3,354 search results for “talen en culture van de wereld” in the Public website
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The display of human remains
Debate
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Meet Dr. Lital Abazon LJSA Member
Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses ranging from Introduction to Zionism to World Cinema.
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New MOOC: The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World
Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle East under Muslim rule was the world’s beating heart of trade, but also of science and scholarship? Want to learn more? Then sign up for the new MOOC…
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First photo of black hole at the heart of our Galaxy
Finally we know for sure that there is a black hole at the centre of our own galaxy. Today, astronomers unveiled the first ever photo of Sagittarius A*, a super-massive object at the centre of the Milky Way. This picture could only be taken thanks to the cooperation of telescopes worldwide.
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Consortia awarded grant for research into pressing issues
Various consortia in which Leiden University is represented are beginning interdisciplinary research, which will bring scientific and societal breakthroughs within reach. Knowledge institutions, government and private parties are working closely together on the projects.
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Van Marum Colloquium - The role of surface inhibition in the deterministic electrochemical fabrication of 2D and 3D nanostructures
Lecture
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Sara Polak: ‘Corona unveils great social inequality in the US’
Following China and Italy, it appears that the United States is becoming the next epicentre of the coronacrisis. Can the US handle this crisis? Is president Trump dealing with the situation correctly? We asked Leiden America expert Sara Polak.
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Van Marum Colloquium: Thermodynamic modeling of the electrode-electrolyte interface - Double-layer capacitance, Solvation number, Validation
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium - Microcalorimetric investigation of the effect of ions on surface processes - From double layer charging to catalytic reactions
Lecture
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Logging in tropical forests has a major social impact on local people
Exploring logging's real impact: Insights from Anthropologist Tessa Minter in the Solomon Islands.
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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Discover our Perspectives on the Past
The Faculty of Archaeology proudly presents the research brochure Perspectives on the Past, featuring passionate, dedicated researchers introducing a dazzling scala of research topics: from present-day traditional knowledge in Africa to the power of glue in Palaeolithic Europe. In addition to these…
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The forgotten history of Dutch slavery in Guyana
When we think of the history of Dutch slavery, the areas that spring to mind are primarily the Antilles and Suriname. However, until the end of the eighteenth century there were also Dutch plantation colonies in neighbouring Guyana. Bram Hoonhout’s book ‘Borderless Empire’ describes this forgotten h…
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Can Parkinson's be stopped by unravelling protein fibres? Anne Wentink finds out with a Vidi grant from NWO
In brain diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, proteins clump together to form fibres. ‘Chaperone proteins’ unravel those fibres, but in the test tube biochemist Anne Wentink saw that this can also cause new problems. She is going to find out what happens inside cells to determine what a drug…
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Van Marum Colloquium - Pioneering techniques to probe the solid-liquid interface using the soft X-rays of the VerSoX beamline at Diamond Light
Lecture
- Van Marum Colloquium: Guilty as charged: Electrochemical control over the charge carrier density in colloidal semiconductor nanomaterials
- Workshop Violence Studies - A research agenda
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Gerbrand van der Heden-van NoortScience
g.j.van.der.heden@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Annette van der Helm-van MilFaculteit Geneeskunde
a.h.m.van_der_helm@lumc.nl | +31 71 526 1290
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Ingrid van den Bosch-van KasteropAdministratief Shared Service Centre
i.van.den.bosch@assc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5555
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Jopie van der Hart-van der Hoek
Science
wjvdhart@hetnet.nl | +31 71 527 4229
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Ingrid van der Geest-van Dongen
Veiligheid, Gezondheid en Milieu
i.j.m.van_der_geest-van_dongen@lumc.nl | +31 71 527 8015
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Sada Mire’s Leiden Experience: "the Johnny Cash of Archaeology"
Pioneering in the archaeology of Somaliland, hosting international TV and radio shows, and producing a very successful MOOC: Dr Sada Mire already has a formidable track record.
- Adriaan Gerbrands Lectures
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project
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Bringing objects to life
Conference, Symposium
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Veiled references to the Armenian genocide
No criticism is allowed in Turkey of the mass murder of Armenians that took place a century ago. PhD candidate Alaettin Carikci examined how contemporary artists, authors, film directors and museums have nonetheless found indirect ways of expressing their criticism.
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Leiden strengthens ties with Latin America and Caribbean
Astronomical observations in Chile, research into native heritage or the treatment of eye diseases in Brazil - Leiden is researching a large number and a wide variety of different topics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Researchers and representatives from 20 countries met on 11 May in Leiden to…
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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Kim van Beukering
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
k.j.f.van.beukering@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Fredrik Van Dam
Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf
f.van.dam@ufb.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Esther Van Landeghem
Science
e.van.landeghem@science.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Maartje Van MulkenFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.a.van.mulken@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7840
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Ben Van Calster
Science
b.j.van.calster@math.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Joni Van LaekenFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.van.laeken@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Roland van Dam
Bestuursbureau
r.a.van.dam@bb.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Damien Van PuyveldeFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
d.t.n.van.puyvelde@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Irene Van EldereFaculty of Humanities
i.van.eldere@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7867
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Astrid Van WeyenbergFaculty of Humanities
a.l.b.van.weyenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8003
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Ben Van RompuyFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
b.van.rompuy@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1344
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How Dutch Brazil was lost
The Amsterdam media played a major role in the rise and fall of Dutch Brazil, the colony held briefly by the Dutch West India Company in the 17th century. This is the conclusion reached by Professor of Maritime History Michiel van Groesen in his book ‘Amsterdam’s Atlantic’.
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Maribel Fierro
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Maribel Fierro, Research Professor at the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid), to Leiden. She is the third Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University…
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King of Sweden visits Leiden University
Collaborating in drug discovery and health research was the goal of a visit to the Leiden Bio Science Park on 14 May by a Swedish delegation including His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden. The delegation visited Leiden University’s Faculty of Science.
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International Translation Day 2024
Lecture, Discussion
- Van Marum Colloquium: Unraveling Catalytic Reactions at the Solid-Gas and Solid-Liquid Interface – Active Sites and their Surroundings
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Memory Politics and Contentious Heritage in Anṣār Allāh/Ḥūthī Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Historicizing Security. Enemies of the State, 1813 until present
The research project ‘The History of National Security, 1945-present', is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Campus The Hague/Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH). The project will run until the summer of 2013, when we hope…
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Van Marum Colloquium: Solvent-solute relation in the double layer theory: from diluted solutions to solvent-in-salt systems to ionic liquids
Lecture
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Late Ottoman Istanbul Meets Cinema: Social Impacts of the First Encounter
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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POSTPONED - Gastro-Politics & Gastro-Ethics of Diversity: Negotiating Islam in an Entangled World
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series