2,511 search results for “decolonisation in south anna” in the Public website
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Professor Pieter ter Keurs: 'People collect to function'
Professor Pieter ter Keurs has spent his entire career studying collecting. Now, he is retiring. ‘I hope the focus on collections will carry on.’
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Climate-proof Mediterranean garden in the Hortus opened by André Kuipers
On 22 May, astronaut André Kuipers opened the new Mediterranean garden in the Hortus. With this water-efficient garden, the Hortus aims to offer inspiration for future- and climate-proof garden planting. Prefect Paul Keßler and scientific director of the Leiden Observatory Ignas Snellen also signed…
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Hydropower, but without devastating consequences for fish and fishermen
Hydropower plants need not be disastrous for fishermen and nature. For that, we need to place new dams more strategically, but also modify or even remove some existing ones. Valerio Barbarossa and Rafael Schmitt showed that with a computer model of the Asian Mekong basin.
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‘Transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations lead to better scholarship and solutions’
How can you persuade researchers who are used to conducting research within clearly defined disciplines to adopt an interdisciplinary approach? Newly appointed distinguished professor Arnold Tukker explained.
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Exhibition Early Photography of the Middle East
From Persia and Arabia to North Africa: as early as the nineteenth century, there were Dutch people who used the camera themselves in various regions of the Middle East.
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Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’
In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…
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International Studies students receive their diploma
On 30 August 2024, 330 students received their Bachelor Diploma of International Studies. The students were awarded their diplomas in the historic Pieterskerk in Leiden. A large audience of about 1000 people consisting of friends, family, and staff members gathered to celebrate the graduates’ achievements…
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Opening of the Herta Mohr Building: brand new and also recycled location for Humanities
Light, open and green: a description that fits the new, renovated location of the Faculty of Humanities. The official opening of the Herta Mohr Building took place on 8 October, and it has many remarkable features: for example, recycled ‘mushroom columns’, a pedestrian bridge to the University Library…
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Changing power relations and rising stars
The norms, institutions and power relations that have defined the last decades of international political and economic relations in the European Union are undergoing major transformations. With the return of competition between great and ambitious powers, like the US, China, EU and Russia, the need…
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Chasing gravitational waves: damping vibrations in underground Einstein Telescope
Leiden scientists and companies receive 1.37 million euros to develop technology for the Einstein Telescope. This underground telescope will measure gravitational waves and must therefore be extremely sensitive. To that end, the consortium conducts research on the damping of vibrations at temperatures…
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New courses Buddhist Studies by dr. Helmut Tauscher
In the Spring semester of 2017, two courses will be offered by the Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, Dr. Helmut Tauscher. One is oriented at the BA level (starting February 23), the other at the MA level (starting February 20).
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Eredoctoraten voor Bonnie Honig, Eliot Higgins en Kelly Chibale
Leiden University will be conferring three honorary doctorates in its special anniversary year. They will be awarded to Eliot Higgins, truth finder and founder of Bellingcat, Bonnie Honig, expert in feminist theory and legal theory, and Kelly Chibale, professor of organic chemistry, who works on prevention…
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An International Rule-Based Order and China in the Global Arena
Lecture
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Working With Frictions (symposium and concert)
PhD defence, Symposium and Concert
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In the Making - afternoon sessions on research in the arts
Lecture, Conversation
- Urban Health Programme
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Launch of Marco Bronckers’ Liber Amicorum
Conference, Book launch
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LUCIR 2024 Annual Lecture: Courts in Conflict: Developments and Challenges in Human Rights Litigation in Armed Conflict
Lecture
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Closing the Gap 2023 | Emerging and Disruptive Digital Technologies: Regional Perspectives
Conference
- GTGC Lunch Seminar: Contested Sovereignty & Politics of Citizenship
- Presentations at EISA in Potsdam
- Interactionality seminars
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Korean - Dutch Literature Night
Reading & Panel Discussion
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Summerschool environmental humanities
Lecture
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Associated Motion in East Asian Languages, with a focus on Chinese and Japanese
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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Symposium: Visualizing Ancient Histories
Symposium
- Program
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Seasons of Interdisciplinarity
The Seasons of Interdisciplinarity are an initiative by the Young Academy Leiden that started in 2021.
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Augustinians reveal recipe for close friendships
It is a holy grail among behavioural scientists: can you predict how close a group will become? An international research team from Leiden, Oxford and Helsinki has investigated the development of friendships within the Leiden student association Augustinus and obtained some remarkable results.
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Blog Post | Diplomatic Spaces Through Time: A Call for Interdisciplinary Research on Architecture and International Relations
The latest forum in the Hague Journal of Diplomacy highlights the rich potential for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of architecture, diplomacy, and international relations. These contributions, spanning from the early American republic to the contemporary era, reveal how diplomatic spaces…
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Meet & greet with Dutch diplomats: a conversation about counterterrorism & diplomacy
Meet and Greet
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The Children's Rights Moot Court Competition 2023
Moot Court
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Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
- Call for Papers: Digital Workshop on Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges
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Movie Screening: I'm Not the River Jhelum (2022)
Movie Screening | SSEALS
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Enthusiasm for PRINS 2022
This year’s edition of PRINS, the International Studies’ consultancy course, proved to be an inspiring event for most of its participants. Students, coaches and representatives of organisations are looking back on this rollercoaster of a course and reflect on why the PRINS experience is so special.
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Understanding coercive nuclear reversal dynamics
PhD defence
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Kusundic, a possible linguistic substrate in the Himalayas
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Special Guest Lecture: Colonialism, Citizenship and the challenges for Decolonial work in the Netherlands
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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Environmental Humanities: Science, Art, and Activism
Lecture
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At the limits of cure | Bharat Venkat
Lecture, Online webinar
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One-time viewing: early photos of Africa by Alexine Tinne
Inloopavond
- CPP Colloquia 2023-2024
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Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations
Conference
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Dao is in Weeds 道在稊稗
Lecture
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The Limits of Transformational Authoritarian Constitutions: The Case of Indonesia
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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Masterclass ''Unconventional Textual Sources''
Lecture, COGLOSS Masterclass
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IBL Spotlight - Science Communication & Society
Lecture
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A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories
Lecture
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Speeddate Humanities
Study information