In the media
-
Dr. Andrew Sorensen at University of the Netherlands: Lecture on Ancient Fire-Use 27 May 2021
When is the last time you made a fire? Not light a candle with a match, but an actual fire from scratch. Thousands of years ago, humans already made f...
-
eLaw publishes in Nature 27 May 2021
Researchers of eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, published their research in Nature Machine Intelligence. The pu...
-
In the media: Prof. Dr. Joanita Vroom about the Van Steenis depot 27 May 2021
In a closed room in the Van Steenis building, hundreds of boxes are waiting under fluorescent lights for someone to come and see them. The jumble of h...
-
Podcast 'Talk That Science' with Maikel Kuijpers as guest 25 May 2021
Talk That Science, a podcast with the aim of presenting science in a challenging, new and relevant way. They do this by combining music and science. T...
-
Stories from Europe’s borderlands: A podcast series about living with, and resistance to, Europe's borders 10 May 2021
In the upcoming months, PhD candidates Neske Baerwaldt (FdR / VVI) and Wiebe Ruijtenberg (FSW / CAOS) will produce the ethnographic podcast series ‘Gr...
-
Symposium Findings Chalcolithic site Palloures 28 April 2021
Discoveries at the Chalcolithic site Palloures, Cyprus will be presented to the public in free, online symposium next month. A team of archaeologi...
-
Bart Custers: 'NCTV cannot track citizens using fake accounts' 12 April 2021
For years, the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) has collected and shared privacy-sensitive information about citize...
-
Anne Meuwese and Bart Custers in Trouw on Covid apps 06 April 2021
The more people are vaccinated, the more society can slowly reopen. Technological developments, like the Covid passport and other apps, can play a rol...
-
Shopping by appointment: What happens to your personal data? 30 March 2021
In the Netherlands it is now possible to visit non-essential shops if you make an appointment beforehand. But when you book an appointment you have to...
-
Article on Affective Computing by Andreas Häuselmann published in IDPL 16 March 2021
Affective Computing (AC and sometimes called ‘Emotional AI’) provides opportunities to automatically process emotional data. However, is EU data prote...
-
Archaeologist Andy Sorensen in National Geographic Magazine about ancient fire use 10 February 2021
When and how commenced the use of fire by early humans? Armed with stones, peat moss, and fungi, archaeologist Andy Sorensen tries to answer that ques...
-
Leiden archaeologists in international media on early form of money in the Bronze Age 28 January 2021
People in the Early Bonze Age used bronze artefacts as a means of payment. This is the conclusion reached by archaeologists Maikel Kuijpers and Catali...
-
Simone van der Hof in podcast on GDPR and children’s rights 28 January 2021
In a podcast of the Netherlands Internet Governance Forum (NL GF) and the Safer Internet Centre Nederland, Simone van der Hof, Professor of Law and Di...
-
The Hague aims to attract legal tech start-ups 25 January 2021
In an interview with Jaap van den Herik, Professor emeritus Law and IT, legal magazine Mr. writes that The Hague municipality wants to attract more le...
-
Archaeologist Maikel Kuijpers reflects on academic feud over Nebra sky disc 20 January 2021
In a New York Times report on a bitter archaeological feud over the Nebra sky disk, Maikel Kuijpers reflects on its importance. 'It’s really unfortuna...