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Symposium about Rein Dool painting and University exhibition policy
At a symposium on 26 May, experts, staff and students from Leiden University will discuss what should happen with Rein Dool’s painting in the Academy Building and what the guidelines for the University’s exhibition policy should be. These issues will be explored from diverse perspectives during the…
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Pieter Slaman wins 2024 LUS Teaching Prize
Pieter Slaman, Assistant Professor at the Institute of History and the University’s university historian, has won the 2024 LUS Teaching Prize.
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about'
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she enjoys being involved with music.
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Call for Papers 'Playing Politics: Media Platforms Making Worlds'
We are living through an age in which social media platforms have given way to entirely new forms of politics and politicking. It is no exaggeration to say: there is a before and after social media.
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Lowlands as lab: virtual trips in the name of science
While tens of thousands of visitors dance to deafening music, a team of Leiden psychologists are trying to collect data for their research at Lowlands. How do festivalgoers experience a virtual trip? And what role do factors such as too little sleep and whether they have experience with psychedelics…
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Psychologists at Lowlands Science: can virtual reality trigger a psychedelic experience?
Fantastic plants, dizzying patterns and pulsating sounds: researchers from Leiden are going to study the effects of a simulated psychedelic trip on the mind and body at Lowlands Festival. Why might this be interesting for therapies?
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Scientific breakthrough: evidence that Neanderthals hunted giant elephants
Neanderthals were able to outwit straight-tusked elephants, the largest land mammals of the past few million years. Leiden professor Wil Roebroeks has published an article about this together with his German colleague Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser in the Science Advances journal.
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Resistance against the Dutch and German Occupiers: Indonesian Students in Leiden
On the eve of World War II, Leiden was home to the largest Indonesian student community in the Netherlands. Many of these students joined the resistance against the German occupation, and later some fought for Indonesia’s independence.
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‘In the second half of the eighteenth century, decisions were made in the stadtholder’s audience chamber.’
The stadtholder’s court in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands has long been underestimated. Real courts and the associated court culture were to be found elsewhere in Europe. PhD candidate Quinten Somsen is trying to reverse this image. ‘The stadtholder’s court was actually very lively.’
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Thomas Vorisek: ‘I try to create a more relaxed atmosphere in front of the camera’
Thomas Vorisek is a video coordinator. He picked up a new hobby in his student days, entirely by coincidence, and now he makes a living out of it. Thomas likes to spend his free time on the beach.
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Exhibition Early Photography of the Middle East
From Persia and Arabia to North Africa: as early as the nineteenth century, there were Dutch people who used the camera themselves in various regions of the Middle East.
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What could bring about change in Iran?
With ongoing protests across Iran, many are asking whether the regime is on the brink of collapse. Three Leiden experts share their perspectives.
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How vulnerable is the Netherlands to an energy crisis?
The Iran war has pushed up fuel prices and raised concerns about a global energy shortage. How well prepared is the Netherlands? We asked two experts.
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Social Mobility and Integration of Amsterdam Jews: The Ethnic Niche of the Diamond Industry, 1850-1940
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Dutch Investment in French: Colonial Resources in the Eighteenth Century
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Striving for Equity in eHealth
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Trick, trap, treason: Conspiracy theories on Turkey’s internal and external enemies (2002-2022)
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Tensiones entre la docencia y la investigación
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Iamblichus on the Cosmos, the Human Soul and Theurgy
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Versatility of Phonemic Pitch in Affective Iconicity and Perceptual Reorganization
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Securing the Future of Black Labor: Covert Attempts to Reopen the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Louisiana, 1853-1861
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Across World Orders: Information, Trust, Control, and Those in- Between in the Qing-Tibetan relationship (1636-1727)
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A Special Territory: Visions of Hong Kong and its People
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Saxophone Without Mouthpiece
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Asserting Princely Power in Hesse-Kassel and the Dutch Republic
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Neurosurgical management of brain metastases in the era of modern oncology
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Looking for Justice
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De rol van religie bij de natuurbeleving en de natuuruitbeelding door Nederlandse landschapschilders, ca. 1780-1870
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Sultan Hamid II van Pontianak en de federale staatsvorming van Indonesië
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Translation invariant Banach function spaces on groups
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Foreign Yet Domestic Liberties: The Imperial Imaginary of the ACLU and the U.S. Colonial Empire, 1920-1941
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Radicale democratie. Pieter Vreede (1750-1837) en de Nederlandse Revolutie
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Morphological Encoding in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from Chinese Disyllabic Compound Words
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Responding to accusations of national disloyalty. Confrontational maneuvering in Dutch plenary debates on EU issues
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Unveiling the electrolyte effects of CO2 electroreduction to CO and H2 Evolution from the interfacial pH perspective
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De Pieterskerk in Leiden 1795-heden
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Skin and Beyond: Reading the Surfaces of the Body in Ancient Greek Literature
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The lexico-semantic representation of words in the mental lexicon
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Chirurgijns in den vreemde. De geneeskundige zorg van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) voor haar personeel in Azië
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The Cultural Network: Javanese Imaginings of Indonesia, 1918-1966
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Design and Synthesis of Inhibitors and Probes for Sulfoquinovosidases and Xylanases
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The Situative Portrait
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La Alta Dirección Pública: Mérito, profesionalización y modernización del Estado en Chile
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Common Grounds: Urban Spaces, Everyday Religious Encounters, and the Dynamics and Techniques of Coexistence in Madina-Accra (1959-–Present)
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Tocharian and Samoyed: On the question of Uralic substrate influence in Tocharian
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Catching cereal killers: A multi-omics approach to disentangle yeast- Fusarium interactions in the phyllosphere
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Colonial Calvinism: Colonial Ideologies of Dutch Clergymen in Batavia, ca. 1700-1850
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De Storm der Hartstogten Woedt
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High-throughput screening using fluorescent cell models for mechanistic evaluation of adverse drug reactions
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Educated Muslim Women in a Non-Muslim World: Navigating Identities in Sendai, Japan
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