269 search results for “property” in the Staff website
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Nominees bachelor's thesis prize Political Science 2024
The nominees for the IRO Thesis Prize 2024 and the Prof. Dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg-prijs 2024. Who authored the best thesis in Leiden University’s bachelor’s programme in Political Science?
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Frederic Lens: building bridges in biodiversity research
Four green research institutes in Leiden are joining forces to integrate evolution and biodiversity research, at local and at the national level. Pivot in this collaboration is Frederic Lens.
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Is there oxygen on exoplanets? New telescope finds out
To what extent does exoplanet Proxima b resemble our Earth? And is there some form of life present? Astronomers hope to find answers to these questions with the new European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). An NWO research grant of €18 million will allow a Dutch consortium to continue building instruments…
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Call for Papers: 'Matrilineal Kerala: Investigations across Borders'
In collaboration with: Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, the Netherlands & Mar Chrysostom Chair, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
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Imagine you’re Ilias from Turkey
In the confrontational ‘House of Misconceptions’, visitors put themselves in another person’s shoes and have to justify their existence. The performance is the result of a unique collaboration between the Liquid Society art collective and Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude and her st…
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Nobel Prize for quantum physics: the circle for Bell's theorem is complete
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics goes to quantum physics research. The prize will be awarded on December 10 in Stockholm. Physicist Bas Hensen explains why this is important and how his research in Leiden relates to it.
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Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’
In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…
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Powerful new Leiden 'super antibiotic' may overcome resistance
The prestigious journal Science Translational Medicine has published a study by researchers from the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) on a potent new antibiotic that can overcome resistance. ‘The idea was to tweak the original antibiotic and create a next-generation drug’, says Nathaniel Martin, professor…
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Opening facultair jaar FdR
Opening facultair jaar FDR
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Progress in equality and law for women: the glass is half full
Following 40 years of research into the legal equality principle, Emeritus Professor Titia Loenen gave her valedictory lecture in which she took stock of the progress that has been achieved. She focused on equal rights for women and is cautiously optimistic, despite the current rise in conservatism…
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Tensors Workshop
Workshop Series
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LCN2 Seminar september 2022
Lecture
- Global Questions Seminar
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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Anyonic, cosmic, and chaotic: three faces of Majorana fermions
PhD defence
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Roundtable on Climate Change and Land Rights: IOM’s e-course module on HLP, Protection and Climate Change
Lecture, Roundtable discussion
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Fariba Karimi
Lecture
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OSCL meets YAL: The challenges of working with an open science mindset in a business driven environment
Lecture
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Hybrid Josephson junctions and their qubit applications
PhD defence
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Separate and holistic solutions to the problems of cross-border death and gift taxation
The response of international organizations to the problems of cross-border death and gift taxation needs to be revisited, according to PhD candidate Vassilis Dafnomilis. PhD defence on 3 June 2021.
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Meijerslezing en Nieuwjaarsreceptie 2024
Meijerslezing, Meijersprijzen en Van Wersch springplankprijs en Nieuwjaarsreceptie 2024
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-discussed topics. We compiled an overview of the most-read news items and other events of the past year.
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How does the government spend taxpayers’ money fairly?
Public procurement is not a hot topic for the average citizen. That’s a pity, says PhD candidate Erik Plas, who did research on the fair spending of public money: 'If a council project goes completely haywire, because it costs more than expected, it could even mean that local taxes will have to be r…
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Squaramide-based supramolecular polymers
PhD defence
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Probing Cosmic Monsters: Confronting Hydrodynamic Simulations with New Observations of High-density Environments
PhD defence
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Fundamental Research on the Voltammetry of Polycrystalline Gold
PhD defence
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CCLS Seminar
Conference, seminar
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Citizen Labor: correcting data and creating value in an Indian land records database
Lecture, Research Seminar
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On quantum transport in flat-band materials
PhD defence
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Hysterons and Pathways in Mechanical Metamaterials
PhD defence
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Only the dead can tell us: on ancestor worship, law, social status and gender norms in Ancient Egypt
PhD defence
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Discourse in contact: an areal study of wish formulae in Daghestan
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Seminar and book discussion
Lecture, Seminar and book discussion
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LIC Lecture + drinks
Lecture
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Bioengineering and Biophysics of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
PhD defence
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The Emergence of Democratic Firms in the Platform Economy: Drivers, Obstacles, and the Path Ahead
PhD defence
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LCN2 seminar April 2024
Lecture
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Making Crimes Mean: A Normative Analysis of the Acts that Constitute International Crimes
PhD defence
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From Slavery to Freedom
Conference, Webinar
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ASCL Seminar: Ancestral livelihoods and moral universalism - Evidence from transhumant pastoralist societies
Lecture
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Withstanding the cold: energy feedback in simulations of galaxies that include a cold interstellar medium
PhD defence
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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Rhythms of resilience: Individual differences in genetic and environmental effects on brain development
PhD defence
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Expanding the chemical space of antibiotics produced by Paenibacillus and Streptomyces
PhD defence
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Liposome-based vaccines for immune modulation: from antigen selection to nanoparticle design
PhD defence
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Inflation - a reading list
In 2022, every euro in the Netherlands lost about 10% of its value, price increases comparable to the stagflation period of the 1970s. In the same year, the value of the Argentine peso halved, while prices in China only rose by 2%. How well do we understand the economic mechanisms behind inflation?…
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Black hole one year later: proof of a persistent shadow
The brightness peak of the ring around M87's supermassive black hole has shifted 30 degrees counterclockwise in a year. This is shown by new images released by the Event Horizon Telescope consortium.
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First scientific images Euclid telescope exceed all expectations
Space telescope Euclid is capable of unravelling the secrets of the universe. That is what the images published by ESA today show, according to astronomers working with the telescope's data. The images exceed all expectations. Scientists within the Euclid consortium, including astronomers Henk Hoekstra…
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The Concept of Living Customary Law Revisited
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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Improving Nature’s Antibiotics to Overcome Resistant Bacteria
Lecture, NGL-lezing