583 search results for “modern” in the Student website
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Van de Waal Lecture 2022: Futurism and Europe: The aesthetics of a new world
Alumni event, Lecture
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Faculty of Archaeology launches dinosaur-focused research
Many an archaeologist, at some point in their career, is asked what type of dinosaur they discovered. Instead of once again patiently explaining that we do not do dinosaurs, the Faculty Board has now decided to listen to society’s call. ‘It is clear that the general public feels that dinosaurs are relevant…
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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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Keynote Sustainable Environment by Marja Spierenburg @ESOF
Conference
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Global Fishing in the North Atlantic: Archaeological research on Basque fisheries in Canada and Ireland
Conference
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LIBC SYLVIUS Lecture
Lecture
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The Israel-Hamas War in Islamist Discourses
Discussion
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Zionism: An Emotional State
Lecture, Public Lecture
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LKV guest lecture: Yuki Kihara
Lecture
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UMW Research Seminar
Lecture, UMW Research Seminar
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Special Guest Lecture: Colonialism, Citizenship and the challenges for Decolonial work in the Netherlands
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
- PCNI Research Seminars 2022-2023
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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What are We Remembering When Nothing Happened?
Lecture, Museum Talks
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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Masterclass ''Unconventional Textual Sources''
Lecture, COGLOSS Masterclass
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Israeli Politics Now
Debate
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Masterclass in International History with Patrick O. Cohrs
Lecture, INVISIHIST Masterclass
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Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa): One database to rule them all?
Lecture
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NIA - Music, Movement, Magic
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Fifty years of diplomatic relations with China: an ‘open and pragmatic’ partnership
This year, the Netherlands and China reflect on fifty years of diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level. How has the relationship between the countries developed over the past half century? An interview with university lecturer Vincent Chang.
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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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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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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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‘The Netherlands should also consider the possibility of direct confrontation with Russia’
There is a real chance of war closer to home, political and military leaders in Europe have warned. What does Frans Osinga, Professor of War Studies, think about the threat and what we should do?
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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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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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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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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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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch
Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center for International Relations (LUCIR) has conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique. Her resulting book, Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil…
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Leiden Humanities Faculty Symposium
Symposium
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Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare
Lecture
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
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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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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Smoke on the Water: Ocean Incineration as a Struggle for Environmental Justice
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: Subaltern Metropolitan Adventure and Colonial Mediation in Nigeria
Lecture
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International Symposium 150 years New Waterway
Conference, Symposium
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Film screening & panel: The Great Book Robbery
Debate
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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A Paragenealogy of Computational Rationality
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Documentary series #1: Memories of Communism in Lebanon - Two Videos by Marwan Hamdan
Documentary screening
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Who did all the work? The hidden labour of colonial science
Conference, Workshop
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Book Launch: Capitalism in Contemporary Iran
Lecture