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Blessed Aristocracies: Charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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International Law and Indigenous Rights in Australia
Lecture
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On-Campus Master's Experience Day
Study information
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Book presentation ‘Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law’
Lecture
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Making sense of a trend: legal reforms on sexual violence in Europe, 13-14 June 2024, Leiden, Netherlands
Workshop
- Conflict Resolution Seminars @Leiden
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Reaching the unreachable: access to legal aid for marginalised people
Lecture
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BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).
Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.
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D&I Symposium 2023
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Social Science Matters: The surveillance society
Those who know their dystopian classics will inevitably associate the concept of surveillance society with the all-knowing oppressive force characterized as Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel 1984. However, surveillance permeats our society in many more subtle aspects than our worst fears about spy…
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Impact of COVID-19: Digital food collectives in Rotterdam
PhD candidate Vincent Walstra reflects on alternative social interactions and mutual aid in the city of Rotterdam during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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2021: This was the year of our faculty
2021 was an eventful year once again for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). Hybrid, working from home, online education, on-campus education, face masks, self-tests, keeping distance, quarantine and the coronavirus. Words that have now become a standard part of our vocabulary when…
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Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives
In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia
The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visit by a delegation from Leiden University to Indonesia at the end of June highlighted the benefits of cooperation.
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Researchers from Leiden visit Indonesia on knowledge mission
A delegation from Leiden University recently embarked on a knowledge mission to various NGOs, universities and government organisations in Indonesia. New partnerships were formed and important knowledge exchanged, and researchers from Leiden gave guest lectures.
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Campus The Hague: more ‘Hague’ in its DNA
Campus The Hague has forged its own identity: alongside interdisciplinarity, interaction with the city is its defining feature. ‘The campus is now a young adult. It is well beyond puberty,’ says campus chair Erwin Muller. An ambitious new strategy reveals this.
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A hornets’ nest: Leiden University during the Second World War
‘That hornets’ nest in Leiden must be destroyed,’ said Dutch National Socialist Party member Robert van Genechten in November 1942. He was referring to Leiden University. Why this hatred? Emeritus Professor of University History Willem Otterspeer has written a book about Leiden University during the…
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Enthusiasm for PRINS 2022
This year’s edition of PRINS, the International Studies’ consultancy course, proved to be an inspiring event for most of its participants. Students, coaches and representatives of organisations are looking back on this rollercoaster of a course and reflect on why the PRINS experience is so special.
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Alumna Natacha Harlequin: ‘When it really matters, I’m a lion’
She stands out for the moderate tone she takes in discussions on Dutch talk shows. Without judgement you can have an open conversation, criminal lawyer Natacha Harlequin learned in her student days in Leiden. ‘What I personally think of the alleged act doesn’t matter so much.’
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Career College: Working at an NGO
Career and apply for jobs
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Access to justice & labour rights: innovative paths for conflict resolution
Lecture
- Conference on Human Rights and Climate Change
- Obtaining justice and reparations for genocide survivors - What mobilisation and what role for the European Union and the international community
- Masterclass: Wondering about 'Reform' in Medieval Sources (4th-11th Centuries) - 1/3 ECTS
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Project presentations of 3 grand winning research projects within Social Citizenship & Migration
Conference, Presentation
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LUCIP Forum: A Comparative Study of Zhuangzi, Fang Yizhi, and Heidegger’s Views of Life and Death
Lecture
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Conference on Human Rights and Climate Change
Conference
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Meet & greet with Dutch diplomats: a conversation about counterterrorism & diplomacy
Meet and Greet
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Conference Museums, Collections and Society
Conference
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Master's Open Day
Study information
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Online tools
This section provides an overview of online tools for the study of the medieval Low Countries. The websites linked down below are often times both available in Dutch and English.
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Poster sessions
Speech Prosody 2024 includes several poster sessions, the description of which you can find below.
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Opening academic year
University ceremony
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The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange (Hague TIX) 2023
Conference
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
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Lineage and Gender in Islam: Perspectives from the Indian Ocean World
International Conference
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In the Making #6: Anna Scott, Jed Wentz, Laila Neuman, Emma Williams, Art Without Soul?
Lecture, Conversation
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2022
Arts and culture, LUCIS Middle Eastern Culture Market
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Middle East Culture Market 2023
Arts and culture, LUCIS Middle East Culture Market
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LCCP Seminar "The phenomenology of perception. Before and after Merleau-Ponty’"
Conference
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Campus The Hague 'Meet the Employer'
Course
- Six public graduation presentations
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Opening Academic Year
Academic ceremony
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Inclusivity with Law: What does it mean to look at diversity and inclusion from a legal perspective?
Conference, D&I Symposium
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SAILS event: Showcasing AI Research @ Humanities
Conference, Mini symposium
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Dies Natalis 2023
University ceremony
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Multidisciplinary dialogues on the human past of the Urubamba/Ucayali basin: towards a new synthesis
Conference
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OverActing | Theatre Festival Leiden
Festival
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Formation of Islam: Topics
The FOI project has a number of topics it aims to investigate. These are: State, Economy, Culture and Papyri. You will find links to bibliographies on this page.
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Mini-Symposium: The societal relevance of improvisation in music and dance followed by a panel discussion on artistic doctorates in the performing
PhD defence, Symposium