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- Week 8: 25-28 February 2018
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Distracted consumption and compensatory mechanisms
A research into the consumption experience and consumption behaviour.
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Artistic Practices of Historical Sound
Memory, Imagination, and Mimetics in Contemporary Composition and Historical Performance
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About the programme
The one-year International Relations Master's specialisations offer an attractive mix of theoretical knowledge with practical experience.
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Persianism in Antiquity
The socio-political and cultural memory of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire played a very important role in Antiquity and later ages. This book is the first to systematically chart these multiform ideas and associations over time and to define them in relation to one another, as Persianism.
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Pre- and perinatal risk factors
Effects of maternal smoking, premature birth, intra-uterine growth retardation and asphyxia on child development.
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Key Issues in Historical Theory
This book addresses the definition of history and how people are influenced by it.
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Physics implications of shape on biological function
Shape and biological function are tightly connected. Physical descriptions are used to connect the shape of a biological system with its function.
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Size effects in microstructured superconductors and quantum materials
We find ourselves in an era of transition, not just towards a more computing- and data-driven society but also away from unsustainable fossil fuels as an energy source.
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The Legacy of Dutch Brazil
This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil.
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Being a Slave: Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean
Being a Slave brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean.
- Topical Issues in Museums
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Time, History and Ritual in a K’iche’ Community
This work analyzes ritual practices and knowledge related to the Mesoamerican calendar with the aim of contributing to the understanding of the use and conceptualization of this calendar system in the contemporary K’iche’ community of Momostenango, in the Highlands of Guatemala.
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Stochastic and Deterministic Algorithms for Continuous Black-Box Optimization
Continuous optimization is never easy: the exact solution is always a luxury demand and the theory of it is not always analytical and elegant.
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Segments and rules: a comparative study into the computational mechanisms underlying language acquisition
In this project we study the properties of statistical- and rule-learning mechanisms in relation to the acquisition and evolution of language. We ask to what extent these mechanisms are unique to humans - or to human language - by comparing the acquisition of vocal structure in two species: humans (infants)…
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Criticismo y materialismo en los escritos tempranos de Theodor W. Adorno y Max Horkheimer
The dissertation focuses on the work of German philosophers Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, founders of critical theory at the Frankfurt School. Specifically, it is a study of the “early” writings, dated between 1925 and 1940, to reconstruct the early stages of critical theory. The thesis argues…
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Tiempo y Comunidad: Herencias e Interacciones Socioculturales en Mesoamérica y Occidente
ASLU 29 Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen, Valentina Raffa (2015)
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Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences Leiden University
The group Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences has expertise in individual differences in child development, in particular the development of psychopathology, ranging from mild to severe neurodevelopmental disorders.
- Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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The Roots of Intentionality in Aristotle´s Theory of Psychology
The relevance of intentionality to the interpretation of Aristotle was first suggested by Brentano in his Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint. Here we take our starting point from Brentano and investigate how Brentano’s concept of intentionality is rooted in Aristotle.
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On the efficacy of digitized storybooks for young learners with attention problems
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Research
Research in the group Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences is focused on understanding and influencing developmental mechanisms in children and adolescents.
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Large scale visual search
Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: M.S. Lew
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Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World
This volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the cities of the Roman Mediterranean in the last centuries BCE and the first centuries CE, integrating debates about Roman urban space with discourse on Roman urban history.
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Van Saarloos Group - Soft Matter Theory
The focus of our theoretical research is understanding the behaviour of soft condensed matter, physical matter which is deformed or structurally altered by thermal fluctuations or small stresses.
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The Legend of Saint Aūr and the Monastery of Naqlūn: The Copto-Arabic Texts
Clara ten Hacken defended her thesis on 16 December 2015
- Martina Huber Lab - EPR Group
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Lab facilities Cognitive Psychology
Reactions and reaction times in cognitive tasks.
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Making messages memorable: the influence of rhetorical techniques on information retention
On the 24th of June, Martijn Wackers successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Martijn on this achievement!
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‘Being a slave’ Indian ocean slavery in local context
What did it mean to be enslaved in in the Indian Ocean world in the 18th and 19th centuries? Over the last decades, historians have mined French, British, Portuguese and Dutch records for quantitative data on the European slave trade. This project focuses on the experience of being a slave and seeks…
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Counter-Discours in Zimbabwean Literature
Counter-Discourse in Zimbabwean Literature is a study of specific aspects of counter-discursive Zimbabwean narratives in English. In discussing the selected texts, my thesis is based on Terdiman’s (1989) the postcolonial concept of counter-discourse.
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Annual conference
Until 2019, LUCIS organised an annual conference to highlight state-of-the-art research on a central theme within the academic study of Islam and society. Researchers from around the globe convened in Leiden to share and discuss their work.
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Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive psychology is the study of cognitive functions such as attention, memory, consciousness, emotion, language and action control. The goal is to understand the complex relationships between brain, mind and behavior.
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The Arab Thieves: al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar
Vol. V, Sections 1-2
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Related master’s programmes
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Long-awaited review reveals journey of water from interstellar clouds to habitable worlds
Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, together with an international team of colleagues, has written an overview of everything we know about water in interstellar clouds thanks to the Herschel space observatory. The article, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, summarizes existing knowledge and…
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Veiled references to the Armenian genocide
No criticism is allowed in Turkey of the mass murder of Armenians that took place a century ago. PhD candidate Alaettin Carikci examined how contemporary artists, authors, film directors and museums have nonetheless found indirect ways of expressing their criticism.
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Archival Interactions: Artists and Archivists
Subproject of the NWO Smart Culture Grant research project 'The Critical Visitor'.
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Borderland Narratives
Cultural Anthropologist Erik de Maaker published, together with Monica Janoswki (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), Stories across Borders: Myths of Origin and Their Contestation in the Borderlands of South and Southeast Asia in Southeast Asian Studies (SEAS).
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The Critical Visitor
The Heritage Sector at a Crossroads: The way of Intersectionality. This project investigates how heritage institutions can achieve inclusion and accessibility within their organization, collection, and exhibition spaces that meets the breadth of demands placed by today’s “critical visitors.” Fifteen…
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Children's Rights Moot Court
The bi-annual Children’s Rights Moot Court (CRM), organised by the Department of Child Law in partnership with Baker McKenzie, was initiated by Leiden Law School in 2014 on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Moot Court offers students…
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Alumni's experiences
What's it like to participate in the Leiden Leadership Programme? Alumni share their experiences: 'You learn things about leadership and can immediately put them into practice.'
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Building cultures of legality: lawmaking and anxiety in the office of the Governor General.
Building cultures of legality: lawmaking and anxiety in the office of the Governor General.
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Representation and processing of pitch variation in tonal languages
This project examines how speakers store and process regular pitch variation.
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Arabic Studies
Dating back more than 400 years, Leiden University has the oldest continuous chair of Arabic outside the Arabic-speaking world. Today the MENA region is studied at Leiden from before the coming of Islam up to today from a wide array of disciplines. And Arabic is studied within the diverse linguistic,…
- Oort Lecture
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Forgotten Lineages. Afterlives of Dutch Slavery in the Indian Ocean World
Forgotten Lineages explores the paths through which generations of formally enslaved and their descendants gradually forgot their past of enslavement under Dutch and British imperial rule and became local subjects in Sri Lanka and South Africa. It explores why and how forgetting rather than memory became…
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Singing is silver, hearing is gold: impacts of local FoxP1 knockdowns on auditory perception and gene expression in female zebra finches
The experiments described in this thesis employ local lentiviral knockdowns in brain areas of female zebra finches followed by behavioural assays consisting of preference and Go/Nogo tasks.