412 search results for “children s literature” in the Staff website
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Playing cards? It’s a good way to learn about your own leadership skills
If we want to solve the complex issues now facing us as people and as an organisation, leadership is an absolute necessity: and then not only from supervisors and managers, but from everyone. You can use the set of cards and the animation developed specially for this purpose to gain insight into your…
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non-academic staff do an exchange: ‘We don’t know enough about each other’s worlds’
At a work meal HR Policy Adviser Petra Boerlage and Associate Professor Robert Stein got talking about the ‘worlds’ of academic and support staff: are they really that different, they wondered. And wouldn’t it be good if staff knew more about each other? The two put their money where their mouths are…
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PhD candidates: apply now for Una Europa's Heritage of Conflict Winter School
Research
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Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl on Palestine event: ‘Let’s have an academic debate with room for different perspectives’
There’s been a lot of commotion about the ‘Apartheid in Israel’ panel discussion being cancelled. The organisers, Students for Palestine, wanted to hold this at Leiden University’s Wijnhaven building in The Hague on 21 March. The Executive Board would only allow the event to go ahead if guarantees…
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Campus The Hague Director as of 1 April: ‘I like to be in the driver’s seat’
Kim Duistermaat will become the Campus The Hague Director on 1 April. In this new role, she will monitor Campus The Hague projects and drive them forward. ‘I think it will be great to contribute to the successful realisation of the concept of “one university in two cities”.’
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Executive Board President Annetje Ottow on fighting racism: ‘It’s the responsibility of all of us’
‘We may have taken steps together, but there is still much to do in the fight against racism and discrimination’, says Annetje Ottow, President of Leiden University’s Executive Board. ‘We have to be aware of this and continue to focus on this difficult, uncomfortable and often confronting topic.’
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A shared path to well-being: ‘Someone has to be the first to say: let’s do things differently’
How do we offer students a helping hand without losing sight of our own well-being? This was the question that study advisers, lecturers, deans and student support staff tried to answer at the Staff Symposium on Student Well-being.
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Moving forward together with the personnel monitor: 'Make sure it’s not just a one-off conversation’
If you want to stay fit, you have to go to the gym regularly, and – hopefully - cleaning our teeth is something we do at least twice a day. So, why shouldn’t we keep on working on a safe and healthy work climate, HR Director Esther van Opstal asks in a conversation on where things stand now with the…
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More than 100 objects described on Things That Talk: ‘It’s super cool to be a part of this’
On Things That Talk, a website founded and developed by Fresco Sam-Sin, students and researchers describe objects from today and from long ago. By now, more than a hundred objects have been covered. Willemijn Waal, Emma Verweij and Frank van den Boom contributed to the content.
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Why we are raising everyone’s awareness about cybersecurity: ‘Do things ever threaten to go horribly wrong here? Definitely.’
Throughout June the university is running a campaign to make staff aware of the importance of cybersecurity at work. And that is essential, say our privacy and security officers. Because the number of cyberattacks is increasing, hackers are getting smarter all the time and by far the majority of problems…
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Our Hirāk: The Tishreen Revolution
Lecture, LUCIS Meets
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Meeting about the alternative Humanities Campus: Faculty's wishes come first
What impact will the new workspace standards have? What will the adjustments cost? And can we use the former V&D building? Questions followed each other in quick succession during a meeting with staff of the Faculty of Humanities about the necessary adjustments to the Humanities Campus, now that the…
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Humanities Campus Think Tank: institute’s identity in the work environment is key
On Monday 14 March, the members of the Humanities Campus Think Tank came together for their first meeting in the restaurant of the Pieter de la Court building at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSW).
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International Women’s Day
Event
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Threat(s) to Democracy
Debate, Roundtable
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Andrew Gawthorpe on ABC Radio about ‘Orbánism’ and the American right
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas last week. University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains in an interview with ABC Radio what the embrace of 'Orbánism' means for the American right, and democracy more broadly.
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Global China’s Human Touch?
PhD defence
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JUL’s Karaoke Night
Activity
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China's Islam in Xinjiang
PhD defence
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LKV's Art Auction
Festival
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Plato's Myths: Tools for Thinking Conference
Conference
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Asia Academy #09: India's Democracy
Lecture
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Access to Justice in Today’s Libya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The future of Europe’s finances
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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It's not even a state: The story of Putin's obsession with Ukraine
Lecture
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Live Event: China’s Digital Future
Debate
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Asia Academy #06: Taiwan's Future
Lecture
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Let’s Connect webinar: Open communication
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Stop! Hey, what's that sound?
PhD defence
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Andrew Gawthorpe in The Guardian about the Republicans’ more radical agenda
University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe argues in The Guardian that the Republican's new agenda for a second Trump term is more radical than the first. He says that they seek to take control of federal agencies by replacing civil servants with ‘American First footsoldiers’.
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Turkey’s Centennial: Democracy, Diplomacy, Security
Lecture, Panel Discussion
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Let's Connect: webinar The Active Bystander
Communication, Personal development
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Today’s geopolitics: Managing the known unknowns?
Lecture, Seminar
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Asian(s) in the Netherlands
Panel conversation
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International Women's Day 2023 @ Wijnhaven
Conference
- New Year's reception Faculty of Humanities
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EU’s engagement in the Arctic
Lecture, Seminar
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Herstory and the female gaze: event on International Women's Day
Debate
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Perceptions of China’s Sexual Economy
Lecture, China Seminar
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Generating Freedom; Hegel's Conception of Political Order
PhD defence
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Conrad Gessner´s Fish Books (1556-1560)
PhD defence
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Data Management Plan course for PhD's
Didactics, Career development
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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Putin’s War on Ukraine: Implications and Consequences
Debate, Roundtable