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‘Sometimes choosing a different path can take you further’
On International Women's Day (8 March) we take time to consider female emancipation and participation. What does this day mean for Leiden University, and how does it tie in with our aim of becoming more diverse and inclusive? We talked about these issues with Annetje Ottow, who recently became the…
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis
How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone in the universe? This was all covered during the celebration of Leiden University’s 449th Dies Natalis.
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The Decade of Revolt? Class Conflict and the State of Permanent Crisis in the Post-2011 Middle East
Conference, Roundtable
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Elsa Charlety | On Zora Neale Hurston
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Book Launch 'Freedom on the Offensive'
Lecture, Book Launch
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On the Origins of 'The Origins of Inequality'
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Consensus and ideology in expert communities: The case of economics
Seminar
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Citizen Labor: correcting data and creating value in an Indian land records database
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Tiny Gardens Everywhere
Lecture, Leiden University Environmental Humanities Series
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Understanding Continuity and Change in US Counterterrorism Policy Through Policymaker Profiles
PhD defence
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Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture by Jason De León
Lecture, Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
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Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
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Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions
CWTS Seminar
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Seminar and book discussion
Lecture, Seminar and book discussion
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Digital Analyses: Old English Poems and Modern Comics
Lecture
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What is BDS? The case for academic boycott
Debate
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Humanities and International Relations Graduate
Conference
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
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QAnon and Alien Gods: Plausibility Construction in the Cultic Milieu (11th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity)
Lecture, Symposium
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Jean Monnet Seminar: CompaRe meets EUTAXGOV
Seminar
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Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian
PhD defence
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Workshop: Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights
Conference, Workshop
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Money Matters: Financial Distress and Sustainable Change
Panel Discussion
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The Road to Planetary Defense: Cosmic Collisions, Nuclear Explosions, and the Environmental History of Asteroids and Comets
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Perceptions of China’s Sexual Economy
Lecture, China Seminar
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Debate
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Lecture by geneticist David Reich about the spread of the Indo-European languages
Lecture
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The history of Medicine and Asia
Conference, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Leaving Science: A Large-Scale, Cohort-Based, Longitudinal Approach, 2000-2022
Seminar
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Words and Warning Messages: Communicating Deterrence in Theory and Practice
Lecture
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In the Making - afternoon sessions on research in the arts
Lecture, Conversation
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Beyond Risk? Understanding the Threats of the Anthropocene
Conference
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Da‘wa as Development: Kuwaiti Islamic Charity in Africa
Lecture
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The Palestine Exception
VVI Research Meetings 2024-2025
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No legal career but a food truck on Bonaire instead
If you study law, you won’t necessarily end up striding round a law firm in tailor-made suits. Alumnus Harrie Schoffelen certainly hasn’t: he made the conscious decision to follow another path in life. Together with his fiancée he runs a successful food truck on the tropical island of Bonaire. ‘Return…
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence
In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate. Archaeology research in Leiden into burial mounds in the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas of the Netherlands yielded this spectacular conclusion.…
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The colour purple: why it's important to our new Dean
During the New Year's Reception at FSW, new Dean Sarah de Rijcke gave her maiden speech. The first official moment at which she's able to share what she stands for and what to expect of her. In case you weren't there, or you want to read the speech at your own pace, below you can find the integral copy…
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Interview with Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn
Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn LLM., Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the University of Leiden, completed his habilitation in July 2020 at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin and acquired the Venia for Constitutional Law, International Law and International Criminal Law. The…
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How do international boycotts work for justice? Understanding the ethics and efficacy of the BDS movement
Panel discussion
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Modern Transimperial Histories: Forms, Questions, Prospects
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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In the Making #4: Marcel Cobussen, MinJi Kim, Kevin Fairbairn and Nele Möller, Ecology and (Sounding) Art
Lecture, Conversation
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Hip Hop Diplomacy as Subversive Complicity
Guest Lecture
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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PREPARE Final Conference – Engaging with children from violent extremist families
Conference
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In the Making #1: Rabih Mroué, Sand in the Eyes
Lecture, Conversation
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Why We All Need Philosophical and Scientific Analysis in the History of Philosophy, History of Political Thought, and Intellectual History
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar