3,124 search results for “theory” in the Public website
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Astronomers Discover Ancient Solitary Quasars with Mysterious Origins
An international team of astronomers, including Leiden PhD student Elia Pizzati, has observed several ancient quasars that, surprisingly, appear to be floating alone in the early universe (less than a billion years after the Big Bang). Until now, astronomers, based on models, assumed that quasars are…
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How do you protect the world against cybercrime? Become the professional of the future
Examining cybercrime from criminological, legal, administrative, and technical perspectives. The new Bachelor's programme in Cybersecurity & Cybercrime addresses the growing demand for versatile cyber professionals..
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From politics to psychology: the power of games and play
The Bachelor Honours Class 'Homo Ludens: Why We Play' combines games, theory, and practice. Students dive into all aspects of humanity in which games play a part and discuss them, both on a theoretical an experiential level: 'Occasionally, you touch upon what play is, but then it eludes you.'
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‘American politics gives Europeans a glimpse of what lies ahead’
It’s impossible to avoid, even in the Netherlands: the US will soon be going to the polls. Where does it come from, this fascination with US elections? PhD candidate Bram Eenink explains.
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Maths + match = medals! Leiden students win five medals at international math competition
Two Second Prizes, two First Prizes and even a Grand Grand First Prize. Five Leiden mathematics students and their team leader have performed exceptionally well during the International Mathematics Competition for University Students 2024 in Bulgaria in early August. This even made for a Dutch recor…
- Two-Day Workshop: Governing Digital Platforms
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Nominalizations and their arguments in Iraqw
Lecture, This Time for Africa!
- CPP Colloquia 2022-2023
- Introduction to Dutch Medieval Studies (5 ECTS)
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology book launch
Online book launch
- Introduction to Dutch Medieval Studies (5 ECTS)
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Studying bilingualism in the Indian context
Lecture, LACG Meetings
- Introduction to International Medieval Studies (5 ECTS)
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Adult language acquisition and syntactic change
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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CPP Colloquium with Jelena Belic CANCELLED
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Symposium in Multiple Scales
Conference
- Past events 2023 - 2024
- Introduction to Medieval Studies in the Netherlands (2 ECTS)
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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Older Publications
Overview of the publications of the department of Industrial Ecology (1982-2015)
- 'Sound Matters': An exploratory Workshop into Sound and Digital Humanities
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In the Making #7: { Dis, A } - Pearing
Arts and culture
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Stancetaking and morphosyntactic variation: Insights from two case studies of complementizer (that)
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Conceptual Metaphors and Etymology: the case of Homeric Greek κερτομέω ‘to mock’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Meijerssymposium 2024
Conference
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When images are not worth a thousand words: from cinematic multimodality to enhanced subtitling
Lecture
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Governing the commons: What we can learn from each other's (not so) foolish disciplines
PhD candidates Vincent Walstra and Leen Felix in dialogue
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Campus The Hague: more ‘Hague’ in its DNA
Campus The Hague has forged its own identity: alongside interdisciplinarity, interaction with the city is its defining feature. ‘The campus is now a young adult. It is well beyond puberty,’ says campus chair Erwin Muller. An ambitious new strategy reveals this.
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A hornets’ nest: Leiden University during the Second World War
‘That hornets’ nest in Leiden must be destroyed,’ said Dutch National Socialist Party member Robert van Genechten in November 1942. He was referring to Leiden University. Why this hatred? Emeritus Professor of University History Willem Otterspeer has written a book about Leiden University during the…
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Jan Hendrik Oort: world-famous yet unassuming astronomer
He discovered how to determine the rotation and centre of our Milky Way, predicted where comets come from and laid the groundwork for radio astronomy: Leiden Professor of Astronomy Jan Hendrik Oort (1900 – 1992). Piet van der Kruit, whose PhD supervisor was Oort himself, has written a biography about…
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Veni grants for 21 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 21 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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LCN2 Seminar: NETWORKS Match Makers Seminar
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Discourse sensitivity in argument realization
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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African Languages as Medium of Instruction in higher education: what has happened after Prah?
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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LIBC Colloquium
Lecture
- Summer School evening lectures
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CSPPR Lecture: The Power of ‘Unpolitics’
Lecture
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LUCIP Workshop "Multiple Perspectives on Anger”
Conference
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Roundtable: International Relations and the Idea of Merit
Conference, Roundtable
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Guest lecture by Sjef Barbiers
Lecture, Special Topics in Dialectology (2023)
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Rooted: Kafka and the Jewish Diaspora in Central Europe
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Religion and economic policy in sub-Saharan Africa
Lecture
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ELS Academy Midseason Event
Conference
- ELS lab meeting - Journal Club: Perspectives on transnational auditing to assess compliance by Phillip Paiement
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Eileen Moyer
Lecture, Research Seminar
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The ‘evolution’ of the Innateness Hypothesis for language
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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LCN2 Seminar: Graph homotopy, non-backtracking matrix, and X-centrality
Lecture
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Witches and Snowflakes: Nurturing Feminist Ethnography in Times of Crises
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Institute for Philosophy Common Book Launch
Conference
- ELS lab meeting - RESCHEDULED Guest lecture: Prof. Kati Cseres on Gender and competition law