Eén van de gehonoreerde projecten is Bridging art, design and technology through Critical Making van onze hoogleraar Prof. dr. Janneke Wesseling en dr. Florian Cramer (Willem de Kooning Academy).

Ineke Sluiter, hoogleraar Griekse taal en literatuur, was als voorzitter van de KNAW de keynote speaker van de Diversiteit & Inclusiviteit week aan de TU Delft. Het journalistieke platform Delta van de universiteit interviewde haar over cancel culture en woke zijn.

Op 24 september 2021 kwam een groep academici en professionals op de Oude Sterrewacht bijeen om te praten over cultuur, victimologie, slachtofferschap, en hoe we dit moeten invullen.

De onstuitbare opmars van de N.V. Zuid-Korea

Organisms often need to adapt more efficiently and devise new strategies for surviving difficult ecological circumstances.

In this thesis, we used genetically engineered mouse models and a variety of cell-culture based assays to identify genes and pathways that are involved in the development and treatment of invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC).

Van Galileo Galilei tot Albert Einstein, van Anna Maria van Schurman tot Anton de Kom: het is slechts een greep uit 25 auteurs die met hun boeken en ideeën een buitengewone invloed hebben gehad op de wereld, soms zelf tot nu. De Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden en het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden organiseren…

In close collaboration with the Center for Medieval Studies (Fordham), Centre for Medieval literature (Odense and York) and Centre for Medieval Studies (York), the University of Ghent organizes an Autumn School for PhD- and MA-students in Medieval Studies (18-22 October 2021). It will be organized in…

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Promotor: B.van de Water, Co-promotor: L.S.Price

SEAtrans: an interdisciplinary research project that aims at studying the dynamics and processes of transitions in society-nature interactions in Southeast Asian societies.

Het was weer gezellig druk in het Rijksmuseum van Oudenheden! Op 22 juni is de zomertentoonstelling ‘Books that made History’ van Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden (UBL) en het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO) geopend. In de tentoonstelling zijn 25 Leidse boeken uit de collecties van de UBL te zien die…

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The basic program comprises a total of twelve courses organized by the Research School, that have been purpose-developed for training and support of PhD students and Research MA students who specialize in Medieval Studies (history, art history, and literary history, in particular).

In juli zal een aantal onderzoekers van de Afdeling Jeugdrecht een paper presenteren op de 'Culture, Dispute Resolution and the Modernised Family' conference in Londen, georganiseerd door het International Centre for family law, policy and practice te Londen.

Proefstuderen kan alleen offline op locatie? Nee hoor! Bij onze faculteit zijn we eind 2019 gestart met het project Online Proefstuderen en Verplichte Matching, en daarvan is nu de eerste module Online Proefstuderen gereed, al in gebruik en draait zelfstandig. Deze Online Experience English Language…

During embryonic growth, cells proliferate, differentiate, and collectively migrate to form different tissues at the right position and time in the body.

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Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-Promotor: E. Vijgenboom

Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).

The experiences of ethnic ‘Other’ females have – until recently – been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious and dynamic…

LIACS is a partner in the EU Erasmus+ Curriculum Development for the Asian education system. The knowledge available in the field of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence education will be shared and adapted for the Asian market.

Pharmaceutical companies, governments and the general public have become increasingly aware that animal models used in drug testing lack vital aspects to serve as an accurate representation of human biology. As models of the human body should become more physiologically relevant, animal models no longer…

In June 2024, the University of Groningen organizes a summer school, titled "Things that Matter". The Summer School explores challenges in digitizing source materials, questioning distinctions between physical and digital copies. It delves into the impact of virtual collections and criteria for digitization,…

Intensive 5-day programme on the world-famous Antwerp-based printing and publishing house founded by Christopher Plantin in 1555. International experts will discuss how it developed the production and distribution of religious books and related illustrations and prints in the following centuries.

World Teachers Festival 2024 - Celebrating and exploring language, culture, diversity and criticality in teaching and learning

Death in all types of melanomas is generally caused by metastasis. Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common intraocular melanoma, there are currently no (patient-derived) animal models that faithfully recapitulate metastatic dissemination of UM.

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.

In de serie tafelgesprekken ‘Van kluis naar kussen’ krijgt de kijker een blik achter de schermen van de Bijzondere Collecties. In deze speciale uitzending staat de zomertentoonstelling 'Books that made History' van de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden en het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden centraal. In de…

Menig student ziet op tegen het schrijven van een scriptie. De praktijkgerichte scriptie van masterstudent Laura Robustella laat zien dat het wél meer dan de moeite waard is. Op basis van haar masterscriptie ontwikkelde ze een kunsttentoonstelling.

The clinical potential of applying synthetic lethality to cancer treatment is famously demonstrated by the BRCA1/PARP1 paradigm: a tumor specific defect in BRCA1 – a component of the DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathway homologous recombination (HR) – results in a remarkable sensitivity to PARP1…

In oktober werd Sophie Starrenburg gekozen tot lid van het coördinerende comité van de ESIL ‘Interest Group on the International Law of Culture’. Ze zal hierin samenwerken met Giovanni Carlo Bruno (Italian National Research Council), Andrzej Jakubowski (Polish Academy of Sciences) en Lucas Lixinski…

African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation

Hoe kan de techniek van cell wall engineering worden ingezet zodat de industrie streptomyceten beter kunnen verwerken tot nieuwe antibiotica?

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Did the Jochids leave their mark on the Grand Duchy, taking into account that the Lithuanian state was one of the main successor states of the Great Horde in the 16thCentury?

Chinese materia medica (CMM), comprising a diverse array of natural substances from plants, animals, and minerals, has been integral to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) throughout history. This study investigates the dynamic evolution of CMM, noting shifts in species for improved therapeutic effects…

Hifadhi ya Dijiti ya Ustadh Mau

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. One of its symptoms is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta.

Acidobacteria is a widely distributed phylum but their functional roles in ecosystem processes are still largely elusive.