3,812 search results for “history of new” in the Public website
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II Food Sovereignty Forum in Warsaw, Poland
Between the 30th of January and the 2nd of February 2020 around 250 people took part in the II Polish Food Sovereignty Forum.
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Leiden University celebrates 444th birthday with residents of Leiden and The Hague
Leiden University celebrated its 444th anniversary with a historical procession on 8 February. It celebrated this year’s Dies Natalis in time-honoured fashion with a ceremony in the Pieterskerk, but broke with tradition by sending professors out to primary schools.
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Young thinkers pit their brains on the circular economy
How can we speed up the transition from large cities to a circular metropolis? This is the question that Leiden students and former students Elsemieke, Fabian and Eveline are getting their teeth into. They and seventeen other young academics are taking part in the National ThinkTank and they have four…
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Anoma van der Veere: ‘In Japan, the awkward little masks symbolise the government’s failure’
Leiden Asia Centre researcher Anoma van der Veere argues that the Japanese government has failed to respond properly to Covid-19. There were difficulties with implementing government measures aimed at limiting the spread of the virus – in some cases those measures were not even taken seriously. How…
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Big data cannot do without statistics
Data science and statistics are closely linked, says Spinoza laureate and Stochastics professor Aad van der Vaart. We talk with him about the big data hype, genome research and collaboration with other disciplines. ‘Statistics helps wherever data is not perfect.’
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National Museum of Antiquities: 200-year partnership with Leiden University
From Caspar Reuvens to the royal grave in Oss, and from ancient images in the Hortus to a table from Naturalis. The National Museum of Antiquities is 200 years old, and throughout this whole period there have been close contacts between museum and university. Curator Annemarieke Willemsen explains this…
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Race against time: Helping the Netherlands secure almost 20 million Pfizer vaccines
The whole world is waiting anxiously for sufficient supplies of coronavirus vaccines. As Launch Navigator at Pfizer, alumnus Dennis de Mik must help ensure that the Netherlands receives 19.8 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. How is he going about this and how has his Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences…
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Archaeology brings 3D scanning into the classroom
In the course 'From Ceramics to Plastics: The Mediterranean in 12 objects' students were taught to work with 3D scanning technologies. One of the underlying reasons to introduce students to this technology was to teach them to reproduce objects. ‘More and more archaeological information is stored in…
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Call for Papers | Forum 2025 - Emotions in Multilateral Diplomacy: Exploring Affect in International Organisations in Volatile Times
Forum editors: Seda Gürkan, Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA), Leiden University, s.gurkan@fgga.leidenuniv.nl and Özlem Terzi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, o.terzi@vu.nl
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Why the Old Cold War Ended, a New Russia-West Cold War Developed, and the Russia-Ukraine Hot War began
Lecture
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European and Arab linguistic endeavours and exchanges in interwar Europe (1898-1948): Teaching and learning Arabic
Conference
- Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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International PhD Seminar on Slavery, Servitude & Extreme Dependency
Conference
- Open Science Coffee: Developing tools and practices to promote open and efficient science
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Woodworkers and farmers 3000 years ago: transitions from the Rigveda to the Atharvaveda
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Radical Restorative Justice: Teachers’ Reflections on Conflict, Trauma, and Hope in Chicagoland Schools
VVI Research Talk 2023-2024
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Radical Spotlights: Economics of Political Chaos
Inaugural lecture
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Can Generative AI Generate Culture?
Debate
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Difference and empire, or on the importance of thinking otherwise
Lecture
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Science & Cocktails: Why do People Fight?
Lecture
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Leren door te doen? Ervaringen van nieuwsgebruik en de ontwikkeling van mediawijsheid bij jongeren
Lecture, Journalism Studies Seminars
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Multiple Scales: theory and applications
Conference
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Open Science debate - STIBNITE: developing the next generation organic semiconductors
Conference
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‘My mother’, ‘Your father’: Suppletive kinship terms in African languages
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Monthly Reads | Project 0100
Each month we will be spotlighting material we have been reading, or that have been recommended to us that relate to AI and a particular theme.
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Joan van der Waals colloquium
The Joan van der Waals colloquium is an ongoing bi-weekly lecture series.
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Misleading bar and pie charts
People can be easily mislead with graphs. But they don’t necessarily stay misled, the research shows.
- Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture
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Conflict Escalation: Explaining the Rise of Violence
Lecture
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Polymer‐ and Hybrid‐Based Biomaterials for delivering biotherapeutic molecules in bone and cartilage tissue
PhD defence
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The LeiCNS-PK3.0 model development and applications: Healthy-to- diseased CNS pharmacokinetic translation
PhD defence
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Playing dice with the Universe
PhD defence
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Our Hirāk: The Tishreen Revolution
Lecture, LUCIS Meets
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Evolution and development of orchid flowers and fruits
PhD defence
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Understanding public opposition to infrastructure and energy projects
Lecture
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Lessons of Democracy: Mothers’ Education and Learning Activities in late-1950s Japan,
Lecture
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Statistical modelling of time-varying covariates for survival data
PhD defence
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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Debate
- Materialising Prehistoric Societies in Western Asia
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Technology and privacy: trust or mistrust?
Conference
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Beyond Risk? Understanding the Threats of the Anthropocene
Conference
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Expanding the chemical space of antibiotics produced by Paenibacillus and Streptomyces
PhD defence
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: What Use are Networks Anyway?
Lecture
- Volume 5 (2010)
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PhD
The Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) of Leiden University hosts almost 50 PhD candidates working on a wide variety of topics.
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Humans of Humanities
In the Humans of Humanities series, we will do a portrait of one of our researchers, staff members or students, every other week.
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Project Office IRP
Programme management of research programme “Strengthening knowledge of and dialogue with the Islamic/Arab world”
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Text in Context
Recontextualising the Papyri from Roman Soknopaiou Nesos / Dimê (Fayyum, Egypt)
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Water and Society Lab
How do societies move forward with sustainable, effective and efficient management of Earth's water resources?