521 search results for “cancer dat discovery initiatief” in the Staff website
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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague
Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague from 1600 to 1800. They are tracing crimes and offenders and shedding new light on The Hague’s Gevangenpoort (or Prison Gate). Among their many discoveries…
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CCLS Seminar
Lecture, seminar
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Sailing into the Future: Professional and Student Perspectives in Maritime Archaeology
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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I’m afraid it’s rather bad news | Debate in De Balie + livestream
Debate
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Guest lecture by 113 on suicide prevention
Lecture
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Beschadigd vertrouwen: Vertrouwenwekkend schadebeleid na door de overheid gefaciliteerde schade
Lecture
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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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LCN2 seminar January 2024
Lecture
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Historic Literary Guided Tour - Literary Leiden
Stadswandeling
- The F-word: feminist archaeologies for the twenty-first century
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LIBC SYLVIUS Lecture
Lecture
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Museumnacht Boerhaave - Adventerous Microbiology
Festival
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Understanding bilingualism in context
Lecture
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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What Works in Suicide Prevention? Lessons from the 113 Helpline
Lecture
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
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Visit by Members of Parliament highlights interdisciplinary research and collaboration
High-quality education, research involving multiple faculties, collaboration between universities and central government funding to make all this possible: these were the topics covered in a working visit of the Standing Committee for Education, Culture and Science (OCW) to the Association of Universities…
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-discussed topics. We compiled an overview of the most-read news items and other events of the past year.
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In pictures: animal mummies in a scanner
The story of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh, is world famous. But did you know that the Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals too? The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden recently put a bunch of animal mummies through a CT scanner. This was in collaboration with Canon Netherlands…
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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Drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde and dr Sjef Houppermans presented with high French honour
“Very French and very impressive.” Those are the words drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde used to describe the reception at the French embassy residence in The Hague on 2 June 2015. There, she and dr. Sjef Houppermans were presented with an distinction for their remarkable services to the French language…
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A podium for science
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. This edition…
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Annie Ernaux - a reading list
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (1940). In an explanation, the Swedish Academy praises Ernaux 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory'.
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How to address sensitive subjects in class?
The war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza or the global rise of the far-right: topics that stir up emotions but are also regularly discussed in classes at Political Science. Moreover, with a diverse group of students, there is a great diversity of life experiences, backgrounds and opinions.…
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Can extreme antisocial behaviour be traced back to the brain?
The brain structure of young people with conduct disorder differs significantly from that of their typically developing peers. This is the conclusion of an international study that analysed more than two thousand MRI scans, recently published in The Lancet Psychiatry. Dr Moji Aghajani, one of the principal…
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“Mobile” Afterworlds in the Western Capital of the Liao Dynasty
Lecture, also on line with Zoom
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Women in Data Science (WiDS)
Conference
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Planetary Atmospheres and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Lecture
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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
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On quantum transport in flat-band materials
PhD defence
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Science & Cocktails: Why do People Fight?
Lecture
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Chinese Cinema Meets Digital Humanities
Lecture
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Uncovering the Secrets of the Universe with Observational Cosmology
Lecture
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Fundamental Research on the Voltammetry of Polycrystalline Gold
PhD defence
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Regulation of autophagy-related mechanisms during bacterial infection
PhD defence
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Random Erasing
Lecture
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Portrait/Figure drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Recording College Tour, de podcast! With Eliot Higgins
On Tuesday, 19 November, tv-presenter and lecturer in Journalism and New Media Twan Huys will interview Eliot Higgins for the next recording of College Tour, de podcast! Eliot Higgins is a British investigative journalist, blogger and founder of the online investigative collective Bellingcat. He began…
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Passionate debate on university’s fossil fuel ties
Should Leiden University cut its ties with the fossil fuel industry forthwith? This was the main question in a debate between students and staff. The answer was clearer for some than for others.
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Psychology Winter Party
Festival
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Effecten van korte gevangenisstraffen en de prijs die we ervoor betalen
Lecture
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The Need for Teaching a More Accurate and Inclusive History of Science: The Case of Islamic Contributions to Math and Sciences
Debate
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Lithium-ion batteries and the transition to electric vehicles
PhD defence
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Lessons of Democracy: Mothers’ Education and Learning Activities in late-1950s Japan,
Lecture
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Super-Earth Atmospheres
PhD defence
- IBL Symposium 2022
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Violence and the State: Perspectives from Ancient India
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Extinction, Extraction, Emergence: Plantation Necrobiopolitics on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
Lecture
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Beyond the trenches
PhD defence
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Food stories and the microbiome
Workshop