3,706 search results for “mixed culture and history” in the Public website
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
e.p.m.zwinkels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Antheun Janse
Faculty of Humanities
a.janse@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2564
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
w.h.willems@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 6 5374 5961
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Christine Mertens
Faculty of Humanities
c.m.m.mertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Bianca Angelien Claveria
Faculty of Humanities
b.a.claveria@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4165
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Savage Masks: Specters of Native Americans and the Revisiting of History
How to related figures of savages to conceptions of history?
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Being Muslim in Indonesia: Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima
Muhammad Adlin Sila examines the range of ways Bima Muslims constitute their Islamic identities and agencies through rituals and festivals. In response to their surroundings, what it means to be a Muslim is constantly being negotiated.
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.oostindie@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Vulnerability and the associated levels of social resilience is what fascinates the researchers at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. What links a Japanese fisherman after the tsunami at Fukushima with a Ghanaian goldminer in an increasingly industrialised work environment?…
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A war of words: What ancient Manchurian history does to Korea and China today
Why does the past elicit this intense activity in the present? What does the past mean for the present, and what does it do to it? A WAR OF WORDS will engage this complex of Chinese claims to Manchu-Korean ancient history, South Korean reactions, public discourse and cultural expression in both states,…
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Knowledge Extraction from Archives of Natural History Collections
Natural history collections provide invaluable sources for researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds, aspiring to study the geographical distribution of flora and fauna across the globe as well as other evolutionary processes.
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World Cultural Council Awards 2017
The World Cultural Council (WCC) and Leiden University are pleased to announce that the 34th Award Ceremony will take place on Wednesday 8 November 2017 in Leiden. This year Professor Omar M. Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, USA,…
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Dynastischer Nachwuchs als Hoffnungsträger und Argument in der Frühen Neuzeit
This volume sheds light on the role played by progeny in maintaining dynasties in early modern royal courts as well as the horizontal and vertical interplay between the actors. It attempts to break through the narrative of older research that saw dynasties as a series of male rulers. Instead, these…
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Imagining the Arabs
Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
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The Sung home : narrative, morality, and the Kurdish nation
This dissertation gives an ethnographic account of Kurdish dengbêj narrative from a theorethical perspective.
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Museums, Heritage and Material Culture
Research on the global field of museums, heritage, commemoration, consumption and material culture
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
We are very happy to welcome you to spend a semester or year studying with us at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/Development Sociology (CA-DS). Here you will find practical information on studying CA-DS in Leiden as an exchange student.
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology is a social science. Anthropologists investigate the ways in which people give meaning to different aspects of their life and the way they interact with each other.
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History: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Are you thinking about studying Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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Yasmin Ismail
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
y.ismail@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
h.w.van.den.doel@bb.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2922
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Alp Yenen
Faculty of Humanities
a.a.yenen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2943
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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe Volume II Part II
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural…
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Culturally responsive teaching in Dutch multicultural secondary schools
Unraveling culturally responsive attitudes, noticing skills, knowledge and reasoned practices of expert teachers.
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A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
As a critical commemoration of its centenary, this book presents a mosaic of one hundred carefully curated fragments by expert authors, shedding light on politics, economy, society, culture, gender, and arts in a hundred years of Turkey.
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Righting and Rewriting History: Recovering and Analyzing Manuscript Archives Destroyed During World War II
Archives were a common target during the Second World War, and hundreds suffered damages. Among these archival losses, the losses to medieval manuscript collections stand out.
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The evolution and plasticity of life histories upon variation in nutrition: on aging focused integrative approach
Promotores: Prof.dr. P.M. Brakefield, Prof.dr. B.J. Zwaan (Wageningen Universiteit)
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Mapping the Ocean: Georeferencing Maritime History
Maps play a crucial role in our view of the past, yet few historians are sufficiently skilled in cartography to genuinely integrate maps into their research. This project breaks down the long-standing barriers between history and cartography by inviting emerging scholars (ResMA) to reflect on maps as…
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Pepper to Sea Cucumbers: Chinese Gustatory Revolution in Global History, 900-1840
On 10 November Guanmian Xu successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
- Literary Culture (2/5 ECTS)
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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe Volume II, part 1
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural…
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English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes
The second major collection of papers from the Bridging the Unbridgeable project.
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What Netflix Got Wrong About Indigenous Storytelling in Sapiens
Filipino anthropologists Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio and Myfel D. Paluga look back at the groundbreaking Netflix show Trese and what it missed about the stories of Indigenous peoples. They published the article 'What Netflix Got Wrong About Indigenous Storytelling' in the digital Anthropology magazine…
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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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Assessing the Impacts Of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage in The Netherlands
This project aims to identify, quantify and map the exposure of Dutch national monuments to four climate change effects: flooding, waterlogging, drought and heat.
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Manon van der Heijden
Faculty of Humanities
m.p.c.van.der.heijden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2670
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Prof. dr. Marcel Cobussen at network event Listening to language culture and artefacts
Prof. dr. Marcel Cobussen will take part in a research network project in London.
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Information activities
information activities MSc Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
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The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South - INVISIHIST
The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…
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The history of the possessions of the “Teutonic House” and the bailiwick of Utrecht, 1231-1619
The acquisition and administration of the possessions of the “Teutonic House” in Utrecht, and its dependencies, in the Middle Ages until c.1600.
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incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping up in her work. Now there’s Spycraft, a popular history book exploring the espionage techniques used by early modern spies, which she has co-written with…
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The Dark Middle Ages: Language of Vice in Histories of Science, 1700-1900
In comparing a selection of 18th-century histories to a representative sample of 19th-century histories of science, this project inquires: Which early modern vices persisted into the 19th century and to what extent were those vices embodied in anecdotes, conveyed through commonplaces, or symbolically…
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Barbarism: History of a fundamental European concept and its literary manifestations from the 18th century to the present
This collaborative project aims to explore the history of the concept “barbarism” in Europe from the 18th century to the present, with a particular emphasis on the role of literature and art in the concept’s shifting functions.
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Written Culture at Ter Duinen: Cistercian Monks and their Books, c.1140-c.1240
The physical features of twelfth-century manuscripts from the Flemish abbey of Ter Duinen – such as script, page layout, and reading aids – show how their readers organized, interpreted, and transmitted knowledge.
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SOPs4RI – Standard Operating Procedures for Research Integrity
The aim of the Standard Operating Procedures for Research Integrity (SOPs4RI) project was to promote excellent research and a strong research integrity culture that aligns with the principles and norms of the ‘European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity’, and to counter research misconduct. The…
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Cosmos Malabaricus
This programme aims to make the digitized archival sources of the Kerala and Tamil Nadu Archives more accessible to Indian and international scholars and to the widest possible audience, in particular to the people of Kerala.