665 search results for “colonial encounters” in the Staff website
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From working from home to hybrid working: slowly towards the new normal
Overnight, working from home became the ‘new normal’ for most Leiden University’s employees. And now, just as abruptly, we are heading back to the office. ‘But it will be different than before, we expect that most of the employees will continue to work from home for one or more days a week.’ Niels Laurens,…
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Recap of the 2021 Anthrooplogy PhD Conference
After a long period of isolation under pandemic, the PhD candidates of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology seized the opportunity to organize an in-person, on-site event: the CADS PhD Conference for 2021. With the theme "Young Scholars at the Intersection of Uncertainty,…
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Back at the office? ‘Don’t expect to be productive right away’
For some it will sound like music to their ears, but for others is may sound less appealing: now the advice on working from home has changed, we can once again go to the office. After a period of working from home, which for some lasted almost two years (with maybe a short break), it can be a big transition.…
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Flash interview with alumna Liz Kool about her choice for a career with social impact
Kool made a conscious choice to work for a non profit organisation. Recently, inspired by the pandemic, she also made a career switch.
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PhD candidates deserve special attention: their new confidential counsellor Annemarie Meijer explains why
She studied biology in Leiden and never left. Now, as Professor of Immunobiology, Annemarie Meijer has taken on the role of the new confidential counsell for for PhD candidates. It's a role that suits her perfectly: she has extensive experience in the research world and has guided dozens of PhD candidates.…
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Feeling overwhelmed by your PhD? This new infographic offers guidance
Providing and receiving feedback, meeting deadlines, and simultaneously considering your future: how to juggle all these tasks during a PhD project? The new 'PhD Golden Rules' offer advice on how PhD candidates and their supervisors can collaborate productively
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Peter van Bodegom on sustainable horticulture
Dutch greenhouse horticulture is a world leader when it comes to innovative capacity and sustainability, but ‘the challenges are great in terms of energy, water, environment and biodiversity,’ says Peter van Bodegom, coordinator of AgriFood at the Centre for Sustainability of the Leiden, Delft, Erasmus…
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The quest for the magic angle
Stack two layers of graphene, twisted at slightly different angles to each other, and the material spontaneously becomes a superconductor. Science still can't explain how something so magical can happen, but physicists use special equipment to reveal what is taking place under the surface.
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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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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge
Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent symposium, 28 groups of four to five students unveiled their solutions. The commisioners expressed great enthusiasm.
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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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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers
Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project within their own teaching. They have been awarded three grants of 100,000 euros within the Senior Fellows programme and four grants of 50,000 euros within…
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Neem niet gelijk alles aan wat er in een wetenschappelijk tijdschrift staat, leren studenten in deze nieuwe lesmodule
In de rubriek ‘Onderwijsheden’ delen Psychologiedocenten hun belangrijkste inzichten over college geven. Deze maand: Anouk van der Weiden ontwikkelde met een team collega’s en studenten een lespakket kritisch lezen, toepassen en schrijven. ‘Studenten denken: wie ben ík om kritiek te geven op een gepubliceerd…
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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The Concept of Living Customary Law Revisited
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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"I Now Declare You…”: Marital Status as Legal Technology in South Africa, Past and Present
Commission on Legal Pluralism - Keynote Lecture
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The BuddhistRoad Project: Research Agenda and Recent Results
Lecture
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Before Temples
PhD defence
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Official opening of Leiden European City of Science 2022
Festival
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Managing group work
Didactics
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"Hello World!" #4 - Lecture by Zane Kripe
Lecture
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Leiden Translation Talk 9 May: Human-technology relations and the permeating presence of machine translation tools
Lecture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Dialogue session faculty office: Safe research and academic freedom within Humanities
Debate
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Administrative burden in universities: Key dimensions, potential drivers, and implications for university-based research
CWTS Seminar
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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Inclusive Education: Facilitating Challenging Classroom Conversations
Lunchbyte XL
- Global Questions Seminar
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Panel discussion: Silencing Palestine
Panelbijeenkomst
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EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa): One database to rule them all?
Lecture
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Descolonizando Tiempo, Espacio y Conocimiento
PhD defence
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Facilitating Challenging Classroom Conversations
Course, Lunchbyte
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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VVIK Lecture: Court politics in the Vijayanagara successor states
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Fragmented Marginalities: Dispossessed Peasantry and Migrant Labour Communities in Urban North India
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Zionism: An Emotional State
Lecture, Public Lecture
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Migration in a Changing World
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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The Revival of World War II in China: Multiple Histories, Malleable Memories
Lecture
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Geographies of Repression and Resistance
Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel
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Birds of God - The journey of the birds of paradise
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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Seminar and book discussion Frank Gerits
Lecture, Seminar / book discussion
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Descolonizando Tiempo, Espacio y Conocimiento
PhD defence
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Research-Concert: Songs and Languages across hemispheres
Music concert
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LUCAS Conference Narratives 2024
Conference
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Why is Civilization Unsustainable?
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Book presentation Victor A. van Bijlert: Nyāya Sūtra: On Philosophical Method: Sanskrit Text, Translation, and Commentary
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Knowledge on/in African societies: re-opening the paths
Lecture, Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture