2,696 search results for “tales en culture van de world” in the Staff website
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Sheltering 10 billion people in a warming and resource-scarce world: challenges and opportunities
PhD defence
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Apocalypse, Empire, and Universal Mission at the End of Antiquity: World Religions at the Crossroads
PhD defence
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and Democracy: Essays on the Fiscal Social Contract in a Globalised World
PhD defence
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Leiden University's world-renowned collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Emotions in the social world: Recognition, expression, and alignment across the lifespan
PhD defence
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Educated Muslim Women in a Non-Muslim World: Navigating Identities in Sendai, Japan
PhD defence
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The Sky is Made of Lava: How lava worlds reveal their interiors through their atmospheres
PhD defence
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“Armez-vous des sciences”? The Creative Lives of African Universities
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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Liveable Planet Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Jessica Kiefte-De Jong (LUMC) and Paul Behrens (FWN) on Food & Sustainability - Discussion
Lecture
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Manipulation of Superconductivity in van der Waals Materials and Thin Films
PhD defence
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Asia Academy #15: North Korea's Gamble
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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Marja Spierenburg about the importance of the EuroScience Open Forum
From Wednesday 13 July 2022, for four days, Leiden is at the epicentre of European science, as it hosts Europe's largest interdisciplinary conference, the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF). We interviewed Marja Spierenburg, Professor in the Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood. In addition to being…
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Floris Harm studied Chinese, just like one of his ancestors: ‘We’re both trying to promote mutual understanding’
When Floris Harm took up his role as director of the Leiden Asia Centre, he made a remarkable discovery on the university website. It turned out that a past family member was one of Leiden University’s first sinologists.
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Strengthening European research networks: Archaeologist Miguel John Versluys honored with prestigious Humboldt Research Award
Professor Miguel John Versluys of Leiden University has been recognised with the esteemed Humboldt Research Award, a testament to his groundbreaking work in global archaeology, reception-studies and the deep history of globalisation. The award, granted by the Alexander von Humbold-Stiftung, celebrates…
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‘Leiden could raise its profile as an AI expert’
‘In the field of AI, Leiden is still a relatively unseen university,’ says Thomas Dohmen. The brand-new Director AI Collaboration Center, would like to forge a Leiden AI collaboration network, with sustainable and impactful relationships between the university and civil society organisations. The question…
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Max van der Horst: “Ethical Vulnerability Mass-Exploitation 101: Theory and Practice”
Lecture, Tech Trends Workshop
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Empowering students in the world of ChatGPT: Use and misuse of LLMs
Lunchbyte
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Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Gjovalin MacajFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
g.macaj@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Annachiara RaiaFaculty of Humanities
a.raia@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275283
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Jason LaffoonFaculty of Archaeology
j.e.laffoon@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2646
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Museum Talk with Ina Klaassen (Boijmans van Beuningen): 'The depot: a public private endeavour'
Alumni event, Lecture
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Herta Mohr lecture 2025: TT 217, the tomb of the sculptor Ipuy
Lecture, Herta Mohr Lecture
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All eyes on China: the Communist Party Congress is coming up
The world’s attention will shift to China as the Communist Party is set to hold its five-yearly congress beginning on 16 October. We talk to Senior University Lecturer Florian Schneider about how its leader Xi Jinping is expected to cement his place as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Ze…
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The link between The Hague bonfires and different types of citizenship
For the third year in a row, the bonfires in the Duindorp and Scheveningen neighbourhoods in The Hague during New Year's Eve have been cancelled. According to Professor Henk te Velde, the fight for the bonfires represents something bigger: angry citizens.
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The importance of an interdisciplinary approach to open information provision in palliative care
What if seriously ill patients do not want to hear their diagnosis? Does a clinician always need to provide a patient with all available information? Communication researcher Liesbeth van Vliet, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels and research intern Fiona Brosig will put these questions on open…
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Mirjam Oomens: ‘Healthcare professionals should be cautious about survival prognoses’
Mirjam Oomens was working on her PhD research on language in the consulting room when she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Four years later, she has made it her mission to encourage doctors and other healthcare professionals to make fewer statements about life expectancy. 'Such a conviction can…
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Meer dan alleen een goed idee. Naar een empirisch onderbouwde aanpak van cybercrime
Inaugural lecture
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Nominees bachelor's thesis prize Political Science 2024
The nominees for the IRO Thesis Prize 2024 and the Prof. Dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg-prijs 2024. Who authored the best thesis in Leiden University’s bachelor’s programme in Political Science?
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UK and the EU: what shared interests in a digitised and geopolitical world?
Debate
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Racism versus Socialism in Cuba
Lecture, Discussion
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Rules for a lawless world? The international legal order in an age of great-power struggle for normative primacy
Lecture, Keynote Lectures
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Discover the Realities of North Korea: An Evening with Defectors Lee Young-Hyeon and Lee Byung-Lim
Lecture
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Asia Academy #18: ChatGPT vs Deepseek: China's Rise as AI Power
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Asia Academy #20: 75 Years of Korean War: The Long Shadow
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Telling the story of Gaza
Lecture, Book presentation and Q&A
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Science for Policy in a Changing World Insights from Leiden University’s Europe Hub
Conference
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Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Poland for a book they co-edited. How has this affected them? ‘This is an attempt to wear us down.’
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Everyday Ethics in India: Women’s Reproductive Choices in Everyday World
Conversation
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Contested heritage in The Hague: what to do with the remains of the Atlantik Wall?
During World War II, the Nazi’s ordered a coastal defensive line to be built from the south of France to Norway. This Atlantik Wall aimed to defend their territories in continental Europe from an Allied naval invasion. The defensive line went right through the Dutch city of The Hague. The material remains…
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Nation Building, Historiography, and School History in a Multi-Cultural Context: Ethiopia’s Enigma of Our Time
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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The End of Democracy? Latin American Perspectives on a Global Crisis
Debate, Panel discussion
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ASCL Seminar: Waves of Memory in the Red Sea: Unpacking Mixedness through Italo-Eritrean Livescapes
Lecture
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The PolSci Bookshelf: books released in 2023
The end of the year often means looking back with lists, overviews and stories. This combines nicely in a list of all the books published this year by various political scientists at Leiden University. Indeed, in terms of books, these scholars have certainly not been idle. A unique collection of stories,…
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Multilingualism in young children is a good thing: 'Languages support each other'
During Leiden City of Science 2022, Janet Grijzenhout and Hannah De Mulder will put multilingualism in the spotlight by organising multilingual storytelling afternoons. They hope to show parents that raising children multilingually is achievable as well as beneficial.
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Havar SolheimFaculty of Humanities
h.a.s.solheim@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5342
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
s.p.m.bussels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2693
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
w.m.schmidli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2341