbidity in the Netherlands and their association with obstetric interventions
PhD defence
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Insight in the role of lipids and other systemic factors in hand and knee osteoarthritis
PhD defence
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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’
Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, one of the four museums of the University of Oxford.
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cell-derived cardiomyocytes to understand genetic variant pathogenicity in the ion channelopathy LQT2
PhD defence