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Neil Young and Philosophy
Neil Young and Philosophy, edited by Douglas L. Berger, explores the meanings, importance, and philosophical dimensions of the music, career, and life of this prolific singer/songwriter over the past five decades.
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EU Foreign Policy in practice: selected cases from Latin America
Both Europe and Latin America face challenges globally and at home. Conflicts over land and resources have been resurgent in recent years.
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From Gesture to Language
Like any language, the natural sign languages (henceforth: SLs) of deaf communities differ from each other in their grammars and lexicons. A growing number of studies indicates that SLs make use of the gestures of hearing speakers to build linguistic structure. This implies that variation and similarities…
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Leiden University has been promoting studies on Latin America and the Caribbean for a long time.
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Egypt
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden University with the American University in Cairo.
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Gendering Far-Right Activism: A Comparative Analysis of the Motivating Factors Driving Men and Women to Engage in Far-Right Social Movement Activism
In the present-day United States, to what degree(s) are far-right men and women similar and/or dissimilar in their motivating factors for engaging in far-right social movement activism?
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Pride and Prejudice: Moral Languages in Scholarly Codes of Conduct, 1900-2000
If idioms employed in codes of conduct could be as idiosyncratic as examples suggest, then to what extent did early modern language of vice, too, persist in this genre?
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In the Shadows of Slavery
How was the racial landscape of citizenship and democracy in antebellum America characterized, and how did free Black populations in various states navigate such landscapes?
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Esther EdelmannFaculty of Humanities
e.edelmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272415
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Worlding America: How Play Shaped the United States between New Media and New Politics
WORLDING AMERICA researches how ‘play’ has been a key force in the past and present process of creating America as a coherent and hegemonic ‘world,’ from 1503 to the present.
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Leiden University offers ambitious students the freedom to develop their own area of expertise.
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The Revolution That Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches
The chaotic years after the Civil War are often seen as a time of uniquely American idealism—a revolutionary attempt to rebuild the nation that paved the way for the civil rights movement of the twentieth century. But Adam Fairclough rejects this prevailing view, challenging prominent historians such…
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Contributions to Chibchan Historical Linguistics
On December 5th, Matthias Pache succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Matthias on this great result.
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Latin American Studies at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for North American Studies at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Latin American Studies at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Pre-master’s programme
The pre-master's is a bridging programme for students who have applied for the MA North American Studies, but who, according to the Board of Admissions, still have deficiencies in their educational background. Once you have completed the pre-master’s programme, you will be admitted to the Master’s p…
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Communicating Communities
Unravelling networks of human mobility and exchange of goods and ideas from a pre-colonial, pan-Caribbean perspective
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Conditions for a successful interregional approach: the case of EU-Latin America
Analysing the EU’s interregional relations with three Latin American (sub) regions: Central America, Andean Community and Mercosur in order to create a set of conditions to explain the success/failure of EU-led interregionalism
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Study at LUCAS
LUCAS members are experts in the fields of literary history and theory, film and media studies, and art, architectural, and book history. Members of LUCAS teach in a wide variety of Bachelor's, Master’s, and Research Master’s Programmes.
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Extracurricular
Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.
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Automatic annotation of multi-modal language resources
The AAM-LR project aims at building a demonstrator of a web service that will help filed researchers to annotate audio- and video-recordings.
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Education
Studying linguistics at the Leiden University Centre of Linguistics (LUCL) is a challenging but rewarding experience. There are few places in the world where such a broad range of languages are studied from so many different perspectives.
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Imagology in the Arubian Literature
Neo-Baroque construction and deconstruction of the concepts of paradise in fiction.
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JEDI Fund 2025
On this page you will find more information about the selected projects of the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund for 2025.
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Pilgrims came to Leiden for ‘brain training’
The Pilgrims to America exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal inspires reflection. How far do you go in the quest for freedom? It focuses on the Pilgrims’ relationship with the University and which knowledge they took with them from Leiden.
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Debate: ‘A Crisis on the Rise? The Impact of Violence and Impunity on Mexican Society’
Mexico is currently facing an unprecedented social and political crisis, with expanding criminal and political violence, rampant impunity and crumbling political institutions. Next to the daily report of anonymous victims of violence, last summer in Central Mexico at least 15 citizens were executed…
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Nanne TimmerFaculty of Humanities
n.timmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2184
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Maria Gabriela Palacio LudeñaFaculty of Humanities
m.g.palacio.ludena@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272189
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Instruments on Cross-Border Insolvency Law
Recent insolvency cases highlight the growing importance of cross-border insolvency matters in international transactions. To this end, many instruments have been introduced and implemented in recent years across the world. At this page we present a selection of relevant instruments in the field of…
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Respiratory-chain enzymes
Many metalloenzymes that are key to bioenergetics are membrane enzymes, with canonical examples the complexes I, II, III and IV in the mitochondrial inner membrane. To study these enzymes in a native-like lipid membrane environment, we aim to develop novel bioelectrochemical techniques.
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Between Canon and Coincidence: using data-driven approaches to understand Art Worlds (BECACO)
Indigenous Latin American artifacts have attracted the interest of Europeans since the earliest moment of contact between Europeans and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The ERC-funded BECACO project uses an innovative multidisciplinary framework to investigate the provenance of ethnographic and…
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Knowledge from now
Osteoarchaeologists help forensic scientists solve crimes. They also study bone material from the Second World War in order to identify victims.
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their potential.
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About us
The Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law provides academic education and performs research in the field of financial law.
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Interested in language and global perspectives?
What if you could take your interest in language, stories and culture to the next level and truly understand where ideas are shaped and reshaped? In a world where countries clash, technology steers what we see, and societies shift quickly, deeper insight matters more than ever. Why do cultures collide?…
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Interested in language and global perspectives?
What if you could take your interest in language, stories and culture to the next level and truly understand where ideas are shaped and reshaped? In a world where countries clash, technology steers what we see, and societies shift quickly, deeper insight matters more than ever. Why do cultures collide?…
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Describing Prescriptivism
Usage Guides and Usage Problems in British and American English, 1st Edition
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Secular-religious self-improvement
Jasmijn Rana demonstrates in the article 'Secular-religious self-improvement: Muslim women’s kickboxing in the Netherlands' that young Muslim women who kickbox develop agentive selves by challenging gender norms and living out their religious subjectivities.
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Associations and Journals
An overview of Professional Associations and Journals
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Cuerpos ilegales. Sujeto, poder y escritura en América Latina
Corporeality, intimately bound to the notion of space, to the diffuse border that connects, entangles, and fuses an inside and an outside, is understood in this book as a space which puts the individual at stake as a war machine that, in its fight for a form of life, redefines political territories.
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The diplomacy of decolonisation
The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation.
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The diplomacy of decolonisation. America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo crisis 1960-1964
The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation.
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The Brazilian Economy: Confronting Structural Challenges
The Brazilian economy has long been defined by its enormous potential. Over the past 30 years, some of this has at last been realised. Latin America’s largest economy has rapidly risen in global importance while poverty at home has declined. Yet, despite periods of progress, Brazil remains prone to…
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The nature of evidentiality
This project launches a research program into the theoretical status and the terminological basis of evidentiality systems.
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Crossing language borders
How do speakers adapt to multilingual contexts?