619 search results for “postcolonial theory” in the Public website

• Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies: Private Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884–1914) Research output

  Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. It highlights the experiences and perceptions of colonisers and how they portrayed and re-interpreted their identities in Afric…

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  Nick Tomberge PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Minna Valjakka Professor Art History, in particular contemporary art history and theory from a global perspective

  Faculty of Humanities

• Philosophy in sound: The aesthetic theories of Moses Mendelssohn and Johann Georg Sulzer in the Berlin salon music of the 1750–80’s Research project

  My research focuses on theories of the sublime by the Berlin Enlightenment philosophers Moses Mendelssohn (1729–86) and Johann Georg Sulzer (1720–79).

• Maria Ulfah and Her Vision of a Humanistic Postcolonial Asia News - 9 March 2022

  In 1933, Maria Ulfah Santoso was the first Indonesian women to earn a law degree. During her studies in Leiden University she became involved with Indonesia;s nationalist movement. She went on to be Indonesia's Social Minister, as the first female cabinet member. In this article, historian Wildan Sena…

• Investment Treaty Tribunals: The Partial Revival of the Localisation Theory Research output

  On 19 December 2019, Reza Eftekhar defended his thesis 'The Role of the Domestic Law of the Host State in Determining the ratione materiae Jurisdiction of Investment Treaty Tribunals: The Partial Revival of the Localisation Theory'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. E. de Brabandere.

• Using Rhetorical Structure Theory for contrastive analysis at the micro and macro levels of discourse: An investigation of Japanese EFL learners’ Research output

  On March 12th, Jonathan Brown succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Jonathan on this great result.

• Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Μodern Theory, Literature and the Arts. Vol. 1: From the Enlightenment to the Turn of the Twentieth Research output

  Barbarism: from the 18th century to the present.

• Calypso Music, Identity and Social Influence: The Trinidadian Experience Research output

  This study, Calypso, The Trinidadian Experience, has sought to establish links between calypso music and the construction and maintenance of identities, and to locate the genre as a mechanism (or as part of a broader mechanism) that has exerted on-going social influence within Trinidadian society…

• Mind in Practice : A Pragmatic and Interdisciplinary Account of Intersubjectivity Research output

  This book is about what happens when two people meet. Its main aim is to present an account of intersubjectivity.

• Threat of conspiracy theories limited News - 3 November 2016

  The risk that conspiracy theories could incite a broad movement against the established political order is virtually non-existent. This is what researcher Jelle van Buuren of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs concluded in his PhD dissertation.

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  Sara Brandellero University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Charlene Kalle Associate Professor

  Science

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  Michael Keane Professor / guest

  Science

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  Evgeny Verbitskiy Associate professor

  Science

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  Floske Spieksma Professor Mathematics of Operations Research

  Science

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  Luca Avena Associate professor

  Science

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  Zsombor Méder Researcher

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Koenraad Schalm Professor of Theoretical physics

  Science

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  Frank den Hollander Professor of Probability

  Science

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  Matthew Longo Senior Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Zhong Chua PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gerhard-Jan Nauta Coordinator of Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  René van der Veer Professor emeritus Historical Education and Child Studies

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

• Geometry in ornament: On the history, theory and science about the presumed universality of geometrical patterns and its cognitive foundation Research project

  Knowledge and culture subproject 3:

• About Platform for Postcolonial Readings

  The Platform for Postcolonial Readings organizes seminars for MA- and PhD-students and researchers in the field of postcolonial and globalisation studies in Belgium and the Netherlands. As an open network, discussion platform, and reading group, our meetings are open to all.

• Serge Fehr appointed as Professor Quantum information theory News - 8 June 2018

  As of 1 June, Serge Fehr has been appointed as Professor Quantum information theory at the Leiden Mathematical Institute (MI). Fehr is employed by Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and as of his appointment works one day a week at the MI. Fehr’s research is focused on quantum cryptology and will…

• Nuclear Quantum Effects in Solid Water Research output

  Ice, the solid state of water, plays an important role on our planet as well as the entire universe.Despite the fact that an individual water molecule has a very simple structure, its chemical bonding in the solid phase can be surprisingly complex.

• Voicing the colony Research project

  This project studies travel writing about the Dutch East Indies written between 1800 and the end of the Second World War. By analyzing both Dutch travel texts and Indigenous travel texts in Javanese and Malay, it presents a new, double-voiced perspective on (the historiography of) the Dutch colonial…

• Metastability for low-temperature Kawasaki dynamics with two types of particles Research output

  Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: F.R. Nardi

• Division points in arithmetic Research output

  This thesis consists of three chapters, the first two of which concern division points of elements of the multiplicative group of a number field.

• Transport coefficients and low energy excitations of a strongly interacting holographic fluid Research output

  In this thesis, classes of strongly interacting quantum field theories, have been studied.

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  Peter Bruin Assistant professor

  Science

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  Rebecca Ploof Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  M Bhargava Professor of Analytical algebraic number theory

  Science

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  David Holmes Associate Professor

  Science

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  Marco Streng Associate Professor

  Science

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  Megumi Kitagawa Guest

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Martin Bright Associate professor

  Science

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  Ronald Cramer Professor of Cryptology

  Science

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  Rusydi Makarim PhD candidate / self funded

  Science

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  Stijn Koenraads PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Hendrik Lenstra Professor emeritus of fundamental and applied mathematics

  Science

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  Mariëlle Linting Associate Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

• Superconductivity theory under attack News - 28 November 2019

  Measurements on a superconducting material show an abrupt transition between a normal metal and a 'strange' metal. The really strange thing, however, is that this abruptness disappears when the temperature falls. 'We don't have any theoretical machinery for this', says theoretical physicist Jan Zaanen,…

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  Ronald van Luijk Professor of Mathematics

  Science

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  Jan-Hendrik Evertse Associate Professor

  Science

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  Robin de Jong Associate Professor

  Science

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  Bart de Smit Vice Dean / professor of Algebra and number theory

  Science

• Dividing Worlds Research output

  Dividing Worlds: Tsunamis, Seawalls, and Ontological Politics in Northeast Japan