1,081 search results for “agency” in the Public website
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Human Mobility in Archaeology
This third issue of Ex Novo gathers multidisciplinary contributions addressing mobility to understand patterns of change and continuity in past worlds; reconsider the movement of people, objects, and ideas alongside mobile epistemologies, such as intellectual, scholarly or educative traditions, rituals,…
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Hunting for the fastest stars in the Milky Way
The high velocity tail of the total velocity distribution of stars provides essential insight into fundamental properties of the Galaxy.
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Austria Centers Worldwide
Leiden is part of the worldwide network of research centres dedicated to the research of Austrian Studies.
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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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Reasons and Intentions
There are a number of problems in philosophy that seem to share a similar possible solution: 'Why do promises and contracts bind?', 'Why ought citizens and judges obey the law?' and 'Can we realize the gains to be made from cooperation?'. All three problems (as well as some others) share a possible…
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Study of utilization of combined hormonal contraceptives in Europe
Combined hormonal contraceptives (CHC) are associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). In 2013, a review was published by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). In this review, the authors concluded that the risk of VTE varies by the type of progesterone in the CHC. Subsequently,…
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Language policy and practices in the Global North and South: Challenges, opportunities and future directions
A thorough description of the relationships among languages and their social environment in a given context, reflecting an ecological perspective, involves attention to the agency of local actors, and the policies, discourse, and ideologies that surround them.
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Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild: Encounters in the Arts and Contemporary Politics
Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild responds to a contemporary political climate in which historically invested figures of otherness—barbarians, savages, monsters—have become common discursive currency.
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The (pre)historic distribution and habitat of the elk in the Netherlands
The project aims to explore Eurasian elk's role in the ecosystems of the past and its relationship with humans through analysis of its distribution and habitat in the Netherlands.
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Claiming crisis: narratives of tension and insurance in rural India
This article discusses local expressions of crisis in Beed district, central Maharashtra. Both in public and academic discourse crisis has become the term of choice for the many structural deficiencies which make agriculture an increasingly precarious livelihood in India. While most voices subscribe…
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Precarious State of a Double Agent during the Cold War
In this article, Ben de Jong, research fellow at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, examines the relationship between double agents and their handlers.
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When do bureaucrats respond to external demands?
This article examines to what extent bureaucratic responsiveness depends upon the source, the content and the salience.
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On colonial grounds
A comparative study of colonialism and rural settlement in first millennium BC west central Sardinia
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Restatement of Labour Law in Europe
This book is part of a series which sets out a restatement of labour law in Europe. Its second volume looks at atypical employment relationships in Europe.
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Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies: Private Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884–1914)
Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. It highlights the experiences and perceptions of colonisers and how they portrayed and re-interpreted their identities in Afric…
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Beyond Departure: The Greeks in Egypt, 1962-1976
On 16 November 2022 ms. Eftychia Mylona successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Kin Enough, article by Irene Moretti in Social Analysis
Irene Moretti published the article Kin Enough in Social Analysis, The International Journal of Anthropology.
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Material Culture Studies
Material Culture Studies revolves around the analysis of the cultural biographies of all sorts of material objects from flint axes, to pottery, to houses and monumental structures.
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Eurasian Encounters: Museums, Missions, Modernities
This book explores the intellectual and cultural flows between Asia and Europe which occurred during – and were formative of – the political and social changes of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Handbook on European law relating to the rights of the child
The drafting of a handbook that serves as the first guide to European law in the area of children's rights, taking into account the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), as well as the decisions of the European Committee of Social Rights…
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About
The Centre for Indigenous America Studies (CIAS) at Leiden University is designed to coordinate and promote the teaching and research of Indigenous languages, literatures, cultures and cultural heritage. Our aim is to contribute to an increased acknowledgement, recognition and understanding of Indigenous…
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Unpacking the effects of burdensome state actions on citizens' policy perceptions
In this article, Martin Sievert and Jonas Bruder investigated whether and how administrative burdens influences citizens' perceptions of welfare policies and attitudes towards beneficiaries.
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European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948
This open access book investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine during the British Mandate (1918-1948) through the lens of the birth of cultural diplomacy.
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Pride, Prejudice and Manchurian Heritage: North Korean Migrants and Memories of a Land Left Behind
Christopher Green defended his thesis on 26 February 2020
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ERC Funding
The project ‘Food citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities: solidarity and diversity, skills and scale’ has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 724151).
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Narrative reflective self-understanding: the corporeal
This PhD project analyses the politics and aesthetics of depictions of torture in American and European ‘war on terror’ films.
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Biomimetic Copper Catalysts for the Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Human civilization consumes a huge amount of fossil fuels, which has resulted in an atmospheric CO2 level which has not been higher in over 800 millennia.
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The conspiracy of subjectivity: myth and materiality in twenty rst century ballet practice
This research project problematizes the applicability of ballet within a contemporary choreographic practice.
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Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia
Does foreign aid promote human rights?
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The Netherlands Institute in Morocco (NIMAR) is a Leiden University institute. It is financed by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan: Land, Courts and the Plurality of Practices
Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan analyses the hybridity of law systems and the plurality of legal practices in rural and urban contexts of contemporary Sudan, shedding light on the complex relation between Islam and society.
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UNravelling the socioeconomic and environmental Impacts of Circularity in Latin America (UNICA)
A MSCA Global Fellowship that aims to explore the socioeconomic and environmental implications of a Latin America circularity transition, and its impact on the EU and global economy.
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Language courses
The Academic Language Centre organises language courses for companies, government agencies, private clients, and students and staff members of Leiden University.
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Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600–1914
Bringing together the most current research on the relationship between crime and gender in the West between 1600 and 1914, this authoritative volume places female criminality within its everyday context.
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Taking Place: Parrhesiastic Theater as a model for artistic practice
This research project adresses the question how local and traditional European forms of parrhesiastic theater— events, actions, and performances staged by characters who courageously speak their minds through scenes of excess and laughter, that take place in public view and incite the spectator’s agency…
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The Polyphonic Touch Coarticulation and polyphonic expression in the performance of piano and organ music
Performances of solo keyboard repertoire can sound more or less polyphonic depending on the performer’s use of divergence in expression.
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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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Research internships
Within the Sociology of Policy in Practice specialisation you will develop a research project on prevailing policy problems.
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Moving statues
The agency and impact of Greek statuary in the city of Rome
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Bart Custers discusses fake news on facial recognition at Jumbo
Misleading social media posts are falsely claiming that the Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo uses facial recognition at self-service checkouts. Jumbo denies this, although it has launched trials with AI cameras to combat shoplifting without using facial recognition.
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Localising global garment biographies
Discover the effects of clothing value and lifespan on buyer-user-producer relationships through collaborative research with Localising Global Garment Biographies.
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Painting and Response in Sixteenth-Century Venice
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Precarize and divide
Stella Morgana defended her thesis on 31 March 2021
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International development finance: challenges and opportunities
Don Scott De Amicis will give the sixth Hazelhoff Guest Lecture on international development finance: challenges and opportunities.
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AI-MAPS
AI MAPS adopts a freedom and social well-being perspective and focuses on three themes to address key security challenges; Social disorder and public nuisances in neighbourhoods, High-impact crime, and Crowds and events.
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Global Interactions
How does global change across time and space lead to convergence and loss of variation or increasing diversity and conflict?