345 search results for “revolution” in the Public website
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Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis seeks to explore the transnational and cultural dimensions of intra-Eurasian encounters through Dutch sources.
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Guest Researchers
We welcome a new round of advanced researchers (post-MA) to apply to the institute's guest researchers positions.
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Teaming up with microbes
Lecture
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The Huguenots and English pan-Protestantism in the late seventeenth century
Lecture
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A Global History of 1989
Lecture, PCNI Seminar
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Open minded juni: 'The right to real time'
Lecture
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Creative Lunch
Debate
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New Perspectives on Past Vitamin D Deficiency
Lecture
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Summer School Big Data for Peace & Justice
Conference
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Screening the Stans: Film and Fiction in Central Asia
Arts and Culture
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Angus Mol: ‘It all began when I saw Super Mario Bros at a friend’s house.’
He was so disappointed that he couldn't go on that archaeological field trip to the Caribbean, he spent most of his time at his computer working on his dissertation instead. But that didn't keep him from gaming from time to time, a personal passion that ultimately led to his current job. Since February…
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How the ‘English disease’ turned out to be not so very English after all
A vitamin D deficiency is often associated with smoggy English industrial cities during the Industrial Revolution, but research carried out on skeletons now suggests that the ‘English disease’ was also prevalent in rural areas of the Netherlands. Doctoral defence on 29 January.
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Jeroen Touwen new Vice-Dean of Humanities
Jeroen Touwen has been appointed Vice-Dean and portfolio holder for bachelor’s programmes at the Faculty of Humanities with effect from 1 January 2020. Over the coming three years he will contribute to faculty policy and will steer the BA programmes from his position in the Faculty Board.
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Asghar Seyed Gohrab: ‘Teaching keeps me young and sharp’
Associate Professor Asghar Seyed Gohrab considers it his role to tell students about Iran, the country where he was born and raised. His research focuses on the connections between the present and the past on the basis of the ‘magical triangle’: Persian literature, politics and religion.
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Major European subsidy for membrane fusion
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded chemist Dr Alexander Kros a Starting Independent Researcher Grant of 1.4 million euro. He will be using the grant to study how molecules penetrate the natural barrier of a cell membrane. If his research is successful, it will in time bring about a revolution…
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Developing quantum software with a grant of 18.8 million euros
The first larger quantum computers will soon be available. These computers need new software. Researchers at Leiden University have been awarded a Gravitation grant to develop the necessary software. They will be collaborating with colleagues from other research institutions.
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An academic perspective on the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos
Today over 1000 chief executives and more than 40 world leaders meet in the Swiss village Davos to discuss the world's issues of today. What is the importance of the conference and what is the actual effectiveness? Dr. Alexandre Afonso, assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration,…
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PhD research Marije Groos
Marije Groos was a PhD researcher at the LUCAS. She completed her thesis on socio-political engagement in Dutch literary periodicals of the fifties. Her promoters are Yra van Dijk, professor of Modern Dutch Literature, and Ton Anbeek, emeritus professor of Modern Dutch Literature.
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Gerard van Westen appointed as full Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Medicinal Chemistry
Gerard van Westen has been appointed full Professor or Artificial Intelligence and Medicinal Chemistry. This chair has been jointly created by the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) and the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) as part of SAILS, the university stimulus program in Artificial…
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Remembering terrorism: visit to Utøya
On 20-21 June, the Society for Terrorism Research (STR) held its annual conference in Oslo. The Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) of the University of Oslo led by Professor dr. Tore Bjørgo hosted one of the main academic conferences in the field of terrorism studies. The central theme was the…
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This is how didactic Peter Kop encourages high school students to make friends with algebraic formulas
For many high school students, mathematical formulas are nothing more than abracadabra. Didactic and mathematics teacher Peter Kop wants to change this. For his PhD research, he devised a new series of lessons full of drawing assignments that learn students to assign more meaning to the formulas. Kop:…
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Our Talents and Discoveries 2016
Christmas is coming, which means that 'Our Talents and Discoveries 2016' has been distributed. This also means that it is time to vote for the 'Discoverer of the year 2016'. Each of the eight institutes nominated one researcher that excelled in the past year. Who is your favourite?
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Andrew Shield: ‘I don’t always separate research and free time’
Andrew Shield (35) is a University Lecturer at Leiden University and the cofounder of the Leiden Queer History Network. History, migration and sexuality are all subjects he is passionate about and teaches in. He wrote a book about immigrants during the sexual revolution, as well as one on contemporary…
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Call for papers: Expectations of justice
Expectations of justice and political power in the Islamicate world (ca. 600-1500 CE). Leiden University, October 27-29, 2021
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Even voorstellen: Geerten Waling en Anne Heyer
Sinds september 2010 werken Geerten Waling en Anne Heyer in het NWO project ‘The Promise of Organization’.
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Gravensteen Lecture | A Living Laboratory: Japan in American Social Thought
Lecture
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The Resilience of the Ancient City
Lecture
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History Research Master Symposium
Conference, Symposium
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Film screening Flowers of Freedom
Lecture
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'The spirit of insubordination rules': Slavery, Abolition and Free People of Colour in the Dutch Bovenwindse Islands of St. Eustatius, Saba and
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Gatekeepers and Rolemodels: How to get more Women and Girls to Run for Office
Lecture
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Lecture by Bado Ndoye: "Challenging the Anthropocene, a Global South Perspective"
Lecture
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The Edge of the Petri dish: Wizards and Prophets
Lecture, Studium Generale
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CANCELLED | From Peripheral Whiteness to White Supremacy: Histories of Race in Eastern Europe 1945-present day
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Gravensteen Lecture | Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings
Lecture
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Mental Health in Conflict: Counter-Revolutionary Trauma in Egypt
Lecture, Studium Generale
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FGGA Research Seminar: Will Makerspaces Ever Make It Big? The Emergence of New Generational Units of Maker Entrepreneurs and Maker Ecosystems
Lecture, Seminar
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Research Seminar 1000-1800 by Maarten Prak
Lecture, Book Presentation
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Political Science Lunch Research Seminar: In Praise of a Forgotten Virtue: Moderation in the Twenty-First Century
Lecture
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Heritage and Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Conference
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Opening Lecture Academic Year - International Studies
Lecture
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Middle Eastern Civil Wars and the Early End of the Cold War Order
LUCIS What's New Lecture
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UN Human Rights Politics at the Sunset of the French Empire
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Kamran Matin: Lineages of the Islamic State: An international historical sociology of State (de‐)formation in Iraq
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Public Leadership Challenge: Autonomy in the digital society
Conference
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Eurasian Empires. Integration processes and identity formations.
What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.
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About the programme
Over the course of the Latin American Studies programme you will learn to understand the here and now of this region by engaging with the most recent academic debates.
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Memory: concepts and theory
The terms ‘social’ , ‘collective’ or ‘public’ memory, are often contrasted with ‘private’, ‘individual’ or ‘personal’ memory. All these terms derive from a fairly new and interdisciplinary scholarly field that is often referred to as ‘memory studies’, and that according to some critics has developed…
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Abrupt Climate Change and Cultural Transformation in Syria in Late Prehistory (c. 6800-5800 BC)
This abrupt climate change of 8200 years ago (the so-called 8.2k calBP climate event) has received wide attention among natural scientists, also because of today's rapid climate changes and their impact on our own society. The archaeological implications, however, have not been investigated so far.…