When under duress innocent suspects can make a false confession. Why is this? Legal psychologist Linda Geven will give a talk about this at the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition’s Brain & Law event. At this symposium (in Dutch) on 16 September you can attend talks on fascinating brain research…

A new challenge for Felix Ameka. The senior lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics has been appointed professor by special appointment of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World. ‘I am looking forward to promoting ethnolinguistic diversity and vitality.’

The tenth Europa Lecture was delivered by Corinna Wissels, State Councillor at the Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Dutch Council of State, deputy justice of the Dutch Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal and member of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement arbitration panel.

How can you do your bit for sustainability? Students from Leiden University have launched an interactive website with 150 sustainable initiatives in and around The Hague. The website Sustainable The Hague makes it easy to find a sustainable shop, restaurant or community initiative in your local area…

Leiden European City of Science 2022, in collaboration with the New European Bauhaus initiative of the European Commission and the Urban Health Campus Almere Leiden, present a programme entitled ‘Urban Health’ on Thursday, the 13th of October 2022. The multidimensionality of health in an urban environment…

On 3 May, the national day of Empathy, Leiden University organizes a ‘Living Library’ in cooperation with BplusC. This Living Library is part of the 365 program for the curious-minded that is developed in the framework of Leiden European City of Science 2022. What is a Living Library?…

Come and have a look around! On this festival we will show you how we as people make choices and why we feel, think, and do certain things.

Leiden University's International Honours College, Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) experienced empty halls and empty classrooms this past year on the residential campus on the Anna van Buerenplein in The Hague due to the global pandemic. Dr Paul Hudson designed a Covid-proof course that enabled…

How do you deal with bullying? How can you motivate young people? At the NeurolabNL symposium a multidisciplinary research team launched an interactive book for teachers and youth workers. This digital book offers the latest insights and plenty of useful tips and advice. Children’s Ombudsman Margrite…

Leiden is European City of Science in 2022. To this end, activities are organised throughout the year for the general public. On 18 November, the theme is Antibiotics. A game has been developed at Leiden University to introduce primary school children to antibiotics. This is an interactive story in…

On Saturday 30th April 2022, Leiden will celebrate the Maori people and culture! As part of this celebration, the Old Observatory has partnered with Volkenkunde Museum to offer some exciting activities! Between 12:00 - 16:00, you can sail along the Singel waterway of Leiden, from Volkenkunde to the…

LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".

All five episodes of the first season of 'Breingeheim' are now available to listen on Spotify. The first season of the podcastseries is about the social contexts of adolescent development and how teens become resilient individuals. In every episode, a new Leiden-based behavioural scientist and an adolescent…

An evening of heartwarming food, exciting science and personal reflections on food, culture and the gut microbiome! Why does the soup of your grandmother help against stomachache? What do your childhood memories have to do with the trillions of microorganism that populate your guts? “Food Stories for…

Exhibition by Helena Nikonole Curated by Dr. Ksenia Fedorova, Assistant Professor, LUCAS Supported by the Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Date: September 16 - September 18. Location: EST Art Foundation, Papegaaisbolwerk 20, 2312 LW Leiden Bird Language explores the possibilities of AI…

Jasmijn Rana is assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. She has extensive experience in research on sport participation of Muslim women in the Netherlands and Morocco, and on diversity in heritage production. Her main areas of research focus on…

Leiden Bio Science Park (LBSP) is the largest Life Sciences and Health (LSH) cluster in the Netherlands. Over the past 35 years, we have acquired a strong, global position, connecting talent, researchers and entrepreneurs to work on (research) projects that contribute to urgent health(care) challenges.…

Last Saturday, Wijnhaven Campus and the Anna van Buerenplein were the setting for the first 'on campus' Experience Days in The Hague since the restrictive measures in higher education were introduced in March 2020. Spread over the day, some 200 students visited the campus to delve deeper into the 3…

Conference of the ERC Consolidator project Food Citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities: solidarity and diversity, skills and scale . The Conference will disseminate the team's research in Rotterdam, Turin and Gdańsk and present the student projects of the winter school Digital Visual…

Natalia Sobrino-Saeb, third-year student at Leiden University College The Hague, won the challenge by the Ignitor Fellowship Program held by the Nobel Peace Center for her essay on the threats to journalism in Mexico. On December 10th Natalia met the Committee of the Ignitor Fellowship in Oslo and attended…

Although the official start of the academic year has to wait for another fortnight, Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) welcomed the Class of 2024 to the Anna van Bueren campus this week. The new cohort of 204 incoming students will spend the next three years studying different majors and minors…

The socio-economic effects of climate change often do not receive enough attention. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) a group of researchers will provide more insight. How does climate change affect whether people work together or conversely end up as opponents? And what can we learn from societies…

Workshop by Helena Nikonole Curated by Dr. Ksenia Fedorova, Assistant Professor, LUCAS Supported by the Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Date: September 17 Time and location: 11:00-12:15 Lipsius 123 (Artist lecture, open to everyone); 12:00-16:00 Lipsius 126 (Workshop, upon registration)…

Opening of the Interdisciplinary photo exhibition on Crafts and Craftsmanship in different cultures, with an introduction by Fridus Steijlen on the Crafts of Tau-Tau Puppetry Arts in Sulawesi, Indonesia Crafts and innovation have gone hand in hand for decades. A re-evaluation of craft and craftsmanship…

Event

As a first-generation student, being the first in your family to attend university, you may find it harder to get a job in the environment you want to work in. You may not know where to start looking and may not have any contacts in the industry or organisation that you want to work for who could offer…

As a first-generation student, you may find it harder to find an internship. You may not know where to start looking and may not have any contacts in the industry or organisation that you want to work for who could offer advice. In this meeting Fons van de Wetering will tell you about his experience…

Come to the Living Lab and discover what lives above, on and under water. Water is full of life. It's not just fish or ducks that swim in it. There is also a lot buzzing around it. How much life is there in our waters? And what influence do people have on it? The Living Lab was set up in 2016 with…

What if you get excluded? Are apps against fear and stress effective? How do you keep your brain in shape? The first season of the new podcastseries ‘BreinGeheim’ is about the social contexts of adolescent development and how teens become resilient individuals. Leiden-based behavioural scientist sit…

In his new book 'Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands', Paul Hudson Associate Professor of Physical Geography at Leiden University College in The Hague, examines human impacts on lowlands rivers. The past twenty years the pressure on large fluvial lowlands has increased tremendously because…

Evi Chatzipanagiotidou is a political anthropologist who researchers conflict and peace, displacement, migration and diasporas, with a particular emphasis on nationalism and anti-nationalism, intra-communal violence, the politics of memory and loss, the social construction of silence(s) and ‘unofficial…

The Aernout van Lynden Global Citizenship Award award is a recognition given by the LUC community. Each year a student who has demonstrated the qualities of active engagement, responsive and responsible participation in civic and/or community building, within and/or beyond LUC is presented with the…

The Aernout van Lynden Global Citizenship Award award is a recognition given by the LUC community. Each year a student who has demonstrated the qualities of active engagement, responsive and responsible participation in civic and/or community building, within and/or beyond LUC is presented with the…

Psychologists Anna van ‘t Veer and Eiko Fried will start a scientific integrity workshop tour after the summer, called Responsible Scholarship: Psychology. Their aim: giving the subject a more prominent position in the academic’s mind.

In the online panel discussion of ESOF 2022 ‘The effect of the online world on adolescents’, together with Amy Orben, Professor Eveline Crone, Sterre van Riel, Professor Anne-Laura van Harmelen and Professor Jan Sleutels, Professor Ton Liefaard shared his research on adolescents and the online world…

Crafts and innovation have always gone hand in hand. Nowadays a global re-evaluation of craft and craftsmanship is clearly noticeable. This is not a nostalgic return to an idealised past. It is a search to achieve a more sustainable society. Crafts can play a central role in different sciences and innovation.…

Lecture

Tickets: buy a ticket (€4) to attend the lecture at the Old Observatory Live stream: find the link for the live stream (free) at the Kaiser Spring Lectures webpage

Tickets: buy a ticket (€4) to attend the lecture at the Old Observatory Live stream: find the link for the live stream (free) at the Kaiser Spring Lectures webpage

Dr. Josien de Klerk, Associate professor in Global Public Health at Leiden University College The Hague recently published some of her work on HIV/AIDS. In collaboration with a team of interdisciplinary researchers from the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development she came to the conclusion…

Leiden is the host of the EuroScience Open Forum conference (ESOF). This is Europe's largest multidisciplinary scientific conference. Its tenth edition will take place from the 13th to the 16th of July 2022.

Education

Education

Debate, Roundtable

On the occasion of the International Mother Language Day (February 21, 2022) and at the start of the UNESCO International Decade for Indigenous Languages (2022-2032) as well as Leiden City of Science in 2022, the CIPL/CIPSH Chair Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World, Leiden University,…

Six months after launch, the James Webb telescope is ready to show its first color images. On Tuesday 12 July, these first images from the world's largest space telescope will be released by NASA, ESA and CSA during a live TV broadcast. At the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave we will be commemorating this historic…

The Sustainable 100 is an initiative by Dutch newspaper Trouw, consisting of a list of the top 100 sustainable civil initiatives. In October of 2020, the Jonge Klimaatbeweging (Youth Climate Movement NL) became the first youth organization to win first prize. An interview with LUC Alumna and Board Member…

From 2017-2021 Mr. Roeland Böcker served as Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the Council of Europe. Together with his colleagues from the other 46 Member States, he took part in the meetings of the Committee of Ministers, the main decision-making body of the organisation. In this capacity…

Debate, Roundtable Conversation

The relationship between academia and democracy is a complicated one. Should policy makers listen to scientists or to citizens? That is the dilemma Valérie Pattyn and Johan Christensen will discuss with a panel of experts during the academic conference EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF).