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- China's Diplomacy
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Introducing: Alanna O'Malley
Since August 2013, Alanna O’Malley is the new Assistant Professor for International Studies at the Institute for History, Leiden University.
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Introducing: Erik Odegard
Erik Odegard is the third PhD-student who's joining Cátia Antunes' 'Challenging Monopolies' project.
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Introducing: Kaarle Wirta
Kaarle Wirta is one of the four PhDs in Cátia Antunes’ ERC Research Project 'Fighting Monopolies'.
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Eduard Fosch Villaronga: 'Robots are mainly for the average person'
IT lawyer Eduard Fosch Villaronga wants to promote diversity and inclusiveness in AI research. And that's really important, because he has observed how artificial intelligence - from Twitter to walking robots - is prejudice in terms of race, gender and sexual orientation.
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Bullying Culture as a Form of Negative Solidarity
What is the role of technology and cyberculture in Korean social structures and in the potential formation of a new collective subjectivity? How do we reorient disoriented souls?
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VVSL
On 27 January 1900 thirteen female students gathered and established the Leesgezelschap van Vrouwelijke Studenten te Leiden (reading association for female students in Leiden).
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About the programme
Master International Relations specialisation Culture and Politics.
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About the programme
Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence focuses on inequality in all its forms. You will approach this subject from an intersectional perspective. Since categories of power and identity are always intertwined, the courses in the programme reflect this reality. This means you will study how societies…
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Pre-master's
The Pre-master’s programme is a programme designed to help students achieve the requirements by removing deficiencies for admission in the Master’s programmes offered by the Institute of Public Administration.
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Pre- Master's Programme
The Pre-master’s programme is a programme designed to help students achieve the requirements by removing deficiencies for admission in the Master’s programmes offered by the Institute of Public Administration.
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Dancing around the throne: networking in the time of King William I
Showing your face at dinners and parties at court: it was the way to get noticed by the king in William I's time. Joost Welten's latest book reveals how, during the reign of William I, the elite danced around his throne both literally and figuratively.
- Russia's Diplomacy
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In the Spotlight: Professor Robert Ross
On the occasion of the retirement of Robert Ross, Professor in African History at Leiden University, his successor and former student Jan-Bart Gewald wrote a valedictory note.
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Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010
Cambridge History of South Africa, volume 1: From early times to 1885 (edited by Carolyn Hamilton, Bernard K. Mbenga, and Robert Ross) made Choice magazine's list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010.
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Alternative Master's programs
When deciding whether a Master's program is right for you, it is important to always compare other programs. Find out which one best fits you.
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Institute's Council
The CML Institute's Council (IC) consist of seven persons representing staff and students who are working in our institute. The council advises the management team on a broad range of topics that concern all CML staff members: financial matters, research programs, education and strategic outlines.
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Iranian's foreign policy
Ideology and Actions
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Master of ceremonies at some of life’s happiest events
Leiden’s beadle, Willem van Beelen, is retiring on 29 February. How does he look back on his career and what do those in the know have to say about him?
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Translations of Greek Tragedy in the Work of Ezra Pound
Turning the tables on the misconception that Ezra Pound knew little Greek, this volume looks at his work translating Greek tragedy and considers how influential this was for his later writing.
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Embodied narratives of disaster: the expression of bodily experience in Aceh, Indonesia
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute published Annemarie Samuels' article on the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean. It's a detailed ethnographic account of the experiences of three Indonesian survivors.
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Synthesis of oligosaccharide libraries from GBS capsular polysaccharides for structure-based selection of vaccine candidates
Glycoconjugate vaccines are composed of microbial poly- or oligosaccharides covalently linked to a carrier protein.
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25 Years of Lethal Violence
How many men and women die per year at the hands of others? What are the motives behind these killings? Are there as many homicides today as years ago? How can we explain the rise and fall of homicides over time? And: What is the influence of (early) childhood and adolescence on the likelihood to commit…
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Litigating the Rights of the Child
This book examines the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on national and international jurisprudence, since its adoption in 1989.
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Trade, Investment and Labour: Interactions in International Law
On 21 February 2019, Ruben Zandvliet defended his thesis 'Trade, Investment and Labour: Interactions in International Law'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. dr. N.J. Schrijver.
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Policies on returning foreign fighters
European countries struggling how to deal with the issue of returning foreign fighters, women and children from the Caliphate.
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Bhattacharyya Lab - Quantum transport in 2D materials
The research group of Semonti Bhattacharyya at the Leiden Institute of Physics studies quantum transport measurements in Van der Waals heterostructures.
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Ikat from Timor and its outer islands: insular and interwoven
This dissertation investigates ikat from the eastern Indonesian islands from a uniquely technical perspective, including design analysis of asymmetry and microscopy.
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Pulling the strings on anti-cancer immunity
Promotores: J. Jonkers, K.E. de Visser
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Islam, Humanity and the Indonesian Identity
Islam exists in global history with its richly variegated cultural and social realities. When these specific cultural contexts are marginalized, Islam is reduced to an ahistorical religion without the ability to contribute to humanity. This limited understanding of Islam has been a contributing factor…
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Family, Work and Household in Late Medieval Iberia
Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent families—one knightly and one mercantile—with a detailed cross-sectional urban study of household and…
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Benevolent conquerors, besieged homelands, threated state: the reproduction of political myths in cold war Turkey
On 1 September 2022 Güldeniz Kibris successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Associations and Journals
An overview of Professional Associations and Journals
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Islam, Politics and Change
The Indonesian Experience after the Fall of Suharto
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Why It Is Wrong to Use Student Evaluations of Professors as a Measure of Teaching Effectiveness
In this article, Eamon Aloyo argues that university supervisors should not use student evaluations of teachers as a measure of teaching effectiveness.
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Islamization Explored
Can we speak of a single Islamic discourse in fields like politics, militancy, economics, sustainable development, and the like, and what interaction does this Islamic though have with ‘Western’ thought?
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Alumni blog
Interested in studying Colonial and Global History at Leiden University? Find out what our alumni said about this master's programme.
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Sexual homicide in the Netherlands: a provisional overview
Sexual homicide is a rare phenomenon. Yet, sexual killing is widely reported on in the media. Even though academic research on sexual homicide is conducted abroad, in the Netherlands such research is virtually absent.
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Reflection: the 'war on terror', Islamophobia and radicalisation twenty years on
This reflection for Critical Studies on Terrorism, explores two decades of the 'War of Terror' and what it means today.
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The Lives Of Cold War Afro-Asianism
The Afro-Asianism of the early Cold War has long remained buried under the narrative of Bandung, homogenising and subverting the different visions of post-colonial worldmaking that co-existed alongside the Bandung project.
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Who Are They and Why Do They Go? The Radicalization and Preparatory Processes of Dutch Jihadist Foreign Fighters
How do European Muslim men and women become involved in a violent jihadist struggle abroad?
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Neil Young and Philosophy
Neil Young and Philosophy, edited by Douglas L. Berger, explores the meanings, importance, and philosophical dimensions of the music, career, and life of this prolific singer/songwriter over the past five decades.
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Facts and figures
The key facts and figures about Leiden University from its Annual Report for 2023.
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Institute of Public Law
The Institute of Public Law comprises all areas of public law, with the exception of criminal law, and including labour law.
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Leiden victims of WWII given a face
Every year on 26 November Leiden University commemorates the protest speech given by Professor Cleveringa against the Nazis. At least 663 students, staff and alumni of the University lost their lives during the Second World War, yet little was known about these victims. PhD candidate Adriënne Baars…
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Bachelor's Open Day
Study information
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Alice Twemlow named professor by special appointment of the History, Theory and Sociology of Graphic Design and Visual Culture at University
Alice Twemlow has been named professor by special appointment in the Wim Crouwel chair in the History, Theory and Sociology of Graphic Design and Visual Culture at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam.
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Lobbying citizens had a lot of influence in the Golden Age
Thanks to fanatical lobbying various groups of citizens and traders had a lot of influence on the initial success of the Dutch colony in Brazil. This is the conclusion of Leiden PhD candidate Joris van den Tol, who defended his thesis on 20 March.
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Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe, 1200-1600
Louis Sicking's Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe was awarded an 'Internationalisation in the Humanities' grant from NWO. What can we learn from how maritime conflicts were managed in the past?
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Introducing: David Napolitano
As of 1 February 2015, dr. David Napolitano is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for History. He is particularly interested in the figure of the medieval city magistrate.