318 search results for “spontaneous collapse” in the Public website
- LCN2 Seminar: Systemic instability in networks
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars 2021-2022
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Crises and mini-crises: recurring dilemmas for administrators
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A philosophical mythbuster
Cognitive neuroscience gives us a glimpse into our brain activity; it allows us to learn more about ourselves. Or do brain scans actually not say very much about who we are? Philosopher Annemarie van Stee examines four myths about neuroscience and self-understanding.
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Hunting for women in Leiden’s history
They existed and were important, but for too long they have remained invisible in historiography: women. Ariadne Schmidt, the Magdalena Moons endowed professor, researches the history of urban culture in Leiden. Women take pride of place in her research. Inaugural lecture on 28 February.
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Science Groot funding for Leiden scientists
Leiden scientists are the main applicants for five projects that have been awarded a Science Groot grant of up to 3 million euros in the Science Domain. In addition, several Leiden scientists are involved in other projects that have been awarded funding.
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Unravelling the complexity of HIV/AIDS
Dr. Josien de Klerk, Associate professor in Global Public Health at Leiden University College The Hague recently published some of her work on HIV/AIDS. In collaboration with a team of interdisciplinary researchers from the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development she came to the conclusion…
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Tracing space ice and the building blocks of life
An unprecedented space telescope, an astrolab that makes space ice and molecules that may lead to the origin of life… The Ice Age project has all the prerequisites to become a very fascinating research project – if it is not one already. Leiden astronomers Melissa McClure, Harold Linnartz and Will Rocha…
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Long-awaited review reveals journey of water from interstellar clouds to habitable worlds
Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, together with an international team of colleagues, has written an overview of everything we know about water in interstellar clouds thanks to the Herschel space observatory. The article, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, summarizes existing knowledge and…
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This Week’s Discoveries | 20 september 2016
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Global Challenges Lecture: Urban Homegardens in the Rainforest
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French Interrogatives: An analysis of the morpho-syntax and intonation of question forms in reality TV shows and audio books
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Symposium Conspiracy Culture: Conspiracy and Paranoia in Literature and Popular Culture
Debate
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This Week's Discoveries | 9 June 2020
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Political Science Lunch Research Seminar: Political Parties or Party Systems? Assessing the ‘Myth’ of Institutionalisation and Democracy
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Constructing Cassandra: Why Intelligence Fails
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Democracy in Africa
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Lunch Research Seminar: The Illusion of Inevitability: American Grand Strategy and Leadership in Europe
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Reading Contemporary India Through the Cinematic Lens
Debate
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The Rise of Islamophobia and Radicalisation in the Global North
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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PhD Research Projects
PhD projects:
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Hetty Cohen-Koster was present at Cleveringa’s speech
'I belong here.' This is what the young Jewish law student Hetty Koster felt when she attended the memorable protest speech given by Professor Cleveringa on 26 November 1940. She managed to survive the war by going into hiding. She married Dolf Cohen, later Rector Magnificus of Leiden University, and…
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Lending an Ear to Students’ Life in the Pandemic
At the end of a difficult year, students of ACPA’s Music Minor have put together “sonic postcards” to capture their experience of life under Covid restrictions. The result is a powerful, intimate statement about our pandemic fears and hopes.
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Entangling Palestinian and Dutch Poetry: Najwan Darwish and Anne Vegter
Workshop
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Ottoman and Colonial Modernities in the Transformation of the Urban Sphere
Masterclass
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‘Give’ constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia: a case of structural convergence
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Chemical Biology lecture - Human Norovirus: The winding road to entry inhibition
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- Volume 4 (2009)
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Seminars
LCN2 organizes seminars on the last Friday of each month.
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Leiden scholars on the ‘bar-room brawl’ between Trump and Biden
Few have dared declare a winner of the debate between American president Donald Trump and his Democrat challenger Joe Biden. It was more about who was least worst. What do psychologist Willem van der Does, historian Andrew Gawthorpe and policy science scholar Brandon Zicha make of the debate?
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This archaeologist dives to VOC ship De Rooswijk
Martijn Manders conducts research on the sunken VOC ship De Rooswijk. Tirzah Schnater from the Ministry of Education, Culure and Science produced this impressive report of the work of this underwater archaeologist.
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Text-image relationships in Persian manuscripts
Masterclass
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Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State
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CPP Colloquim with Catherine Lu: "Two concepts of alienation"
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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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Online Kress Talks with Cynthia Kok and Margaret Mansfield
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CANCELLED - Sub-Saharan migrants in contemporary Libya: Containment policies and international relations
Lecture, LIMS/CHIRRS
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The Maqomat: The Classic Music of Central Asia in times of political and cultural changes
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Liveable Planet lunch meeting - Archaeo-inspired solutions: Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene
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The Logistics of Perception: Cinema, US Intelligence, and the Second World War
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Investigating palaeoclimate variability in the Iberian peninsula during the last glacial period and implications for Neanderthal disappearance
PhD Defence
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Illustrating the history of Tamerlane
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Lunch Time Seminars
In this section you can find information about and recordings of past SAILS Lunch Time Seminars.
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'We are Science' week
Festival
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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Constitutional Ethnography, Counter-Constitutions, and the Study of Form, Sediment and Trajectory
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This Week’s Discoveries | 28 January 2020
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Lessons from Afghanistan: international conference hosted by LUCIR, ISGA and GTGC
Conference
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Light Harvesting Satellite Meeting of the 17th International Congress on Photosynthesis Research
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