Dit rapport maakt deel uit van het project Receptenboek burgerparticipatie in opdracht van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) en met steun van het Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie.

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For the third year in a row, the bonfires in the Duindorp and Scheveningen neighbourhoods in The Hague during New Year's Eve have been cancelled. According to Professor Henk te Velde, the fight for the bonfires represents something bigger: angry citizens.

This dissertation contains the further development of a method for linguistic-stylistic research, which provides a systematic means to interpret global impressions of a text through choices in formulation at word- and sentence level.

The representation of death children in Dutch literature through time

The Dutch prefix ge- in historical perspective gives first of all a general account of the development of the word formation processes involving ge- in which special attention is paid to the participial ge-.

On December 6th, Bob Schoemaker succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Bob on this great result.

Onlangs verscheen het boek ‘Afgrond zonder vangnet’ van Yra van Dijk, hoogleraar Moderne Nederlandse Literatuur. In haar boek analyseert ze verschillende thema's in het werk van Arnon Grunberg.

A research agenda

Een onderzoeksteam van Universiteit Leiden in samenwerking met Bureau Boekhoorn Sociaal-Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek en Advies (BBSO) gaat evaluatieonderzoek uitvoeren naar de Nederlandse contraterrorismewetgeving.

On Friday April 24th, after a day of festivities in honor of his 60th birthday, Hendrik Lenstra was awarded the distinction of `Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw' by the mayor of the city of Leiden.

Marietje Beemsterboer defended her thesis on 12 June 2018 (in Dutch)

LIBC PUBLIEKSDAG 'GEHEUGENSPOREN' (in Dutch)

From 25 May, a new European privacy law will apply. Companies and authorities must deal with personal data in a clearer and safer manner. Bibi van den Berg, Professor of Cyber Security Governance at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), tells in Nu.nl what the law entails and about the…

Debtelin (’boekje’ in het Mantsjoe) is een initiatief van de Leidse sinoloog en mantsjoeïst Fresco Sam-Sin en is gevuld met artikelen van Leidse studenten en onderzoekers sinologie.

Leidse lezingen over de Arabische taal en cultuur | 2018 (I)

Lecture, Book launch

PhD Defence

De positie van kunst en kunstenaars in de westerse samenleving

Lecture, Leidse lezingen over de Arabische taal en cultuur | 2020 (II)

Conference

Combine the analytical tools of the Political Science discipline with an in-depth study of current politics in the Netherlands.

Het is een wijdverbreid idee dat (post-)middeleeuwse steden een sterfteoverschot hadden en zij slechts in leven konden blijven door de toestroom van migranten; een fenomeen dat bekend staat als het ‘urban graveyard’-effect. Over details valt te twisten, maar duidelijk is dat de stad en de dood dichter…

In the upcoming months we will organise several (online) events for you.

On the 19th of April, Iris van de Voorde successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Iris on this achievement!

The compulsory reading list is infamous among secondary school students, and for all the wrong reasons. This prompted the Faculty of Humanities and the Onderwijsnetwerk Zuid-Holland (South Holland Education Network) to launch the Alternative Reading List Award, in search of books that motivate young…

Inaugural Lecture

On 10 June 2020, Gitta Veldt defended her thesis 'Europese productnormen en privaatrechtelijke normstelling'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. H.J. Snijders.

Het Academisch Talencentrum biedt verschillende mogelijkheden aan om Academische vaardigheden te leren.

Several studies into the prevalence of child abuse in the Netherlands were conducted on behalf of the Ministries of Security and Justice and of Health, Welfare and Sport, the Samson Committee and the WODC.

Conference

This section provides an overview of online tools for the study of the medieval Low Countries. It has been launched in Dutch, but its translation into English is envisaged for the (near) future.

Description of 20th century changes in the Dutch flora: Description and interpretation (1999 - 2005)

Occupational health in the Emergency Department

The academic staff of the Leiden University Institute for History.

Studies over tien eeuwen leescultuur

This project is funded by the Dutch Cancer Society. The project will be part of an ongoing research line aimed at identifying mechanisms of cancer therapy resistance and metastasis. In this project, it will be investigated how the Grainyhead family of transcription factors controls therapy response…

A scientific assessment of the site selection for the ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire’ Unesco World Heritage Site.

Research project 'QUAD'

PhD Defence

PhD Defence

Members of our research team give different types of presentations and lectures.

Vanaf 1100 trad in diverse Nederlandse gewesten een opzienbarende groei op. Het is een intrigerende vraag waardoor aanvankelijk Vlaanderen, dan Brabant, en in derde instantie Holland en Zeeland deze voorsprongpositie konden verwerven.

Below you will find the dissertations of team members of the Business & Liability Research Network.

Science, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)

The aim of this research was to establish if Ebeling's semiotactic theory and method of semiotactic analysis, as described in his works Syntax and Semantics (1978), Een Inleiding tot de Syntaxis (1994) and Semiotaxis, over Theoretische en Nederlandse Syntaxis (2006), could be applied to Modern Japanese…

PhD Defence