627 search results for “postcolonial theory” in the Public website
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Talking Out Loud: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach on Postcolonial and Decolonial Thoughts
Conference
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Daan Pelt brings theory and practice together in the field of Deep Learning
Bringing the theoretical world of mathematics and computer science to more applied research areas. That is what Daan Pelt, assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) is trying to achieve with the methods he is developing as a solution to challenges in image proc…
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About the programme
During the one-year master’s programme in Colonial and Global History you will learn about the importance of a comparative perspective for understanding transnational processes such as imperialism, colonialism, islamisation, modernisation and globalisation.
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Charlotte wins thesis award on argumentation theory: ‘This is one way to strategically pin someone down’
Everyone has heard arguments like this before as a child: ‘Whether you like it or not, you have to go to school!’ It seems as though you are presented with two options, but there is only one real outcome. Charlotte van der Voort of the MA Dutch Studies won the Leiden University Thesis Prize on her research…
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Jelena Belic
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Karen Smith
Faculty of Humanities
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Siavash Rafiee Rad
Faculty of Humanities
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Arie Verhagen
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim Meijers
Faculty of Humanities
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Jörg Meyer
Science
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Paul Nieuwenburg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Bartolomeus Häussling Löwgren
Science
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Tom Theuns
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Or PORATH
Faculty of Humanities
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Ilios Willemars
Faculty of Humanities
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Eamon Aloyo
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Gerard Versluis
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ruurd Halbertsma
Faculty of Humanities
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Andries Hiskes
Faculty of Humanities
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Marina Calculli
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Witty
Faculty of Humanities
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Joost Batenburg
Science
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Memory and Protest Cultures in Postcolonial and Post-Socialist Contexts
Conference
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Conversations of Motherhood
The subject of motherhood is interwoven with themes of survival, power and identity. It is also at the heart of any consideration of women’s writing. Conversations of Motherhood sensitively charts common themes, intersecting experiences and related topics within the cultural specificities of South African…
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Labor movements and party system development: Why does the Caribbean have stable two-party systems, but the Pacific does not?
How can we explain that Caribbean small states have the most stable two-party systems in the world, while Pacific small states have either very weak parties or no parties at all? Matthew Louis Bishop (University of Sheffield, UK), Jack Corbett (University of Southampton, UK) and Wouter Veenendaal (Leiden…
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Mesoamerican manuscripts: new scientific approaches and interpretations
Mesoamerican Manuscripts: New Scientific Approaches and Interpretations brings together a wide range of modern approaches to the study of pre-colonial and early colonial Mesoamerican manuscripts. This includes innovative studies of materiality through the application of non-invasive spectroscopy and…
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Special issue of Narrating 'Europe': a Contested Imagined Community
This special issue of Politique européenne 2019/4 (N° 66) contains, among others, a contribution by Astrid Van Weyenberg.
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Valuing archaeology?
The past, present, and future for local people and archaeologists in Sudanese Nubia
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Gender, Migration and Categorisation: Making Distinctions between Migrants in Western Countries, 1945-2010
This volume is pubished in the IMISCOE-AUP Series and edited by Marlou Schrover and Deirdre M. Moloney.
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Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon their Own
This book argues that Armenians around the world – in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I – developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial…
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H.J. van Mook and Good Governance in Indonesia and the World
Was the progressive colonial civil servant the precursor of the postcolonial development-aid worker?
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La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia
A Spanish translation of Herman Paul’s 'Key Issues in Historical Theory' has appeared under the title 'La llamada del pasado: claves de la teoría de la historia'.
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Observing what cannot be observed: computational electrochemistry from carbon to hydrogen
In this thesis, we consider various (electro)chemical phenomena at surfaces and nanoparticles and their underlying atomistic processes, which we studied using first-principles methods such as density functional theory.
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Models of curves: The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture & ordinary reduction
Chapter 1,contains the numerical verification of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for hundreds of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves of genus 2, 3, 4 and 5.
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Hydrogen dissociation on metal surfaces
Promotor: G. J. Kroes
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Joe Powderly
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
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Femke Bakker
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Shivant Jhagroe
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Karishma Chafekar
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Elena Burgos Martinez
Faculty of Humanities
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Salvador Santino Regilme
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcos Neto de Cordova
Faculty of Humanities
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Alexander Geurds
Faculteit Archeologie
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Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality (LUCIR book talk)
Lecture
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Colloquium with Yolande Jansen: “‘Decolonising philosophy’ and the postcolonial and decolonial humanities”
Lecture
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Architecture. Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory'
The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down...
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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Arabic & Islamic Studies
Research projects which are assisted by the NVIC in the field of Arabic studies.