373 search results for “crop breeding” in the Public website
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this second instalment: historian and university lecturer Nadia Bouras (1981). ‘Although I only found out later that was my mother’s dream, it was as though I…
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this first…
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Why we need to co-create knowledge for sustainability – and why this is easier said than done
Recent debates on energy transitions and poverty illustrate the social ecological complexities of sustainability problems. These cannot be tackled by single academic disciplines – nor by academics alone. In this blog, Marja Spierenburg reflects on the need for, and challenges of ‘transdisciplinarity…
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This Week’s Discoveries | 23 January 2018
Lecture
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Text-image relationships in Persian manuscripts
Masterclass
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Publications
Recent publications
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Extinction Crisis: Can we save Africa's Rhinos?
Lecture
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Understanding Sport Participation: On the embodiment of religion, gender and race/ethnicity
Conference, Roundtable
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Projecting the Future: Anthropologies of Infrastructure and Urban Space
Roundtable
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Cleveringa Meeting Leiden 2020
Alumni Event, Debat
- Media Technology exhibition HYBRID in V2_ gallery space
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Pieter's Corner: The (non)sense of conspiracy theories
Climate change is made up, the secret services murdered Pim Fortuyn and JFK, and the moon landing was a fake show. Conspiracy theories are of all times, providing sensation and entertainment, but also unrest and fear. The corona pandemic is new fuel for conspiracy theorists who set fire to 5G masts,…
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Shaping Cultural Landscapes and Movement Dynamics: Rural Lives beyond the Walls
Conference
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YAL members
Read all about YAL membership and the members of the Young Academy Leiden.
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Cleveringa Meeting Leiden 2021
Alumni Event, Debat
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Cancelled: International Women’s Day 2020: Film Screening & Discussion with Oxfam Novib
Lecture
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Cotton, control, and continuity in disguise: The political economy of agrarian transformation in lowland Tajikistan
PhD Defence
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Paul Christiaan Flu: a Surinamese professor in a time of war
Paul Christiaan Flu, originally from Surinam, was a brilliant tropical doctor, who in 1938 rose to the position of Rector Magnificus of Leiden University. The war years brought his lightning career to an abrupt end: his son was murdered and he himself was imprisoned in a concentration camp. A sad family…
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Meet and Match for Interns: The New Online Internship Market
Course
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Older Publications
Overview of the publications of the department of Industrial Ecology (1982-2015)
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26 Research and Education Grants in 2020 for the Institute of Security and Global Affairs
Whilst 2020 has been an unusual and taxing year for colleagues at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), the Institute nevertheless can look back on an impressive range of successful grant applications during the previous year. This impressive result was achieved on top of excellent results…
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2019 Hall of fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2019 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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Meet the Employer 6-10 December 2021
Course