2,000 search results for “talen en culture van de world” in the Staff website
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience
A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge clip, speaking to a wide audience about Italian cultural expressions. We asked Goran Bouaziz, Cameron-May Bosch and Katja Timmer what they thought of…
- Unification of the Mediterranean World Research Seminars 2023-2024
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Boardgames and graphic animations: creative ways to present academic information
For an assignment for the course Medical Anthropology, students were asked to choose a theme related to the Covid-19 pandemic, find information and present their work in a creative way. The results are impressive.
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Meet Dr. Jonathan Stökl, LJSA Member
Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Stökl was Reader in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at Kings College London.
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Polish Holocaust researchers accused of defamation will give Cleveringa Lecture
On 26 November historian Jan Grabowski and sociologist Barbara Engelking will both give the Cleveringa Lecture. They wrote a book about the Holocaust in Poland and were taken to court for defamation.
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar Jan van Rijn
Lecture
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Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation
How do we account for historical power dynamics when writing new histories of slavery and emancipation? What critical methods can we employ when studying preserved archives and collections? A new book series aims to address these questions. The initiators Karwan Fatah-Black and Ilse Josepha Lazaroms…
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Worlds to Discover: Ajami Manuscripts of West Africa
Lecture, Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Inaugural lecture prof. A. van Harmelen
Inaugural lecture
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Historian Gert Oostindie the new Cleveringa Professor
Gert Oostindie, Emeritus Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, is this year’s Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. He was appointed by the University on 4 October. In his inaugural lecture on 24 November, entitled Courage and Disregard, he will talk about (academic) freedom in relation…
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Illuminating the Journey of Diego de Ocaña, O. S. H.
Lecture, Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Ja, de Litteratuur is nu eenmaal een wonderlik vak
PhD defence
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De toekomstige vorst? Wilhelm Heinrich von Brandenburg (1648-1649)
Lecture, Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
- In Praise of Solidarity - World Refugee Day 2024
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Hoard of Roman coins turns out to be offering for safe crossing
Several years ago, two amateur archaeologists from Brabant discovered over a hundred Roman coins near to Berlicum in the north of the province. After years of research, it now appears that the location, close to a ford in the river, was a site for offerings. Another interesting fact is that the coins…
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The Safaitic scripts: Palaeography of an ancient nomadic writing culture
PhD defence
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Debate: Human Rights and the World Cup Qatar
Debate
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Green Friday in de Hortus
Green Friday
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Why do we always have room for pudding?
In De Kookshow, Universiteit Van Nederland explores the scientific world behind food. Ever wondered which senses influence how tasty you find something? And why do you always have room for pudding after a meal? Leiden historian Kim Beerden is among the scholars providing answers.
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Nienke van der Marel on astrochemistry
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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People used bearskins to keep warm 300,000 years ago
Cut marks on the bones of bears show that people in North-West Europe used bearskins to keep warm 300,000 years ago.
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Bahar Simsek: ‘Research does not need to be holistic’
How does audio-visual material shape the identity of people when those people do not own their own land and are being oppressed? Bahar Simsek delved into the effect of film on the Kurdish identity. She will obtain her PhD on 4 May.
- Unification of the Mediterranean World Research Seminars 2022-2023
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Lecture: International Cooperation Against All Odds: The Ultrasocial World
Lecture
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The Assemblage of Social Death: Digital Vigilantism and Cancel Culture in China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Binge- eating disorder in the Arabic world and the Netherlands
PhD defence
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Book presentation 'In This Fragile World', edited by Annachiara Raia
Lecture
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A World Ablaze: Making Sense of Wars Today
Lecture
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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Optimal population turnover for cultural evolution depend on network size, density and learnability
Lecture
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Het wonen (als bouwen) ontstond pas zeer laat in de menselijke geschiedenis
Lecture
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Night Spaces: Migration Culture and Integration in Europe (NITE) 3rd International Conference
Conference
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Scholars and senators on the legitimacy of the Dutch Senate
The Leiden Research Profile Area Political Legitimacy organizes a public symposium on the 12th of May 2016 on the legitimacy and future of the Dutch Senate.
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Nadine Akkerman’s Spycraft reviewed in several publications
Nadine Akkerman's book Spycraft, which she co-wrote with historian of science Pete Langman, has garnered top publications, with reviews featured in The Telegraph, Literary Review, The Spectator, History Today, and the Times Literary Supplement.
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Connecting to the network of Digital Cultural Heritage (Linked Open Data)
Lunchbyte
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LU: Declutter, disconnect, dismantle! Reflections on degrowth and cultural politics
Lecture
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Book Launch: Cultural Confluence in Organizational change: a Portuguese venture in Angola
Lecture, Book Launch
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The Leiden 'Humanities in a Digital World' Symposium
Symposium
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The Arctic Crossroads: Climate, Culture & Diplomacy in the High North
Lecture
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Exploring Open-World Visual Understanding with Deep Learning
PhD defence
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Exploring Strange New Worlds with High-Dispersion Spectroscopy
PhD defence
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“De” outside the cleft: An evidential operator in the C domain
Lecture, CHiLL series
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The ambiguity of the post-verbal modal morpheme DE in Sichuanese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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I’m afraid it’s rather bad news | Debate in De Balie + livestream
Debate
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University Workshop: Ecocritical Perspectives in East Asian Art and Culture
Workshop
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International Translation Day 2024
Lecture, Discussion
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Evelien Campfens in the New York Times on looted art in museums
In an article by the New York Times, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens discusses the difficulties surrounding the ownership of looted art.
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Environmental Humanities LU: Species literacy and the cultural portrayal of animal biodiversity
Lecture
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Trading Responsibility: Navigating national burdens in a globalized world
PhD defence