3,611 search results for “discovered of the year” in the Public website
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Choose a Language! Afternoon: ‘Great that it's more than learning words’
The lecture halls in the Lipsius were full of curious secondary school students in January. During a special profile selection afternoon, they were introduced to the faculty and language studies. ‘I had no idea that Hebrew and Arabic were similar.’
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Unveiling the Written Heritage of the Siak Sultanate: An Ethnographic Study on the Access and Interpretation of the Archives of Sultan Syarif Kasim
Lecture
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NWO grant for research on Aramaic inscriptions: 'Palmyra is more than blown-up tombs'
Two thousand years ago, the Middle East found itself caught between the rise of the Roman Empire in the west and the Parthian Empire in the east. PhD candidate Nolke Tasma has been awarded an NWO grant to investigate how local inhabitants experienced these changes.
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Approaching ancient Assyria through archaeology leads to new insights
Dr Bleda Düring deemed it was time for an archaeological approach on the imperialisation of Assyria. ‘While there are lot of archaeological studies of Assyrian sites, they are not really trying to address this broader picture of imperialism and how this imperialisation actually worked.’ These imperialisation…
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'Eastern Desert tombs reflect successful culture adapted to harsh environment’
The Jordan Times interviewed professor Peter Akkermans about this research on ancient tombs in Jordan's Eastern Desert. “The evidence of this flourishing culture can be seen, among other things, in the diverse and complex burial record which we are currently investigating.”
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‘One day of lessons and the Boa people can read their own language’
Until recently the Congo’s isolated Boa community had never read a single letter in their own language: quite simply, there was no alphabet to describe the language. A crowdfunding campaign by guest staff member Gerrit de Wit has changed that. He plans to use the rest of the money to work with a Congolese…
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Leiden was buzzing on the Evening of Languages
What does it sound like when you create your own words in Chichewa? Can you decipher hieroglyphs after just one workshop? Visitors found answers to these and many other questions during the first edition of the Evening of Languages, held in the brand-new Herta Mohr Building. With a sold-out programme,…
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The Processes of Dying of the Greeks from the Hellenistic Period to the Early Empire
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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New dimensions of the cellular response to DNA damage
PhD defence
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Workshop "The Crisis of the Land, World, Territory and Belonging"
Conference
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Aris Politopoulos lectures like an Assyrian king: ‘Video lectures need to be ten times more engaging’
There are some lecturers who are better equipped to provide remote education than others. And then there is Aris Politopoulos, who already owned professional streaming gear long before he could apply this in his education. Now he lectures on ancient Assyria while sitting in an Assyrian palace, moving…
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Maaike Warnaar in the news about the Iranian elections
On 29 February there appeared a column by Maaike Warnaar in the Volkskrant on the Iranian elections.
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From Cordoba to Damascus: Reconstructing the final lost chapter of the Arabic Orosius
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Human Trafficking, Beautiful Women, the Land of the Cockaigne, and Burmese Bells
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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How the Veto Powers of the Permanent UNSC Members are Destabilising Global Security
Lecture, LUCIR lecture + Q&A
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The Population History of the Bolivian Tropical Lowlands: Towards a multidisciplinary synthesis
Conference, Workshop
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Extracellular Matrix Mechanics in the Regulation of the early steps of the Metastatic Cascade
PhD defence
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Special Guest Lecture: Maps, manuscripts, and the colonial division of the Malay world
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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Case note in Leiden Children's Rights Observatory on kafala and family reunification
The case note examines the recent views adopted by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on a communication against Belgium.
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Growth Models, Carbon Pathways, and the Geopolitics of the Green Transition
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Ateneo de Manila University wins Children's Rights Moot Court 2019
The third edition of the bi-annual Children's Rights Moot Court has come to a spectacular end in the first week of April.
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The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh
The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…
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The Helsinki Final Act at 50: Timeless Masterpiece or Relic of the Cold War?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Remco Breuker makes documentary series about South Korea: 'The Netherlands and Korea are structurally related'
Professor Remco Breuker plays the leading role in the new documentary ‘Big in Korea’. Over three Sunday evenings, viewers can follow his journey through South Korea. How has the country developed over the past decades? And what is the impact of last December's failed coup?
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L(SB)2 Seminar: Conformational regulation of the GTPase-interacting ubiquitin ligase HACE1
Lecture
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First open access online database on international children's rights jurisprudence
Recently the Department of Child Law of Leiden Law School (Leiden University) launched the Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory.
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Ann Skelton re-elected member UN Children's Rights Committee
Professor Ann Skelton, Rotating Honorary Chair of Enforcement of Children's Rights 2020/2021 at the Department of Child Law, has been re-elected as member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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Tissue engineered models of the human heart
PhD defence
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The development of the Tocharian accent
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Frontiers of Children's Rights in the ASEAN Region
From 23 to 27 January 2017, the Child Law Department and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden Law School organized the first regional edition of the Leiden University Frontiers of Children’s Rights Summer School. The Frontiers of Children’s Rights in the ASEAN Region was set…
- OSCoffee: Unintended consequences of the shift towards Gold Open Access publishing
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LCCP Workshop Movements of the Dialectic: Merleau-Ponty, Althusser, and post-1968 Marxist Philosophies
Lecture
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European integration and the United States: Have we reached the end of the "Cold War aberration"?
Lecture, European Union Seminar / CHEI Seminar
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Children’s services need better data collection: ‘How can we prevent out-of-home placements?’
What reduces the likelihood of children being taken into care? Anouk Goemans calls for data-driven systems, alongside attention to the stories behind the numbers.
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Investigating ancient irrigation tunnels with a remote controlled car
In ancient times, the desert in the Udhruh region in Jordan was transformed into a green oasis. An intricate network of underground water channels was part of an ancient system of water management, storing water and preventing loss through evaporation. Archaeologist Mark Driessen found a new way to…
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Former research assistant Hannah Plug appointed at Liverpool University
Until September 2016, Hannah Plug was Research Assistant for the Consolidating Empire Research Project under the direction of Dr. Bleda Düring. Now, she has just begun her new appointment at Liverpool University, UK. Here she tells all about it.
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Assyrians were more 'homely' than we thought
Archaeologist Victor Klinkenberg examined an old Assyrian settlement in Syria, near to the IS stronghold Raqqa. 'Social life was more important than military life.' PhD defence 27 October.
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The 33rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA)
Conference
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Rob Tijdeman appointed Knight
On August 29th Rob Tijdeman held his valedictory lecture in a full house Academy Building as a professor in Number Theory, entitled 'My life as a mathematician'. After his lecture he was appointed, in name of the Queen, Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion by the maior of Leiderdorp.
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Gijsbert Rutten new professor of Dutch Linguistics
Gijsbert Rutten has been appointed professor of Dutch Linguistics with effect from 1 July. In this position, he will focus on language change and language variation, with a particular emphasis on historical sociolinguistics.
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Subsidy for digitalisation of Tell Deir Alla fieldwork
The Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) accepted the request for subsidy to digitise the archive of the archaeological fieldwork at Tell Deir Alla in the eastern Jordan Valley. The subsidy comes from its KDP-program (Small Data Project) and is meant to promote digitisation of important datasets.…
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Three Leiden researchers awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Three researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. The subsidy will allow the researchers to set up their own projects and put together a research team.
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Presentation of the College of Europe by Pierre Bachelier, Director of Admissions and Student Affairs
Lecture
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Sanjar Gulomov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in December 2018
Sanjar Golomov is a senior scholar at the Al-Biruni Institute in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In Leiden he will deliver two lectures and one masterclass for MA and PhD students as part of the Erasmus Mobility Plus project between Leiden University and the Al-Biruni Institute. The project is coordinated and…
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International Human Rights of Children
Comprehensive, scholarly compilation of legal studies of substantive and procedural children’s rights, breaking new ground by analysing a wide range of international children's rights issues.
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Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)
In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.
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Sjef Barbiers moves to INT: ‘Especially in times of AI, we need to keep Dutch relevant’
Professor Sjef Barbiers is leaving his job as scientific director of LUCL for the position of scientific director of the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) from 1 September.
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Tweets from the desert
Uncovering ancient Arabian inscriptions feels like pioneering detective work, says Arabist Michael Macdonald in a video interview with Leiden Islam Centre LUCIS. 'First you have to learn the alphabets that they're written in, and then you have to try and work out what they say.'
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New perspective, equal opportunities in the classroom
Inequality could be addressed in the classroom without taking too much time, effort or money. By making one small change, teachers can make a big difference, says Professor by Special Appointment in Equal Educational Opportunities Lisa Gaikhorst in her inaugural lecture.