1,330 search results for “intellectual property” in the Public website
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The Golden Mean of Languages; Forging Dutch and French in the Early Modern Low Countries (1540-1620)
In The Golden Mean of Languages, Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both Dutch and French were local tongues. The fascination with the history, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Dutch and French…
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Islamization Explored
Can we speak of a single Islamic discourse in fields like politics, militancy, economics, sustainable development, and the like, and what interaction does this Islamic though have with ‘Western’ thought?
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Scholarly Dogmatism: A Rhetorical History, 1800-2000
This project traces how, why, and under what circumstances scholars invoked the trope of “dogmatism,” especially in controversies. Relevant controversies from various fields, periods, and countries will be subjected to in-depth rhetorical analysis.
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Granting Opportunities
Overview of granting opportunities in the wider digital humanities community.Follow links for the most up-to-date details on deadline dates/times and conditions for applying.
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Pride and Prejudice: Moral Languages in Scholarly Codes of Conduct, 1900-2000
If idioms employed in codes of conduct could be as idiosyncratic as examples suggest, then to what extent did early modern language of vice, too, persist in this genre?
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Falling Short of Expectations: Evaluative Languages in Scholarly Book Reviews, 1900-2000
What evaluative languages (errors, mistakes, vices, etc.) did book reviewers employ? To what extent and on what occasions did they invoke early modern vices? And to what extent did this differ across fields or change over the course of the century?
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Idols of the Mind: Modern Variations on a Baconian Theme, 1800-2000
Drawing on a broad array of sources, this project examines modern retrievals of Bacon’s idols, thereby testing Justus von Liebig’s intriguing observation, back in 1863, that Bacon’s name lived on mainly in mottos or stereotypical phrases. More importantly, it examines the rhetorical purposes served…
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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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Hodegetics: Language of Vice in Student Advice Literature, 1700-1900
This project analyzes to what extent hodegetical textbooks relied on each other in warning their readers against vicious habits, how much continuity their catalogs of vice displayed, and to what extent vices that persisted throughout the 18th and 19th centuries were associated with easy-to-remember…
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Profile 4. Monasteries and society in the Northern Netherlands
Since my master's thesis on the landed property of the Frisian monasteries in the Middle Ages I am highly interested in the do ut des-aspects of the relation between religious houses and the lay world. Key words here are: property, power, patronage and the role of religious institutions in the 'salvation…
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ASCOLA conference
The 11th annual conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) of 2016 took place this year on 30 June- 2 July at Leiden University.
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Masterclass: Why did Pope Gregory the Great make churches give up property? (Roy Flechner, University College Dublin)
On the 7th and 8th of November, Radboud University and Utrecht University are jointly organising a masterclass for (Re)MA students and PhD candidates on the life and times of those lay people dependent on monasteries.
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La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia
A Spanish translation of Herman Paul’s 'Key Issues in Historical Theory' has appeared under the title 'La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia'.
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
v.thakur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1256
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Patrick Dassen
Faculty of Humanities
p.dassen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2622
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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
j.qiao@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2977
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Kiri Paramore
Faculty of Humanities
k.n.paramore@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Arnold Mol
Faculty of Humanities
a.j.w.mol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ustadh Mau Digital Archive (UMADA)
Hifadhi ya Dijiti ya Ustadh Mau
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‘The really hard part is thinking up a wrong answer.’
The topics of discussion included multiple choices questions, research on teaching, workload and many other things. On 29 October four new enthusiastic fellows were installed in the Leiden Teachers’ Academy and presented their research innovation projects.
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Tycho de Graaf
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
t.j.de.graaf@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4989
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Ilya Kokorin
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
i.kokorin@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7262
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Youri Cremers
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
y.e.m.cremers@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Scholarly Vices: A Longue Durée History
This project tries to explain the persistence of this cultural repertoire by zooming in on (1) interaction between idioms (cultural repertoires) available to scholars at certain points in time, (2) mechanisms that help transmit repertoires across time and place, and (3) rhetorical purposes for which…
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Jacqueline Hylkema
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
j.j.hylkema@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Anne-Isabelle Richard
Faculty of Humanities
a.i.richard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1399
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Ahab Bdaiwi
Faculty of Humanities
a.bdaiwi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1639
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Lionel Laborie
Faculty of Humanities
l.p.f.laborie@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3546
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Introducing: Project Group The Scholarly Self
In November 2013, three PhD students started in Herman Paul’s VIDI project ‘The Scholarly Self: Character, Habit, and Virtue in the Humanities, 1860-1930’. In this newsletter they introduce themselves.
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Hans-Jan van Kralingen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.van.kralingen@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7841
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Egbert Koops
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
e.koops@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7527
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Katherine Filesia
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
k.r.filesia@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Research Areas
The Centre is the proud home of several research programmes.
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Fiscal Policy and the Long Shadows of History
In this paper, Kantorowicz aims to track the persistent effect of former partitioning borders on property tax rates in Poland.
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Ancient Greek ersatz econonomics
This subproject of 'From Homo Economicus to Political Animal' will be on ancient analogues for modern-day “ersatz economics”, the economics of the “man in the street”.
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ICCL students visit Kadaster office in Rotterdam
As part of the course International Property Law, the Advanced LLM ICCL 2016-2017 students paid a visit to the Kadaster office in Rotterdam, one of the offices in the Netherlands where property is registered. They were accompanied by their teacher Jeroen van der Weide of the Institute for Private La…
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Get to know Seif Kabil, chairman young alumni network
Seif Kabil is the new chairman of the International Young Leiden Law Alumni Network. Time to get to know him better.
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Spherical mosaics from different tiles
What are 'defects' and mechanical properties of mosaics of different shapes of tiles?
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Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War
This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with global Communism during the Cold War.
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Staring at the heavens: Astronomy in medieval Islam
University Lecturer Ahab Bdaiwi:
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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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The Dutch Empire between Ideas and Practice, 1600–2000
This book explores the intellectual history of the Dutch empire from the sixteenth century to the postcolonial era, going beyond systemic thinkers to understand how empire was perceived in day-to-day life. It takes a transnational and transimperial approach to the Dutch empire, connecting European,…
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Verandering van geloofsvoorstelling: Analyse van legitimaties door Antony Flew, Cees Dekker en Raymond Bradley
Michiel Pronk defended his thesis on 30 March 2016
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On the Galois closure of commutative algebras
Promotores: H.W. Lenstra, B. Erez, Co-promotor: L. Taelman
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Autonomy and Objectivity
The aim of this project is to foster a historiography that does justice both to the realization that scientific knowledge is constructed by local, contingent, and contextual processes, and the claims of science to objective validity.
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Student orchestra: ‘I love a bit of power’
The Dutch Student Orchestra is performing at Stadsgehoorzaal, Leiden’s concert hall, on 11 February. Several Leiden students have sacrificed many a free hour to the rehearsals. Days before the big performance we present them with three dilemmas.
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Niall Hodgins best Student Entrepreneur
Niall Hodgins, master student Biology and Science Based Business, has earned the right to call himself the best student entrepreneur in Leiden. On June 15th 2016 he won the finals of Gulliver and the associated 10,000-euro prize for his company NADES to continue developing solvents for use in preclinical…
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The galaxy–dark matter connection: a KiDS study
In this thesis, the research focuses on the properties of dark matter and dark matter haloes and how they connect with the galaxies we can observe in the Universe.
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Assembling anisotropic colloidal building blocks
This PhD-thesis presents a study on micron-sized particles, so-called colloids. By controlling the chemical and physical properties of these particles, such as the interparticle interaction and the particles’ shape, colloids can act as building blocks that self-assembly into larger structures.