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Webb data suggest potential atmosphere around rocky exoplanet
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date for the existence of any rocky planet atmosphere outside our solar system.
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How to address sensitive subjects in class?
The war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza or the global rise of the far-right: topics that stir up emotions but are also regularly discussed in classes at Political Science. Moreover, with a diverse group of students, there is a great diversity of life experiences, backgrounds and opinions.…
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IBL Spotlights - Development & Disease
Lecture
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“Mobile” Afterworlds in the Western Capital of the Liao Dynasty
Lecture, also on line with Zoom
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Women in Data Science (WiDS)
Conference
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Planetary Atmospheres and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Lecture
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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
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On quantum transport in flat-band materials
PhD defence
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Science & Cocktails: Why do People Fight?
Lecture
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Chinese Cinema Meets Digital Humanities
Lecture
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Fundamental Research on the Voltammetry of Polycrystalline Gold
PhD defence
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Regulation of autophagy-related mechanisms during bacterial infection
PhD defence
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Random Erasing
Lecture
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CFA: Summer school Global History in the 2020s, Leiden 27-29 June 2023
On 27-29 June, 2023, Leiden University's Institute for History will host a summer school on Global History in the 2020s, in collaboration with the Huizinga Institute-Research School for Cultural History, the Research School Political History, and the Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH).…
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First photo of black hole at the heart of our Galaxy
Finally we know for sure that there is a black hole at the centre of our own galaxy. Today, astronomers unveiled the first ever photo of Sagittarius A*, a super-massive object at the centre of the Milky Way. This picture could only be taken thanks to the cooperation of telescopes worldwide.
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Pieter de la Court Medal winners talk about accessibility and the conditions of education
During the New Year’s Reception on 11 January 2022, the Pieter de la Court Medal was awarded to two students of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences: Orestes Kyrgiakis and Claire van den Helder. They tell us about the causes they fight for and what it means for the University to be better.…
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The future of Europe’s finances
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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PhD training Case Study and Comparative Methods
Course
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Conference Power and Counterpower in Democracy
Conference
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LUCIR Lecture: Inside Gang Governance: How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro
Lecture
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Open Q&A with the European Parliament President Roberta Metsola
Lecture
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Politics and Policy Pre-Analysis Plan (PAP) Workshop
Workshop
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Third meeting of Leiden University's Being the First student network
Thematic Meeting Being the First
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Putin’s War on Ukraine: Implications and Consequences
Debate, Roundtable
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LUCIR/Grotius Centre Book Talk: Ideology and Mass Killing
Lecture
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AI for Bad: Superpowers, Cydiplo and the Myth of Global Regulation
Lecture
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LUCIR Seminar: Power, Ideas, and International Orders: Contrasting the Classical Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
Lecture
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"From Epistemicide to ‘Epistemic Disobedience'" by Anne-Maria Makhulu
Lecture
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The Securitisation of Leiden University
Panel discussion
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European Mining Conference: Developments in Deep-Sea Mining and the EU Critical Raw Materials Act
Conference
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When International Organisations Undermine State Capacity: A Responsibility Paradox
Lecture
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Populism, Punditry and Political Science: A Conversation with Cas Mudde
Lecture
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Book presentation ‘Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law’
Lecture
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The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange (Hague TIX) 2024
Conference
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OSINT: From Theory, Intelligence to Evidence
Conference
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LUCIR Annual Lecture: Three Modes of Anarchy
Lecture
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Experimental Ethnographies
Lecture
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LUCIR book talk: Awakening to China’s Rise: Europe amid US-China Strategic Competition
Lecture
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The Need for Teaching a More Accurate and Inclusive History of Science: The Case of Islamic Contributions to Math and Sciences
Debate
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Lithium-ion batteries and the transition to electric vehicles
PhD defence
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Lessons of Democracy: Mothers’ Education and Learning Activities in late-1950s Japan,
Lecture
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Super-Earth Atmospheres
PhD defence
- IBL Symposium 2022
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Violence and the State: Perspectives from Ancient India
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Extinction, Extraction, Emergence: Plantation Necrobiopolitics on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
Lecture
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Beyond the trenches
PhD defence
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Food stories and the microbiome
Workshop
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Unravelling cell fate decisions through single cell methods and mathematical models
PhD defence
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Are there questions that should not be raised at university?
Dialogue
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Following the Pagla Jahaj ['the crazy ship']: The inevitable journey towards the un/familiar
Lecture