683 search results for “critical visitor” in the Public website
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The Critical Visitor
The Heritage Sector at a Crossroads: The way of Intersectionality. This project investigates how heritage institutions can achieve inclusion and accessibility within their organization, collection, and exhibition spaces that meets the breadth of demands placed by today’s “critical visitors.” Fifteen…
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Queering the Museum: Contemporary Artists and Curators as ‘Critical Visitors’ and their Creative Interventions
Doctoral research on recent developments in museological practices by “critical” curators, interventionist artists, and personnel initiatives, focusing on ‘queering’ as an entrance point to broader intersectional issues; resulting in a report on the ‘Queer Baseline’ (to be launched in 2020), a popular…
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Noah Littel
Faculty of Humanities
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Visitor Center
From April 1, 2022, you can visit the visitor center through our standard tours. A standard tour consists of a half-hour guided tour along one of our telescopes and a half-hour guided tour through the exhibition in the visitor center. At the moment the exhibition 'Under our sky' is housed in the visitor…
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Founding an Inclusive Space: Legacies of Alternative Archiving Practices in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom
The project ‘Founding an Inclusive Space’ investigates the histories of various LGBT+ archives in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.
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Queer Salon, bringing together insiders and outsiders
Doctoral research on the history of the critical visitor and their efforts at founding alternative archives including LGBT+-focused, feminist, disability and digitizing projects, resulting in a traveling exhibition on findings (with audio-guides), popular and scholarly article, and a dissertation.
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Field Labs: Testing Intersectional Approaches to Inclusive Actions
Subproject of the NWO Smart Culture Grant research project 'The Critical Visitor'.
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Archival Interactions: Artists and Archivists
Subproject of the NWO Smart Culture Grant research project 'The Critical Visitor'.
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Quantum critical metals at vanishing fermion flavor number
Quantum critical metals at vanishing fermion flavor number.
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Solution for Critical Raw Materials - an European Export Network (SCRREEN)
Where and how are critical materials currently used and how can this information be used to develop scenarios about their future demand.
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Transmedia storytelling for critical engagement
Leiden University and VU Amsterdam are developing a joint research project for a digital platform on which you can compose and share storylines with the use of images. Such interactivity will make a boring high school history lesson much more exciting and personalized. Furthermore, it will stimulate…
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Critical Readings on Global Slavery (4 vols.)
These four volumes offer students and researchers a rich collection of published works on the history of slavery works by some of the most preeminent scholars in the field.
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Cleveringa Dallaire Critical Conversation Series
In the fall of 2021, Cleveringa professor Roméo Dallaire and world experts shared their thoughts about PTSD, children’s rights, war crimes, humanitarian law, and peacekeeping in a series of conversations about leadership and moral dilemma during times of conflict and crisis.
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Critical Perspectives on Salafism in the Netherlands
The study by Tahir Abbas and Liselotte Welten reveals a structural and nuanced understanding of how the question of Salafism in the Netherlands has become an increasingly discussed phenomenon and the types of threats that ought to give genuine concern to security, intelligence and policing services.
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Bridging Art, Design and Technology through Critical Making
How can the concept of Critical Making be expanded into a general approach that ties the critical methodology of artistic research, and the established concepts of artistic autonomy, together with contemporary creative-technological development?
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Heritage institutions for everyone
How can heritage institutions make their organisations, collections and exhibitions more inclusive and accessible? University lecturer Eliza Steinbock will investigate this using a NWO Smart Culture grant.
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Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome. Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography
Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome: Greek culture in the Roman world.
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Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s
This edited collection brings together canonical texts on intermedia and expanded cinema in 1960s Japan, most of which translated into English for the first time, in hope to introduce the local critical discourse on this subject to international readership.
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Party, State, Revolution. Critical Reflections on Zizek's Political Philosophy
Slavoj Žižek is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of the left. His central claim holds that “today, it is more crucial than ever to continue to question the very foundations of capitalism as a global system”.
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Islam in North Africa: A Critical Return to Youth
In recent years, and especially since the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011, a growing body of research, media reporting, and scholarly literature has focused on the role of ‘Arab youth’ as the drivers of social and political movements across the Middle East and North Africa.
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Critical edition and annotated translation of the Niśvāsamukha
This project will lead to a critical edition and annotated translation of the Niśvāsamukha, the opening book of the Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā.
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Making Matters. Collective Material Practices in Critical Times
The NWO-funded research project Critical Making engages with practices that cross the disciplinary boundaries of art, design, engineering and technological making, and (artistic) social intervention.
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Greek criticism and Latin literature. Classicism and cultural interaction in the late republican and early imperial Rome
This project examines the intriguing relationship between Greek literary criticism and Latin literature in Rome (first centuries BC and AD).
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Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece. Under the Spell of Stories
Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies.
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Study success: academic achievement and critical thinking competence in undergraduate education
What is the impact of research-based learning on critical thinking competence and academic achievement in undergraduate education? What are underlying factors of research-based learning in the learning environment?
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Cleared for take-off, Game-based learning to prepare airline pilots for critical situations
Over the last decades, aviation safety has improved strongly. As a downside, airline pilots do not have as many opportunities to develop through experience the competencies that they need in critical situations.
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Hervaeus Natalis, De secundis intentionibus, Distinctiones I&II : Critical Edition with Introduction and Indices
This critical edition covers the first two parts of De secundis intentionibus by Hervaeus Natalis (14th century).
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The Anthropomorphic Hegemony of Subjectivity: Critical Reflections on Law and the Question of the Animal
On 16 December 2019, Jan-Harm de Villiers defended his thesis 'The Anthropomorphic Hegemony of Subjectivity: Critical Reflections on Law and the Question of the Animal'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. P. Cliteur.
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morphological matching among subalpine Asteraceae and their flower-visitors
Plants and their pollinators form complex interaction networks. Within these networks, species differ widely in the number of species they interact with.
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When materials become critical: lessons from the 2010 rare earth crisis
Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn
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Ruins for the future: Critical allegory and disaster governance in post-tsunami Japan
Andrew Littlejohn published the article 'Ruins for the future: Critical allegory and disaster governance in post-tsunami Japan' in American Ethnologist about the ruins left by Japan's 2011 tsunami.
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International visitors to our Open Day
Leiden University offers a wide range of English-taught bachelor's programmes. That's why our Open Day attracts many prospective students from abroad.
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Lodge & Boin, COVID-19 as the ultimate leadership challenge: making critical decisions without enough data
The coronacrisis is emerging as the ultimate test for political leaders. How do national political leaders get ahead or behind ‘the curve’ of fast-changing dynamics. Martin Lodge (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Arjen Boin (Leiden University Institute of Political Science) look…
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Visitors from Qatar University College of Law
On Monday 7 September 2015 Leiden Law School welcomed a group of students from Qatar University College of Law. The delegation was invited by the The Hague project
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Visitors about Master’s Open Day
Students came from far and wide to the Master’s Open Day to make sure that a Master’s in the Humanities at Leiden University is the best option for them.
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800 visitors for Humanities during Master's Day
On Friday November 10th, the Master's Information Day took place. Students from The Netherlands and abroad came to Leiden to see which Humanities master's programme was for them.
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Rene Kleijn on BNR radio about critical materials
The recent trade dispute between the U.S. and China has renewed the attention for the dependency of the U.S. and many other developed countries on the imports of critical materials. Recently this has led to an initiative by the U.S. government to team up with resource rich countries like Australia and…
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Critical moments: How do events affect how we should judge the legitimacy of political authorities?
In what ways do historical and current events affect how we should judge the legitimacy of political authorities?
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Symposium on Tools Criticism
The Centre for Digital Scholarship of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities would like to invite you to the symposium on Tools Criticism on Thursday 21 November, from 10.00-18.00. The symposium will be held in the Vossius room of the University Library at Witte…
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Student for a Day: what the visitors had to say
Thousands of school leavers came to Leiden between 29 March and 1 April to experience what it's like to study at university. Students at the Criminology and Psychology departments share their experiences. 'I know the subject I want to study, but I'm not sure about the university. That's why I'm here…
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Over 700 visitors at the Leiden Humanities Master’s Day
Students from Londen, Amsterdam and Leiden visited presentations and talked to students, tutors and alumni to find out more about the Master’s Programmes Leiden University has to offer.
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Corona measures in student housing: ‘Visitors are ony allowed when everyone agrees’
In many student cities, the number of corona infections grows, and in Leiden we can also see rising figures. Especially in student housing, it is sometimes difficult to keep your distance, how do you do that? We asked students about mutual agreements in their student housing.
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Kickoff Critical Making research project
The newly launched NWO funded research project ‘Bridging art, design and technology through Critical Making’ aims to interrogate Critical Making by experimentally applying it to a broad range of artistic practices.
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The Paippalādasaṃhitā of the Atharvaveda: A new critical edition of the three 'new' Anuvākas of Kāṇḍa 17 with English translation and commentary
On the 11th of June, Umberto Selva successfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Umberto on this great result.
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Opening and inauguration of the Visitors Centre at Tell Balata (historical Shekhem) on June 24, 2013
The opening and inauguration of the Visitors Centre, and the visitors trail on the site, are an important result of the Tell Balata Archaeological Park project that is jointly being implemented by the Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, the Faculty of Archaeology of the University…
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Master's Day: What visitors had to say
The Master's Day on 4 November was very busy. Prospective students visited the many presentations and bombarded the guides with their questions.
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in Kunst und Literatur // Taking Positions on the ‘Refugee Crisis’: Critical Responses in Art and Literature
The recent rise in global migration movements and the simultaneous attempts to prevent migrations to the Global North in general and Europe in particular have produced numerous images and narratives that try to record and convey these events and their actors.
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Critical thinking? Or rather generous thinking?
‘Critical thinking’ is an expression all academics have heard of: it’s the first learning objective in the Leiden Vision on Teaching and Learning. It’s both a historical topic with roots that reach back a long way and a topical problem too. The question on everyone’s lips is whether critical thinking…
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The superpowers of new critical raw materials
Cars, wind turbines, solar panels and smartphones. ‘Critical’ raw materials like platinum or cobalt are used in all the technologies that are essential for the energy and digital transition. But we should be aware of the scarceness of these materials, a new campaign warns.
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Beyond Utopia: New politics, the politics of knowledge and the science fictional field of Japan
This project aims to uncover a series of sites of difference and innovation. In particular, it locates itself in two kinds of distancing: geo-cultural (ie. in the non-European space of Japan) and medial (ie. in innovative expressive media).