561 search results for “anna” in the Public website
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Plastic nanoparticles make larval zebrafish hyperactive
Nanoplastics influence the behaviour of larval zebrafish, says new research by the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) and the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML). The researchers observed that a certain type of nanoparticles leads to stress reactions in the sugar balance, resulting in hyperactivity…
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Cattle, rather than geometric shapes, determine how the Hamar see the world
Sara Petrollino, a university lecturer in linguistics, strongly believes that language influences the way we see the world. An NWO Open Competition (XS) grant will enable her to test this hypothesis among the Ethiopian Hamar people. ‘The idea that everyone thinks in geometric shapes is culturally de…
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Where does this Inca language come from? Verb conjugations should provide some answers
When university lecturer Martine Bruil was on exchange in Ecuador as a teenager, she fell in love with the area's ancient languages. Now, more than 20 years later, she is starting a research project on the kinship of the language Awapit with the Quechua language that was spread by the Incas.
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Leiden University College The Hague: 'Top rated Programme' since 2013
Leiden University College The Hague received the 'Top rated Programme' seal from the Keuzegids Universiteiten 2023 (Dutch University Guide). It is the tenth consecutive time the Liberal Arts & Sciences programme focusing on Global Challenges is awarded the honorary seal.
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How do people best learn a language? 'It's incredible what you do when you talk'
According to Nivja de Jong, second language acquisition is 'the most fascinating subject in linguistics'. As a recently appointed professor of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, she studies the question of how best to teach people a new language.
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Migrants cost European governments less than their own citizens do
Migrants are far less of a burden on the budget of European countries than is often thought. This is the conclusion of research by economists from Leiden University.
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Migrants cost European governments less than their own citizens do
Migrants are far less of a burden on the budget of European countries than is often thought. This is the conclusion of research by economists from Leiden University.
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Historical research helps biodiversity in Leiden city centre
The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does justice to the city’s heritage. Researcher Fenna IJtsma delves into historical greenery to offer inspiration.
- LUC Garage Sale
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Master Student for a Day Public Administration
Study information
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Summer School Computational Social Cognition 2024
Course, Summer School
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Field Notes: An Interactive Session on Housing, Land, and Property in Global Hotspots
Debate
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Global Challenges: The Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Debate, Studium Generale
- Impediments, disability and the university as knowledge infrastructure
- The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
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Poster sessions
Speech Prosody 2024 includes several poster sessions, the description of which you can find below.
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World Peace: visions from Tolstoy
Debate, Seminar
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Global Challenges: The Regime of Lukashenka
Lecture
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The First 20 Years: Reconsidering European Union Enlargement into Central and Eastern Europe
Conference, Conversation
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Roundtable on Climate Change and Land Rights: IOM’s e-course module on HLP, Protection and Climate Change
Lecture, Roundtable discussion
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Research-Concert: Songs and Languages across hemispheres
Music concert
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Women on the agenda in Leiden
Women are are on the agenda again at Leiden University. That was clear on 8 March in the Academy Building. First there was an informal get-together with women professors and talented researchers, followed by the 27th Annie Romein-Verschoor lecture, on happy and angry women.
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The transformative power of food
Creating a good life and new work values through foodwork?
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Social Science Matters: How useful is deprivation of liberty?
A new bill is currently under debate in the Netherlands, advocating raising the prison sentence for manslaughter from 15 to 25 years. ‘This very serious crime (...) evokes feelings of disgust and insecurity in society’, Dutch Minister for Justice and Security Grapperhaus comments on the sentence that…
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Workshop: Managing Difficult Moments
Course
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Relational Multilateralism: the Play of International United Front in China’s Global Grand Strategy
Lecture
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Inclusive Peace in Ukraine
Debate, Panel Discussion
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Dismantling National Colonialism: the role of Chilean political indigenous movements
Guest Lecture
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CCLS Seminar
Conference, seminar
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Piety and devotion. 16th-century murals in the Virabhadra Temple in Lepakshi, India
Lecture, Masterclass IIAS/LIAS
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How to Work for Peace: A Dialogue with Dionysius Mintoff, the ‘Father of Peace’
Debate, Fireside Peace Chats
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Unveiling Media Accessibility: From Research to Practice and Back
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Live Q&A with OpenAI: AI and the Future of Humanity
Debate, Live Q&A
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LGBTIQ+ Employee Resource Groups: Benefits, Challenges and Opportunities
Debate, Symposium
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Benefit concert for Ukraine
Benefit concert
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Lecture Frits Scholten: Private Devotion & Immersive Play - The Use of 'Spiritual Toys' in the Late Middle Ages
Lecture
- GTGC Research Seminar (James Shires and Max Smeets)
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Onzekerheid opzoeken - risicogedrag in pubers en zebravissen
Lecture
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ELS lab meeting: Work in Progress
Lecture
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University buildings
What is Leiden University doing to make its buildings future-proof and independent of fossil energy?
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Letters as loot
Linguistic research on a unique collection of Dutch letters allowed us to gain access to the every-day language of people from various walks of life. Private letters by men, women and even children have been elaborately explored in the Letters as Loot researchprogramme, initiated and directed by prof.…
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MS@Work study
Predictors of work functioning in persons with multiple sclerosis
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Education
Connect art and academia at ACPA
- Introduction Week
- Blog Posts Archive
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The Need for Teaching a More Accurate and Inclusive History of Science: The Case of Islamic Contributions to Math and Sciences
Debate
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Workshop ‘Disinformation and Human Rights in Context’
Conference
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Research Workshop on the Legal Responses to the Disinformation Crisis
Conference
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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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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Debate