2,852 search results for “medieval studies” in the Public website
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Heritage Education - Memories of the Past in the Present Caribbean Social Studies Curriculum: A view from Teacher Practice
PhD defence
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Expectations of justice and political power in the Islamicate world (ca. 600-1500 CA)
Conference
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Roots: Imperial Politics, Image Discourse, and European Botanical Studies at the Qianlong Court
Lecture
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Elite Wari Women and Digital Methods - A GIS case study in a Peruvian Burial chamber
Lecture
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Mandarin speaking children build bridges: a syntax-discourse interface study
Lecture
- Combining PM-IRRAS with optical imaging techniques for in situ studies of CO oxidation
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International Studies' opening lecture of the academic year 2020-2021
Lecture
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Conservation and study of the Pahari collection of drawings and paintings
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Speaker Series: Testing linguistic theories with deep learning: a case study on meaning predictability
Lecture
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Masterclasses by Hugh Kennedy
Course, Al-Babtain Masterclasses
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‘Like Don Quichot, you have to keep dreaming’
Having a bachelor, master and Ph.D in chemistry, Elena Sánchez López shifted to a more biological research for her postdoc. All of her studies she did at the University of Alcala, in Spain. Way back in medieval times, this city was the place of birth of Miguel de Cervantes, author of the world famous…
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Is there such thing as a Confucianist Chinese Foreign Policy? A Case Study of the Belt and Road Initiative
Lecture, seminar on Microsoft Teams
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language learning - Experiences and insights from conducting a PhD study
Lecture
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Conspiracies in Turkish State-Sponsored Historical TV Series: A Case Study of Payitaht Abdulhamid
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Policy and Resilience Program at the The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)
Lecture
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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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Lotte Melenhorst: 'No evidence for mediatisation of lawmaking'
The widespread idea that politics is mediatised needs to be revised. Although media attention heavily influences some political processes, this is not the case when it comes to lawmaking. Lotte Melenhorst, a political scientist at Leiden University, analysed three heavily covered legislative processes…
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Sarah Cramsey appointed professor: ‘I want to uncover the underrepresented stories in history’
Sarah Cramsey was appointed professor by special appointment of Central European Studies at the Institute of History on 14 September. 'I am keen to incorporate different scholarly approaches into my work and raise the profile of Central European Studies in Leiden.'
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Dialects as the key to Japanese prehistory
Japanese was not always the language spoken in Japan. Researchers link the arrival of the language in Japan with the migration of farmers around 400 BC. Linguist Elisabeth de Boer has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to carry out research on the further spread of the language in Japan.
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Anoma van der Veere: ‘In Japan, the awkward little masks symbolise the government’s failure’
Leiden Asia Centre researcher Anoma van der Veere argues that the Japanese government has failed to respond properly to Covid-19. There were difficulties with implementing government measures aimed at limiting the spread of the virus – in some cases those measures were not even taken seriously. How…
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Between Diversity and Decolonisation: Museums as Media, and the Representation of Ainu in Museums in Japan
Lecture
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Re-Presented Pasts: Uses and Re-Uses of the Past in Pre-Modern Islam
Conference, LUCIS Research Programme | Re-Presented Pasts
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2022: 'After Lights Out: Studying Classics in a World War II Internment Camp'
Lecture
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Jovan Pesalj’s doctoral dissertation ‘Monitoring Migrations: The Habsburg-Ottoman Border in the Eighteenth Century’
In recent years, the public discourse on immigration in Europe and in the United States has often focused on efforts to increase security and restrict traffic on external borders. How old is this phenomenon of states attempting to control migrations on external borders? What were the motives and the…
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40th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL40)
Conference | Symposium
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VVIK Lecture: Local Biographies in Jain Literary Production
Lecture, VVIK
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42nd Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL42)
Conference | Symposium
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
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SAILS Lunch Seminar
Lecture, seminar
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Small Grant Symposium 2019-2020 awardees
Symposium
- WHAT's NEW?! Spring Lecture Series
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Combat in Context
Conference
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Unquendor Tolkien Seminar 2018: The World Tolkien Built
Conference
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The BuddhistRoad Project: Research Agenda and Recent Results
Lecture
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Fall 2021: 'Tyrrhenus fato profugus. Neo-Latin Panegyrics and the Humanist Appropriation of Etruscan Foundational Myths'
Lecture
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“Was the Habsburg Empire an Empire?”
Lecture, Fourth Annual Leiden Austrian Studies Lecture
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Neanderthals knew what they were doing when it came to making the oldest known glue
Adhesives are an incredibly important part of every day life. They help hold together everything from shoes and mobile phones to satellites in space. But we didn’t invent adhesives: Neanderthals did, to make handles for stone tools over 191,000 years ago. Leiden researchers now found that Neanderthals…
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The enduring impact of Egypt on Western culture
The material and intellectual presence of Egypt is at the heart of Western culture, religion, and art from Antiquity to the present. In his book ‘Beyond Egyptomania. Objects, style and agency’, archaeologist Miguel John Versluys not only presents the Nachleben of Egypt as a major constituent of (European)…
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Esa Kasmir: ‘Online video classes give me a reason to change out of my pajamas’
Esa Kasmir (21) is a third-year student in International Studies and is doing a minor in Philosophy. How does he cope with the present situation and how does he keep in touch with friends and family?
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What the spider tales of Indians in the Caribbean reveal about our fragility and powers of endurance
Last week, Ajay Gandhi, Assistant Professor at the Leiden University College, wrote an article about how spider's webs can explain the dynamics of social beings.
- LUCSoR Annual Conference
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POSTPONED - The world of the Greek epigram. Studying Inscribed Funerary Poetry from the Hellenistic and Roman Greek East
Conference, Research Seminar
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FRESH Lecture: Computational Studies of Reactivity and Kinetics in Homogeneous Catalysis: Challenges and Perspectives
Lecture
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BA and MA courses of visiting professor of Buddhist Studies, Yukio Yamanaka
Course
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Raising the bar for classification and outcome assessment for clinical studies in axial spondyloarthritis
PhD defence
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Ebifananyi; A study of photographs in Uganda in and through an artistic practice
PhD defence
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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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A typology of traitors in late nineteenth-century Austria-Hungary
Lecture, First Austrian Studies Annual Lecture
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Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: A Reminiscence
Lecture