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About Museums, Collections & Society
The Museums, Collections & Society research programme is led by the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Archaeology and aims to promote collection-based research, stimulate Leiden education in this field, and raise ethical questions regarding the collections’ origins.
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In the media and research
Below you will find an overview of how researchers from the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs and their research appear in the media, and you can read more about topics that concern the Faculty.
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Programme
The symposium is open to all registered participants and consists of two sessions and a Poster Session.
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International Criminal Law (Advanced LL.M.)
The Advanced Master's specialization International Criminal Law at Leiden University examines international criminal law and international criminal procedure.
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History, Arts and Culture of Asia (MA) (60EC)
The MA in History, Arts and Culture of Asia is designed for students interested in taking a humanities-related approach to the study of countries or regions in pre-modern, modern or contemporary Asia.
- International Credit Mobility 2020
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Round April 2018: Central Asia Fieldwork Grants for Leiden MA/MA Research Students
In 2018 the Central Asia Initiative at Leiden University offers several fieldwork grants to a max of 7,500 EUR. Only MA or MA Research students enrolled at Leiden University are eligible. The fieldwork should be carried out in one of the Central Asia countries by the end of 2018. The money can be used…
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Zebrafish: a new engraft model to study Ewing sarcoma progression
Can zebrafish provide a fast, sensitive in vivo vertebrate model for identifying novel mechanisms of Ewing sarcoma progression and for development of new anticancer compounds in a time- and cost-effective manner?
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Case study Käte van Tricht (1909-1996)
The Organ Art of the first female German concert organist and Bremen Cathedral organist and
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Synthesis of chemical tools to study the immune system
This thesis describes the synthesis and biological evaluation of TLR2/6, TLR4, TLR7/8 and TLR9 ligands, of which the activity can be conditionally controlled.
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The spiritual Tolkien milieu : a study of fiction‐based religion
Markus Davidsen defended his thesis on 16 October 2014
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From Traditional Dialects to Modern Dialects
Lecture, Special Topics in Dialectology (2023)
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A computational study of structural and excitonic properties of chlorosomes
The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…
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Overview awarded projects
Here you can find an overview of the Erasmus+ projects undertaken by Leiden University since 2015.
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Sophie van Romburgh
Faculty of Humanities
s.g.van.romburgh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Frans Willem Korsten
Faculty of Humanities
f.w.a.korsten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2196
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Sara Bolghiran
Faculty of Humanities
s.bolghiran@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2946
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An Online Corpus of UML design models: Construction and empirical studies
Promotores: J. Kok, M. Chaudron (Chalmers University)
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Towards a feminist playology: social sport studies and the limits of critique
The making of sacrifices seems part and parcel of any elite sportsperson’s life. Remarkably, the insights that we find in the current literature in social sport studies are not able to make sense of the references to sacrifice in the data that emerged in the context of this study on the social significance…
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Introducing: Esther Baakman
Esther Baakman is a PhD-candidate at Leiden University Institute for History.
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Superlattices in van der Waals materials: A Low-Energy Electron Microscopy study
n this PhD thesis, the recombination of different atomic lattices in stacked 2D materials such as twisted bilayer graphene is studied. Using the different possibilities of Low-Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM), the domain forming between the two atomic layers with small differences is studied.
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Studies of dust and gas in the interstellar medium of the Milky Way
Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Co-Promotor: J.B.R. Oonk
- Volume 16 (2021)
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Open Science Monitor – Study on Open Science: monitoring trends and drivers
The aim of this study is to further develop the Open Science Monitor, which started as a pilot study.
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The Miliuseae revisited: phylogenetic, taxonomic, and palynological studies in a major clade of Annonaceae
Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets
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How To Be A Historian - Scholarly Personae In Historical Studies 1800-2000
What makes a good historian? When historians raise this question, as they have done for centuries, they often do so to highlight that certain personal attitudes or dispositions are indispensable or studying the past. Yet their vieuws on what virtues, skills or competencies historians need most differ…
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The SAFE study: Suicidal ideation Assessment: Fluctuation monitoring with Ecological momentary assessment
Can we predict fluctuations in suicidal ideation in a person’s daily life, from hour to hour?
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City tales: an art-based participatory framework for studying migration-related diversity (ARTIVES)
The ARTIVES project studies imaginaries of diversity portrayed by artists in Lisbon and Rotterdam in their films, performances and (oral) literature with the aim to explore their transgressive potential of opening up possibilities of thinking differently about migration-related diversity. Their stories…
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In-Forest: A multi-method study of inequality and its epistemic effects in forest research
The project seeks to explore the interplay of valuation and inequalities in science, using the interdisciplinary and planet-critical field of forest research as empirical case. It examines which/whose knowledge is recognised on what grounds, and how social dimensions like gender and geographical location…
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High-throughput simulation studies of angiogenesis - Reverse engineering the role of tip cells and pericytes in vascular development
Promotor: Prof.dr. R.M.H. Merks
- Volume 6 (2011)
- Public Diplomacy (incl Soft Power and Sharp Power)
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Book series
Diplomatic Studies (DIST) is a peer-reviewed book series that encourages original work on the theory and practice, processes and outcomes of diplomacy.
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Flow: A study of electron transport through networks of interconnected nanoparticles
This thesis describes a study from both a theoreticaL and an experimental point of view.
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Towards Open and Reproducible Terrorism Studies: Current Trends and Next Steps
In recent years, the use of primary data in terrorism research has increased. In order to maximise the benefits of this trend, we want to encourage terrorism scholars to implement open science practices more systematically. This article therefore presents different avenues towards open and reproducible…
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Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices
In this article, Lianne Visser contributed to the understanding of why collaborative governance is a challenging response to wicked problems.
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Heritage Education — Memories of the Past in the Present Caribbean Social Studies Curriculum
As part of Nexus 1492 Subproject 4: A Future for Diverse Caribbean Heritages, which seeks to shed light on how local communities interpret and engage with heritage in the present day, this doctoral study aims to gain insight into how indigenous heritage is represented in the school curriculum for social…
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Functions of leptin in tuberculosis and diabetes: multi-omics studies across species
In this thesis, I study 1) metabolic alterations in tuberculosis related to wasting syndrome in human patients as well as in rodent and fish animal models. 2) effects of the mutation of the leptin gene on cachexia and diabetes in rodent and zebrafish animal models.
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Peter Liebregts guest lecturer in Canterbury
At the invitation of the Centre for Early Christianity and Its Reception (CECIR), Peter Liebregts, Full Professor of Modern Literatures in English (LUCAS), visited the University of Kent in Canterbury from March 17 to 20, to give a lecture and a masterclass.
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Two exhibitions with Asian maps of the university library
From mid-September two exhibitions with maps from the collections of Leiden University Libraries are on view. Mapping Asia opens in the National Museum of Ethnology and Mapping Japan in Japanmuseum SieboldHuis. The exhibitions are organised in the context of Leiden Asia Year and the symposium 'Mapping…
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T-CYCLE EPR: Development at 275 GHz for the study of reaction kinetics & intermediates
A difficulty of studies on chemical kinetics are the reaction time scales and detection of their intermediates.
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An ex vivo human skin model for studying skin barrier repair
In the studies described in this study, we introduce a novel ex vivo human skin barrier repair model. To develop this, we removed the upper layer of the skin, the stratum corneum (SC) by a reproducible cyanoacrylate stripping technique.
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EU Bank Resolution Framework: A comparative study on the relation with national private law
On 19 September 2019, Lynette Janssen defended her thesis 'EU Bank Resolution Framework: A comparative study on the relation with national private law'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof.mr. W.A.K. Rank and prof. M. Haentjens.
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Towards a single-molecule FRET study of Frauenfelder's nonexponential rebinding of CO in myoglobin
Early time-resolved experiments by Frauenfelder on the ensemble of the kinetic rebinding of CO to myoglobin molecules resulted in a stretched exponential relaxa-tion due to a very large spread of the reaction rates of individual molecules.
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for skin barrier repair : from ex vivo assessment towards clinical studies
The stratum corneum is the outermost skin layer and consists of dead cells embedded in a lipid matrix.
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Elisa Goudriaan wins Ted Meijer Prize
The KNIR has awarded Elisa Goudriaan the Ted Meijer Prize for her dissertation The Cultural Importance of Florentine Patricians. Cultural Exchange, Brokerage Networks, and Social Representation in Early Modern Florence and Rome (1600-1660).
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Unending Variety: Papyrological Texts and Studies in Honour of Peter van Minnen
The subjects of the texts vary from Demosthenes to the delivery of camels in early Islamic Egypt, and their provenances stretch from the Eastern to the Western Desert, and from the Egyptian Nile valley to Qasr Ibrim in northern Nubia.
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A micro-trial study to investigate the effectiveness of public speaking treatments in children
Which intervention technique is more effective in reducing public speaking anxiety in children aged 9 – 12 years, exposure or restructuring cognitions?
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A study on PsbS and its role as a pH sensor
Solar energy harnessed by plants and algae has great potential to be converted into biofuels for future generations.