1,898 search results for “postcolonial studies” in the Public website
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The future of experiencing the past
The Faculty of Archaeology experiments with innovating their teaching methods, using 3D scans and visualisation technology to enable active learning. 'It makes archaeological material more accessible. Especially when it comes to fragile materials, it allows nearly anybody to analyse them.'
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Honorary doctorates for Belgian virologist Marc van Ranst and German Arabist Beatrice Gründler
Leiden University is awarding an honorary doctorate to virologist Marc van Ranst. Van Ranst has been one of the main advisers of the Belgian government during the Covid pandemic. German Arabist Beatrice Gründler will also receive an honorary doctorate for her work in the field of Oriental Manuscript…
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Minecraft in Morocco: virtual building blocks bring the past to life
Getting young people excited about history is quite possible without books. Researchers from Leiden travelled to Morocco to work with schoolchildren on reconstructing cultural heritage in the popular video game Minecraft. The result: one virtual 14th-century city gate – and 20 teens with a greater appreciation…
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Jason Laffoon's Archaeometry article in top 20 most read
The research article ‘The life history of an enslaved African’ is one of the top 20 read Archaeometry articles in the period of January 2017 to December 2018.
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Exploring the economic life of law with sociological imagination, visual methods and experimental attitude
On Friday 24 March, Prof. Amanda Perry-Kessaris (Kent Law School) will deliver the monthly Leiden Socio-Legal Lecture.
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Crossing Borders: An afternoon of Music and Words
Lecture
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Remembering Olivier Nieuwenhuyse with a festschrift: ‘He would have loved this book’
On November 16 a festschrift in honor of Dr Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was presented in a moving event at the Faculty of Archaeology. Professor Bleda Düring, a personal friend of Nieuwenhuyse, was one of the initiators. ‘If he had been here, he would have loved this book.’
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800 year old mystery of ancient bone disease solved
Scientific research at the molecular level on a collection of medieval skeletons from Norton Priory in Cheshire, United Kingdom, could help rewrite history after revealing they were affected by an unusual ancient form of the bone disorder, Paget’s disease. Osteoarchaeologist Carla Burrell, attached…
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Two Vrije Competitie Grants for LUCL researchers
LUCL is pleased to announce that two Vrije Competitie Grants have been awarded to LUCL researchers. Prof.dr. Lisa Cheng and dr. Jenny Doetjes have been awarded a grant for their project 'Understanding questions'. Prof.dr. Michael Kemper (UvA) and prof.dr. Jos Schaeken have been awarded a grant for the…
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Clinical to Public Health Perspectives. Results from population-based studies of the Dutch and the Indonesian populations
PhD defence
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Investigating obsidian sources in Honduras with a Corrie Bakels Grant
Obsidian, a volcanic glass-like material, is often used for making tools by Mesoamerican societies. In Honduras, certain obsidian artefacts do not yet have a known provenance. PhD candidate Marie Kolbenstetter and Assistant Professor Dennis Braekmans were awarded a Corrie Bakels Grant to explore thus…
- ELS lab meeting - Work in Progress: Survey of EU Member States by Eva Grosfeld
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LUCIP Forum: A Comparative Study of Zhuangzi, Fang Yizhi, and Heidegger’s Views of Life and Death
Lecture
- ELS lab meeting - Lecture: Quantitative and qualitative research on effectiveness of supply chain managements by Jaap Baaij
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ELS Academy Midseason Event
Conference
- ELS lab meeting - Journal Club: Daily surveys on social stressors at work and their influence on marital behaviors at home by Helen Pluut
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Discretion and decision making seminar
On 20 & 21 April 2017 international researchers in the field of law and society and criminology presented their work in Brussels and shared ideas on discretion and decision-making.
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From research project to market leader in cycling tours for elderly
‘In Hong Kong, the elderly found our popular nature routes boring, so they now cycle our action-packed routes through New York.’ What once started as an assignment for the Master Programme Media Technology, has grown into the international market leader in the field of virtual reality exercises for…
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With these small adjustments we can reduce nitrogen loss in peat meadows
Relatively simple adjustments can reduce nitrogen losses on dairy farms in peatland areas. That’s the conclusion of the PhD research by by Leiden environmental scientist Jeroen Pijlman at the Louis Bolk Institute. Protein-poor grass species and narrow-leaved plantain in the grassland can limit nitrogen…
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ELS lab meeting – Methodology Session: Introduction to Bluetick, AI & Legal Research
Lecture
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ELS lab meeting – Letter experiments to measure compliance in the financial sector by Sarwesh Iswardat
Lecture
- ELS lab meeting - Journal Club: What went wrong? Methodological barriers to ELS by Jessie Pool
- ELS lab meeting - Work in Progress Session: Working from Home: what empirical questions arise? by Merel Cornax
- ELS lab meeting – Methodology session on social network analysis
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SPSS workshop ELS@Leiden
Course
- ELS lab meeting - Guest lecture: Law, sustainability and behaviour by prof. Linda Steg
- ELS lab meeting - Work in Progress by jasper Sluijs
- ELS lab meeting - Lunch & Learn: 'How to measure compliance with a norm?' with Gitta Veldt and Lisa Ansems
- ELS lab meeting - Journal Club: Perspectives on transnational auditing to assess compliance by Phillip Paiement
- ELS lab meeting - Lunch & Learn: "ELS is a solo endeavour"
- ELS lab meeting - RESCHEDULED Guest lecture: Prof. Kati Cseres on Gender and competition law
- ELS lab meeting - Lunch & Learn: “ELS is an interdisciplinary endeavor”
- ELS lab meeting - Lunch & Learn: ELS lab meeting - Pitch your research workshop
- ELS lab meeting - Lunch & Learn: FAQs about ELS
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ELS lab meeting – Lunch & Learn: ‘Interviews 101: Back to basics'
Lecture
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Recording Merovingians
Conference
- ELS lab meeting: Lunch & Learn with Jessie Pool
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Bringing objects to life
Conference, Symposium
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Improving painkiller dosing in the clinic
Children, cardiac surgery patients or people who are obese. How can we improve the dosing of painkillers for these patients? Hospital pharmacist Sjoerd de Hoogd of the St. Antonius Hospital in Utrecht investigated this. He combined data from the hospital with the knowledge and expertise of the Leiden…
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‘Archaeology is rooting around between the artefact and the person’
‘Archeologists don’t dig up explanations, let alone certainties,’ says Joanita Vroom, Professor of Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia. ‘Their job is to bridge the gap between the sherds that they find and people’s everyday lives. What do ceramics from the past say about people’s eating…
- ELS lab meeting - Work in progress session: A survey on the internalization and effectiveness of constitutional norms by Jelle But
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Politics and the Holocaust in Modern Poland
Lecture, Seminar
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Digging Deep in the Galilee: 10 Years of Excavations on a Hill with a View
Lecture
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Exploring the violent end of European empires
Conference, Workshop and book presentation
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Introducing: Oran Kennedy
Oran Kennedy
- Statistics Workshop: All hands on Stata
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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Undisciplined Collections
Workshop