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Why Humanities? Frans-Willem Korsten about Literature & Law
Lecture
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Tocharian and Iranian in the Tarim Basin and beyond
Conference, Workshop
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Networks of the future
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Instrument (ACI): lawful international countermeasures or violation of the WTO regime?”
Following her appointment to the Chair in EU External Economic Law earlier this year, Prof. dr. Freya Baetens addressed the academic community of Leiden University with her inaugural lecture on 27 October 2023. In a highly topical lecture, Prof. Baetens examined the EU’s Anti-Coercion Instrument (AC…
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Nanne TimmerFaculty of Humanities
n.timmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2184
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Lunch Time Seminars
The biweekly Lunch Time Seminar is an online only event, but it is not publicly accessible in real-time. If you would like to attend one of the upcoming sessions, please send an email to sails@liacs.leidenuniv.nl.
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Opening of the academic year
University ceremony
- Six public graduation presentations
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OverActing | Theatre Festival Leiden
Festival
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Online exhibition
TEXTS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT. Highlights from the Collection of the Leiden Papyrological Institute. Online exhibition on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the foundation ‘Het Leids Papyrologisch Instituut’ in 2015.
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Towards a Historical Contextualisation of the Ancient Egyptian Perspectives of the Inner Body, Sickness, and Healing
PhD defence
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Ecology of the White Lion
PhD defence
- Special Lecture: Making Sense of the Universe
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Older publications
Overview of the publications of the department of Environmental Biology (1972-2015)
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The Saliverse: a taste of the multi-dimensional biochemical network of the human oral metabolome
PhD defence
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Regulation of the immune response by unsaturated lipid mediators in the context of the osteoarthritic joint
PhD defence
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Article 5 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
PhD defence
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Celebration of the Georgian Language Day
Conference
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Celebration 50 years of the University Council
Conference
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At the Ends of the Earth?
Symposium
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Exploration of the endocannabinoid system using metabolomics
PhD defence
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Academia@WorkplacePride: Opening of the academic year
Arts and culture
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LIAS Opening of the Academic Year
Lecture, Drinks
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Impact of COVID-19: Digital food collectives in Rotterdam
PhD candidate Vincent Walstra reflects on alternative social interactions and mutual aid in the city of Rotterdam during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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A small ode to 412 dead
In 2011 Leiden University came into possession of the skeletons from a graveyard in Middenbeemster. But what could be done with all these bones and skulls? Well, the answer is: more than you might think. Since the excavation, it has been raining interesting scientific discoveries at the Faculty of Archaeology.…
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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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Structural biochemistry of the pentraxins
PhD defence
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‘The sun never sets on our university'
Leiden University has partnerships in the local region, in the Netherlands, in Europe and with countries on almost all the world's continents. Students and researchers benefit from these partnerships, but society is also a beneficiary, says Rector Carel Stolker.
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Children's Rights Under Fire: The Right to Education During and After War
Panel Discussion
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Sixth Conference of the European Network for Teaching Arabic (ENTA-6): Teaching Arabic Across Contexts
Conference
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25 years of the Flentrop organ
Arts and culture, Concert
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Social Science Matters: Wokeism
Minister of Justice Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius recently warned against
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2021: This was the year of our faculty
2021 was an eventful year once again for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). Hybrid, working from home, online education, on-campus education, face masks, self-tests, keeping distance, quarantine and the coronavirus. Words that have now become a standard part of our vocabulary when…
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A hornets’ nest: Leiden University during the Second World War
‘That hornets’ nest in Leiden must be destroyed,’ said Dutch National Socialist Party member Robert van Genechten in November 1942. He was referring to Leiden University. Why this hatred? Emeritus Professor of University History Willem Otterspeer has written a book about Leiden University during the…
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Veni grants for 21 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 21 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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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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Ingredients of the planet-formation puzzle
PhD defence
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
PhD defence
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Functional study of the human genome
PhD defence
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New LUCAS Journal launched
On Monday 11 February, the first issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference went online officially.
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Research on ancient southern Arabia: Current situation and outlook
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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In the Making #2: Etienne Kallos, Searching for a Diasporic Time Image
Lecture
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Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2023
Conference
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In the Making #8: Musical Networks and Algorithmic Emergence in the Times of Artificial Intelligence
Arts and culture
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QAnon and Alien Gods: Plausibility Construction in the Cultic Milieu (11th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity)
Lecture, Symposium
- Music Night - Creative Processes in Art and Science
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Conflict between Turkey and Greece about territorial waters
Thanks to modern technology, it is now possible to extract more gas and oil in the eastern part of the Mediterranean than in the past. As a result, a conflict has once again erupted between Turkey and Greece, in which Turkey is making claim to part of the Mediterranean Sea around Cyprus.
- The Psychic Life of the Welfare State
- Scheduled maintenance of the university network
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Editorial board JLGC welcomes new members
The editorial board of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference welcomes several new members. The coming months they will be preparing the journal's second issue, to be published in February 2014.