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Positive feedback will give the mentoring project a follow-up
Helping first-year students at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs find their way in a rapidly changing university world because of Covid-19. That was the goal of the mentor project that has been running since this academic year. At the end of January, the first phase ends and in February new…
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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’
Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, one of the four museums of the University of Oxford.
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Blog Post | Do diplomatic gifts matter?
In this blog, Jorg Kustermans asks the question whether diplomatic gifts matter - a subject covered in the latest HJD Forum on gift giving in diplomacy.
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Pieter's Corner: Can diversity be engineered?
In discussions about today’s society and multiculturalism the word is constantly bandied back and forth: diversity. At Leiden University we aspire to ‘diversity and inclusiveness’, and claim that our diversity policies put these core values into practice. We have a Diversity and Inclusiveness Working…
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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Five years ago, Recep fled from Turkey; he is now a university teacher
For fifteen years, Recep Uysal carried out research on positive psychology in Turkey; it is even the subject of his PhD. That was until he had to flee Turkey and start again from scratch in the Netherlands. Re-entering the academic world was a challenge, but he rediscovered his love for the field in…
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Retirement is not an option for ‘an old warhorse’ like Osinga
He has had to accept early retirement due to his military profession, or ‘FLO’ (Functioneel Leeftijdsontslag) as it is more commonly referred to within the Dutch Ministry of Defence, but the words ‘retirement’ or ‘winding down’ do not appear to be part of Frans Osinga's vocabulary. His appointment at…
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Alumni from Brussels: ‘Leiden University has a fantastic reputation here’
They dreamed of Brussels, worked hard and finally succeeded: working for Europe. The list of Leiden University alumni in Brussels is long. A few days before the European elections, Julia Gencheva and Vincent Miča talk about how they ended up in Brussels and what their jobs entail.
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Stop the cuts to education’
Scrap the radical cuts to research and teaching. This was researchers and students’ message to government at the opening of the new academic year. Various speakers in Leiden’s Pieterskerk highlighted the importance of science for society.
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Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics 2022
Conference
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Crafting Resilience Kick-Off Conference
Conference
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Paul Christiaan Flu: a Surinamese professor in a time of war
Paul Christiaan Flu, originally from Surinam, was a brilliant tropical doctor, who in 1938 rose to the position of Rector Magnificus of Leiden University. The war years brought his lightning career to an abrupt end: his son was murdered and he himself was imprisoned in a concentration camp. A sad family…
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Exploring Our Roots
Terra Symposium
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PrAIa Hackathon Easing Teaching
Course, Hackathon
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Modern Transimperial Histories: Forms, Questions, Prospects
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
- LUCIP Forum, Debates on Death and Immortality in Classical Chinese Cosmology
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Conservation and study of the Pahari collection of drawings and paintings
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Between Admiration and Repulsion: The ‘Witch’ in Medieval Islam
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Liveable Planet Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Jessica Kiefte-De Jong (LUMC) and Paul Behrens (FWN) on Food & Sustainability - Discussion
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Solvent-solute relation in the double layer theory: from diluted solutions to solvent-in-salt systems to ionic liquids
Lecture
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In the Shadow of the Constitution: the Micropolitics of Constitutionalism in Cambodia
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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LUCIR Lecture: Inside Gang Governance: How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro
Lecture
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Healing the People: Popularizing and Printing Medicine in Edo Japan
Conference
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What Do We Mean When We Say “Academic Freedom”?
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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Modes of Human Becoming: Towards a Process Archaeology of Mind
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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From “The Sea Bastards” to “Solidarity Beyond Ocean”: Japanese Dockworkers and the Politics of Scale in the Bandung Moment
Lecture
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The New Atlantic Order - and Transformation of Global Politics in the "Long" 20th Century
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Henriëtte van Lynden lezing: A Decade after the Spring - The Arab World at Crossroads.
Lecture, Henriette van Lynden lezing
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LUCIP FORUM
Lecture
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The Independence of National Regulatory Agencies
Lecture
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LUGO Sustainability Day
Conference, Symposium
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Homo Ignoscens: Neo-colonialism, White Supremacy and the Re-Invention of Blacks in Contemporary ‘African Philosophy'
Lecture
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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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Van de Waallezing 2023: Maarten van Heemskerck, Rome and classical mythology
Alumni event, Lezing
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Kress Talks with Cynthia Kok and Felicity Good
Lecture
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Open Q&A with the European Parliament President Roberta Metsola
Lecture
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Slavery in the Indian Ocean World and the Work of Forgetting: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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What (and Where) on Earth is Waqwaq?
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Leiden Competition Talk: Case allocation within the European Competition Network (who should do what?)
Conference
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Ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity: Looking back and moving forward
Conference, Symposium
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Leiden Translation Talk 5 April: Pseudotranslation and reading under the bombs in Iran
Lecture
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
Workshop
- Roundtable: The making of disability / the making of migration
- Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Conference Museums, Collections and Society
Conference
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Hall of Fame 2020
In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.
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LCCP Seminar "The phenomenology of perception. Before and after Merleau-Ponty’"
Conference
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2018 Hall of Fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2018 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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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.