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Jasper's Day
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives an insight into his life.
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Alexander van Oudenhoven: 'Governance of Sustainability is something I would have wanted to study myself'
Alexander van Oudenhoven is the brand-new education director of the master's in Governance of Sustainability. The study has already entered its fourth year and Van Oudenhoven is very enthused. What makes this a special programme and what are his plans?
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Maritime historians and vocational college students together create historical database
What do you do when you’re suddenly given access to a whole lot of data but don’t know how to organise and analyse it? Maritime historians in the Faculty of Humanities joined forces with vocational college (MBO) students to build a database. ‘We’re so compatible with each other.’
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‘Media appearances are less scary than you might think’: Researchers share their top tips
As a researcher, it can be fun and useful to talk to the media about your work. But on what terms should you agree to do an interview or appear on a talk show? And how do you tell an engaging story? The Media Guide for Researchers is here to help. Three colleagues share their top tips.
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The coding sociologist John Boy developed Textnets: software to make large amounts of text visually comprehensible
Software development is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a sociologist. Three years ago, John Boy began developing his software package Textnets. Because of Corona, he was less able to concentrate on writing scientific research and also setting up the online courses…
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'Here I can grow in both science and art'
A passion for video games, visuals and science: it almost seems impossible to bring all of this together. Yet, scientific animator Vera Williams found that dream combination at NeCEN's microscopy lab. 'An image or animation can help clarify the content of complex research.'
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The wisdom of the Nahua
Indigenous philosophies have been ignored for too long. This prompted Osiris González Romero to study the wisdom of the Nahua in Mexico. Their philosophy has an important message for the consumption society: see the earth and nature as living beings and not just as resources. PhD defence 22 June.
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Column Faculty Board
At the beginning of this academic year, we informed you about the financial developments we are facing in our faculty. We explained that our faculty’s budget for 2024 shows a deficit and that we also expect a negative financial picture for the subsequent years, if policies remain unchanged. We therefore…
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Dual PhD Centre
December marks the 15th anniversary of the Dual PhD Centre (DPC). Director Johannes Tromp and associate professor Mark Dechesne look back and ahead. Dechesne: ‘The DPC forms a 'community of knowledge' in which science and society are connected.’
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Fifteen lecturers gain Senior Teaching Qualification
Fifteen passionate lecturers earned their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on Monday 22 January. Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl congratulated them in the Academy Building. Four of these lecturers talk about what motivated them to take the SKO and how it has benefitted them.
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Graduation MIRD Class of 2021
On Friday 9 July 2021 the graduation of the two-year Advanced MSc International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) programme took place in the Academy Building in Leiden. The ceremony was opened by Professor Madeleine Hosli.
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Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group is here to give marginalised groups on campus a voice
The Faculty of Humanities is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive community for both students and staff. With the establishment of the Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group, the faculty is a welcome step closer to creating a workplace where everyone feels at home and represented. We spoke…
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A new administrative culture starts with us
A new administrative culture. Renewed vigour. More transparency. Will it become reality with the new government? And how do you go about achieving it? By all of us striving to change together: not just politicians, but also stakeholders, civil servants, media, and civilians. That was the conclusion…
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Exploration alternatives Humanities Campus using Duplo
In the week of 15 November, the Academic Directors and two members of the Faculty Council also participated in a so-called Duplo session, after the Faculty Board did so, led by Elisa Meijer, advisor housing of the Humanities Campus project. During the session, alternatives for the Humanities Campus…
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Donation of personal archive and collection of Leiden Sinologist Robert van Gulik
The family of the famous diplomat, sinologist and writer Robert van Gulik has donated his personal archive and part of his collection to Leiden University Libraries (UBL). The collection and archive provide insight into the life and work of Robert van Gulik, who became known to the general public for…
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New publication affirms academic legacy of Hanna Stöger
In summer 2018 classical archaeologist Hanna Stöger passed away. At that moment she was in the midst of several cutting-edge research projects on the use of space in the Roman city of Ostia. To make sure that her groundbreaking work would not go unpublished, long-time colleagues Hans Kamermans and Bouke…
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana
From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana at the Rapenburg in Leiden, kept in the Leiden University Library, Rotterdam researcher Erik-Jan Bos discovered a hitherto unknown…
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Online access to medieval manuscripts improved
Do you frequently search the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) for western medieval manuscripts? Then you must have noticed important changes lately. Some 1800 summary catalogue records in Dutch were replaced by more elaborate descriptions in English. Furthermore, the catalogue interface…
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Farewell to Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa: Tireless advocate for D&I
Aya Ezawa bade farewell as Diversity Officer of Leiden University at a celebration in the Academy Building on 11 June. Since her appointment in 2019, she has been a tireless advocate for culture change and a champion for diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities for all.
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From droplets in the freezer to the inception of a potent new antibiotic
What started as an idea during a social gathering led to an unexpected breakthrough in research on resistant bacteria. Biologists and chemists from Leiden developed a new substance that proves to be effective against bacteria resistant to antibiotics. They published their discovery in Nature Chemist…
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Public leadership in a wider perspective: ‘Leadership is for everyone’
The field of leadership suffers from ‘adjectivism’, says Professor Ben Kuipers. He immediately caveats this by saying that he too is going furnish the word leadership with an adjective: ‘Public’. But the goal here is to view leadership in a different light in his new role as Professor of Public Lead…
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Collaboration across borders: virtual learning between Leiden University College and Myanmar
Jyothi Thrivikraman set up a Virtual International Collaboration project with a university in Myanmar.
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What drives Harm Derks? The new Head Institute Office on beauty, integrity and quality
Harm Derks started as Head of the Institute Office on 21 May. After a lengthy test drive in the world of classic cars, he is once again in his element back in the academic world. ‘I really want to get to know people, and also for colleagues to get to know me.’
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A peek inside art objects: new algorithm makes CT scan more accessible
An X-ray scanner, some small metal balls, and a newly developed algorithm. That is all you need to make a 3D model that enables you to look inside art objects without dismantling them. Thanks to the research of Francien Bossema (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer…
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Academia in Motion: a culture-change revolution kicks off at FSW
Recognition and rewards. Open science. These topics are increasingly in the spotlight: globally, nationally and within our university. Who is working on these themes within the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSW)? Which steps are we already taking and what should we do next? These questions…
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Alumnus Dave Wesselink: lawyer and professional bobsledder
Leiden Law School alumnus Dave Wesselink began his career as a lawyer in 2022. He’s also a professional bobsledder. ‘When you’re tearing round a bend at 130km/hour, you need to be able to stay calm and focused on what you’re doing.’
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Stiffness and viscosity of cells differ in cancer and other diseases
During illness, the stiffness or viscosity of cells can change. Tom Evers demonstrated this by measuring such properties of human immune cells for the first time. ‘The stiffness of certain cells could be a way to make a diagnosis,’ Evers said. He defended his thesis on March 26th.
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Globalizing the Northern Muslim World: the Mongol Exchange and the Horde
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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On the Backlash: The Weimar Republic and the Contemporary World, UCDxLeiden
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Book Launch - The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
Lecture
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How do international boycotts work for justice? Understanding the ethics and efficacy of the BDS movement
Panel discussion
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The 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Working together to fulfil the promise of peace
Conference
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Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the "Ethnic Revolution" in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946
Lecture, Book Launch
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Training Active Bystander for FGGA staff
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Podcasts in Education
Lunchbyte
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Active Teaching in an ALC
Late Lunchbyte
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Dialogue and Student Wellbeing
Lunchbyte
- International Conference Police Stops across Europe
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Gender and Agency in Careers: The Work-lIfe Experiences of Women Employed by Japanese and South Korean Firms
PhD defence
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Between Diversity and Decolonisation: Museums as Media, and the Representation of Ainu in Museums in Japan
Lecture
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Social and Economic Human Rights, The United Nations and the Intimacies of International Law: A History
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Modernity and the Darkness at the Heart of the Enlightenment: Racism
Lecture
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Lecture by Prof. Taylor: Dementia at the Ragged Edges of Family and the State
Lecture
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Quantum information theory - When quantum mechanics and the mathematics of information meet
Inaugural lecture
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Panel and Q&A: The United States and the War in Gaza
Debate
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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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Daniel Pauly: The Human Appropriation of the Earth and the Oceans
Lecture
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Herstory and the female gaze: event on International Women's Day
Debate
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CSPPR Lecture: Representation and the Trade Roots of the Gender Pay Gap
Lecture
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Water’s Way: Female Agency and the Artful Legacy of Chinese Imperial Women
Lecture, IIAS/Rijksmuseum Annual Lecture