Lecture, Faculty Lecture

The Patriot behind the pot tells the story of pottery, people and politics in the Netherlands during a time of great revolutions -revolutions both in a political and industrial sense.

The Central Asia Initiative is funded by the Leiden research profile area Asian Modernities and Traditions with the purpose to establish Central Asian Studies at Leiden University.

During the PM programme you are in the heart of The Hague’s many public organisations, and you will hear from public management professionals during guest lectures. This can give you a sense of what type of organisation and position best suit you, and enables you to start building your professional…

With textnets it is possible to visualize and analyze textual data in novel ways.

This dissertation addresses the position of artistic research within academia.

Encyclopedie en Filosofie van het Recht is a specialisation of the master’s programme Rechtsgeleerdheid (Law) at the renowned Leiden Law School of Leiden University. This unique programme considers the philosophical issues and concepts upon which law is founded, in the broadest sense.

Sophie Ernst’s doctoral thesis is an artist’s contribution to media art theory.

How did nineteenth century scholars evaluate each other and each other’s work through more or less informal practices of peer review?

Gold nanorods are biocompatible nanoparticles that present an excellent two-photon signal that can be used to get high spatial resolution inside living cells. Gold nanorods are photostable and therefore can be followed inside cells for long time, with possible applications as trackers in live cells.

Idrees Kanth defended his thesis on 7 May 2019

The Equadiff conferences are a series of international meetings devoted to the field of differential equations in the broadest sense. Spread all over Europe, recent locations include Bratislava (2017), Lyon (2015), Prague (2013), Loughborough (2011), Brno (2009), Vienna (2007), Bratislava (2005),…

As your major strongly influences the breadth of your academic knowledge, it is impossible to pinpoint a typical LUC career. Fields vary per major and even within the major our alumni choose very divergent paths. To give you a sense of what you can expect, we selected a couple of current jobs or our…

Can a proposed new radiofrequency approach to graphene biosensors lead to groundbreaking changes in genome mapping?

In June 2008 the research project by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research financed research Ancestral Mounds. The social and Ideological significanse of barrows, 2900 - 11 BC started.

How do our Leiden alumni cope with the restrictive measures in their country, the possible finding of a vaccine, medication to combat corona or how do they cope with working from home, with or without children? Read the story of Martijn & Pascalle Bosboom, living in Perth, Australia.

Rob Goedemans (52) is an information manager at the department Information Management and Facilities (IFZ) and member of the crisis team. He is involved in facilitating and providing information about distance learning. We asked Rob how he is helping our faculty through this hectic period.

Lecture

Shirley van der Maarel won the Thesis Award 2020 with her thesis 'Terra Incognita'. Van der Maarel graduated summa cum laude for the master's specialisation Visual Ethnography. She researched a group of refugees housed in an Italian village and wrote an interactive thesis and made a film. This resulted…

For the first time, students were able to develop their skills using a digital platform in Brightspace. It turned out to be a success: on average students who actively used the platform on achieved higher grades than students who used it less. But above all, the students themselves were pleased with…

Poetry Recital | Al-Babtain Poetry Series

PhD Defence

PhD Defence

PhD Defence

Meeting

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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This research programme seeks to understand the dynamics in the relationship between social media, mobile telephony and the social fabric under duress in Africa's mobile margins. It combines studies on mobility/migration, conflict and communication in an attempt to uncover these new dynamics, which…

This book offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of multilingualism among the Matsigenka, Quechua, and Spanish languages on the coffee frontier of Southern Peru, set against the backdrop of economic transformation and deforestation in the world’s last great forest.

This grammar describes Sumerian, an ancient Near Eastern language which was spoken in what is now southern Iraq, on the basis of written sources dating from about 2500 to 2000 BC.

In the overview below you can find the LUC Newsletters that were send out during block 3 and spring break in semester 2 of academic year 2019 - 2020.

The Dutch government has announced various measures to contain the spread of coronavirus in the Netherlands. These have a significant effect on our students and staff. On these pages, we explain what these measures mean for our students and staff, and the practicalities that are involved.

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

Dr. at the Department of organic chemistry, Wageningen University - the Nederlands

Many researchers of the Faculty of Science are members of a research school related to their area of expertise. Research schools aim at collaboration of researchers from different faculties in the same university (interfaculty schools) or in different universities (interuniversity schools).

On 7 November 2018, Catherine Harwood defended her thesis 'Navigating Between Principle and Pragmatism: The Roles and Functions of Atrocity-Related United Nations Commissions of Inquiry in the International Legal Order'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. dr. L.J. Van den Herik and Prof.…

This study will investigate the role of Henri Jean Francois Borel (1869-1933) as an ‘interpreter of China'.

We study the physics of a broad range of biological and soft materials

Promotor: Christoph U. Keller, Co-promotores: Matthew A. Kenworthy, Frans Snik

Through extensive archaeological and documentary research, this study aims to provide a detailed analysis of the maritime cultural landscape of St. Eustatius over the past four centuries. It focuses on bridging the gap between the marine and terrestrial worlds and demonstrates that in order to truly…

Students are educated to become academic professionals and responsible and engaged citizens who are internationally and interculturally competent

The research of the Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory cluster tries to bridge the gap between abstract theory and the world of algorithms and applications.

This study addresses and explains the issue of negative descriptions of the Arab Other in modern Iranian thought.

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, Co-promotor: R.S. de Jong

A teacher perspective

This dissertation concerns the role of analogy in Kant’s “Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment”, especially the role of analogy for the formation of the concept of a natural end (Naturzweck). A ‘natural end’ is a ‘regulative concept’ of the reflective power of judgment, that is, a heuristic…

Hermeneutics and the Humanities: Dialogues with Hans-Georg Gadamer / Hermeneutik und die Geisteswissenschaften: Im Dialog mit Hans-Georg Gadamer

The programme places emphasis on the interrelation of regional economic law of the European Union with global or trade law of the World Trade Organisation.

View the program structure of the Advanced Master Air and Space Law on this webpage. The program gives you a thorough understanding of aviation and space law.

Heritage Quest is a citizen science project in which volunteers help archaeologists in the quest for undiscovered archaeological heritage.