1,252 search results for “cultural representation of illness and debility” in the Staff website
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The Roman empire and world history
Debate
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History and change in Sign Language Phonology
Lecture
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Skill issues: conceptual metaphors and the etymology of Vedic r̥tá
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Book presentation: Israelite Religion
Lecture, Book presentation
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Book presentation: The world according to North Korea
Lecture, Boekpresentatie
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Two Dialogic Network lectures by Siavash Rafiee Rad and Keramat Fathinia
Lecture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Archaeological Forum: Nathalie Brusgaard and Martin Berger
Lecture
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Religion as political tool: the influence of Christian Zionism in the US
Lecture, Actualiteitencollege Den Haag
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Patterns of semantic change and reconstruction
Lecture
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Archaeological Forum: Lieke Bes and Adam Benfer
Lecture
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…
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Letters of Johan de Witt give a glimpse behind the scenes at the Disaster Year 1672
The government, the people and the country were in desperate straits. This about sums up the state of affairs in the Disaster Year of 1672. It was 350 years ago, and to mark the occasion PhD candidate Roosje Peeters collaborated on a series of letters to and from a key political figure Johan de Witt,…
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Back to Rabat
The airspace had almost closed last year as Leiden students and staff rushed to leave the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR). How is this Leiden institute in Rabat doing over a year later? ‘Luckily we’d done a crisis exercise a few months before. Everyone managed leave the country in time.’
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Unravelling the complexity of HIV/AIDS
Dr. Josien de Klerk, Associate professor in Global Public Health at Leiden University College The Hague recently published some of her work on HIV/AIDS. In collaboration with a team of interdisciplinary researchers from the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development she came to the conclusion…
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‘We all support equal opportunities, but disagree on how to achieve them’
Rotterdam is an extreme example of inequality in the Netherlands. There are huge health and life expectancy differences between neighbourhoods. Good access to healthcare and education isn’t a cure-all, say inequality economists Lieke Beekers and Hans van Kippersluis
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Eiko Fried in Leisure Management on stress measurements from smartwatches
Eiko Fried, associate professor of clinical psychology, comments in Leisure Management on new research showing that consumer smartwatches cannot distinguish between stress and excitement. He stresses these devices are lifestyle gadgets, not medical instruments, and warns consumers against overestimating…
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The Interactive Pasts Conference 4
Conference
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Racism versus Socialism in Cuba
Lecture, Discussion
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Trick, trap, treason: Conspiracy theories on Turkey’s internal and external enemies (2002-2022)
PhD defence
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Relative chronology and the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop systems
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Neoplatonism in the Christological Debates of Late Antiquity: Influences, Interferences, and Contrasts
Conference
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ASCL Seminar: Waves of Memory in the Red Sea: Unpacking Mixedness through Italo-Eritrean Livescapes
Lecture
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Book Talk: The Psychic Lives of Statues
Lecture, Book Talk
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The Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court - A Good Governance Approach
PhD defence
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Doctoral Exhibition Judith van IJken
PhD defence, Doctoral Exhibition
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Book presentation: 'Radicalized Conservatism in Israel' by Mateo Cohen
Book presentation
- European Union Seminar Series
- Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
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The syntax of Dutch (non-clausal) manner PPs
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Sign language emergence and diachronic change
Conference, Leiden-Birmingham Lectures
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4th Hybrid Cushitic Conference
Conference
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Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum
Conference
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Adjectival Doubling Construction - 'I almost forgot the most importantest part'
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Reassessing the etymology of Greek katharós ‘clean, stainless, pure’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Syria, one year after the revolution: The role of women and minorities
Lecture, Workshop
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A Luwian song in Old Hittite and its relevance for the study of negation compounds
Lecture, CIEL Seminars
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No phases
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Modality without moods? Preliminary considerations for a systematic study of modal strategies in Hittite
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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The End of Democracy? Latin American Perspectives on a Global Crisis
Debate, Panel discussion
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Leiden Science Run – Saturday 21 June 2025
Festival
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Taking Lives: Narratives of Latin American Femicide Perpetrators
Book launch
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Asia Academy #20: 75 Years of Korean War: The Long Shadow
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Asia Academy #18: ChatGPT vs Deepseek: China's Rise as AI Power
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Telling the story of Gaza
Lecture, Book presentation and Q&A
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Discover the Realities of North Korea: An Evening with Defectors Lee Young-Hyeon and Lee Byung-Lim
Lecture
- Students and PhD candidates: apply by 18 December to join our Una Europa task force
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Defence Minister at Ukraine Symposium: 'We Europeans have only one chance to get this right'
Three years on, and interest in Ukraine certainly hasn't waned. The auditorium at the Wijnhaven location was fully booked on Monday. Hundreds of people, including top military brass, listened to Defence Minister Brekelmans' speech. He pointed out to them: 'Here in the Netherlands, we're now living in…
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Annual Review 2025
In 2025, students, lecturers, researchers and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities were once again at the heart of society. They demonstrated the importance of the humanities through their groundbreaking research, meaningful education and strong collaborations.