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Bram de Heide
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
b.w.f.de.heide@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3512
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Jorn de Jong
Science
j.de.jong@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4241
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The Classical Zaydi Imamate (1200-1600) and its Legacy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Environmental Colonialism in Palestine
Panel
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Andrés Martín García de la Cruz
Faculty of Humanities
a.martin.garcia.de.la.cruz@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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A circular economy is about much more than just recycling
It’s Circular Economy Week, from 1 to 6 February. But what is it that makes an economy circular? And just how circular is our university? René Kleijn, lecturer on the honours class Circular Economy: from challenge to opportunity, explains.
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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past'
Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with, among others, Leiden researchers Anne-Marieke van der Wal-Rémy and Alicia Schrikker, therefore created a 'canon of the Dutch underexposed past', which…
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Join a study association: ‘It expands your worldview’
A discount on textbooks is always welcome. But for these students joining a study association has meant much more than that alone.
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Bruno Verbeek: 'If your teaching is going well, you have to innovate'
Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Qualification in Education (SKO) this year. University lecturer Bruno Verbeek is one of them. What does he think makes for good education?
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The spirit of Leiden in Brussels: successful fourth alumni event
Another successful edition (the fourth!) of the Leiden Alumni in Brussels event took place on 23 February. With a fully booked registration list, it already promised to be a great success in advance. The event took place at the Baker McKenzie location right in the centre of Brussels. As the area was…
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Vidi grants for 12 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 12 researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an 800,000-euro grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will enable them to develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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GTGC conference on the pressing social issues of our time
Major developments worldwide are creating new challenges for society. The pandemic has hit us hard, for example, and we are already feeling the effects of global warming. How can society and politics deal with the urgent problems of our time? That is the theme of the Global Transformations and Governance…
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The lifecycle of a cigarette filter
The university is launching a campaign to focus extra attention on our smoke-free university locations. The University is using aptly named cigarette barrels to try to show clearly just how many cigarette filters are being saved from the environment. How harmful are these cigarette filters to the e…
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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EU TalentOn: challenging young, academic talent to shape the future!
Research
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Getting people on board with the energy transition: ‘Times of crisis can help’
The gas prices now exceed 300 euros per megawatt hour – a record. The transition from fossil (natural gas, coal, oil) to renewable energy is needed and soon. But how do you get a society (and its citizens) to switch to sustainable energy?
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Vidi grants for eight researchers from Leiden University
Eight scientists from Leiden University have been awarded a grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). With this Vidi funding, the researchers can set up an innovative line of research and further expand their own research group over the next five years.
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands
The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…
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Scientific breakthrough: evidence that Neanderthals hunted giant elephants
Neanderthals were able to outwit straight-tusked elephants, the largest land mammals of the past few million years. Leiden professor Wil Roebroeks has published an article about this together with his German colleague Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser in the Science Advances journal.
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‘Every year new highs for PRINS consultancy programme'
The World Food Programme, Philips, the European Space Agency. An overwhelming list of organisations that Sarita Koendjbiharie, as founder of the PRINS consultancy programme of International Studies, has managed to recruit. ‘We keep reaching new highs and insights together with our students and organ…
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One history, different memories. Does this always lead to conflict?
Different groups can have different memories of the same historical event. This can lead to conflict but does not have to. How is this, and how can countries and people reconcile with the past?
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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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Purple Friday (POPcorner FSW)
Study support
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Celebrating 30 Years of IIAS
Festival
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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The First 20 Years: Reconsidering European Union Enlargement into Central and Eastern Europe
Conference, Conversation
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A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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Introducing: Bruno Allahissem and Luca Bruls
Bruno Allahissem and Luca Bruls recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the NWO-funded project 'Digital warfare in the Sahel: popular networks of war and Cultural Violence', led by Mirjam de Bruijn and Jelena Prokic (LUCL). Below they introduce themselves.
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco
A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat at the end of February.
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‘All students want to be seen and heard’
A safe place to discuss burning social issues such as racism with each other. The student workspace Space to Talk About Race and the Afro Student Association both meet this need and also organise many other activities. Three board members explain why this is necessary.
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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…
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Introducing: Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou
Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate and postdoc in the framework of the 'Anchoring Innovation' program. Below, they introduce themselves!
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Leonor Veiga de Oliveira Matos Guilherme Ponsar
Faculty of Humanities
l.veiga.de.oliveira.matos.guilherme@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Tiny Gardens Everywhere
Lecture, Leiden University Environmental Humanities Series
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China Seminar: The Digital Geographies of Secrecy
Lecture
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“Was the Habsburg Empire an Empire?”
Lecture, Fourth Annual Leiden Austrian Studies Lecture
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The Laboring Refugee: Profiting from the Displaced during Hot and Cold War
Lecture, China Seminar Series event
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Stability in unstable times: how the European Central Bank handles inflation
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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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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Reflections on a year of Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine
Debate, Roundtable discussion
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
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Decolonizing Area Studies. An Open Conversation
Roundtable conversation
- International Mother Language Day 2024
- Histories Connected
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Beyond plastic: why humanities scholars study waste
In a new series of articles, we explore how the humanities study topics related to sustainability. First up: waste. How and why study waste as a humanities scholar? We asked Elena Burgos Martinez, University Lecturer South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan…
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'Vital Minds’: Healthy University Week 2022
Course
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PhD Workshop: Scholarship and Politics
Workshop
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Stolen Focus: Our Brains Online - The Reading List
There is a reasonable chance that you came to this reading list through a social medium. Now it's our job to keep your attention. We are going to do our best. There are so many distractions; from notifications on your phone, to another screen near you, that may also be screaming for attention. Every…
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Jolanda van de Wetering
Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf
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Michiel van de Sande
Faculteit Geneeskunde
m.a.j.van_de_sande@lumc.nl | +31 71 526 3606