1,903 search results for “observational cosmology” in the Public website
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Why citizen participation is not helping to stop environmental pollution in Indonesia
More than three quarters of the 237 million Indonesian population has no access to tap water. They are dependent on water from rivers often polluted by industry. Laure d’Hondt conducted research into why it is so difficult to tackle these polluters and will defend her PhD dissertation on 17 October.
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Blog Post | Foreign Ministries’ Responses to Growing Complexity, and How to Study Them
Christian Lequesne introduces the upcoming special issue on Ministries of Foreign Affairs in this blog post.
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Inge Schilperoord nominated for the Dutch Libris Prize 2016
Psychology alumna Inge Schilperoord works as a forensic psychologist in the Pieter Baan Centre, a psychiatric observation clinic. Her debut novel 'Muidhond' about a man struggling with his paedophilic tendencies, has received the Bronze Owl 2015 for best Dutch debut novel. Schilperoord: 'The detective…
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Contempt of court does not fit into the Dutch judicial system
What can criminal courts do when the course of justice is obstructed? Countries such as England and Wales apply the instrument contempt of court, which enables the court to act according to criminal law in such a case. Could that work in the Netherlands too? PhD defence on 18 December.
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‘Terrorism is theatre and we are the audience’
After every attack, terrorism researchers are often asked the same question: who did it? Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn, a researcher at Leiden University, doesn’t always have a ready-made answer.
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From Law student to Indian expert
Even the Mohawk Indians were talking about Serv Wiemers’ thesis. This Law alumnus, who has been intrigued by the world of American Indians since he was a boy, recently wrote a book about that world.
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Rising infections: how is the University responding?
The infection rate is rising again in the Netherlands, which means it may also be rising among Leiden University’s students and staff. How is the University responding? And what dilemmas is it facing? We spoke to our Rector Magnificus, Chief Security Officer and two other administrators.
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Lyonne van Gaalen: ‘444 is an opportunity to show what Humanities represents’
In September 2017, immediately after graduating in Cultural Anthropology and Media Studies, Lyonne van Gaalen (25) became a trainee at LDE (the strategic alliance between Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam). Now in her second and final year as a trainee,…
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II Food Sovereignty Forum in Warsaw, Poland
Between the 30th of January and the 2nd of February 2020 around 250 people took part in the II Polish Food Sovereignty Forum.
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Simona Vezzoli: ‘By working together, Leiden, Delft and Erasmus researchers can generate innovative research’
Simona Vezzoli is one of two research officers at the new Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Research Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity. Based at the Leiden Institute for History, Vezzoli is a migration researcher as well as the centre’s new ‘matchmaker’ between researchers of the three universities and…
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Leiden University launches Data Science research programme
Leiden University is investing 4 million euros in a new Data Science research programme. This is a joint initiative of all the faculties, headed by Dean Geert de Snoo at the Faculty of Science. The programme will focus on Leiden scientific data.
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‘Fantasies about coronavirus are more contagious than the disease itself’
Fake news about ‘patient zero’ and hyperbolic headlines warning about the ‘yellow peril.’ Leiden researchers have spotted fake news galore about coronavirus as well as racial stereotypes about the Chinese. How harmful is this?
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After the tsunami: how Aceh returned to everyday life
A devastating tsunami engulfed large coastal areas in Asia and East Africa in 2004. With over 170,000 dead, the Indonesian province of Aceh was hardest hit. The survivors proved to be remarkably resilient as they returned to everyday life. Anthropologist Annemarie Samuels went to live in Aceh, and has…
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Forensic speech recognition: emerging scientific field in Leiden
On 4 June 2018, students of the Forensic Speech Science master’s course visited the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) in The Hague. They were presented with practical examples, such as speech research with voice recordings of suspects. Forensic phonetics is a young, rapidly developing discipline…
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ILS conference on the European Union as a Global Actor in Maritime Security
On Thursday 25 and Friday 26 October 2018, the Europa Institute organized a conference within the framework of ‘Interaction between Legal Systems (ILS): Policing the High Seas’ and in cooperation with four Interest Groups of the European Society of International Law. The event brought together representatives…
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Mid-term review: An open discussion about strategy for the legal programmes
On Wednesday 19 January 2022, the online mid-term review of the legal programmes took place on the platform Let’s Get Digital. It was an interactive afternoon in which 130 participants openly and critically discussed the educational strategy for the legal programmes and the faculty.
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Sports Centre celebrates 50 years
Online competitions, online sports, dietary advice for staff and students and 'What do they eat for lunch?' The first 'volunteer' is Vice-Rector Hester Bijl. What does her lunch usually consist of? The University Sports Centre is celebrating its fifty-year anniversary with a whole - corona-proof - programme…
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14 Veni grants awarded to Leiden researchers
Fourteen promising researchers from Leiden University have been given the opportunity to realise their research plans for the coming years thanks to a Veni grant from the NWO. This year, these subsidies have been granted to studies of the influence of noise on the great tit, the conditions necessary…
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Pascal Haazebroek and Kirsten Buitelaar on lecturers and students new style
‘You’re in it together,’ says Pascal Haazebroek, Director of Studies of Psychology. ‘You have an influence on your education; you’re part of a university, so come back to campus now that you can,’ urges Kirsten Buitelaar, student member of the Board of Education. Read this double interview about lecturers…
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Global Earth Matters: Mining, Materiality and the Museum – Silver & Resource Futures
Conference, Workshop
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International Tolkien Conference: Tolkien among Scholars
Conference
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Book Presentations: "China's Long Quest for Democracy" & "Evolving Identity Politics and Cross-Strait Relations"
Lecture
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Many windows into the court: Socio-legal perspectives in family justice
Lecture
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ART and HUMAN AFFECTIONS
Arts and Culture, Symposium
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Explicit efforts of interpersonal alignment in informal interaction: the importance of knowing and showing in Indonesian and Dutch
Lecture
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Deconstructing a Biofuel Hype: The Stories of Jatropha Projects in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
PhD Defence
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FGGA Research Seminar: Darren Halpin, Australia National University
Lecture
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Parametric Comparison in the Clausal Domain
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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SBB guest lecture Bosung Kim
Lecture
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This Week’s Discoveries | 5 December 2017
Lecture
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A dialogue on neuroscience, culture, and cognition
Conference
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Guiding Travelers Workshop: Visual Religion
Lecture
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This Week's Discoveries | 19 November 2019
Lecture
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Arabs and Blemmyes in the Kingdom of Makuria: On name and identity in medieval Nubia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Cooperation in corvids and the evolution of cognition.
Lecture
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This Week’s Discoveries | 17 May 2016
Lecture
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Web Privacy Measurement in Real-Time Bidding Systems, A Graph- Based Approach to RTB system classification
PhD Defence
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Argument structure, alignment and auxiliaries between Latin and Romance
PhD Defence
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This Week’s Discoveries | 2 February 2016
Lecture
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Colloquium Ehrenfestii Dirk Morr (University of Chicago)
Lecture
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The toponymy of Ecuador: Evidence for the historical distribution of Chicham languages
Lecture
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The Grid: Making A Universal Migration Regime
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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This Week’s Discoveries | 20 February 2018
Lecture
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Bòsò Walikan Malangan: Structure and development of a Javanese reversed language
PhD Defence
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Variation and change in Abui: The impact of Alor Malay on an indigenous language of Indonesia
PhD Defence
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LCN2 Seminar: Network dynamics underlying sleep-dependent memory consolidation
Lecture
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Welfare state development and immigration control in France, 1880-1945
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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LUCL Colloquium: A Multilingual Approach To Language Learning and Change
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Spring 2014
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Muslim World as Geopolitics, Race, and Anti-Colonial Internationalism
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Migration aspirations and preferences to stay in a Brazilian frontier town: tranquility, hope and relative endowment
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)