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Political Scientist Matthew Longo wins Orwell Prize for his book
The latest book by political scientist Matthew Longo came out this spring: 'The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain'. In addition to its many favourable reviews, the book received the prestigious Orwell Prize this summer, which highlights exceptional books on politics.
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Historical research helps biodiversity in Leiden city centre
The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does justice to the city’s heritage. Researcher Fenna IJtsma delves into historical greenery to offer inspiration.
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Meet the student candidates for the Faculty Council Archaeology 2024-2025
Organisation
- Cybersecurity: use BCC rather than CC in your emails
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Ten lessons on making an impact: ‘What dilemmas will you face?’
In the booklet ‘Research with Windows Wide Open’, eight professors in the social sciences and humanities advise colleagues who want to make an impact with their research. They include Leiden professors Andrea Evers and Leo Lucassen. The booklet, published by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and…
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Artificial intelligence project to accelerate MRI scans receives 2 million euros
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden University and Philips are jointly receiving over 2 million euros from NWO to set up an artificial intelligence (AI) lab. The aim of this lab is to accelerate and improve MRI scans with AI. This is great for patients, and it helps make MRI more accessi…
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Learning by doing: how to take advantage of everyday growth opportunities
When a challenge or question presents itself, our first reaction is often: ‘Let’s organise training’. But is that always the best solution? The working day often offers plenty of informal learning and development opportunities
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PhD candidates exchange experiences at small-scale summer school
Excursions to Leiden museums, a flown-in American professor and a collaboration with PhD students from Cambridge: Leiden PhD candidates in early modern art were in luck this summer. An award from the Camino Laurent van Vugt Fund allowed the LUCAS research institute to organise a special summer school…
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Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations
Conference
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Care, Children and the Other Holocaust
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Ukraine and the Failure of Global Security
Lecture
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Isotopes and the characterization of extrasolar planets
PhD defence
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Discrimination and the Foundation of Justice
PhD defence
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Professional learning of vocational teachers in the context of work placement
PhD defence
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Academia in motion: a different form of recognition and reward
A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria. The ‘Academia in Motion’ paper published by the Leiden University Recognition and Rewards describes the main problems with recognition and rewards in…
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LBSP Career Orientation Speed dates: tell students about your work at the LBSP
Alumni event, Activity for professionals of the LBSP
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LBSP Career Orientation Speed dates: tell students about your work at the LBSP
Alumni event, Activiteit voor professionals op het LBSP
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In the Shadow of the Constitution: the Micropolitics of Constitutionalism in Cambodia
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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Practicing informed consent; dilemmas and experiences in social science research
Conference
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Cybersecurity and the politics of knowledge production
Debate
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Sweden in NATO and the changing EU security architecture
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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NICA Mini Symposium 'Fernand Deligny on Cinema and the Image'
Conference
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In memoriam: Rudy B. Andeweg (1952-2024)
On Friday, June 28, 2024, emeritus professor Rudy B. Andeweg passed away. His passing marks the loss of an important figure within the field of political science, not only nationally, but internationally. Here we remember an outstanding researcher, inspiring teacher, capable administrator and an involved…
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ReCNTR Talk: The Deep Field ; Art and the Ecological Imaginary
Lecture
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Horizon Europe research project TransEuroWorkS: Transforming European Work and Social Protection
Conference
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Debate: Human Rights and the World Cup Qatar
Debate
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Violence and the State: Perspectives from Ancient India
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Binge- eating disorder in the Arabic world and the Netherlands
PhD defence
- Impediments, disability and the university as knowledge infrastructure
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The situation in Israel/Palestine and the role of courts
Inaugural panel discussion
- Medieval Fragmentology and the Fragmented Old English Glossed N-Psalter
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Drawing and Painting
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- Visit to the International Criminal Court
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How to Work for Peace: A Dialogue with Dionysius Mintoff, the ‘Father of Peace’
Debate, Fireside Peace Chats
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Memory ‘construction’ and the digital perpetuation of conflict in Mali
Lecture
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Executive Power and the Crisis of Modern American Democracy
Lecture
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Taboo on raising social safety issues must go because we really need to do better
Last year, 15.8% of all employees of Leiden University experienced undesirable behaviour. This is one of the findings of the 2021 Personnel Monitor. ‘That number is far too high. We have to get rid of the taboo on raising this issue and addressing offenders,‘ says Martijn Ridderbos, in an open and…
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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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Corry Donner on her retirement: 'I’ll definitely miss the intellectual stimulation, but what I want most now is to get out of my head.'
As Board Secretary, Corry Donner aims to be a ‘spider in the web’; someone who keeps a watchful eye on and brings together all the different perspectives of the institute’s board. Now she's left her carefully woven web at the university and transfer her tasks to her successor. Last September, we talked…
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Terms of Exchange. Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences
Conference, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Caribbeans and the National Assistance Act, 1948-1962
Lecture, research seminar
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Share the LUVE
Festival, Graduation Film Festival
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The WPS Agenda and the Middle East: Progress or Procrastination?
Debate
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Chinese Assertiveness and the Rise of Xi Jinping
PhD defence
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Princes and Prophets: Democracy and the Defamation of Power
PhD defence
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Visible hands, audible voices: Economy as a Matter of Fact and a Matter of Concern by Douglas R. Holmes (Binghamton University)
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Migration policy of the European Union: what lies ahead?
Lecture, Seminar
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Woodland Imagery in Northern Art: Book launch with Leopoldine Prosperetti (independent scholar) and referent Joost Keizer (University of Groningen)
Lecture
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The active bystander
Communication, Personal development