2,792 search results for “cultural representation of illness and debility” in the Public website
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Illness and Literature in the Low Countries. From the Middle Ages until the 21th Century
From as early as classical antiquity there has been an interplay between literature and medicine.
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On the representation of quantity: how our brains shape language
This project investigates properties of quantity expressions across languages from the perspective of how quantity is represented in the human brain.
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Re-envisioning nature: the representation of post-nuclear landscapes in contemporary art and culture
How does contemporary art and culture represent nuclear contamination in post-nuclear landscapes?
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LOCVS. Memory and Transience in the Representation of Place From Italic Domus to Artistic Environment
This study links up the concept of place with memory, with the idea of transience and the transition from life to death.
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Locvs : Memory and Transience in the Representation of Place: From Italic Domus to Artistic Environment
As an artist Clevis is fascinated by the phenomenon of place in relation to beginnings and final destinations.
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Positive representations of algebras of continuous functions
If X is a locally compact Hausdorff space, then a representation of the complex C* algebra C_0(X) on a Hilbert space $H$ is given by a spectral measure that takes its values in the orthogonal projections on $H$.
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The language of food: documentation and representation of food preparation and culinary culture in Africa and its diasporas
Unlike the predominant and excessive focus on the problems of food production and food insecurity in Africa, this project views African culinary tradition as a vibrant and rich cultural heritage, intertwined with language use.
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Inverse problems for universal deformation rings of group representations
Promotor: P. Stevenhagen, Co-promotores: B. de Smit, F. Andreatta
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Egypt beyond representation
This research develops and applies a new approach to study Aegyptiaca Romana from a bottom-up, Roman perspective.
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Images of Galois representations
Promotores: S.J. Edixhoven, P.Parent
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The lexico-semantic representation of words in the mental lexicon
On the 25th of September, Yufang Wang successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Yufang on this achievement!
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The Representation of Imperial Rule and the Classical World in Early Medieval England
In early medieval England, there was an interest in the history of the Roman Empire and kings adopted such imperial titles as 'imperator' or 'basileus'. How can we explain this interest and what functions did imperial ideas and the reception of the classical world serve in early medieval England?
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Typical representations of GL_n(F)
Promotores: Bas Edixhoven, Guy Henniart
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Limited Impact of Introducing Proportional Representation on Women’s Representation: Insights from a Quasi-Experiment in Local Elections
This article examines the effects of introducing proportional representation (PR) in Polish local elections on women’s political representation.
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Positive representations on ordered Banach spaces
Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotor: M.F.E. de Jeu
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The Limited Impact of Reference Groups’ Symbolic Gender Representation on Willingness to Coproduce
This article discusses the impact of symbolic gender representation on the willingness of citizens to coproduce.
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Group representations in Banach spaces and Banach lattices
Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotores: M.F.E. de Jeu, B. de Pagter
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Cultural Representations of Living Nature: Dynamics of Intermedial Recording in Text and Image (ca. 1550-1670)
This project investigates the transposition of natural historical material, knowledge and vision, between different media (collection, scientific drawing, academic texts, the visual arts and/or literature) – a transmission that happens in the borderline between the traditional, emblematic worldview…
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Programme structure
The international bachelor's programme in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology covers three years, allowing you to establish a firm foundation and specialise in topics that you find interesting.
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Democracy and Representation (MSc)
Explore the MSc Democracy and Representation at Leiden University: examine challenges facing modern democracies—populism, representation, media influence—and enhance your analytical skills.
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Galois representations of elliptic curves and abelian entanglements
Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Prof.dr. K. Belabas (Universite Bordeaux I)
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Representation
Representative bodies for PhD candidates exist at the institute, university, and national levels.
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Vulnerable yet resilient: representations of migrant workers in contemporary Chinese prose
On Tuesday 3 December 2024 Shuang Liu successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Biological model representation and analysis
Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek
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Representation and Political Parties
This research cluster is a part of the Institute of Political Science’s research programme ‘Institutions, Decisions and Collective Behaviour’. Its members focus on the democratic role of citizens and the representative links between voters and politicians.
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Chair Kingdom Relations: Democratic Representation in the Kingdom
The Chair Democratic Representation in the Kingdom focuses on the political relations between the ‘European’ Netherlands and the six Caribbean islands in the Kingdom; so-called Kingdom Relations. Professor Wouter Veenendaal investigates the quality of democratic representation in the Kingdom, both within…
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Representation, Presence, and Theatricality in 16th-century Italian theatres
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Do citizens care for interest representation? A study on citizens’ perceptions and feelings towards the representative potential of civil society
Do citizens care for interest representation? A study on citizens’ perceptions and feelings towards the representative potential of civil society
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Numbers are not an exact representation of an objective reality
Tim van de Meerendonk explores how farmers, insurance advisors and local politicians in India try to make sense of insurance figures through their moral convictions.
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Multi Modal Representation Learning and Cross-Modal Semantic Matching
Humans perceive the real world through their sensory organs: vision, taste, hearing, smell, and touch. In terms of information, we consider these different modesalso referred to as different channels of information or modals.
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Centre for the Study of Political Parties and Representation
The Centre for the Study of Political Parties and Representation (CSPPR) aims to serve as an interdisciplinary platform for scholars of Leiden University for research focusing on the historical and contemporary operation and functioning of political parties and political representation, with a particular…
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Victor MeijersFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
v.a.e.m.meijers@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277880
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Abstract patterns and representations: the re-cognition of geometric ornament
On May 17th, Arthur Crucq succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Arthur on this great result.
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Cards of A Party Regime: Controlled Election and Mobilized Representation in Chinese Local Congresses
China is a one-party regime, yet elections are held for the local congresses. PhD candidate Wang Zhongyuan investigated how the Communist Party uses this democratic instrument to strengthen the authoritarian regime. PhD defence 31 January.
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Career prospects
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Yasmin Shafei - Dangerous Deviants: A History of Care for the Mentally Ill in Egypt
This lecture will be hosted on Thursday, 14 May 2026 at 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm.