1,220 search results for “digital humanities” in the Public website
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Reconstructing adhesives
An experimental approach to organic palaeolithic technology
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Human DNA softer than DNA single-celled life
Single-celled organisms have stiffer DNA than multicellular lifeforms like humans and rice. Theoretical physicists managed to simulate the folding in full genomes for the first time to reach this conclusion. Publication in Biophysical Journal on February 7.
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Proving discriminatory violence at the European Court of Human Rights
On Tuesday 23 May 2017, Jasmina Mackic will defend her doctoral thesis ‘Proving discriminatory violence at the European Court of Human Rights’. The defence will start at 15.00 hrs, at the Academy Building of Leiden University, Rapenburg 73. The supervisor of the research is Vice Dean and Professor of…
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Artificial intelligence to extend, not replace human capabilities
Computers are increasingly able to accomplish tasks that are difficult for human experts, such as diagnosing diseases or detecting credit card fraud. While the earliest examples of computational thinking can be traced back to the 13th century, according to Holger Hoos, Leiden Professor of Machine Learning,…
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The Marie Curie ITN proposal ‘Mediating Islam in the Digital Age’ (MIDA) has been awarded
An international consortium of research institutes, universities and non-academic partners in six European countries has been awarded with a research grant from the Department for Research and Innovation of the European Commission in June 2018. MIDA is coordinated by the ‘Centre National de la Recherche…
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eLaw – Centre for Law and Digital Technologies organizes a panel at the CPDP 2017
The Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) is an annual world-leading multidisciplinary conference that takes place in January in Brussels. This year, eLaw, the Centre for Law and Digital Technologies of Leiden University, participates in the CPDP conference as one of the event’s…
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After us the deluge: exhibition portrays the end of humanity
From a catastrophic fire to a flood that engulfs the earth. Mineke Schipper, Professor Emeritus of Literary Studies, has collected myths from the four corners of the earth about the end of humanity. These have inspired 30 striking paintings by Japanese artist Yuriko Yamaguchi. The Dutch premiere of…
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How Stone Age Humans Unlocked the Glucose in Plants
Early cave paintings of hunting scenes may give the impression our Stone Age ancestors lived mainly on chunks of meat, but plants were just as key to their survival. Plants rich in starch helped early humans to thrive even at the height of the last Ice Age, Leiden archaeologist Amanda Henry tells Horizon…
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The Hague Meets Geneva: Dialogue between the ICC and Human Rights Actors
On 3 June 2016, Prof. Carsten Stahn participated in a Panel at the Graduate Institute on International and Development Studies in Geneva on accountability as a common goal between The Hague and Geneva.
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Gelijn Molier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
g.molier@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7592
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Olga Lundysheva
Faculty of Humanities
o.lundysheva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Henning Lahmann
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
h.c.lahmann@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8838
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William Michael Schmidli
Faculty of Humanities
w.m.schmidli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2341
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Joe Powderly
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.c.powderly@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9366
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Letizia Lo Giacco
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
l.lo.giacco@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7593
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Masja van Meeteren
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.j.van.meeteren@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Harold Kelly
Faculteit Archeologie
h.j.kelly@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jason Rudall
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.t.p.rudall@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Yuanyuan Mao
Science
y.mao@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Remco Breuker
Faculty of Humanities
r.e.breuker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2921
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Shekhar Kolipaka
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
s.s.kolipaka@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3451
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Salvador Santino Regilme
Faculty of Humanities
s.s.regilme@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1742
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Anne van Dam
Faculty of Humanities
a.n.van.dam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2166
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Roy Remme
Science
r.p.remme@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5610
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Jiang Wu
Faculty of Humanities
j.wu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Thea Coventry
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
t.a.c.coventry@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9512
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Pinar Ölcer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
f.p.olcer@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7520
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Alan Sears
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.m.sears@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8154
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Alexander van Oudenhoven
Science
a.p.e.van.oudenhoven@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7473
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Victor Klinkenberg
Faculteit Archeologie
m.v.klinkenberg@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Gavin Robinson
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
g.l.robinson@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Bart Custers
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
b.h.m.custers@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8838
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Data Management: Where to permanently store the digital archaeological datasets these days?
It is the end of your archaeological research project, and you may be wondering where to deposit your data. After the excavation, all of the finds are drawn, scanned, digitised, and the database is completed. Perhaps you have also accumulated a lot of data through further scientific analysis of the…
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NWO PhDs in the Humanities: PhD position for Bobby Ruijgrok
LUCL is pleased to announce that Bobby Ruijgrok has been awarded a PhD-position within the NWO PhDs in the Humanities Programme. His project is entitled 'Tapping into semantic recovery: an event-related potential study on the processing of gapping'. LUCL congratulates Bobby on this beautiful result.
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Towards an effective biodiversity conservation and governance in the Pontocaspian region
Freshwater and brackish water ecosystems are arguably the most vulnerable ecosystems on earth, due to concentrated human developments in and around them. The Pontocaspian (PC) region located at the border of Europe and Asia contains a variety of brackish water ecosystems and unique inhabitants, known…
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Archaeologist Nathalie Brusgaard investigates human-animal relations as Assistant Professor
Dr Nathalie Brusgaard both studied and finished her PhD at the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden. After a few years spreading her wings, she is now back. As the new Assistant Professor in the World Archaeology department, she will continue her research on the relationship between prehistoric humans and…
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Detection of Archaeological Sites in High Resolution Satellite Images
In this project we develop algorithms to automatically detect a particular type of archaeological sites in satellite images of the Alps.
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Slaves To The System: Researching North Korean Forced Labor in the EU
SLAVES TO THE SYSTEM: Locating Responsibility for Forced Expatriate Labour Practices by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)
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LUCDH Affiliated Researchers
LUCDH is creating a community of LU scholars researching in Digital Humanities. A selection of their DH Projects are listed on this page. If you are an Affiliated member and would like your project listed here or would like to be an Affiliated member, please email us at lucdh@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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Graduated from Humanities? Take part in our Job Market Survey!
Did you graduate at our faculty between 2016 and 2019? Please take part in the Humanities Job Market Survey!
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Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh – ‘State Responsibility, Climate Change and Human Rights under International Law’
About the book
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Professorial Families in German-speaking Europe, 1860-1930
How was the Scholarly Self cultivated in professorial families of the humanities, in German-speaking Europe between 1860 and 1930?
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Promoting reading skills through electronic books for grade 1 students
What is the effect of practicing with electronic books on reading skills for grade 1 students?
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Drug discovery 3.0: more effective and humane
Discovering effective new drugs is a long, expensive and uncertain process. Laura Heitman wants to improve this by finding out more about how drugs bind to proteins that play a role in disease. She calls it ‘drug discovery 3.0’. Inaugural lecture on 9 December.
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Discovering the preference hypervolume: an interactive model for real world computational co-creativity
In this thesis it is posed that the central object of preference discovery is a co-creative process in which the Other can be represented by a machine. It explores efficient methods to enhance introverted intuition using extraverted intuition's communication lines.
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present at ‘New Female Voices in Academia’ – Book Launch ‘Frontex and Human Rights'
On 11 February 2019 the Women in International Law Network, established in 2017 as an informal network for midlevel to senior female officials, experts, advisers and academics working in international law in the Netherlands, organised a panel discussion and the book launch of ‘Frontex and Human Rights’,…
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Veni grants for 6 young researchers of Humanities
During the next three years, 6 promising researchers from the Faculty of Humanities who have just been awarded their PhDs will be able to further develop their research ideas funded by a Veni grant from the NWO. A total of 147 Veni grants were awarded of which 14 went to researchers at Leiden Univer…
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Finding resolution for the Middle to Later Stone Age transition in South Africa
This project investigates the causes of the major archaeological change in the period of 40.000-20.000 BC in South Africa.