1,110 search results for “culture conditions” in the Public website
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European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’
Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.
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CANCELLED - CA-OS Research Seminar | Perfomativity and Mediatization of Cultural Heritage through Artistic Intervention and Filmmaking in Sápmi
Lecture, Seminar
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Online Mini-conference 'Political Culture from Late Antiquity to the post-classical Greek City and back again'
Conference
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Airway epithelial cell cultures for studying obstructive lung disease: Effects of IL‐13 and cigarette smoke
PhD defence
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The Cinematic Santri: Youth Culture, Tradition and Technology in Muslim Indonesia
PhD defence
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Embedded Remembering: Memory Culture of the 1965 Violence in Rural East Java
PhD defence
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Attachment Theory and Culture: Parenting in Latin America and rural Peru from an Attachment Theory perspective
PhD defence
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A culture medium based approach to optimize the stratum corneum barrier of human skin equivalents
PhD defence
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The writing culture of ancient Dadan; a description and quantitative analysis of linguistics variation
PhD defence
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Written Culture at Ten Duinen: Cistercian Monks and their Books, 1140-1250
PhD defence
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Changes in the Cultural Landscape and their Impacts on Heritage Management
PhD defence
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Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes Cultural Memory and Intercultural Communication in the Dominican Republic and Cuba
PhD defence
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hydrogels as synthetic extracellular matrices for three- dimensional cell culture
PhD defence
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POSTPONED |The Cinematic Santri, Youth Culture, Tradition and Technology in Muslim Indonesia
PhD defence
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The early stress response of jasmonic acid in cell suspension cultures of Catharanthus roseus
PhD defence
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Museum of Amna Suraka: a Critical Case Study of Kurdistani Memory Culture
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! series
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Putting life into Neolithic houses with an NWO subsidy: ‘We will bring detail in our image of past domestic activities’
Archaeologist Annelou van Gijn received an NWO Archeologie Telt grant to investigate domestic craft and subsistence activities of late Neolithic peoples in the coastal area of the Netherlands
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Two more upcoming events from PhDArts
Activities of Thalia Hoffman and Basma Hamdy
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Archaeological Science article on experimental archaeology among most downloaded
The research article ‘Anatomy of a notch. An in-depth experimental investigation and interpretation of combat traces on Bronze Age swords’ is one of the most downloaded articles on the Journal of Archaeological Science website. This journal is one of the best for impact factor in the field. The article,…
- Stakeholder-led adaptation strategies to climate change
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Public Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe: Theatrical Entertainments for the State Journeys of English and French Royals into the Low Countries
One way for governments to conduct foreign policy and promote national interests is through direct outreach and communication with the population of a foreign country. This is called public diplomacy. Historians such as Helmer Helmers and William T. Rossiter have shown that printed media were already…
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Archaeologist argues for circular economy during Carnegie Peacebuilding Conversations
Maikel Kuijpers was invited to join a session on material rights, resource use, and craftsmanship during the Carnegie Peacebuilding Conversations held in The Hague’s Peace Palace in September. Organised by Major Alliance the session brought together a diverse panel to discuss “The Universal Declaration…
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Scholarship for archaeologist Catarina Guzzo Falci
In the beginning of December 2016 PhD candidate Catarina Guzzo Falci was awarded a scholarship for a collections study by Musée du quai Branly. The Musée du quai Branly has implemented this scholarship programme to document its collections.
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Teachers’ professional learning preferences
How do secondary school teachers’ professional learning preferences relate to teaching experience and the school context?
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the Middle East: Their Collections at the National Museum of World Cultures
Lecture, Topical Issues in Museums
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Memory and Protest Cultures in Postcolonial and Post-Socialist Contexts
Conference
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Scripture and Disc Culture in Pre-Islamic Arabia: the Inscriptions from Dadān (600-100 BC)
Leidse lezingen over de Arabische taal en cultuur | 2019 (I)
- Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Book Launch with Vanina Kopp (Toronto) & Elizabeth Lapina (Wisconsin-Madison)
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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LUCIS launches Passion in Profession video series
What inspires scholars who study the history, cultures, religions and languages of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia? LUCIS interviewed scholars about their work and research in the video project “Passion in Profession”. The videos are available online now.
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Film funded with ERC grant in premiere at Mexican film festival
The feature drama film In Times of Rain will have its world premiere at the Guanajuato International Film Festival (#GIFF 2018) in Mexico. The film is a result of the Leiden University project ‘Time in lntercultural Context’, funded by the European Research Council.
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Sanjar Gulomov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in December 2018
Sanjar Golomov is a senior scholar at the Al-Biruni Institute in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In Leiden he will deliver two lectures and one masterclass for MA and PhD students as part of the Erasmus Mobility Plus project between Leiden University and the Al-Biruni Institute. The project is coordinated and…
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Archaeologist Omar Aguilar Sánchez receives Mexican youth prize
On October 21st, 2019, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, handed out the National Prize for the Youth in the academic achievement category to our PhD candidate Omar Aguilar Sánchez. He received this honour for his work on Mixtec pictorial manuscripts.
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How Cicero’s ruined reputation can be a lesson for politicians today
Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not go unchallenged in his own day, as a statesman in particular. Classicist Leanne Jansen conducted research into how classical historians judged Cicero’s…
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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.
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Shaping Cultural Landscapes and Movement Dynamics: Rural Lives beyond the Walls
Conference
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Recycling the Past: Tzu-chi Waste Recycling and the Cultural Politics of Nostalgia in Taiwan
PhD defence
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‘Indonesian archives are a goldmine for historians’
It's a race against time for Charles Jeurgens, Leiden Professor in Archival Studies. He is investigating how the colonial authorities created the archives in the National Archive in Jakarta. ‘The acidic paper deteriorates rapidly in this hot and humid climate.’
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The future of experiencing the past
The Faculty of Archaeology experiments with innovating their teaching methods, using 3D scans and visualisation technology to enable active learning. 'It makes archaeological material more accessible. Especially when it comes to fragile materials, it allows nearly anybody to analyse them.'
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Sara Brandellero: 'the news coming from Brazil is chilling'
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro called the COVID-19 disease “a minor illness”. With more than 200.000 confirmed corona cases today (May 18) however, Brazil is quickly becoming one of the world’s emerging coronavirus hot spots. How long can Bolsonaro continue to downplay the corona crisis? We asked…
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Women and the Written Word: Textual culture in court and convent during the twelfth-century Renaissance
PhD defence
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Historic Gem: A Historical Archaeological Analysis of the Maritime Cultural Landscape of St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean
PhD defence
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through South-South Interaction: Rethinking Creativity, Authenticity, Cultural Mediation and Consumer Agency along China-Africa Fashion Value Chains
Lecture, China Seminar
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the opening of the Al-Babtain Leiden University Centre for Arabic Culture
Opening ceremony
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Archaeologist Annelou van Gijn in College Tour Merenwijk
Lecture, College Tour
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Svetlana Gorshenina will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in February 2018
Svetlana Gorshenina, Associate Lecturer at Collège de France, Paris, will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar from 17 February until 25 February 2018. Svetlana Gorshenina will deliver a guest lecture on Tuesday, 20 February and a masterclass on Friday, 23 February within the Central Asia Initiative…
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Caribbean through a biographical approach: Microwear and material culture across the historical divide (AD 1200-1600)
PhD defence
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NWA grant for Anouk de Koning and consortium for research on social resilience
A 5 million euros grant from the Dutch Research Agenda allows Anouk de Koning and co-applicants Femke Kaulingfreks and Maartje van der Woude to study social interventions in eight Dutch cities in an innovative and interdisciplinary way.
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The importance of an interdisciplinary approach to open information provision in palliative care
What if seriously ill patients do not want to hear their diagnosis? Does a clinician always need to provide a patient with all available information? Communication researcher Liesbeth van Vliet, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels and research intern Fiona Brosig will put these questions on open…
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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…