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A quick call with Corinda van Bohemen about the SteunLeiden.nl crowdfunding platform 16 May 2023
From an emergency fund for Ukrainian students to a golf tournament for cancer research at the LUMC: the Leiden University Fund (LUF) crowdfunding plat...
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3 reasons why you shouldn’t miss ‘Interdisciplinary Collaborations – Food, Sustainability & Health’ 16 May 2023
On Friday June 2, the Liveable Planet event 'Interdisciplinary Collaborations - Food, Sustainability & Health' will take place. Here, researchers can ...
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Our Earth is becoming unliveable. Can we still turn the tide? 16 May 2023
We have crossed six of the nine boundaries within which human life on Earth will still be possible for future generations. That is not good news. Can ...
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Organising an event about AI? Ask SAILS for help 15 May 2023
AI has applications in all kinds of fields. Would you like to organise an event on the possibilities of AI in your research field? The Leiden interdis...
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Online exhibition - The world’s last picture writing: Naxi Dongba manuscripts 11 May 2023
Manuscripts that look like a comic book, that's how you could describe the manuscripts of the Dongba people from China. The manuscripts are one of the...
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How climate change affects intangible heritage: ‘Specific materials to build instruments are disappearing’ 11 May 2023
What do climate change and traditional Japanese music have to do with each other? A great deal, university lecturer Andrea Giolai suspects. He has bee...
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10,000 euro interdisciplinary call: visit our event on 17 May 10 May 2023
In the coming months, the university will make funds available to young Leiden researchers who want to start small-scale interdisciplinary initiatives...
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Cabinet proposal for binding study advice: not a wise plan 09 May 2023
On 9 May, Minister Dijkgraaf of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), announced his plans for amending the Binding Study Advice (BSA). If the Minister...
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Clichéd version of an autocracy or a restored democracy? The Turkish elections explained 08 May 2023
In less than a week’s time, millions of Turkish people are going to decide who will govern their country for the next five years. These elections prom...
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‘Nearly every research study has a governance dimension, but academics know very little about it’ 08 May 2023
The annual conference of the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) interdisciplinary research programme will take place in The Hague...
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What did resistance look like in Indonesia during the Second World War? 04 May 2023
Stories of resistance in the Second World War are widely covered in Dutch historiography: Hannie Schaft, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, and Professor Cleve...
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What do you do if your professor winks at you? 03 May 2023
Sexual harassment was the theme of the recent annual symposium of student ambassadors to the Leiden-Bollenstreek police in collaboration with the poli...
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Freedom: International students and staff tell us what it means to them 03 May 2023
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that cannot be taken for granted in many countries. We asked international students and staff what ...
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Liveable Planet present at LUGO Sustainability Day 03 May 2023
Liveable Planet, the Leiden interdisciplinary research programme on sustainability, has a full presence at the LUGO Sustainability Day on Tuesday 9 Ma...
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Nicolien Mizee new writer in residence at Leiden University 01 May 2023
Writer and columnist Nicolien Mizee will be Leiden University’s new writer in residence from autumn 2023.