2,166 search results for “crisis and disaster management” in the Public website
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Sports Centre celebrates 50 years
Online competitions, online sports, dietary advice for staff and students and 'What do they eat for lunch?' The first 'volunteer' is Vice-Rector Hester Bijl. What does her lunch usually consist of? The University Sports Centre is celebrating its fifty-year anniversary with a whole - corona-proof - programme…
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Fifty years of teaching and research in Egypt: ‘Visit to Cairo a highlight for students’
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Thousands of students and researchers from eight partner universities in the Netherlands and Flanders have been able to gain valuable experience in Egypt through the institute. Good reason for a celebrat…
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How Leiden's drug pioneers have switched to Covid research
From studying molecules in the blood of corona patients to developing a new concept for vaccines. The Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) has transformed many ongoing projects into Covid research projects. Hubertus Irth, scientific director of LACDR, talks about the role of his institute…
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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Acting Dean of the Faculty of Science: Paul Wouters shares a glimpse of his double life
Paul Wouters came to the Faculty of Science for a few months to help with organising day-to-day issues after the previous dean left. This has involved rather more than he expected. ‘I can now really understand why every faculty has its own dean.’
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How these three students experience education from home
A lot has changed for students during the corona crisis: no physical education, exams behind the computer, and lecturers who accidentally mute themselves during an online lecture. How do students experience online education? ‘During one of the lectures in Teams, someone kept on kicking people out of…
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Caelesta Braun & Bert Fraussen awarded NIG Supervisor of the Year Award
Each year, the Netherlands Institute of Governance (NIG) invites PhD students from Public Administration departments at universities in the Netherlands and Flanders to nominate their supervisor(s) for the NIG Supervisor of the Year Award, to celebrate and recognize excellent PhD supervision. This year,…
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From archaeologist to chatelaine
Marijke Brouwer started as an archaeologist, excavating Iron Age settlements in the Dutch polder regions. Today she is the director of medieval Huis Bergh, one of the largest castles in the Netherlands. How did this unusual career development come about?
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Speak up where it will help, not just at the coffee machine
For five years, Pauline Hutten put her heart and soul into the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA), but a short time ago, she handed over the baton to Sanneke Kuipers, who is now Chair. We met up with them both for a joint interview about the importance of particip…
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‘We are drowning in dossiers of which we have long known they will play a role’
The new government needs to look further ahead, says environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra. ‘We keep pushing forward big dossiers like demographic ageing, climate and migration. Even though we know they play a big role in our future.’ Hoekstra therefore hopes that the new coalition agreement will…
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Blog Post | Colouring Diplomacy through Feminist and Pro-Gender Bodies and Foreign Policies
In the past months the COVID-19 pandemic has made the world become more reliant on digital communication and social media. As virtual spectators of diplomacy during these times, it is not difficult to notice that diplomacy is more colourful nowadays.
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The added value of Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities: interview with Dean Wim van den Doel
Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities will celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2022. In recent years, the alliance has expanded to include centres and new programmes as well as a curriculum of its own. What do the next ten years have in store?
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Tackling corona challenges by understanding the other
How to address loneliness during quarantine, keep healthcare workers healthy, and deal with social distancing in a person’s final hours? Before we can tackle such challenges, it is crucial to understand the perspective of those who suffer from them, say the teachers of a new Master Honours Class: “It…
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’Society would flourish with new farming styles’
‘The climate crisis is the greatest threat we face,’ says Leiden University environmental scientist Paul Behrens. ‘And yet, there is hope. In the near future, I think we will wonder why we didn’t make these changes earlier.’
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School
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Documentary series #1: Memories of Communism in Lebanon - Two Videos by Marwan Hamdan
Documentary screening
- POSTPONED: Panel Discussion: Neutrality in a Changing World
- Open Science Coffee: Mentoring for Open and Robust Science
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Political Economy of Vaccine Diplomacy: Explaining Varying Strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Diplomacy
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Understanding Continuity and Change in US Counterterrorism Policy Through Policymaker Profiles
PhD defence
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Environmental Humanities LU: Species literacy and the cultural portrayal of animal biodiversity
Lecture
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European Strategic Autonomy and a Rising China
An informal exchange
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Reimagining the State in Times of a Pandemic
Lecture, L-PEG Annual Lecture in Global Political Economy
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Leiden Anthropological Conference: The Campus with a Future
Conference
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Roundtable on the Future of Yemeni Studies
Conference, Roundtable
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Enlightenment, Empire and Fanaticism
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
- 1325 twenty years on – the evolution of the WPS agenda after 9/11
- ReproducibiliTea Leiden: The Reproducibility Project: Psychology (journal club)
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Carte Blanche Interdisciplinariteit
Conference, Carte Blanche
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Navigating the Turn to the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia, and the Netherlands
Panel discussion
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Publications
Recent publications
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Monthly Reads | Project 0100
Each month we will be spotlighting material we have been reading, or that have been recommended to us that relate to AI and a particular theme.
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‘In the end, rector is just Latin for organiser’
On the day of the Dies Natalis, Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker starts his second term of office. How does he look back on the first four years, and what are his plans? These are the questions asked of him by Mayor Lenferink, student of public administation Mikal Tseggai, Professor Eveline Crone and…
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Where is the Caribbean in the Dutch WPS National Action Plan?
Lecture
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Research on ancient southern Arabia: Current situation and outlook
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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An International Rule-Based Order and China in the Global Arena
Lecture
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The EU and Africa – joint visions for the future or falling back on the past?
Lecture, Seminar
- Farm Excursion: 5 November
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LCCP Lecture Heidegger, Agamben and Biopolitics
Lecture
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Political Factors Affecting European Union Legislative Decision- Making Speed
PhD defence
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Sounding Out Ecological Precarity and Musical Heritage in Asia: Some Early Ideas
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Finding Your Way (In and Out of the Art World): A Phenomenology of the Art Novel
Lecture
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Notes on the contemporary Art Novel
Lecture, Seminar
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On the Backlash: The Weimar Republic and the Contemporary World, UCDxLeiden
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Jimpitan in Wonosobo, Central Java: An Indigenous Institution in the Context of Sustainable Socio-Economic Development in Indonesia
PhD defence
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Should rivers and seas have rights?
Lecture, Public Ethics Talks
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Bringing the ‘credibility revolution’ to archaeological field research
Seminar
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2019 Hall of fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2019 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.