354 search results for “groot als” in the Staff website
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‘If we want to be really inclusive, we need to step outside our comfort zone’
The experiential expertise of people with a disability needs to be integrated in diversity & inclusion policy. This message was the common thread at the annual Diversity & Inclusion symposium. Students and staff members engaged in conversation about how the university can become more accessible.
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Flash interview with alumna and European Commission lawyer Helena Loutas-Paraskeva
Following our Leiden Brussels Alumni Event, I (external officer M. Blaauw, ed.) met our very own Leiden Law alumna Helena-Loutas Paraskeva. An Australian who works for the European Commission. Interesting, how did she get this job, what does she do and how did her Master in Leiden affect or influence…
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Age checks need to respect children's rights
A variety of age checks are required, both in order to protect children and to ensure that they can participate online, a new study funded by the European Commission finds. The article on the study, co-authored by Simone van der Hof, Professor of Law and Digital Technologies at eLaw, was published in…
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Motion of stars near Milky Way's central black hole is only predictable for few hundred years
The orbits of 27 stars orbiting closely around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way are very chaotic. As a result, researchers cannot predict with confidence where they will be in about 462 years. ‘That is astonishingly short,’ says astronomer Simon Portegies Zwart who collaborated on the r…
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Do we have a standard model of cosmology?
Lecture, Oort lecture
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Greedy Supermassive Black Holes
Lecture, Oort lecture
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The Classical Zaydi Imamate (1200-1600) and its Legacy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Regulating Relations: Controlling Sex and Marriage in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
PhD defence
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Hephthalites, Romans, and Arabs: the Grand Strategy of the Sasanian Empire
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Gaza, Palestine, Israel – the collective failure: how did we get here and what next?
Lecture
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Tap Dance beginners
Arts and leisure
- Histories Connected
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Taiwanese Literature in Dutch: the Voice of the Translators
Lecture
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Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry based Metabolomics Approaches for Volume-restricted Applications
PhD defence
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On the Benefits and Boundaries of Trust and Trustworthiness
PhD defence
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The Palestine Exception
VVI Research Meetings 2024-2025
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Nasser Road, Political Posters in Uganda
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Statistical Learning and Prediction
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Global China in Urban Europe: Understanding the Role of Chinese Actors, Media, Cultures and Capital in European Urban Development
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Le meilleur métier
PhD defence
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Compressed Σ-Protocol Theory
PhD defence
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Digital Thesauri as Semantic Treasure Troves
PhD defence
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Methoden van contractsuitleg
PhD defence
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Understanding uncertainty
PhD defence
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The hunt for frozen organic molecules in space
PhD defence
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Workshop: Other Forms of Understanding Language / Andere vormen van taalbegrip / Otras formas de entender el lenguaje
Course, Workshop
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Knowledge Café LHSC - In Conversation with the Neighborhood #HoeDan?
Knowledge Café
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Demystifying Alexandria: Insights from Alexandria about 21st century Orientalism and (post-)Colonialism
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Marcel SchaafScience
m.j.m.schaaf@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274975
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FGGA in 2022: This was the year for our Faculty
We started this year as we ended it in 2021: in a lockdown. But the world continues to open up. We are occasionally allowed to go into the office and students are able to return to Campus. Continue reading to find out what the rest of the year has been like.
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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list
While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers live in trenches, and NATO sends tanks to the Donbas front to force a breakthrough. Has war changed dramatically in recent decades as a result…
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Leiden Law Cast #6: Geerten Boogard on (local)elections & political upheaval
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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Why you (won’t) vote – A reading list
In November, the Dutch will elect a new parliament. Not all eligible citizens will go out and vote, however. How can this be explained, and how big of a problem is it? International research into voter turnout can shed new light on this issue – and offer possible solutions.
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Inflation - a reading list
In 2022, every euro in the Netherlands lost about 10% of its value, price increases comparable to the stagflation period of the 1970s. In the same year, the value of the Argentine peso halved, while prices in China only rose by 2%. How well do we understand the economic mechanisms behind inflation?…
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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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Belonging first: in conversation about an accessible university
D&I Event
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Jews at Home. From Creation to Corona
Conference, First Annual Symposium of the Leiden Jewish Studies Association
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Panel discussion Bias in AI, algorithms, and the tech sector - Young Alumni Network
Alumni event
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Políticas de retorno diaspórico desde Latinoamérica a Galicia (España): la eterna contradicción entre la sangre y la lengua
Lecture
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Testing and assessment (UTQ module)
Didactics
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The discursive reproduction of hate speech and its unregulated end: lessons from cognitive pragmatics and argumentation theory
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Meijerssymposium 2024
Conference
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Testing linguistic theories with deep learning: a case study on meaning predictability
Lecture
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Keynote Lecture: Zaydis, Salafis and Houthis and Their Engagement with the Islamic Tradition in Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Experience and Voice: Library of Colombian Women Writers - Symposium & Workshop
Symposium & Workshop
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Testing and Assessment (UTQ module)
Didactics
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Faculty of Archaeology launches dinosaur-focused research
Many an archaeologist, at some point in their career, is asked what type of dinosaur they discovered. Instead of once again patiently explaining that we do not do dinosaurs, the Faculty Board has now decided to listen to society’s call. ‘It is clear that the general public feels that dinosaurs are relevant…
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Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language
In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. Auden. A poetry translation contest added lustre to the occasion. There were no fewer than three winners.
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PhD Candidates: Get more success with less stress
Personal development, Working effectively
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Japan and the Netherlands in a Global Context: Transnational Intellectual Currents of the 19th Century
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture