Lecture, Panel Discussion

Lecture

Shipping channels are important lifelines for maritime transport in port city territories around the world; due to extensive dredging they are also major challenges for nature-based development in fragile deltas and areas at the edge of sea and land. On the occasion of the 150 Years Anniversary of the…

Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series

Islam has a rich and fascinating history, but if you talk about it in the classroom, all kinds of opinions and emotions come up. 'How do I incorporate these responses into my lessons?' The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is organising a study trip on ‘Islam and Citizenship’. Fourteen teachers from…

25 Years ago, the Center for Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences was founded at Leiden University; one year later, in 1985, the education program of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences started. On Friday September 18th, this was celebrated with a Symposium, an anniversary booklet, and a grand party.

Four students founded the Leiden Student Working Group on Homosexuality on the day of the Dies Natalis in 1968. This was to be the start of the LBGT+ movement in Leiden, which celebrated its 50-year anniversary this year. What has been achieved and what is the status of emancipation today?

After a year of war against Ukraine, professors André Gerrits, Antoaneta Dimitrova and Frans Osinga look back at Russian aggression and Western unity and ahead to the new offensive.

How designers are even more creative with a robot in their team, how Twitter could predict the stock market, and how to catch a single bacterium in the act of infecting a cell. Artificial intelligence has penetrated every corner of science in Zuid-Holland. Three researchers from Delft University of…

Three years ago, on 13 October 2017, the Leiden Medievalists Blog was established. In their blogs, Leiden researchers from all disciplines talk about the Middle Ages in a fun and interesting way. Editors Jip Barreveld, Marlisa den Hartog and Thijs Porck talk about the blog and why the Middle Ages are…

This year Leiden will be celebrating the 450th Relief of Leiden. Leiden master’s students are researching this history as part of the ‘Traces of 3 October’ project.

Lecture

Sanjar Golomov is a senior scholar at the Al-Biruni Institute in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In Leiden he will deliver two lectures and one masterclass for MA and PhD students as part of the Erasmus Mobility Plus project between Leiden University and the Al-Biruni Institute. The project is coordinated and…

De smartphone is inmiddels onder jongeren het meest gebruikte apparaat voor nieuwsconsumptie. Of het nu gaat om nieuws van traditionele nieuwsorganisaties als de NOS, het AD of de Volkskrant, digital-only aanbieders zoals Nu.nl en De Correspondent, social media als Instagram, YouTube en TikTok, of news…

Course

Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series

Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series

Prof. W.C. Peul Summary: Meningeomen zijn tumoren van de hersenvliezen. Deze zijn vaak goedaardig en daarom geassocieerd met een goede levensverwachting. In de afgelopen jaren heeft internationaal een verschuiving plaatsgevonden waarbij de focus van de tumor naar de patiënt verlegd is. Ons onderzoek,…

Prof. C.J.F. Boon Prof. G.P.M. Luyten Summary: Dit promotieonderzoek gaat over de oogziekte centrale sereuze chorioretinopathie (serosa). Bij deze aandoening is er sprake van ophoping van vocht onder het netvlies, wat kan leiden tot een vermindering in zicht, verschil in contrastzien en soms ook vervormingen…

Prof. G.P.M. Luyten Summary Er zijn verschillende opties om oogsterkte (refractie) afwijkingen te corrigeren. De meest bekende opties zijn een bril en contactlenzen. Sommige mensen kunnen, of willen, geen bril of contactlenzen dragen. Er bestaan ook chirurgische opties om refractieafwijkingen te corrigeren.…

The Rural Riches research group has been working on an online database collecting archaeological sites and historical attestations dating to the Merovingian Period in Northern Gaul (450-725). Up to now they have recorded information on 6873 sites and 1338 attestations, filled the bibliography with 9250…

PhD defence

PhD defence

Stelling: Het wonen (als bouwen) ontstond pas zeer laat in de menselijke geschiedenis Onze vroegste voorouders worden steevast afgebeeld in of bij een eenvoudige tent, hut of woning. Daarmee wordt de indruk gewekt dat het bouwen en wonen in deze vorm onlosmakelijk verbonden is met de menselijke soort…

Prof. J. Mesman Prof. L.R.A. Alink Summary Het creëren van een optimale start tijdens de eerste 1000 dagen van kinderen is een belangrijke focus voor onderzoekers en beleidsmakers. Een manier waarop ouders positieve invloed kunnen hebben op de ontwikkeling van hun kind is via sensitief ouderschap. Dit…

Security in the broadest sense of the word was the key focus in the Interfaculty Conference on 4 April in Leiden. With almost 200 attendees and such well-known speakers as Dick Schoof, Pieter van Vollenhoven and Ad Verbrugge, the first conference was a success.

We started this year as we ended it in 2021: in a lockdown. But the world continues to open up. We are occasionally allowed to go into the office and students are able to return to Campus. Continue reading to find out what the rest of the year has been like.

Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed member of an academic society or have taken on a position in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include…

Writing a book on the recent history of Leiden University in corona times. For educational and policy historian Pieter Slaman (34), this has meant working in the attic of his parents’ house while they looked after his daughter, along with numerous online conversations and very few, if any, visits to…

Nineteen researchers who have recently been awarded their PhD are to receive a Veni grant of up to 250,000 euros. Science funding agency NWO has awarded a total of 158 Venis in this round; Leiden University's share of the awards is 12 percent.

Lecture

PhD defence

The most unexpected innovations and fusions of world’s religions and material culture have taken place along the trade and communication networks known today as the Silk Roads. Term coined by the German geologist Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877, the Silk Road has attracted much scholarly interest…