Nature and History, Towards a Hermeneutic Philospohy of Historiography of Science

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This book examines the history of The Netherlands in a way that connects global processes to local developments.

How did digital intermediality symbolise and facilitate the transfer of content from popular culture into policy statements and vice versa in the period between 1945 and the new millenium?

Pieter de la Court, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK, Leiden

Which genes are involved in woodiness and associated traits such as drought tolerance, flowering time, stem elongation, life span, and plant herbivory, and how do these gene regulatory pathways overlap?

Being a Slave brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean.

Van Steenis, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC, Leiden

This project will explore how Chinese digital networks are grounded in real-world institutions, and how interest groups and individuals use digital infrastructures to shape public discourse on national history.

This project, South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon (SAPPHIRE), investigates population dynamics in western South America on the basis of traces in the geographical, genetic, archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic record.

Emma de Vries, PhD candidate in the Department of European Law at Leiden University, has written an annotation for EHRC updates on the ECHR judgment in Suprun and Others v. Russia (June 18, 2024, case number 58029/12).

Pieter de la Court, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK, Leiden

Humanities, Institute for Area Studies

Wenxin Wang defended her thesis on 26 October 2016

How do old and new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) relate to new social and political movements in Central Africa? What does this tell us about Africa and the Information Age?

A defining fixture of our contemporary world, video games offer a rich spectrum of engagements with the past.

Liu Puning defended his thesis on 25 April 2018.

In a podcast episode of 'New Books in History' Claire Weeda talks about her book 'Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion'.

What can we learn from how maritime conflicts were managed in the past? What significance did Maritime Conflict Management have in shaping the standards of diplomacy and international law in pre-modern Atlantic Europe (1200-1600)?

On 22 November 2018, Teico Sikkema defended his thesis 'Beginsel en begrip van verdeling'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. mr. W.G. Huijgen and Prof. dr. F. Sonneveldt.

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A History of Dutch Corruption and Morality showcases 300 years of change, continuity, and diversity in the history of Dutch political corruption and public morality. It analyses a series of corruption scandals and shows how the following debates were connected to the big changes of that time: from the…

How De Haan is using language in general and his specific style of language in particular to provide truth, solidarity and justice for both the individual and the collective?

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Volume II of The Cambridge History of Strategy focuses on the practice of strategy from 1800 to the present day.

Nadeera Seneviratne defended her thesis on 21 January 2016.

Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational intersection between two complex Asian societies, placing this narrative in a larger wartime context of…

Het bredere thema van de bijeenkomst (7 december, 16:00-18:00, online), geleid door Janna Coomans (Utrecht), is: hoe kan je op basis van middeleeuwse bronnen een publieksboek schrijven, en in hoeverre verschilt zo’n werk van een academische studie? We zullen een eerste concept van een boekproject bespreken…

Vasiliki Kosta spoke on “Legal Underpinnings of Academic Freedom’ at the ‘Symposium Academic Freedom: Opportunities and Challenges’ taking place on 14 May 2024 at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

The Department of Art & Culture, History, and Antiquity of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Medieval History. Deadline for applications: July 5.

How did free agents oppose the monopolies held by the VOC and WIC in court?

The renovation of the Aleida Nijland building (previously Matthias de Vrieshof) is the fourth project in the development of the Humanities Campus. Renovating these buildings will enable the university to provide a sustainable Campus with modern facilities and an attractive educational environment that…

What is the iconography of propaganda specifically as it relates to the historical development of political ideologies in modern Egypt and how was/is this propaganda disseminated among creative fields such as cinema, art, monuments, architecture, and literature?

Why is there not just one single global law for cases of defamation in cross-border communication mediums such as the internet? Which courts are to be called on in such cases? And is it permissible to hold an intermediary instead of a content provider liable?

This research aims to address the relationship between cinema and political thought in Latin America, in order to question a limited understanding of cinema politics, which has dominated the field of study since the middle of the last century, and to propose a different one that we will call politics…

The Institute for History announces vacancies for three PhD positions on Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective and one PhD position to conduct research on the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).

Het boekproject "Wereldsteden. Stadsgeschiedenis van de Lage Landen" verwelkomt bijdragen van onderzoekers die zich bezighouden met stadsgeschiedenis van de oudheid tot nu. Meer informatie kunt u vinden in de bijgevoegde call. Deadline voor aanmeldingen: 10 maart 2024.

Since February 1, 2015, Adriejan van Veen is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for History. Here, he is preparing a NWO grant proposal on local experiments with candidate selection in British and Dutch politics in the nineteenth century.

In De Kookshow, Universiteit Van Nederland explores the scientific world behind food. Ever wondered which senses influence how tasty you find something? And why do you always have room for pudding after a meal? Leiden historian Kim Beerden is among the scholars providing answers.

Anna van Buerenplein, Anna van Buerenplein 301, 2595 DG, The Hague

In Renaissance Florence, humanists wrote Latin poems fashioning their city as the new Rome, and members of the Medici family as Roman rulers. How can we explain this practice?

How did galaxies form? How did galaxies evolve?

LUCL congratulates Isabelle van de Calseyde with winning the LSr Teaching Prize!