497 search results for “19th century dutch architecture” in the Staff website
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Diederik Smit
Faculty of Humanities
d.e.j.smit@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2705
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The Salm story: the forgotten architects of the Netherlands
Music venue Paradiso, the Keizersgracht Church and the Artis Zoo’s aquarium: these buildings all owe their design to architects Gerlof Bartholomeus Salm and Abraham Salm. Remco van der Kuijp researched the place of father and son in architectural history. PhD defence on 25 March.
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Celebrating Language: WDO's 19th Lustrum Symposium
Festival, Lustrum Symposium
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lecturer Michael Newton has been awarded a NIAS subsidy to reconstruct the lives of three of these families.
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Dominant style stifled innovation in 19th century seascapes
Long into the 19th century, seascapes were considered an expression of patriotism. Artists who painted in a 17th century style were valued more. This tradition stifled innovation in the genre, Cécile Bosman has concluded. She will defend her PhD thesis on 13 October.
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Dental remains shed light on drug use in 19th century Dutch village
Archaeologist Bjørn Peare Barthold suspected farmers in a doctorless 19th century Dutch village may have been self-medicating to manage pain and disease. By examining the skeletons' dental calculus this hypothesis could be tested. Science Magazine interviewed him about this new technique.
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Atlantic Order - and Transformation of Global Politics in the "Long" 20th Century
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Oran Kennedy
Faculty of Humanities
o.p.kennedy@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Antje Wessels
Faculty of Humanities
a.b.wessels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2681
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The Faculty BBQ returns on May 19th
Social
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Juliette Roding
Faculty of Humanities
j.g.roding@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Elena Paskaleva
Faculty of Humanities
e.g.paskaleva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1692
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‘You have no love for truth’: 19th-century British scientists accused each other at every turn
Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a hundred years ago. PhD candidate Léjon Saarloos researched British scientists around the year 1900 and their idea of what makes a good - and therefore…
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Daniel Turner
Faculteit Archeologie
d.r.turner@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Comenius Teaching Fellows: Application still open until September 19th
Education, Finance, Research
- The F-word: feminist archaeologies for the twenty-first century
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Dissertation: existence and development of the European security architecture
On Thursday 15 April, Sabine Mengelberg, associate professor at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA), will defend her thesis on changes in European security architecture. Permanent Change? The Paths of Change of the European Security Organizations is the title of…
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".
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Exhibition on art, culture and architecture along the Silk Road
Ornately decorated head pieces and jewellery, images of imposing mosques and photos of local people. The 'Splendours of the Silk Roads' exhibition depicts life and different cultures along this important trade route.
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Jelle Plesman
Faculty of Humanities
j.c.plesman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Guy Livingston
Faculty of Humanities
g.p.livingston@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Course Diversity and Inclusion (Dutch)
Course, Leergang
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Medievalisms on the 19th-century English Stage
PhD defence
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Collective Labour Agreement (CAO) of Dutch Universities
The terms of employment of university employees are set out in the CAO of Dutch Universities.
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Hans Theunissen
Faculty of Humanities
h.p.a.theunissen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6480
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Antoinette Huijbers
Faculteit Archeologie
a.m.j.h.huijbers@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Roos Stolker
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
r.stolker@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9589
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Abolfazl Sajadi
Science
a.sajadi@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4799
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Valentina Azzarà
Faculteit Archeologie
v.m.azzara@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Alexander Geurds
Faculteit Archeologie
a.geurds@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2206
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…
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school 'Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries'
Conference, Summer School
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Fatema Zahra Rashid
Science
f.z.m.rashid@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1037
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Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century'
In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own vernacular was thought to reveal a great national past. But why, then, was Old English studied by Germans, Danes, Italians and many other nationalities…
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Culturally responsive teaching in Dutch multicultural secondary schools
PhD defence
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Writing a General Labour History of Africa from the 16th to the 19th centuries
Lecture
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Ann Brysbaert
Faculteit Archeologie
a.n.brysbaert@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5328
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Buzzing decline: Dutch landscape is losing insect-pollinated plants
The Netherlands is losing plant species that rely on pollination by insects. Leiden environmental scientist Kaixuan Pan demonstrates this after analysing 87 years of measurements from over 365,000 plots. The news is alarming for our biodiversity and food security. ‘75 per cent of our crops and 90% of…
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Cornelis de Brabander
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
brabander@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4045
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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Leiden Classics: Bibliotheca Thysiana, a 17th century time machine
From once controversial scientific works and historical bibles, to personal shopping lists and clothing bills. The 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana and the archive of the collector Johannes Thysius exhibit both the intellectual and everyday life as it was three hundred years ago. Now a brand-new digital…
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New publication investigates curious shift of 7th century burial practices
At the end of the 7th century something curious occurs in Northwestern Europe. Suddenly, people start burying the dead next to their dwellings instead of in communal cemeteries. Professor Frans Theuws recently published a book on this phenomenon. ‘We wanted to know if the study of these farmyard burials…
- Environmental Humanities: Architecture is Climate
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Collective Labour Agreement (CAO) of Dutch Universities
The terms of employment of university employees are set out in the CAO of Dutch Universities.
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Folke Glastra
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
glastra@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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A New Feeling of Unity: Decolonial Black Power in the Dutch Atlantic (1968-1973)
PhD defence
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Wish, a Western Mosque: Colonial Continuities in Dutch Perspectives on Islamic Architecture
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Masterclass: The Lores of Flatbush: Dutch Storytelling in Colonial North America
Lecture, Histories Connected: Masterclass
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Special Guest Lecture ‘Knickerbocker Renaissance: Dutch Schools and Slavery in the Early United States’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Special Guest Lecture
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Researchers recreate 17th-century perfume by Constantijn Huygens
A team of researchers from Young Academy and the Huygens ING/NL Lab has brought a three-century-old fragrance to life based on a recipe by Constantijn Huygens. The fragrance makes the past more tangible and can help people experience history differently.