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Leiden Classics: 5 questions about our motto Praesidium Libertatis 27 January 2015
Our motto is Praesidium Libertatis, or ‘bastion of liberty’. How did it come into existence, and in what way is Leiden University staying true to its ...
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Tell Balata Archaeological Park project 15 January 2015
Tell Balata Archaeological Park project On January 15th the cooperation project of the Faculty of Archaeology with the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism...
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Book Toon Kerkhoff 10 October 2014
Together with colleagues from VU University Amsterdam and the Hague University of Applied Sciences, Toon Kerkhoff is writing a book in English about c...
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Schadenfreude and the role in social relations 04 September 2014
Leiden psychologist Wilco van Dijk and communication scientist Jaap Ouwerkerk of VU University Amsterdam published a book about the emotion Schadenfre...
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Mapping of bacterial genomes to combat infectious diseases 20 July 2014
Mapping of bacterial genomes to combat infectious diseases
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Drug Delivery to the Brain 07 April 2014
This book describes the different approaches for drug delivery to the brain with an emphasis on the physiology of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and th...
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Recent publications by Dr. Marcel Cobussen 24 January 2014
Recently, four books have been published which contain a chapter by ACPA senior researcher, lecturer and PhD-supervisor Dr. Marcel Cobussen.
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Political influence of ‘women above stairs’ 21 October 2013
A new volume, co-edited by Nadine Akkerman of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, shows how ladies-in-waiting, by 'creatively manipu...
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'Turkey. A Modern History' now in nine languages 21 May 2013
The book on Turkey. A Modern History written by Professor Erik-Jan Zürcher, Professor of Turkish Studies, is now available in nine different languages...
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What soy sauce can teach us about the history of South Korea 14 December 2012
‘Three books published within a year – that happens only once in a lifetime!’ This was the reaction of Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan S...
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Handbook of Signal Processing Systems 11 October 2012
Handbook of Signal Processing Systems is organized in four parts. The first part motivates representative applications that drive and apply state-of-t...
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Handbook of Natural Computing 24 August 2012
Natural Computing is the field of research that investigates both human-designed computing inspired by nature and computing taking place in nature, i....
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2012 Publication 'Stemmen op berkenbast' 14 May 2012
Jos Schaeken has just published a book entitled 'Stemmen op berkenbast. Berichten uit middeleeuws Rusland: dagelijks leven en communicatie'.
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Launch International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval 27 October 2011
Leiden University and Springer launched International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval.
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Catholics were slow to respond to the Revolt in the Netherlands 04 October 2011
Historians have long known that Catholics played a significant role in the Revolt of the Netherlands (1520-1635). But what did the Revolt mean to indi...