998 search results for “christianity in the modern wereld” in the Staff website
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Combining high-level sports and work: ‘It makes me better at both’
She works four days a week as a project manager at LIACS and trains six days a week with the Dutch Para Climbing team. Christiane Luttikhuizen balances her role at the Faculty of Science with competing at a high level in climbing.
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Leiden-Paris-Cambridge Seminar on the Interior as a Space of Display
Lecture
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UMADA Project Launch
Conference
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Accessible remote sensing of water
PhD defence
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Striving for Affect: Amateur Readers and Aswany's Bestsellers on Social Media
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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How (and Why) to be Editors and Reviewers
Seminar
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Talk: “A Spiritual Lacuna? Austria-Hungary's Religious Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century”
Lecture, Lunch Time Talk
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You should eat herring on the coast and not in Maastricht
For thirty years, the Dutch Newspaper AD conducted an annual search for the best herring. This came to an end when economist Ben Vollaard, based on a statistical analysis, claimed it was rigged. But that claim doesn't smell right, says Leiden statistician Richard Gill. ‘The way you code and process…
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Reimbursement of expenses for business trips in the Netherlands
Are you travelling on business in the Netherlands? Then your travel and subsistence expenses will be reimbursed. Before making a business trip, arrange permission from your manager.
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‘We teach in the FC Emmen canteen’
Alumna Louwien Eising is headteacher of Carmel College in Emmen. How have things been during the pandemic? And how has her degree in Education and Child Studies helped her? ‘In the evening I was attending lectures and the next day I was applying what I’d learnt in the classroom.’
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The Answer to Inequality is in the Past
Lecture
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Surface Temperature and the Dynamics of H2 on Cu(111)
PhD defence
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Het wonen (als bouwen) ontstond pas zeer laat in de menselijke geschiedenis
Lecture
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Maxim Osipov - Public Interview By Michel Krielaars
Lecture
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Roots, branches and LHEAf
Conference, Final conference
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A cycle of life of T cell activation
Inaugural lecture
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: What Use are Networks Anyway?
Lecture
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Decade of Revolt? Class Conflict and the State of Permanent Crisis in the Post-2011 Middle East
Conference, Roundtable
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Theological Speculation in Arabic: What Can We Know about Early Islamic Theology?
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Workers of Istanbul Unite! A Socialist Workers' Organization in the Late Ottoman Capital, 1909-1922
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Debate: Human Rights and the World Cup Qatar
Debate
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the chance to publish: ‘Inter-Section is a great way to get your work in the spotlight’
The Faculty of Archaeology's own home-grown journal Inter-Section has released a new volume. Inter-Section offers students and PhD candidates the unique chance to publish in a peer-reviewed journal. Karel Kuipers and Tullio Abruzzese contributed to the new volume.
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The historical development of the Dutch posture‐verb progressive construction including a comparison with German
PhD defence
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Patient to plastic surgeon: ‘I want to look like my selfie.’
An image has great powers of persuasion. It is said that ‘a picture is worth more than a thousand words’. But these days, images can easily be manipulated with severe consequences. ‘Perhaps it’s time to reconsider the value we attach to images’, says Elize de Mul, whose PhD thesis deals with ‘digital…
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eLaw taught at Mykolas Romeris University
It is said that robots replace human interaction, but not always. This spring, the robots were the reason why the eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University in the Netherlands and Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Law School in Lithuania got together.
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Archaeologist Maikel Kuijpers signs international book contract with Penguin Press
Back in 2020, Dr Maikel Kuijpers started to write for The Correspondent. His articles offered readers a unique long-term insight into the materials that shape our world, from concrete to glass and plastics. His innovative approach piqued the interest of a literary agent, and he was invited to write…
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Help desks switch to inclusive salutation: ‘Times change, and we change with them’
Dear Sir or Madam? Many colleagues think that sounds out of date. That is why the hundreds of thousands of automated messages sent by university help desks every year will now include a gender-neutral salutation. This change is an extensive but important ICT job, says product owner Julian van der Kr…
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Sarah Cramsey appointed professor: ‘I want to uncover the underrepresented stories in history’
Sarah Cramsey was appointed professor by special appointment of Central European Studies at the Institute of History on 14 September. 'I am keen to incorporate different scholarly approaches into my work and raise the profile of Central European Studies in Leiden.'
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Leiden research projects awarded NWO Open Competition grants
Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO Open Competition funding.
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Leiden Classics: Bibliotheca Thysiana, a 17th century time machine
From once controversial scientific works and historical bibles, to personal shopping lists and clothing bills. The 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana and the archive of the collector Johannes Thysius exhibit both the intellectual and everyday life as it was three hundred years ago. Now a brand-new digital…
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As new Professor of Social Cognition and Decision, Lotte van Dillen studies how we make choices in an information-overloaded world
Due to technological and societal developments, we are being flooded with more information than our brains can process. How does this affect our decision-making, both as individuals and as a society? And can we learn to make better choices? This is what Lotte van Dillen will explore with her profess…
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg: 'How does the discourse on war influence practice?'
As a student, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg was primarily interested in diplomacy surrounding conflicts. Through research on peace operations and subsequently the fight against guerrillas, he became increasingly involved with the most violent aspects of colonial warfare. Per 1 September 2024 he is appointed…
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The Duty to Investigate in Situations of Armed Conflict
PhD defence
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Marjorie in 't VeldUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
m.h.int.veld@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2800
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Arie in 't VeldFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.a.in.t.veld@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273931
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Onzekerheid opzoeken - risicogedrag in pubers en zebravissen
Lecture
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Which Leiden alumni are in the Dutch House of Representatives?
Of the 150 elected representatives, 24 studied or conducted their PhD research in Leiden. Who are they and which degrees are most popular among these MPs?
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A New industry in an Ancient Land: Archaeology and Tourism at the crossroads
Conference, Public event
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Research on ancient southern Arabia: Current situation and outlook
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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The Classical Zaydi Imamate (1200-1600) and its Legacy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Why has Western Policy failed on Palestine/Israel?
Debate
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Holding the Byvanck Chair in times of corona
Professor Caroline Vout, Cambridge University, was awarded the Leiden University Byvanck Chair in 2020. In a pre-Covid-19 world, the Byvanck Chair would stay in Leiden for seminars, lectures, and research activities. Instead, the pandemic disrupted this schedule. Last month, Vout taught her masterclass…
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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…
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The person behind the truck driver
Most people talk about truck drivers rather than to them. That’s an error of judgement, says PhD candidate Anke van der Hoeven, who explains why we should be making their lives easier. ‘People just don’t realise it, but they’re an invisible group that keeps the European economy running.’
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Florian Herrendorf wins Fruinprijs 2023
Florian Herrendorf has won the Fruin Prize 2023. His thesis was chosen out of 11 nominees as the best master's thesis in history studies.
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Digitised Chinese mega-maps now available in Open Access
Three enormous maps of China, created during the reign of three different emperors of the Qing dynasty, have now been made available in open access and are downloadable via Leiden University Libraries’ (UBL) Digital Collections. The rich maps are an early example of academic collaboration between the…
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Former Visual Ethnography lecturer Koen Suidgeest city photographer Leiden
People need to get to know each other to see the positive side of migration, according to photographer and documentary maker Koen Suidgeest. Since the end of September, Suidgeest has been the new city photographer for the region of Leiden. His goal is to photograph as many cultural identities as possible…
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Not in my name: former civil servants on resigning over Israel-Palestine policy
Western civil servants openly struggle with their government’s policies on the war in Gaza. During a meeting at Campus The Hague, three former civil servants told their stories.