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- In Praise of Solidarity - World Refugee Day 2024
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People used bearskins to keep warm 300,000 years ago
Cut marks on the bones of bears show that people in North-West Europe used bearskins to keep warm 300,000 years ago.
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Bahar Simsek: ‘Research does not need to be holistic’
How does audio-visual material shape the identity of people when those people do not own their own land and are being oppressed? Bahar Simsek delved into the effect of film on the Kurdish identity. She will obtain her PhD on 4 May.
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Why do we always have room for pudding?
In De Kookshow, Universiteit Van Nederland explores the scientific world behind food. Ever wondered which senses influence how tasty you find something? And why do you always have room for pudding after a meal? Leiden historian Kim Beerden is among the scholars providing answers.
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Debate: Human Rights and the World Cup Qatar
Debate
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Green Friday in de Hortus
Green Friday
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Nienke van der Marel on astrochemistry
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
- Unification of the Mediterranean World Research Seminars 2022-2023
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Lecture: International Cooperation Against All Odds: The Ultrasocial World
Lecture
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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The Assemblage of Social Death: Digital Vigilantism and Cancel Culture in China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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Binge- eating disorder in the Arabic world and the Netherlands
PhD defence
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Book presentation 'In This Fragile World', edited by Annachiara Raia
Lecture
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A World Ablaze: Making Sense of Wars Today
Lecture
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Optimal population turnover for cultural evolution depend on network size, density and learnability
Lecture
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Scholars and senators on the legitimacy of the Dutch Senate
The Leiden Research Profile Area Political Legitimacy organizes a public symposium on the 12th of May 2016 on the legitimacy and future of the Dutch Senate.
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Nadine Akkerman’s Spycraft reviewed in several publications
Nadine Akkerman's book Spycraft, which she co-wrote with historian of science Pete Langman, has garnered top publications, with reviews featured in The Telegraph, Literary Review, The Spectator, History Today, and the Times Literary Supplement.
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Night Spaces: Migration Culture and Integration in Europe (NITE) 3rd International Conference
Conference
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Connecting to the network of Digital Cultural Heritage (Linked Open Data)
Lunchbyte
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LU: Declutter, disconnect, dismantle! Reflections on degrowth and cultural politics
Lecture
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Het wonen (als bouwen) ontstond pas zeer laat in de menselijke geschiedenis
Lecture
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Book Launch: Cultural Confluence in Organizational change: a Portuguese venture in Angola
Lecture, Book Launch
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The Leiden 'Humanities in a Digital World' Symposium
Symposium
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The Arctic Crossroads: Climate, Culture & Diplomacy in the High North
Lecture
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Beyond the labels: how to contribute to an inclusive culture
Working effectively, Communication, Diversity
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Exploring Open-World Visual Understanding with Deep Learning
PhD defence
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Exploring Strange New Worlds with High-Dispersion Spectroscopy
PhD defence
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“De” outside the cleft: An evidential operator in the C domain
Lecture, CHiLL series
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The ambiguity of the post-verbal modal morpheme DE in Sichuanese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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I’m afraid it’s rather bad news | Debate in De Balie + livestream
Debate
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Evelien Campfens in the New York Times on looted art in museums
In an article by the New York Times, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens discusses the difficulties surrounding the ownership of looted art.
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Environmental Humanities LU: Species literacy and the cultural portrayal of animal biodiversity
Lecture
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology book launch
Online book launch
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Trading Responsibility: Navigating national burdens in a globalized world
PhD defence
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Film night: 'Une femme est une femme' (1961) with passion talk by Sylvie de Leeuwe
Lecture + film screening
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Doing Family before the State. Recognition of de facto families in Dutch migration law practice
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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EUniWell Open Lecture Series | Cultural Heritage, Well-being and the Future
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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Cultural continuities and discontinuities: the Neolithic ornament assemblages from Franchthi (Greece)
Lecture
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Annual Meeting LDE-CEL: Developing a Culture of Learning Analytics
Conference
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Minecraft in Morocco: virtual building blocks bring the past to life
Getting young people excited about history is quite possible without books. Researchers from Leiden travelled to Morocco to work with schoolchildren on reconstructing cultural heritage in the popular video game Minecraft. The result: one virtual 14th-century city gate – and 20 teens with a greater appreciation…
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Traitors, profiteers or collaborators: ‘The Jewish Council has long been judged too harshly’
For too long the Dutch collective memory has judged the Jewish Council too harshly. This perspective needs to be adjusted, Bart van der Boom argues in his new book ‘De politiek van het kleinste kwaad’ (lit. ‘The Politics of the Lesser Evil’).
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Huizinga Lecture 2022 by Gunay Uslu, State Secretary for Culture and Media
Alumni event, Lezing
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Decolonisation in art: 'That darkness says: up to here and no further'
It was not light, but its absence that caught Stephanie Noach's attention a few years ago. With her research on darkness in art, she aims to show how darkness can question and sometimes even undermine colonial imagery.
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Archaeology brings 3D scanning into the classroom
In the course 'From Ceramics to Plastics: The Mediterranean in 12 objects' students were taught to work with 3D scanning technologies. One of the underlying reasons to introduce students to this technology was to teach them to reproduce objects. ‘More and more archaeological information is stored in…
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European Day of Languages
Festival
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart
Lecture
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Humane Genetica, in het bijzonder translationele studies van neurodegeneratieve aandoeningen
Inaugural lecture
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Valedictory lecture prof.dr. J.J. van Hilten
Valedictory lecture
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Inaugural lecture prof.dr. I.B. van Vulpen
Inaugural lecture