580 search results for “visual culture” in the Student website
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Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation'
Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.
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Comenius teaching grants for four Leiden lecturers
Four lecturers from Leiden University will receive a 50,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellow grant. This will enable them and their team to realise an educational innovation within their own teaching.
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When you know how your brain works, you better understand who you are
On Sept. 29, Lara Wierenga, together with graphic designer Dirma Janse, presented their new book Atlas of our Brain. In the presence of fellow scientists and other interested parties, they shared some of the stunning illustrations and mind-boggling facts that can be found in the book.
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Yorum Beekman: ‘I didn’t want to write about people, I wanted to give them a voice’
As a woman, working in Japan and Korea can be pretty tough, Yorum Beekman discovered. It prompted her to pursue a PhD on the subject: ‘I thought: hey, that’s interesting!’
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It is not easy to simplify your research
Defending your PhD research in front of nearly 300 elementary school students: that was the challenge faced by PhD candidates Jo-Anne Verschoor and Marinka de Willigen during the VUURVLIEGEN competition organised by the Centrum JongerenCommunicatie Chemie (C3). After an exciting competition, the children…
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Open-L grant for research on environment as heritage in the Himalayas
How can initiatives aimed at environmental conservation and climate change mitigation in the eastern Himalayas proceed from the cultural expectations of its indigenous ethno-linguistic minorities? Enabled by an NWO Open L grant, the research project 'Futuring Heritage: Conservation, Community and Contestation…
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Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’
In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…
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Dutch astronomers observe giant jets emanating from black hole
An international team of astronomers led by Dutch scientist Martijn Oei has discovered the largest pair of jets from a black hole ever seen. The 'jumbojets' extend a combined length of 140 Milky Ways. The Leiden Observatory played a prominent role in this research. The publication will feature on the…
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ReCNTR Making Workshop: Displacing the Ethnographic Eye
Course
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Mapping Dialect Data – Introduction to QGIS
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Ñii Ñu’u - Sacred Skin
Film screening and Q&A
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Sufis in Afghanistan: Contemporary Navigations of Religious Authority across Political Changes
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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For Posterity
Conference
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Plato's Myths: Tools for Thinking Conference
Conference
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Artist Writings - 'Dear Artwork'
Lecture
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Scales of Luminosity
Lecture, Walks and Talks
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Colonial Korean Print Shops through Computer Vision
Lecture
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Boeklancering 'Atlas van ons Brein' van Lara Wierenga
Boekpresentatie
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: From Pixel to Caesar: Using Atlas.ti to discover the past in early digital games
Lecture
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Gaza: Humanitarian and Political Challenges
Lecture
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An Introduction to Digital Humanities: Methods, Tools, & Projects in Pre/Early Modern Japan Studies
Lecture
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ACPA appoints new academic director
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) recently appointed a new academic director. Erik Viskil is taking over from Henk Borgdorff, who held the post for the past four years. What has been achieved in those years? And what does ACPA’s future look like? In this double interview we discuss…
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‘We moeten diversiteit minder vieren, het moet vanzelfsprekend zijn’
Op welke manieren kan inclusieve communicatie ervoor zorgen dat mensen zich welkom voelen? Hierover ging het D&I-symposium van Universiteit Leiden.
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Experts on the war in Ukraine, two years later: ‘Europe learned a lot from the war, help each other and don’t give up’
The one-day symposium ‘War in Europe: the impact of Russian aggression in Ukraine two years on’ on 23 February 2024
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Paul Wouters reappointed as Dean of FSW
Paul Wouters has been reappointed as Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. His second term runs from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023.
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Personal Professional Skills Lab: a certificate for the development of FSW bachelor students
In line with the university and faculty ambition: ‘Future-oriented development of students’, from now on all FSW bachelor students can follow a three-year elective, faculty programme with certificate for personal-professional development, the programme starts with current first-year students; they are…
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Painting animals; make a painting of your favorite animal
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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'Possible Titles - No Wrong Answers'
Lecture, Workshop on zine-making
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FOOD CITIZENS? Conference 4th FEBRUARY 2022
Conference
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Farewell lecture Metje Postma
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-history
Lecture
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Anthropology + Manifesto Workshop
Course, Workshop
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Concert and book launch "The Oud: An Illustrated History"
Arts and culture
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Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
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Modern dance basics
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Modern Dance - Improvisation, Composition, Performance
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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ReCNTR Launch
Festival
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Portrait/Figure drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
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Neutrino: Documentary & Q&A with the directors
Studium Generale
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Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou
Lecture, Research Seminar
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (5)
Workshop Series
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Chinese calligraphy for everybody
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Chinese calligraphy: Chinese New Year special
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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SAILS
Lecture
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LIBC Colloquium
Lecture
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Chinese Calligraphy for everybody
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Material Legacies: The Post-Genocide Family Trees in Armenia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture