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Contact
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Contact
If you have a question, there are various ways to get in touch with us.
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Continuing your studies
If you’ve graduated from the programme and you want to further your academic education you can continue with a master’s programme. It will earn you the title of Master of Arts (MA) and significantly increase your chances of finding a position at academic level.
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Japanese Confucianism
“Winner CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award 2016” A Cultural History
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Back to the source
Provenance and distribution of raw materials
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Female Spies or 'she-Intelligencers': Towards a Gendered History of Seventeenth-Century Espionage
By analysing neglected (continental) spy centres and integrating these groups of female intelligencers into the traditional, male-orientated historical narratives, this project will proceed towards a gendered history of early modern espionage.
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CPP Annual Lecture 'Refugees and the Politics of Inhumanitarianism'
Lecture
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BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).
Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.
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What Determines Perceptions of Bias toward the International Criminal Court? Evidence from Kenya
What Determines Perceptions of Bias toward the International Criminal Court? Evidence from Kenya. In this article, published on the website SAGE Journals in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the authors Geoff Dancy, Yvonne Marie Dutton, Tessa Alleblas, Eamon Aloyo examine the attitude towards international…
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Business Against Markets: Employer Resistance to Collective Bargaining Liberalization During the Eurozone Crisis
Employer organizations have been presented as strong promoters of the liberalization of industrial relations in Europe. This article, in contrast, argues that the preferences of employers vis-à-vis liberalization are heterogeneous and documents how employer organizations in Spain, Italy, and Portugal…
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The Discovery of El Greco: The Nationalization of Culture Versus the Rise of Modern Art (1860-1915)
The Discovery of El Greco: The Nationalization of Culture Versus the Rise of Modern Art (1860-1915)
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Gender differences in crime and prosecution policies in 19th century Europe
My current research focuses on criminality and gender interactions in nineteenth-century Europe. This project uses a comparative methodology to explain gender constructions in a criminal and in a court setting.
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IPSA RC31 Conference, Decolonizing Western Political Philosophy
Debate
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Barbarism: History of a fundamental European concept and its literary manifestations from the 18th century to the present
This collaborative project aims to explore the history of the concept “barbarism” in Europe from the 18th century to the present, with a particular emphasis on the role of literature and art in the concept’s shifting functions.
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About the programme
The one-year master's in Politics, Society and Economy of Asia, a specialisation of Leiden University’s master's in Asian Studies, offers a large and varied selection of subjects and the freedom to choose the areas on which you will focus.
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Master's Online Experience Day North American Studies: Join two mini lectures!
Study information
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Study programme
The Arts, Media and Society specialisation will let you explore some of the most pressing issues in today’s society, as seen from the many perspectives offered by art, artists, and (digital) media.
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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Introducing: Honorata Mazepus
Honorata Mazepus works at the research group Political Legitimacy since september 1st 2011 and studies Russia within that group.
- Former guest researchers
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The Walking Dead at Saqqara. The Making of a Cultural Geography
The main case study of the project is the cultural geography of Saqqara, the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and its development.
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IIMIGRATI: Ireland and Italy’s migration experiences since 1945 compared
How has migration affected Irish and Italy society since 1945?
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Writing the Earth, Darkly: Globalization, Ecocriticism, and Desire
References to nature and the environment in the Caribbean literary and the contemporary age of globalization.
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TOWARD A CINEMA OF UN-BELONGING: RITES OF PASSAGE FOR THE DIASPORIC ERA
Could an emergent Cinema of Un-Belonging discover forms of narrative time relevant to the long-term, inter-generational fractures caused by forced traumatic dispersion?
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The Italian 'Mobile Diphthongs': A Test Case for Experimental Phonetics and Phonological Theory
This thesis investigates durational aspects of the Italian mobile diphthongs with respect to other rising diphthongs and monophthongs and it shows to what extent the monophthong/diphthong alternation still occurs in contemporary Italian.
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Blind Maps and Blue Dots
This research explores the question of what contemporary mapmaking practices can reveal about the ever-evolving field of graphic design.
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Moving Romans. Migration to Rome in the Principate.
Moving Romans offers an analysis of Roman migration by applying general insights, models and theories from the field of migration history.
- Materiality of Diplomacy (incl. Gift Giving in Diplomacy)
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Research
LUCAS members are experts in the fields of literary history and theory, film and media studies, and art, architectural, and book history.
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Saxophone Without Mouthpiece
How can saxophone without mouthpiece techniques be accurately and consistently comprehended and explained?
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Flora in Utopias: On Thinking Through Moving Images
How do documentary moving images and fictional narratives involve and evolve each other?
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First person
Does the sitter have agency in the making of a photographic portrait? And if so how?
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About
The purpose of the initiative is to establish Central Asian Studies at Leiden University. Central Asia is a region with fluid borders stretching into present-day Afghanistan, Russia, China, Mongolia, Iran and the Caucasus; a premodern highway of global interaction and today increasingly important as…
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After the PhD: Career prospect
What are the career prospects after the PhD?
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The Perfect Spectator: The Experience of the Artwork and the Topicality of Reception Aesthetics
The key questions posed in this dissertation centre on the interaction between spectator and artwork. What happens between a spectator and an artwork? How do we experience ‘meaning’ in an artwork? How may the process of interpretation be understood and articulated?
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Liquid Footprints
Water, Urbanism, and Sustainability in Roman Ostia
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Religious Narratives as Plausibility Structures
Religions involve belief in the unbelievable: in evil spirits causing disease, in souls surviving death, and in gods punishing wrongdoers and blessing the just. Cognitive studies suggest that humans are predisposed to speculate about fate and divine agency, but support from so-called ‘plausibility structures’…
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Klankwerelden - The 20th century of Reinbert de Leeuw
Worlds of sound is important for everyone who is interested in listening to music of the 20th century or for anyone involved in studying or performing contemporary music. The central question is how to interpret music in case the performer is not willing to depend on personal taste or conventions.
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Research projects
Research within the centre is broad and pluralistic, ranging from the history of political thought to contemporary analytic and continental political philosophy and critical social theory. Members of the CPP also participate in the Research Profile Area on Political Legitimacy. The Centre is the proud…
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Representation, Presence, and Theatricality in 16th-century Italian theatres
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis
The volume is one-stop shopping for crisis studies and a number of closely related fields, providing a window onto the latest thinking in the field. The articles reflect cutting edge, state of the art scholarship and pose key questions for research and practical development.
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Extra-curricular
Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.
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Extra-curricular
Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.
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Faculty of Humanities
Leiden University is a unique international centre for the advanced study of languages, cultures, arts, and societies worldwide, in their historical contexts from prehistory to the present.
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Frontiers of Children’s Rights
Frontiers of Children's Rights Summer School
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About the programme
The programme consists of 60 EC, to be completed in one year.
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Lecture by Minister of Defence Kajsa Ollongren: 'Handing Over Responsibility'
Lecture
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Introducing: David Ballantyne
In January 2014, I began working as a postdoctoral researcher in History at Leiden on the NWO project “Democratization and political terrorism: The formation and destruction of the two-party system in the Red River Valley of Louisiana, 1865-1878,” where I am studying with Professor Adam Fairclough.