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Climate-proof Mediterranean garden in the Hortus opened by André Kuipers
On 22 May, astronaut André Kuipers opened the new Mediterranean garden in the Hortus. With this water-efficient garden, the Hortus aims to offer inspiration for future- and climate-proof garden planting. Prefect Paul Keßler and scientific director of the Leiden Observatory Ignas Snellen also signed…
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Music to our ears: How playing an instrument affects the adolescent brain
What impact does growing up in a musical environment or during the COVID-19 pandemic have on the brain development of teenagers? This was the focus of psychologist Lina van Drunen’s PhD research, which studied hundreds of twins. Her findings reveal that practising music slows brain development, presenting…
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Research Opportunities for Masters Students
Costanza Franceschini discusses the Sea-ing Africa project, offering unique anthropological research opportunities in Ghana and Morocco for Masters students.
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‘Moon landers’ measure greenhouse gases in unique agricultural living lab
A huge shiny aluminium object stands in the middle of the Polderlab in Oud Ade. Are the researchers trying to make contact with extraterrestrial life? Certainly not; they are using the ’Moon landers’ to measure whether innovative forms of agriculture reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Fleur van Duin works…
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Launch of Marco Bronckers’ Liber Amicorum
On 2 June 2023, the Liber Amicorum – 'The EU and the WTO: Ever the Twain Shall Meet' – in honour of Marco Bronckers will be officially launched at Leiden Law School. To mark this special occasion, an interactive discussion on 'Five future challenges facing the EU and the WTO in the next 50 years' will…
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Real-life data ask for strong algorithms: Mitra Baratchi designs them
How do we deal with large sources of greenhouse gases? Do schools provide a socially-inclusive environment for all children? And how can we protect Earth’s nature? These questions have two things in common: they are complex global challenges, and data can help answer them. Mitra Baratchi is computer…
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Frederic Lens: building bridges in biodiversity research
Four green research institutes in Leiden are joining forces to integrate evolution and biodiversity research, at local and at the national level. Pivot in this collaboration is Frederic Lens.
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Fourteen hundred international students explore Leiden during OWL
With its FestivOWL theme, Orientation Week Leiden (OWL) promises to be one big festival for new international students in Leiden.
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Satellites reveal: these ecosystems are the most vulnerable to drought
More severe droughts that will also last longer: this will primarily be a problem for irrigated croplands, as discovered by environmental scientist Qi Chen. Mixed forests with a variety of plant species will be the least vulnerable. Chen compared the effects of drought on different ecosystems across…
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Opening facultair jaar FdR
Opening facultair jaar FDR
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Opening of the Herta Mohr Building: brand new and also recycled location for Humanities
Light, open and green: a description that fits the new, renovated location of the Faculty of Humanities. The official opening of the Herta Mohr Building took place on 8 October, and it has many remarkable features: for example, recycled ‘mushroom columns’, a pedestrian bridge to the University Library…
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Car sharing and second-hand phones not as green as they seem, research shows
Not all sustainable business models have the impact they claim, Leiden researcher Levon Amatuni revealed. Car sharing and phone reuse, for example, have a smaller positive effect than previously thought. Amatuni advises people to ‘pay attention to actual changes in their consumption behaviour rather…
- PCNI Research Seminars 2021-2022
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Tidal Behaviour
Lecture
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Transformative Transdisciplinarity. Aligning Science and Society Through Community-Based Research?
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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When images are not worth a thousand words: from cinematic multimodality to enhanced subtitling
Lecture
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Border externalization and the benefits for peripheral countries
Van Vollenhoven Lecture 2023
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Double Lecture on Ecocritical Perspectives in Japanese Art
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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PhD Library Skill Session of 2021-2022
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Panel discussion: Silencing Palestine
Panelbijeenkomst
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UMW Research Seminar
Lecture, UMW Research Seminar
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Innovating for change
Community event | workshops
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Learning by doing – a practical approach to integrate ethical and societal tools in quantum-innovation
Lecture
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Writing your Datamanagement Plan
Tutorial
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Roundtable on Climate Change and Land Rights: IOM’s e-course module on HLP, Protection and Climate Change
Lecture, Roundtable discussion
- Lecturer events
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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Meet your Graduate School - Start Your PhD event
Start-your-PhD event
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OSCoffee: Doing Open Science in the Humanities: From Public Discourse to Qualitative Data
Lecture
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OSCL meets YAL: The challenges of working with an open science mindset in a business driven environment
Lecture
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Peer-review procedures as practice, decision, and governance—the road to theories of peer review
CWTS Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: The State in Relief: civil servants navigating duties, dependencies and disasters in Malawi
Lecture
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Knowledge on/in African societies: re-opening the paths
Lecture, Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
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Inclusivity with Law: What does it mean to look at diversity and inclusion from a legal perspective?
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Ukraine and the Failure of Global Security
Lecture
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LUGO Sustainability Day
Conference, Symposium
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Land for Food: Property contests in capitalist heartlands
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Land for Food: Property contests in capitalist heartlands
VVI Research Meetings 2024-2025
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2021: This was the year of our faculty
2021 was an eventful year once again for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). Hybrid, working from home, online education, on-campus education, face masks, self-tests, keeping distance, quarantine and the coronavirus. Words that have now become a standard part of our vocabulary when…
- Global Questions Seminar
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Daniel Pauly: The Human Appropriation of the Earth and the Oceans
Lecture
- Futures from the frontiers of climate science
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Migration in a Changing World
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Toxicity, bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of engineered nanoparticles in the aquatic environment
PhD defence
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Lunchbyte Education on the Map
Lunchbyte
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Why is Civilization Unsustainable?
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Meet the Societal Advisory Board
The Faculty of Humanities wants to take a stand in the middle of society with its research and education. That’s why last year, in the middle of a pandemic, the Societal Advisory Board was founded. What are the members’ plans?
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‘The Netherlands should also consider the possibility of direct confrontation with Russia’
There is a real chance of war closer to home, political and military leaders in Europe have warned. What does Frans Osinga, Professor of War Studies, think about the threat and what we should do?
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Reading list - our favourite books this summer
Did you also read a lot this summer? We made some real headway on our bookshelves. After all, nothing beats reading a beautiful or thrilling book outside. In this reading list, you'll find our favourite books for the summer of 2022. If you have any suggestions, let us know via Twitter, Facebook or I…