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From wildlife journalist to ecologist: PhD candidate researching light and noise pollution
Ecologist Sebastiaan Grosscurt became a successful wildlife journalist after graduating. But he decided to focus on science instead. He started his PhD research this year on the cumulative effect of light and noise pollution on animal behaviour.
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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In conversation with Kimsooja
Expert meeting
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From Underground to Overground, from Print to Digital: A Symposium on Unofficial Poetry from China
Leiden University Libraries holds an internationally unique collection of unofficial poetry from China. Produced outside the System over the last fifty years or so, this poetry is hugely influential yet hard to find beyond the informal networks through which it travels. To address this paradox, the…
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Marjorie in 't VeldUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
m.h.int.veld@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2800
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Arie in 't VeldFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.a.in.t.veld@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273931
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
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Research Seminar Janet Connor
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Leiden’s Austria Centre traveled to Budapest, Hungary for the Annual Convention of Austria Centers
The sixteenth Annual Convention of Austria Centers took place in Budapest, Hungary in June 2024. There, colleagues gathered from around the world, coming from Jerusalem, Olomouc, Vienna, Berkeley, Edmonton, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Budapest and, of course, Leiden.
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Cash transfer programs and perceptions of eligibility for assistance in post-conflict settings
Seminar
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Take care of each other’
After a turbulent Covid year, the well-being of our students and staff has the highest priority. How can we prevent physical and mental health problems? This was the key question at the Opening of the Academic Year in Pieterskerk in Leiden on 6 September.
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Rachel Beckles Willson appointed professor by special appointment: ‘Music is interwoven with the big questions of our time’
Rachel Beckles Willson started her career as a concert pianist but was later captivated by the Middle Eastern stringed instrument called the oud. On 1 December, she was appointed professor by special appointment of 'Intercultural Performing Arts'.
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Professor of Dutch History Henk te Velde to be new interim Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
Professor of Dutch History prof.dr. H. (Henk) te Velde will become interim Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University for a two-year term with effect from 1 March 2025. He will succeed prof.dr. M.R. (Mark) Rutgers. Mark Rutgers’ second term of office expires on 1 March 2025; he will be professor…
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KNAW grant for public communication on diplomacy
Jan Melissen, associate professor at ISGA and editor-in-chief of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and his team have been awarded 10,000 euros from the 'Valued' fund. This pilot fund, implemented by the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) aims to increase the interaction between science…
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Meijersprijzen en scriptieprijzen uitgereikt tijdens nieuwjaarsreceptie
Op dinsdag 10 januari 2022 zijn tijdens de facultaire nieuwjaarsreceptie de jaarlijkse Meijersprijzen en de scriptieprijzen uitgereikt.
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How Google, Facebook and other digital platforms are influencing the work of journalists
Digital journalism is transforming the way in which information and communication technologies are used by media workers. With this change journalist practices, norms and values are also being reshaped. This is the conclusion of Tomás Dodds PhD research.
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Nominees bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2021
The nominees for the IRO thesis prize 2021 and for the Prof. Dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg prize 2021. Who wrote the best Political Science bachelor’s theses?
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Word from the LUCSoR Chair: November 2024
When I posted the post below on the LUCSoR Twitter account a few months ago, I didn’t fully realise how aspirational that final sentence would be: ‘raise a toast with us for the next 10 years!’.
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Teacher Workshops: ‘Make your lectures more engaging and less time-consuming’
The Faculty of Humanities (FGW) considers it important that both its teachers and teaching methods continue to evolve. Especially in times of budget cuts and decreasing student numbers, it is crucial to keep investing in contemporary and appealing education. The workshops created by ECOLe (in collaboration…
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Special operations in an era of escalating great power competition: ‘There is no shortage of challenges’
On Tuesday 20 September, David Kilcullen, one of the world’s leading experts on modern warfare, visited Campus The Hague of Leiden University to discuss future developments in special operations and the escalating competition between great powers.
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Immersion without Mimesis: Song-Dynasty Cybernetics, the Game of Go, and Autopoeisis in Premodern Chinese Literature
Lecture, China Seminar
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Playing China’s University Entrance Exam: The Videogame 'Chinese Parents' and Its Political Potentials
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Byblos Workshop
Conference
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Combatting Antisemitism
Lecture
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UMW Research Seminar
Lecture, UMW Research Seminar
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The Military Perspective: Commanding Air Power
Lecture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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Nanne TimmerFaculty of Humanities
n.timmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2184
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Roundtable: 2024 Elections Pakistan, Indonesia and India
Roundtable | SSEALS
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The Assemblage of Social Death: Digital Vigilantism and Cancel Culture in China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Playing Politics – Launch Event
Festival
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Striving for Affect: Amateur Readers and Aswany's Bestsellers on Social Media
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other projects will receive funding from the JEDI Fund in 2023.
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Reparative Encounters: Colonial Histories, Other-Archives, and Collaborative Artistic Research
Lecture, CADS/CWTS DataCultures seminar
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Anthropology at Sea: Displacement as Ethnographic Praxis
Lecture
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‘In transformation’: trust, participation, and new socialities around collective food procurement networks in Gdańsk
PhD defence
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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The thousand war-battalions of the btsan: everyday demons in Ladakh
Lecture
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Performing identity and buying love: self-expression and iyashi in the dansō escorting business
Lecture
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Careful Waiting in the Last Phase of Life: Islam, Medicine and Life-Limiting Illness in Indonesia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Environmental Humanities LU: Declutter, disconnect, dismantle! Reflections on degrowth and cultural politics
Lecture
- Toogdag: The Concept of Justice in a War Era: The Cases of Gaza, South-Sudan, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Book Presentation: Gāyatrī: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Renaming Ambiguity: Modernist Dream Encounters in Islamic Indonesia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Text Matter: The Material and Political Lives of Javanese Manuscripts
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Dynamics and practices of internationalisation in model organism science - a South American perspective
Seminar
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Rights Denied, Heritage Stolen
PhD defence
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Poetry’s Haunting: A Symposium on C.P. Cavafy
Symposium