2,684 search results for “laan american history” in the Public website
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The Deep History of Human Landscape Manipulation
This project studies the roles of prehistoric foragers in past ecosystems to establish the character of past “natural” landscapes and enhance the management of current ones.
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Regulation of vegetative development and life history strategy in plants
How is vegetative development regulated in plants and how does this affect a plant’s life history strategy?
- Promotie van Joanka van der Laan (Groningen)
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Show people, A history of the film star
Show People offers a comprehensive history of the film star from Mary Pickford to Andy Serkis, traversing more than one hundred years and drawing on examples from America, Britain, Europe, Asia and elsewhere.
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Time, History and Ritual in a K’iche’ Community
This work analyzes ritual practices and knowledge related to the Mesoamerican calendar with the aim of contributing to the understanding of the use and conceptualization of this calendar system in the contemporary K’iche’ community of Momostenango, in the Highlands of Guatemala.
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History: Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present
Are you thinking about studying Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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Andrew Gawthorpe on ABC Radio about ‘Orbánism’ and the American right
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas last week. University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains in an interview with ABC Radio what the embrace of 'Orbánism' means for the American right, and democracy more broadly.
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Leiden lifestyle as inspiration for Americans
The much-discussed documentary 'Cobblestone Stories' by American anthropologist Mark Neupert can be seen in Leiden's Trianon cinema on 23 April. In an interview published earlier on this site Neupert explained what makes Leiden so special for him. 'The idea is to show my American students that there…
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Tanja Masson-Zwaan in Scientific American
This week an article was published in the American popular science magazine Scientific American on the uncertainty surrounding the extent to which territory can be claimed on the moon.
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
l.p.j.bes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2768
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
m.j.janse@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4167
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Jeroen Duindam
Faculty of Humanities
j.f.j.duindam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2759
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The assembly history of the milky way nuclear star cluster
Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven
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and between Empires and Nation-States | Studies in Global Migration History, Volume: 46/14
In a modernist interpretation of migration controls, nation states play a major role. This book challenges this interpretation by showing that comprehensive migration checks and permanent border controls appeared much earlier, in early modern dynastic states and empires, and predated nation states by…
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Eveline Crone receives American Award for innovation
Eveline Crone has been selected for the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS). 'It's very special to get recognition from your peers in the United States.'
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Caroline van Eck
Faculty of Humanities
c.a.van.eck@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Robert Stein
Faculty of Humanities
r.stein@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2712
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Elisabeth Dieterman
Faculty of Humanities
e.m.dieterman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Da Jin
Faculty of Humanities
d.jin@umail.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Doreen Müller
Faculty of Humanities
d.mueller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4954
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Historian Ronald Kroeze: 'We must view political integrity from a historical perspective'
The democratic rule of law is under pressure due to a series of scandals and integrity issues, as seen in the recent parliamentary inquiries. Professor Ronald Kroeze explains: 'Public office holders are expected to show complete dedication, but that norm is quite absolute, and what we mean by it is…
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
r.j.ross@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Hans Mol
Faculty of Humanities
h.mol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Stijn Bussels
Faculty of Humanities
s.p.m.bussels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2693
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Limin Teh
Faculty of Humanities
l.m.teh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5915
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Geke Burger
Faculty of Humanities
g.burger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Extended Piano Techniques in Theory, History & Performance Practice
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Extended piano techniques : in theory, history and performance practice
Playing the piano with your forearm, plucking the strings, sawing through the piano: pianist Luk Vaes's doctoral dissertation covers all the techniques of play for which a piano is NOT designed. His defence ceremony will consist of three concerts and a public defence. 'Musicians were using the interior…
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Bart van der Boom
Faculty of Humanities
b.e.van.der.boom@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2762
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Patrick Dassen
Faculty of Humanities
p.dassen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2622
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Andrew Shield
Faculty of Humanities
a.d.j.shield@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2550
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Joost Augusteijn
Faculty of Humanities
j.augusteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2763
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Paul van Trigt
Faculty of Humanities
p.w.van.trigt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1349
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Pieter Slaman
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
p.j.slaman@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3097
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Kiri Paramore
Faculty of Humanities
k.n.paramore@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Black lives matter: ‘Why the American protests have resonated in the Netherlands’
The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police may have sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and here in the Netherlands, but they are about more than that alone. We asked Karwan Fatah-Black, a historian who specialises in the Dutch colonial history, for his analysis. ‘We…
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Thunderstorm: A small cultural history (1752-1830) (in Dutch)
More on the Dutch webpage.
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Ebifananyi. On photographs and telling histories from and about Uganda
In Luganda, the widest spoken minority language in East African country Uganda, the word for photographs is Ebifananyi. However, ebifananyi does not, contrary to the etymology of the word photographs, relate to light writings. Ebifananyi instead means things that look like something else. Ebifananyi…
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A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942
In A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia.
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Old Age in Early Medieval England, A Cultural History
How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested?
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A history of East Baltic through language contact
On the 6th of July, Anthony Jakob successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Anthony on this achievement!
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Post-everything: An intellectual history of post-concepts
What does it mean to live in an era of ‘posts’? At a time when ‘post-truth’ is on everyone’s lips, this volume seeks to uncover the logic of post-constructions – postmodernism, post-secularism, postfeminism, post-colonialism, post-capitalism, post-structuralism, post-humanism, post-tradition, post-Christian,…
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A History of the National Security State in Turkey
Zeynep Sarlak defended her thesis on 25 August 2020
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Surreal Geographies. A New History of Holocaust Consciousness
Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced from the immediate postwar period up to the present moment, Kathryn L. Brackney investigates changing portrayals of Jewish victims and survivors.
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Latin America and the UN
Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.
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Jelle van Buuren Explains American Boogaloo Boys
A particular group of counter protesters have been sighted at numerous Black Lives Matter protests that were held in the United States. An extreme right movement known for its characteristic Hawaii Shirts and heavy weaponry that calls itself the Boogaloo Boys. Which is cause for concern among the American…
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Herman Paul
Faculty of Humanities
h.j.paul@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2757
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Paul Kloeg
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
p.kloeg@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1094