4,209 search results for “de world van takes en cultural” in the Public website
-
Linda van Erp-van GenderenScience
-
Yvonne van Eijk-van VeenFaculteit Archeologie
-
Margareth van Hoorn-van der PoelAdministratief Shared Service Centre
-
Angelica van Haaster-van der VliesFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Angelique van Wetten-van der Linden
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Jacomijn van Haersolte-van HofFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Laura van Vliet-van den Dool
Science
-
Connie van Gent-van DorpScience
-
Vera van Egmond-van der Molen
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
-
Willeke van Heyningen-van RijFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Marguerite van Wijk-van Lennep
Faculteit Geneeskunde
-
Elisabeth van Persijn van Meerten
Faculteit Geneeskunde
-
Caroline van Battum-van Klink
Faculteit Geneeskunde
-
Johan Van Manen’s Tibetan and Himalayan Collection: The Challenges of Multi-media Research
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
-
Lecture: Maps, manuscripts, and the colonial division of the Malay world
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
-
Nominees bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2022
The nominees for the Prof. Dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg-prijs 2022 and the IRO Thesis Prize 2022. Who wrote the best bachelor thesis in Political Science?
-
Nominees bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2023
The nominees for the IRO thesis prize 2023 and the Prof. Dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg-prijs 2023. Who wrote the best bachelor theses in Political Science?
-
Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
-
Protecting children is what inspires Cleveringa professor Dettmeijer-Vermeulen
Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen, the well-known legal expert and Leiden University alumna, was for many years the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children. On 26 November she will deliver the Cleveringa lecture.
-
Van Marum Colloquium: Hexagonal and amorphous boron nitride thin films
Lecture
-
Van Marum Colloquium: Electrocatalytic transformations in Li-ion Battery Electrolytes
Lecture
-
did their job.” Experiences of parents from religious, ethnic, or cultural minorities with court cases on children in the Netherlands
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
-
How Google, Facebook and other digital platforms are influencing the work of journalists
Digital journalism is transforming the way in which information and communication technologies are used by media workers. With this change journalist practices, norms and values are also being reshaped. This is the conclusion of Tomás Dodds PhD research.
-
Language as a time machine
About 90 per cent of Austronesian and Papuan languages are under threat of soon becoming extinct. Marian Klamer is the only professor in the world who researches both these language groups. She records languages before they disappear and sheds new light on the history of Indonesia. Inaugural lecture…
-
Asia Academy #15: North Korea's Gamble
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
-
VICI winner Cwiertka: ‘I am contrary by nature’
Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden Professor of Modern Japan Studies, was already the recipient of a VENI and a VIDI grant. Now she has also been granted a VICI, worth 1.5 million euro, for her research project Garbage Matters: A Comparative History of Waste in East Asia. ‘I want to do something that hasn’t…
-
Ensnaring tumours in their own web
Erik Danen is looking at how to inhibit tumours that do not respond well to medicine – and he is making some headway. The Professor of Cancer Drug Target Discovery studies the interaction between tumour cells and their surroundings. Inaugural lecture on Friday 10 May.
-
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.
-
The position of Lydian within Anatolian
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
- GTGC lunch seminar: Chris Wensink & Midas van Dijk on Regionalizing Eurasia
-
Book presentation Victor A. van Bijlert: Nyāya Sūtra: On Philosophical Method: Sanskrit Text, Translation, and Commentary
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
-
Lineage and Gender in Islam: Perspectives from the Indian Ocean World
International Conference
-
Student in war time
Jacques Waisvisz (98) is one of our oldest living alumni. As a Jewish student in the Second World War, he was forbidden from completing his studies. How does he look back at that time, and what was life like afterwards? ‘No one thought that the situation here would become so bad.’
-
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
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…
-
All eyes on China: the Communist Party Congress is coming up
The world’s attention will shift to China as the Communist Party is set to hold its five-yearly congress beginning on 16 October. We talk to Senior University Lecturer Florian Schneider about how its leader Xi Jinping is expected to cement his place as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Ze…
-
Cleveringa Professor: ‘Individuals make history’
Through each individual decision, however small, people make history. This is what historian Katja Happe said in the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November. She illustrated this with individual reactions to the persecution of Jews during the Second World War.
-
New publication affirms academic legacy of Hanna Stöger
In summer 2018 classical archaeologist Hanna Stöger passed away. At that moment she was in the midst of several cutting-edge research projects on the use of space in the Roman city of Ostia. To make sure that her groundbreaking work would not go unpublished, long-time colleagues Hans Kamermans and Bouke…
-
Politics and the Holocaust in Modern Poland: A seminar with Prof. Edyta Gawron
On Monday, April 24 the Austria Centre Leiden and the Leiden Jewish Studies Association hosted a special seminar with Prof. Edyta Gawron entitled “Politics and the Holocaust in Modern Poland.” Gawron is a historian and professor of Jewish Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków and a noted expert…
-
Who is the rightful owner of colonial art?
Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the debate on art and collectors’ items from a loaded past. Inaugural speech on 2 December.
-
10th Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture: Season of Rains, Africa in the World Today
Lecture
-
Leiden University's world-renowned collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
Lecture, Studium Generale
-
Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World
Lecture, Studium Generale
-
SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Matthijs van Leeuwen
Lecture
-
SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Rob van Nieuwpoort
Lecture
-
SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Marieke van Buchem
Lecture
-
SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Ben van Werkhoven
Lecture
-
ASCL Seminar: Waves of Memory in the Red Sea: Unpacking Mixedness through Italo-Eritrean Livescapes
Lecture
-
These professors also stood up for their Jewish colleagues
With his speech in protest against the sacking of his Jewish colleague, Rudolph Cleveringa, Dean of the Faculty of Law, became the foremost symbol for Leiden’s resistance against the Nazis. But there are also other brave professors who should not be forgotten: what are the stories of Ben Telders, Ton…
-
Telling the story of Gaza
Lecture, Book presentation and Q&A
-
Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.