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Celebrating female computer scientists: ‘Computer science is for everyone’
Four female computer scientists share a common goal: to showcase the significant contributions of women in computer science and inspire their students. Together, they are organising this year’s Alice & Eve event, a one-day symposium dedicated to celebrating women in computer science. The event, scheduled…
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Monica den Boer appointed as endowed professor Police Studies: ‘The blue line in my life’
Monica den Boer, who has decades of experience within police and defence and was also active as a Member of Parliament (D66), has been appointed extraordinary professor of Police Studies.
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Cancer patients want a doctor who shows empathy and doesn’t make vague promises
Patients with incurable cancer want their oncologist to be clear but to show empathy too. They find hard and vague communication harmful. These are the results of a study by psychologists from Leiden that has been published in the American journal Cancer.
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ERC Starting Grants for seven Leiden researchers
Seven researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. This will enable them to start their own project, build their research team and put their best ideas into action.
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Flipping the classroom: ‘This course lays a foundation that students can build on for the rest of their studies’
The challenge: take three hundred students from vastly varying disciplines and teach them the basics of academic thinking in twelve lessons. Impossible? Professor Ben Arps and his team of tutors succeeded. It resulted in a large amount of positive student evaluations.
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Approaching Mandarin wh-ex situ: D-linking effect
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Book presentation 'In This Fragile World', edited by Annachiara Raia
Lecture
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Telling the story of Gaza
Lecture, Book presentation and Q&A
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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Healthcare interpreting today and tomorrow
Lecture
- Informal meeting: Langues & Grammaires du Monde dans l’Espace Francophone
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Ethnonyms as windows into the past: untangling past and present contacts in Ngamiland, Botswana
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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Social interaction meets technology
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
- This Time for Africa! series
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Study of a Russian doctor and innovator in troubled times
Ambroise Paré, Thomas Sydenham and Herman Boerhaave: all were great medical innovators in their time. We know far less about the 19th-century Russian physician and scientist Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov. PhD candidate Inge Hendriks researched him in Dutch and Russian archives and collections. She discovered…
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell interview.
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Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Friend or foe? The role of AI in mitigating biases in HR
AI is already widely being used in HR processes, but it’s unclear whether these applications contribute to fair and inclusive decision making. Leiden researcher Carlotta Rigotti is involved in BIAS, a big consortium research project that aims to provide answers and develop a new, trustworthy AI app…
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Earliest Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections in Leiden Now Available in Open Access
Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available in Open Access via Digital Collections. The available manuscript collections include the private collections…
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Rethinking Urban Renewal and Citizen Engagement: Insights from Turin
Maria Vasile's ethnographic fieldwork in Turin reveals that volunteering and citizen engagement may not empower residents or allow them to shape their cities. Her analysis of urban gardens, food markets, and food aid initiatives calls for a broader perspective on urban peripheral areas and a shift away…
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In Memoriam - Bas Edixhoven
On January 16, 2022, our respected and beloved colleague Prof. dr. Bas Edixhoven passed away after a short period of serious illness.
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Introducing: Bruno Allahissem and Luca Bruls
Bruno Allahissem and Luca Bruls recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the NWO-funded project 'Digital warfare in the Sahel: popular networks of war and Cultural Violence', led by Mirjam de Bruijn and Jelena Prokic (LUCL). Below they introduce themselves.
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The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh
The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For me, “connection” is a nice word. If you see the connections between things, you immediately see the logic behind the processes.’ Her career has taken her…
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Asia Academy #15: North Korea's Gamble
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Asia Academy #17: South Korea's Political Rollercoaster
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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D&I Symposium 2023
Conference, D&I Symposium
- LACG Meetings
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How to Study a Polymath
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- AI Mixer: Can Generative AI Generate Culture?
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Ñii Ñu’u - Sacred Skin
Film screening and Q&A
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2023: 'Tempori serviendum est: Cicero’s public voice under the dictatorship of Julius Caesar'
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Hanna Swaab
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
hswaab@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274060
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Graphic Novels in South-Africa: the Work of Nathan Trantraal
Arts and culture
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13th International Congress of Egyptologists, 2023
Conference
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Can Generative AI Generate Culture?
Debate
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Regional complementarity: Making sense of our four tiered justice paradigm
PhD defence
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Warrior Women, Gender-bending Plots, Perfect Masculinity: Paradigms of gender in Javanese Amir Hamza narratives
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Words and Warning Messages: Communicating Deterrence in Theory and Practice
Lecture
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A grammar of Ashéninka
PhD defence
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Memory, Activism and Social Justice: Kao Jun-honn’s Great Leopard Project
Lecture, China Seminar
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Translating Jurjani: Why read an eleventh-century text about Arabic poetics?
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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A conversation with Bonnie Honig on the defence of democracy
Bezoek
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Dies Natalis
University ceremony
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Carolien Rieffe
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
crieffe@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3674
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Reading list – Culinary culture and tasty tales
Are we going vegetarian this year? Shall we keep the dessert the same? Where do I find inspiration for a festive meal during the holidays? For readers who like to postpone these questions, for those who like to tell a good story with their culinary contribution, or for those who simply want to know…