Symposium

You are invited to join the presentation of not one, but two books by ACPA alumnus Budhaditya Chattopadhyay: The Auditory Setting and Between the Headphones on 11 January at 19.30 CET via livestream. The Auditory Setting (2021) investigates how narrative and a sense of place are constructed in film…

Arts and culture

Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher at eLaw- Center for Law and Digital Technologies, just published a book on Robots, Healthcare, and the Law. Regulating Automation in Personal Care.

This presentation discusses findings from my current research on German and Greek data from Reddit, a social media platform organized into discussion boards. Reddit participants across languages draw on a number of graphic devices to accomplish contextualization work (Gumperz 1982), i.e. index a contextual…

Lecture, China Seminar

eLaw in collaboration with the TU Delft Design for Values Institute finalized the research on “Artificial Intelligence and Ethics at the Dutch Police” by providing the whitepaper highlighting requirements for the responsible use of AI at the Police and the long-term research strategy.

Prof. M. Maeckelbergh Summary: This thesis addresses how journalists’ everyday practices are transformed by the introduction of new digital technologies in the newsroom. Journalism, both as a profession and as a practice, is changing rapidly. Digital journalism, which was heavily opposed…

Leading scientists in the field of the ethics and philosophy of technology are currently revising time-honoured key philosophical concepts such as autonomy, justice and responsibility, as these concepts are being challenged as a result of new technological developments. They receive 17.9 million euros…

Future technologies will drastically influence our daily lives. To what extent will that benefit us? The Brave New World future congress on 2 and 3 November in Leiden will reveal a range of different scenarios, some optimistic and some worrying.

PhD defence

The LUCDH foster the development of new digital research by awarding a number of Small Grants each year. As in previous years the LUCDH received a large number of excellent grant applications for Research and Personal Development funds. Congratulations to the recipients of this year's research award…

How can you appeal to students from different programs and with different skills and interests in one course? With his Comenius Senior Fellow grant, Hossam Ahmed aims to put 'individualized learning' or 'student-centred learning' into practice. Hossam Ahmed's lecture explores how we can approach…

Prof. C.W.J. Beenakker

PhD defence

PhD defence

PhD defence

Prof.dr.ir. B.P.F. Lelieveldt Prof.dr.ir. F.J. Verbeek Summary: Een dieper inzicht in de pathologie van een organisme is belangrijk voor de ontwikkeling van behandelingen. In de loop van eeuwen van systematisch onderzoek hebben klinische onderzoekers aangetoond dat hoe meer informatie zij verwerven…

Lecture, VVIK Lecture

The AI research in the area of peace, justice and security at each of the three universities in Zuid-Holland complements the AI research being performed by the other two. Three researchers explain. Part one in a series of five about themes that the three universities’ AI research covers.

In our digital society, the internet seems to offer endless possibilities for expressing yourself, gathering information, and making contact with others. The anonymity of the internet seems to give us the freedom to come and go as we please. But what about our online privacy? Should it be dealt with…

The Faculty of Archaeology experiments with innovating their teaching methods, using 3D scans and visualisation technology to enable active learning. 'It makes archaeological material more accessible. Especially when it comes to fragile materials, it allows nearly anybody to analyse them.'

Conference, Workshop

PhD defence

This autumn Leiden University is launching eight new MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) that are available free to the general public. You can follow courses on the theory of evolution, mindfulness, political economy, international law, music, cultural heritage or archaeology.

We would all like to live in a world in which individuals feel safe, conflicts are resolved peacefully and the interests of future generations are taken into consideration. At Leiden University legal scholars investigate to what extent public international law meets the needs of a globalised society.…

Leiden Law Academy (LLA) organises professional conferences for Leiden Law School. These vary from one day to multiple days.

Science, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Department of Environmental Biology

Two books that recently appeared in the Debates on Islam and Society series at Leiden University Press are now available in Open Access through the Knowledge Unlatched initiative.

Four thousand visitors immersed themselves in art and science during Leiden's Night of Art and Science on 17 September. They could choose from dozens of lectures, experiments, interactive events and a lot of art.

When the government introduced its corona measures, the future of EL CID suddenly looked uncertain. But this annual introduction week will start on 5 August after all. How did the EL CID board pull this off? A glimpse behind the scenes through the eyes of chair Mirte Haanappel.

Despite being the object of intense study, embryonic development has been difficult to model due to a number of reasons. First, complex tissues can be comprised of many cell types, of which we probably only know a subset. Therefore, we first focused on the discovery of cell types by single-cell RNA-sequencing…

Conference

More about the programme, the speaker and how to register: › ReCNTR.nl

Lecture

The financial sector, supply chains and ecology. Not necessarily topics you might associate with physics, yet it’s exactly what new professor Diego Garlaschelli is dealing with. The common thread? Complex networks.

How does online learning strengthen the quality of higher education and what are the barriers to implementing this more broadly? Minister of Education Ingrid van Engelshoven talked about this issue with pioneering lecturers and students from Leiden University, Erasmus University and Delft University…

Lecture

Lecture, Seminar

Lecture

The LIACS Media Lab has received a research grant from the worldwide leading graphics hardware company NVIDIA. The grant exists of newly developed hardware utilizing thousands of processors. LIACS researchers will use it to investigate deep learning in understanding imagery from sources such as MRI…