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10 years of Humanities Lab celebrated in style at Capstone conference
Last week, Humanities Lab honours students presented their research through creative posters and pitches at the Capstone Conference in PLNT Leiden. It was a special edition, where alumni and teachers reminisced over the programme’s 10-year history.
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Ambassadors visit Leiden: ‘Knowledge knows no borders’
Over 30 ambassadors strengthened their ties with researchers and university leaders in a recent visit to Leiden University. Cross-border collaboration (both literal and figurative) was the theme of presentations and a tour of the Hortus botanicus.
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Spinoza Prize for Professor Bernet Elzinga
How can parents avoid passing on stress and mental health problems to their children? Professor of Stress-Related Psychopathology Bernet Elzinga develops simple interventions to help both parents and young people. For her research, she has been awarded the Spinoza Prize, the highest academic honour…
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‘Scandals mean society is actually doing well’
Whereas the Netherlands Court of Audit used to conduct an investigation once a year, the average civil service organisation now has a few per year to contend with. Is so much going wrong nowadays? Not at all, says Professor by Special Appointment Sjoerd Keulen. ‘It’s one of the methods that makes democracy…
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Academic freedom report
What does academic freedom mean? And how do we give shape to it in Leiden? The Academic Freedom Core Team considered these questions and presented its final report on 17 June.
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Three questions about the Ethics Committee
Whereas ethical research rules were previously mainly associated with the sciences, today they also play an increasingly important role in the Humanities. What are the consequences of this for researchers in the Humanities? And when do you need the Ethics Committee? We discussed this question with Dorota…
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Sigrid van Roode: ‘Zār jewellery reveals the world of unseen Egyptians’
Zār jewellery from Egypt can be found in many museums and private collections in the West, but for a long time very little was known about it, except that it was used in rituals to protect against spirit possession. PhD candidate Sigrid van Roode has explored its history and discovered that the jewellery…
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‘The complex puzzle of housing and urban development makes this work so fascinating’
Chris Suijker, since 1 July the new director of Real Estate, likes healthy and sustainable university buildings where you ‘get the feeling you’re right at the heart of society’. Her aim is to achieve the same effect with even more buildings.
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Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation'
Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.
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What rare plants and animals can you find on campus? Join in the BioBlitz
Do you also love a city where nature can bloom, crawl and flutter freely and exuberantly? And do you fancy a challenge out in the fresh air? If so, grab your mobile and take part in the BioBlitz 'Higher Education is Flourishing' from 22 May.
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‘Put payment transations for private clients under one new state-owned bank’
From receiving our salary to doing our shopping: we are completely dependent on commercial banks for all our payment transactions. But what happens if they collapse? In his inaugural lecture, Professor Bart Joosen calls for a rigorous change: ‘Put payment transactions for private clients under one…
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Rosalien van der Poel: 'I’m always busy’
Rosalien van der Poel has worked in every nook and cranny of the University over the past 30 years. Now, as institute manager, she is the lynchpin of the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), the only institute in the Netherlands where artists can obtain a PhD from a university. 'This is where…
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Ethics committee for partnerships launched
The ‘Committee for Assessing Ethical Aspects of Partnerships’ is being launched this month. This committee, created by Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl and consisting of former and present Leiden University researchers, has been tasked with assessing Leiden University’s institutional ties with organisations…
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Open Science Coffee: a hands-on introduction to preregistration
Lecture
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Modernity and the Darkness at the Heart of the Enlightenment: Racism
Lecture
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars
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Purple Friday (POPcorner FSW)
Study support
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Teachers' introduction to: (digital) Examination
Course
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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What is a ‘dialect’? What is ‘dialectology’?
Workshop Series
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Open Science Coffee: ChatGPT in science: academic (dis)honesty or better science?
Lecture
- Leiden Marathon on May 13 and 14
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Open Science Coffee: Non-replication pathways
Lecture
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Cleveringa Meeting Leiden 2022
Alumni event, Debat
- Healthy University Week: Spring into action!
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Academia in Motion Festival
Festival
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Leiden Research Support Conference
Conference
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Imagining the Unimaginable: Finding the Islamic in Muslim Futures
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Qualitative Empirical Research Methods in Law / Introductory Course PhD-candidates
Research
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Entrepreneurship as a career prospect for postdocs
Career development
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Johan Van Manen’s Tibetan and Himalayan Collection: The Challenges of Multi-media Research
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Leadership with impact
Leadership
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Roundtable: 2024 Elections Pakistan, Indonesia and India
Roundtable | SSEALS
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Qualitative interviewing
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?
The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary nature of the minor is proving beneficiary for students and lecturers alike. We sit in during a class.
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Researchers from Leiden visit Indonesia on knowledge mission
A delegation from Leiden University recently embarked on a knowledge mission to various NGOs, universities and government organisations in Indonesia. New partnerships were formed and important knowledge exchanged, and researchers from Leiden gave guest lectures.
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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PhD Library Skill Session of 2021-2022
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Traces of Indonesia in Leiden
City walk
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Country Meeting Nigeria: Elections panel discussion
Debate
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Lecture by Maxim Osipov: 'What Makes a Good Story Good? Reflections from behind the Writing Desk'
Lecture, Livestream
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Roundtable: International Relations and the Idea of Merit
Conference, Roundtable
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Introduction meeting for new teachers
Course, Introduction
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Introduction meeting for new lecturers
Introductory meeting
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Culture-Language Maintenance in a City of Many Tongues
Conference, Leiden2022
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Tensors Workshop
Workshop Series
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Historic Literary Guided Tour - Literary Leiden
Stadswandeling