3,255 search results for “arts” in the Public website
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Colonial and Global History
Colonial and Global History combines a deep curiosity of transcultural processes such as imperialism, (de)colonization, and globalization with critical historical research on regional societies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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Memory and Identity
Memory and Identity is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.
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Medieval and Post-Medieval Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Fact and Fiction
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Byzantine and Ottoman Archaeology, Amsterdam, 21-23 October 2011
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Crossing boundaries in improvised music
Developing new methods for performing improvised music
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Education
The MCS research group members and their research are closely affiliated with the two Leiden master’s tracks in Museum Studies offered at the Art History and Archaeology departments.
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Buddhist and Hindu Metal Images of Indonesia: Evidence for shared artistic and religious networks across Asia (c.6th-10th century)
Mathilde Mechling defended her thesis on 28 january 2020.
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The interpretation of physical activity wearable data and its relation with metabolic and brain health in older adults
Quantifying physical activity (using accelerometers) and combining the frequency and intensity of activities with health data (brain MRI, traditional clinical parameters and metabolomics) is of utmost importance to monitor mobility and health among older individuals and study health promotion during…
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Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods
Illustrations of the challenges and rewards of doing and representing interdisciplinary research through the methodological developments of 50 experienced researchers.
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Primary Sources and Asian Pasts
This Conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspec-tives and methods in the study of primary sources from premodern South and Southeast Asia.
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Rosemary's Baby
Rosemary's Baby is one of the greatest movies of the late 1960s and one of the best of all horror movies, an outstanding modern Gothic tale. An art-house fable and an elegant popular entertainment, it finds its home on the cusp between a cinema of sentiment and one of sensation.
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Koriabo; From the Caribbean Sea to the Amazon River
This book is about the archaeology of indigenous peoples who thrived across the Caribbean, the Guianas, and the Lower Amazon basin just before the European invasion, and who also remained central to the early history of conquest and colonization.
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Inaugural lecture: Data science and Ebola
Today, everybody and everything produces data. People produce large amounts of data in social networks and in commercial transactions. Medical, corporate, and government databases continue to grow. Sensors continue to get cheaper and are increasingly connected, creating an Internet of Things, and generating…
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Methods
Below you can read about 4 methods of PLATO.
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About the project
Building a lively Humanities Campus with renewed and sustainable buildings surrounded by a green outdoor space.
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Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology
The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology provides an overview of archaeological investigations in the insular Caribbean, understood here as the islands whose shores surround the Caribbean Sea.
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Digital Archaeology. Promises and Impasses.
Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 51
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Punching Back - Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing
Punching Back is a detailed ethnographic study that demonstrates that young Muslim women who kickbox develop agentive selves by challenging gender norms, challenging expectations, and living out their religious subjectivities.
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Migration History in World History. Multidisciplinary Approaches | Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 3
Migration is the talk of the town. On the whole, however, the current situation is seen as resulting from unique political upheavals. Such a-historical interpretations ignore the fact that migration is a fundamental phenomenon in human societies from the beginning and plays a crucial role in the cultural,…
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Audible absence: searching for the site in sound production
Ambient sound is a standard term used by sound practitioners to denote the site-specific background sound component that provides a characteristic atmosphere and spatial information in a sound work.
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Images for the Music: Drawings and Secular Cantatas
The aim of this research is to investigate the informative potential of drawings and decorations in Italian secular cantata manuscripts from the seventeenth century.
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Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes
From Crisis to Critique
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About
Leiden Center for the Study of Ancient Arabia
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Translation of diploma and/or transcript
For questions about a English diploma statement and/or a transcript in English, you can contact your faculty or the administration of your study.
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Escher and the Droste effect
Artful Mathematics: The Heritage of M. C. Escher
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Cosmological interpretation of architecture: cases from Ancient China and Mesoamerica
The civilizations of ancient China and Mesoamerica, although not historically related and obviously different in many specific aspects (such as language and writing), show many interesting commonalities and similar tendencies in their cultural manifestations.
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THE PRONUNCIATION OF MUSIC - A matter of expression
The aim of this research is to define the relationship between sources of articulation for different kinds of instrument in the period between the beginning of XVI century (first extant indications) and the end of XVIII century.
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Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil
The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered
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Network
LeiCenSAA is dedicated to the study of Ancient Arabia and the sharing of knowledge and expertise on this topic. Thefore it aims to collaborate closely with other research in the field.
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Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World
Located in the small Kingdom of Commagene at the upper Euphrates, the late Hellenistic monument of Nemrud Daǧ (c. 50 BC) has been undeservedly neglected by scholars
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FINDING FOCUS - Using external focus of attention for practicing and performing music
What kind of attentional focus can enhance learning and performance for musicians?
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Museums of themselves: disaster, heritage, and disaster heritage in Tohoku
The 2011 disasters precipitated widespread concern among heritage scholars about the fate of Tohoku’s cultural properties, tangible and intangible. Damage to not only buildings and landscapes but also ‘formless’ heritage, some worried, could weaken social infrastructure and thus slow or undermine re…
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Education
Members of LUCIR contribute to various education programmes in the sphere of international relations, exchanging expertise with both bachelor’s and master’s students.
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Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies
This series of publications brings together new material on wellconsidered themes within the wide area of Early Modern Studies.
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AI-SUPPORTED SYNTHESIS OF SHEPARD-RISSET FREQUENCY SETS
Implementation of the new sound synthesis and analysis method in music composition.
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Educational vision
Read here what we find important in our education.
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Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography
This month Ali Shobeiri's monograph, Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography came out at Leiden University Press.
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Old Age in Early Medieval England, A Cultural History
How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested?
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Valorisation
In order to realise high quality valorisation of scientific research, eLaw practices valorisation activities during all stages of its research, i.e., not only after finishing research, but also prior to and during research.
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Museums, collections and society, Yearbook 2021
Museums and collections are often frontpage news nowadays. The collections stored and curated in museums, universities and private institutions are no longer seen as 'neutral' entities to be enjoyed without political connotations.
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Qur'ans of the Umayyads
A First Overview
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Research
LUCIR aims to bundle together, strengthen and disseminate existing research in the field of international relations.
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Visits to Leiden
Leiden University regularly welcomes members of the Royal Family to attend opening ceremonies, lectures, presentations and unveilings of works of art.
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The conspiracy of subjectivity: myth and materiality in twenty rst century ballet practice
This research project problematizes the applicability of ballet within a contemporary choreographic practice.
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COMPOSING FOR ORGAN AND ELECTRONICS: SPACES AND PRACTICES
My research focusses on site-specific compositional and performance practices of music for organ and electronics and their musical-spatial values.
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Acknowledgements and contributors
Rembrandt & Leiden University: The Bigger Picture commemorates the 444th anniversary of Leiden University and the 2019 Rembrandt Year. Our special thanks go to Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Nuremberg), The Leiden Collection (New York), Museum De Lakenhal (Leiden), Mauritshuis (The Hague), Rijksmuseum/Musée…
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Quantum dot microcavity control of photon statistics
During my PhD research, I studied the photon statistics of light emitted by a microcavity that contains a single quantum dot (QD) on resonance.
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Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development
Are you interested to learn more about frontier innovation thinking and practices? Do you want to explore the societal relevance of frugal innovation? Are you up for a multidisciplinary challenge? Do you want to combine theory and practice? If you are answering these questions affirmatively, you are…
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Emblems and the Natural World
The multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying artistic, literary, political and religious ideologies.
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Computer Systems, Imagery & media
The Computer Systems, Imagery & media (CSI) research programme performs research on methods and techniques for the design, implementation and application of advanced computer systems, in particular parallel, distributed and embedded computer systems.
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