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Israeli Politics Now
Debate
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LCN2 seminar February 2024
Lecture
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Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
Lecture
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Interdisciplinary minor ’Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’
The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits from this approach? Students and lecturers evaluate: ‘This minor’s a goldmine’.
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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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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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In memoriam Jan Zaanen 1957-2024: The universe in a speck of rusting copper
This Thursday, January 18th 2024, our esteemed colleague Jan Zaanen passed away. Jan was one of our star scientists, larger than life, with an unabashed, boisterous drive for the best of physics at the Institute Lorentz, at the Leiden Institute of Physics and in the full international scientific community.…
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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers
Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project within their own teaching. They have been awarded three grants of 100,000 euros within the Senior Fellows programme and four grants of 50,000 euros within…
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Voice of the ocean
There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in the world’s most prestigious sailing competition: the Ocean Race.
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Tamas David-Barrett
Lecture
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Film screening & panel: The Great Book Robbery
Debate
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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How to be an Academic in a World on Fire: A Hands-On Workshop co-organized by LUGO and OSCL
Lecture
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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Ethnicity and endogeneity in the welfare state
Seminar
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Fundamental Research on the Voltammetry of Polycrystalline Gold
PhD defence
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Environmental Colonialism in Palestine
Panel
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Semisynthetic Glycopeptide Antibiotics
PhD defence
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Student Talk: Venus as Potentially Habitable Planet
Lecture
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ESA presents first crystal-clear Euclid photos of the cosmos
The first full-colour images of the cosmos from ESA's space telescope Euclid were presented today. Never before has a telescope been able to take such crystal-clear astronomical images of such a large part of the sky and so far into the deep universe. The five images illustrate Euclid's full potential;…
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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'Vital Minds’: Healthy University Week 2022
Course
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Liveable Planet Lunch Series “A Forest of Knowledge – Investigations on foraging cognition in tropical forest foragers”
Lecture
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What a glow in the dark squid tells us about the human gut microbiome
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
Workshop
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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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Jasper's day
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives an insight into his life. Jasper first wrote his column from Kuala Lumpur, and it was ready to share. Then a crisis arose this week that demanded…
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives
In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…
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EUniWell Open lectures series | European standards of Human Rights protection of displaced persons fleeing armed conflicts
Lecture, Part of a series
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Leiden Teachers' Academy Education Festival 2024
Festival
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FestiWell en EUniWell
Festival, FestiWell | Event vanuit EUniWell