546 search results for “literature” in the Staff website
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André Leliveld awarded Comenius Senior Fellowship
André Leliveld has won a grant of 100,000 euros within the Comenius Senior Fellow programme for the project ‘Learning globally, acting locally: co-creation of an international multidisciplinary online learning environment around Frugal Innovation'. André is academic coordinator of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus…
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Introducing: Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou
Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate and postdoc in the framework of the 'Anchoring Innovation' program. Below, they introduce themselves!
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An app to help children overcome anxiety
Anke Klein and her team have devised a fun and useful app to help anxious children. In the app, children can upload a video of themselves showing, for example, something that went well for them and share their success with parents, granny or grandad. Developmental psychologist Klein talks about the…
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Paul Wouters reappointed as Dean of FSW
Paul Wouters has been reappointed as Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. His second term runs from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023.
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Introducing: Catherine Wood and Martijn van Ette
Catherine Wood and Martijn van Ette recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the NWO Vidi-funded project "American foreign policy and liberalism", led by Andrew Gawthorpe. Below they introduce themselves.
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Richard Karlsson Linnér: ‘I expect a future where a genetic test will be as much a no-brainer as getting X-rayed.’
Assistant Professor Karlsson Linnér, who works at the Department of Economics, is one of the recipients of a Veni grant. His research on the accuracy of preventive genetic testing is a fine example of the intersection of economic science and law.
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“No metadata no future” – kicking off UMADA [on a donkeys’ island]
Ustadh Mau Digital Archive project (UMADA) is among the UCLA Library 29 international cultural preservation projects supported by the Modern Endagered Archive Program (Cohort 3). From the 3rd up to the 5th of October, a digitization training workshop took place on Lamu island, on the so-called northern…
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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Why biology students and teachers value the E-learning skills platform
Students of the Biology minor course Molecular Design have successfully boosted their skills in collaboration, research and writing with the recently developed E-learning Skills Platform. The biology students and their teachers greatly value the initiative. ‘Sometimes I couldn’t believe what progress…
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Jews at Home. From Creation to Corona
Conference, First Annual Symposium of the Leiden Jewish Studies Association
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Pluractionality in classical and modern spoken Arabic
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Civil Society and International Students in Japan: Methodology and Fieldwork
Lecture
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A Tax Treaty Policy for Curaçao
PhD defence
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Rice Eaters in the Land of Cheese
PhD defence
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School integration of refugee children: evidence from the largest refugee group in any country
Lecture
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The Emergence of Democratic Firms in the Platform Economy: Drivers, Obstacles, and the Path Ahead
PhD defence
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European Union as a Global Security Actor: Common Security and Defense Policy and its Challenges in the 2011 Libya Crisis and 2014 Ukraine Conflict
PhD defence
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Warrior Women, Gender-bending Plots, Perfect Masculinity: Paradigms of gender in Javanese Amir Hamza narratives
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Online Radicalisation: The Use of the Internet by Islamic State Terrorists in the US (2012-2018)
PhD defence
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Finding Your Way (In and Out of the Art World): A Phenomenology of the Art Novel
Lecture
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Roundtable: Writing a General Labour History of Africa from the 16th to the 19th centuries
Lecture
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Queer migration: lessons from the past and present, thoughts for the future. A Blue-Sky thinking seminar
Conference, A Blue-Sky thinking seminar
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68th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
Conference
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Mediation and Moderation Analysis
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GTGC Lunch Seminar: Transformation and connections through food/waste in Dutch cities
Lecture
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Seventeenth-century depictions of sacred sites in the Kailasanathar Temple at Nattam, Tamil Nadu
Lecture, Masterclass IIAS/LIAS
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Border closures in East and Central Africa: asymmetry, severance, and disruption
Lecture
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Teaching in Practice (UTQ module)
Didactics
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Liveable Planet Lunch Lecture: ‘If you want to travel far, go together’: transdisciplinary collaboration for a Liveable Planet - Laurens Hessels
Lecture
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Connecting the Dots: The Role of Internationally Mobile Scientists in Linking Nonmobile with Foreign Scientists
Seminar
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Freud and China
Lecture
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Different dimensions of openness in open science practices. The importance of collaboration for societal goals
Seminar
- Forum Antiquum Lectures Series Spring 2023
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The Making of a Standard Mountain: A Road-Construction Campaign of 1934 and the Formation of Mount Huang’s Modern Image
Lecture
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How negative experiences influence the brain in pain: Neuroimaging and biobehavioral insights
PhD defence
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LIBC Colloquium
Lecture
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Advanced functional MRI analysis
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John Rhoden and African-American Writers and Artists as Cold War Diplomats
Lecture
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Entre la utopía tecnocrática y la colegialidad académica
PhD defence
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Simposio Internacional Violencia, Género y Producción Cultural
Conference
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Professional learning of vocational teachers in the context of work placement
PhD defence
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Graphic Novels in South-Africa: the Work of Nathan Trantraal
Arts and culture
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Sufis in Afghanistan: Contemporary Navigations of Religious Authority across Political Changes
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Higher Education Knowledge Café: 'What is quality of teaching and how do you evaluate it?'
Conference, Knowledge Café
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Book Presentation: Gāyatrī: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Skills
What skills do students need to function as academic professionals and engaged citizens?
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Medical Delta Professor Eline Slagboom: ‘The delta region is where everything comes together’
Professor Eline Slagboom has been studying multiple generations of families for over 20 years. She collects data on why some people age healthily and others decline early.
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…