During the development of the Humanities Campus, many aspects of sustainability are combined. For example:

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Beauty is a central concept in the Italian cultural imagination throughout its history and in virtually all its manifestations. It particularly permeates the domains that have governed the construction of Italian identity: literature and language.

Promotores: S.J. Edixhoven, F. Andreatta

This thesis develops a method for direction dependent calibration of the ionosphere in radio interferometric data.

Projects within the theme ‘Computational Biology’ aim to employ mathematical or computational dynamical modelling approaches to discover novel concepts that are important for drug development.

This research intents to redefine the limits of the electric guitar.

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Authentication Processes in Ethnographic Museums

An interdisciplinary and innovative research group combining History, underwater archaeology, GIS and wood provenancing methods.

The main aim of this project is to investigate the various ways in which language categorizes possession, how these are morphosyntactically encoded across and within languages, and how this distinction should be represented in a model of the language faculty.

Promotor: Richard D. Gill

Leiden University is building on its future in Leiden. As a means to achieving this aim, the University will be investing in excess of 100 million euros over the coming years in constructing the new accommodation for the Faculty of Humanities at Witte Singel and Doelensteeg. The University aims with…

This study has been carried out in the community of Sukamiskin, a kelurahan (‘village’) in Bandung, the Capital of West Java Province, located in the Sunda Region of Indonesia.

The first phase of the Gorlaeus Building has been completed and it is in use by the Faculty of Science since 2016. During the second phase we will further develop the building, which will get a nice, characteristic entrance. In September 2021, construction has started.

The research aims to understand how did Cuban and Dominican landscape encapsulate historical conceptual transformations about human –nature spiritual interaction after the Spanish conquest? More specifically, what are the present day cultural associations with Cuban and Dominican natural landscape?…

The project “Digital Materials” is about the conception, exploration and analysis of possibilities to make digital processes directly operative and tangible in physical materials and examines how the fiction of these “Digital Materials” could affect on figures of interaction between human subjects and…

The Guava Platform, which is at the centre of this PhD thesis, was initiated in 2014 as a conceptual framework of my art practice and research. The aim of the Guava Platform is to research and create possible techniques of art-actions that are part of my quest to continue to live in the conflicted landscape,…

In 2021, Leiden University will develop a new Sustainability Vision 2030. This vision for the future focuses on the primary tasks of the University: integration and visibility of sustainability in our education and research.

What does site patterning reveal about the social landscape dynamics across the historical divide?

Leiden University is preparing the development of major, new university premises at Spui, in the city centre of The Hague. The building, a former department store, will provide space for some 3,000 university students and staff. The doors of the Spui Building are planned to open in September 2025.

Making sure our buildings are sustainable will contribute to Dutch and European environmental standards. Leiden University meets these standards in all its building projects.

The Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University is host to the NWO programme,

The project’s main aim was to build a reconstruction of a prehistoric house plan, without using any metal tools. How effective are tools made of stone, flint, bone, antler and wood? What are the constraints imposed by the various building materials? How much labour do we need and how much knowledge…

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The transition to new and renewable energy sources should be completed by 2050. Researchers in various disciplines at Leiden University are conducting unique research that will help us make this transition and reduce CO2 emissions.

L-PEG Research Seminar

Supervisor: P.J.J. Hooykaas Co-Supervisor: R. Offringa

Publication on the excavations at Roman fort Matilo in Leiden

Microbial rhodopsins are photosensitive pigments implemented in the growth and adaptation of a large population of microorganisms.

In Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes Jana Pešoutová presents new interpretations of current healing practices in Cuba and the Dominican Republic juxtaposed against the European colonization of the Caribbean after 1492.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar

What is the difference between a minister saying that something is possible or that it is not impossible ?

In this project we study the properties of statistical- and rule-learning mechanisms in relation to the acquisition and evolution of language. We ask to what extent these mechanisms are unique to humans - or to human language - by comparing the acquisition of vocal structure in two species: humans (infants)…

The main focus of this thesis is the behaviour of two-dimensional materials, namely (anti)-ferromagnetic materials in the first two chapters, which show topological phases, and energetic square ice in the third and fourth chapter.

Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory

This study presents the findings of a laboratory-based experiment testing hypothesised processes implicated in the prevention of violent radicalisation through counter-narratives. The central aims of the study were to contribute to counter-narrative theory, whilst highlighting the value of experimental…

Promotor: J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-Promotor: A. Kros

Leiden University is a integral part of the community and contributes to a sustainable society. Over the coming years our University will become even greener.

In his groundbreaking Imagined Communities, first published in 1983, Benedict Anderson argued that members of a community experience a

Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart, Co-promotor: D.C. Heggie

Muge Özoglu defended her dissertation on 5 December 2018

Research on the process and construction of news stories about human rights issues in Latin American newspapers.

El Chorro de Maita, Cuba

Four different astronomical societies are active in the Old Observatory. We are very proud of the commitment these associations show to organize activities.

Our current research focusses on the exploration of the Universe using the neutrino. This neutral, almost massless and only weakly interacting particle can open a window to the distant Universe and also dense regions from which photons cannot escape.