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These are the nominees for the 2022 Faculty Teaching Prize!
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students, and a jury – comprising students and lecturers – decides who will receive the prize. The prize will be awarded during the official opening of the academic year on 7 September. Meet this year’s…
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This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news
Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.
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GP in the Bible Belt: does God play a role in consultations?
Jaïr van Rhenen studied Medicine in Leiden and is now a GP in the largely religious Veenendaal. Before this, he worked as a tropical medicine doctor in Lesotho. ‘If you have the prospect of an afterlife, you often respond differently to illness.’
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Maori Day
Festival
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Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
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POSTPONED - Roundtable - Russia’s War on Ukraine: Perspectives from and Impacts on Non-European Actors
Debate
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Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Greening Casablanca: Speculative Fictions and Contested Planning Responses to the Climate Crisis
Lecture, Research Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: The Blue Values Journey to Research and Resilience in Coastal Africa
Lecture
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Documenting Death| Adrienne Strong
Lecture, Online webinar
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Publish or Perish: Religious Zaydi publishers in Yemen during the 1990s
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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LUC Student Wins Nobel Peace Prize Essay Competition
Natalia Sobrino-Saeb, third-year student at Leiden University College The Hague, won the challenge by the Ignitor Fellowship Program held by the Nobel Peace Center for her essay on the threats to journalism in Mexico. On December 10th Natalia met the Committee of the Ignitor Fellowship in Oslo and attended…
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Global Challenges: The Regime of Lukashenka
Lecture
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Conflict Escalation: Explaining the Rise of Violence
Lecture
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will be organized by the Grotiana Foundation, the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam, the Grotius Centre for International…
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: What Use are Networks Anyway?
Lecture
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Book launch: 'White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt, 1926-1974: In a Class of Their Own'
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Roadblock Politics - Predation and Resistance in Central Africa
Lecture
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Money Matters: Financial Distress and Sustainable Change
Panel Discussion
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Nasser Road, Political Posters in Uganda
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Book presentation ‘Building the League of Nations and the International Labour Organisation’
Book presentation
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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Debate
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Transnational Figurations of Displacement (TRAFIG)
Conference, Workshop
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Border closures in East and Central Africa: asymmetry, severance, and disruption
Lecture
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Book presentation ‘Assisting International Justice’
Book presentation
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To Register or Not to Register? Legal Identity and Birth Registration of Migrant Children in Morocco
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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SAILS/ LIBC - Hackathon Computational Psychometrics
Lecture
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Online Kress Talks with Felicity Good and Alec Aldrich
Lecture
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Healing the People: Popularizing and Printing Medicine in Edo Japan
Conference
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Lecture on Russian military concepts and the war in Ukraine
Lecture
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Career Talk with Wim Klop
Debate, Career Talk
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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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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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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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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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this first…
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Online Minor Market 2022
Study information
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What Do We Mean When We Say “Academic Freedom”?
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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Book presentation: The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex
Lecture
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Flash interview with alumnus Joost Bunk: As a diplomat, you know there's a risk of being declared persona non grata
When Russia attacked Ukraine in the night of 23-24 February, alumnus Joost Bunk, who was working as a diplomat in Russia, knew that everything would change.
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‘We couldn't really celebrate our vaccine being approved, but we were over the moon’
On 11 March, pharmaceutical company Janssen received approval to launch its corona vaccine on the European market. This made Janssen the fourth company to be given the green light by the European Medicines Agency. As Lead of the Janssen Campus in the Netherlands, Biology alumnus Bart van Zijll Langhout…
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
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Plato's Myths: Tools for Thinking Conference
Conference
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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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.
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
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FestiWell en EUniWell
Festival, FestiWell | Event vanuit EUniWell