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From Modern Marvel to Environmental Tragedy: Grant for Research into Polluted Mines in Africa
At one time, the railway from Kimberley to Kambove in Southern Africa symbolised prosperity and progress. Today, the exhausted mining towns along its route are marked by decay and pollution. Professor Jan-Bart Gewald has been awarded an NWO L grant to investigate the long-term global consequences.
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Views on Africa
In the media, we hear a lot of worrying news from Africa: refugees, attacks, Ebola, starvation, corruption... But Africa is much more than that: it is a continent in transition, with developments occurring at breakneck speed. African Studies scholars from different academic disciplines in Leiden conduct…
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Memorial stone points to turbulent history of Indonesian students
A new memorial stone on the facade of a student house in the Hugo de Grootstraat is a reminder of the dozens of Indonesian students who studied in Leiden before and during the Second World War. Some of them were active in the Resistance, which cost a number of them their lives.
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Meet our new colleague Letty ten Harkel: ‘I am interested in what happens when different cultures come together’
In August 2022 we welcome our new colleague Dr Letty ten Harkel as Assistant Professor in Roman and Post-Roman Archaeology. For the past ten years she has built up an impressive track record in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Read the interview about her background and research…
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‘Sometimes simply staying alive is a form of resistance’
How do harrowing war experiences affect different generations? Students have made a video about poignant family stories. They interviewed other students and writer Dubravka Ugrešić. The premiere of the film was on 4 May during the online Hour of Remembrance. Watch this online memorial.
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Faculty Symposium 2022: Humanities in Crises
Conference, Symposium
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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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Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam
Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.
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On the Pathology of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
PhD defence
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Individualized prognosis in childhood immune thrombocytopenia
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Migraine as a cardiovasculair risk factor for women
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The hunt for frozen organic molecules in space
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Cardiac CT for diagnosis and prognosis of coronary artery disease
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Unraveling proteoform complexity by native Liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry
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Wrongful moderation: regulation of internet intermediary service provider liability and freedom of expression
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Cosmic tomography with weak gravitational lensing
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Phraseology in Children's Literature
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Emergent Space-Time, Black Holes and Quantum Information
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Phakic intraocular lens implantation: A life-long patient journey
PhD defence
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Masterclass: inclusieve communicatie met Edwin Hoffman
Course, Masterclass
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‘War history of Eduard Meijers warrants place in memorial culture’
A group of confidants including a former student of Meijers managed to avert his deportation to a death camp. In her lecture on 27 November, Cleveringa Professor Marjan Schwegman revealed the history of the persecution of the Jewish Professor Eduard Meijers.
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Working from home with the Classical and Mediterranean archaeologists: ‘I should have been in Rome right now’
The archaeologists have been working from home three weeks now. Remotely, through Teams, we meet up with Miguel John Versluys’ research team, to see how they continue working in times of corona.
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New publication affirms academic legacy of Hanna Stöger
In summer 2018 classical archaeologist Hanna Stöger passed away. At that moment she was in the midst of several cutting-edge research projects on the use of space in the Roman city of Ostia. To make sure that her groundbreaking work would not go unpublished, long-time colleagues Hans Kamermans and Bouke…
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Walk-in concert University organ
Arts and culture
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Walk-in concert University organ
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Publications
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Evolution of Molecular Resistance to Snake Venom α-Neurotoxins in Vertebrates
PhD defence
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Tumor-specific targets for imaging in vulvar cancer
PhD defence
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Middle East Culture Market 2023
Arts and culture, LUCIS Middle East Culture Market
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Prof. Tim Koopmans
Tim Koopmans is one of the great minds in the history of Dutch and European legal scholarship. He taught law as a professor in Leiden and other universities, among which Ghent, Cambridge, Utrecht. He practiced it as a judge in the European Court of Justice and Advocate-General in the Dutch Supreme Court,…
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Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact
This research project focuses on the extended documentation and investigation of these non-Austronesian (‘Papuan’) languages.
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Paul Christiaan Flu: a Surinamese professor in a time of war
Paul Christiaan Flu, originally from Surinam, was a brilliant tropical doctor, who in 1938 rose to the position of Rector Magnificus of Leiden University. The war years brought his lightning career to an abrupt end: his son was murdered and he himself was imprisoned in a concentration camp. A sad family…
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Sara Polak: ‘Corona unveils great social inequality in the US’
Following China and Italy, it appears that the United States is becoming the next epicentre of the coronacrisis. Can the US handle this crisis? Is president Trump dealing with the situation correctly? We asked Leiden America expert Sara Polak.
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NWO grant for research on Aramaic inscriptions: 'Palmyra is more than blown-up tombs'
Two thousand years ago, the Middle East found itself caught between the rise of the Roman Empire in the west and the Parthian Empire in the east. PhD candidate Nolke Tasma has been awarded an NWO grant to investigate how local inhabitants experienced these changes.
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Targets for Improving Patient Outcomes after Major Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery: The value of peri-operative care
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Small regulatory RNAs in Vascular Remodeling and Atherosclerosis
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Understanding uncertainty
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Postpartum Hemorrhage: From Insight to Action
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Comparative Effectiveness of Surgery for Traumatic Acute Subdural Hematoma
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Connecting conditionals: A Corpus-based Approach to Conditional Constructions in Dutch
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Saamaka uwii. Saramaccan medical plant knowledge, practices, and beliefs for local health care in Suriname
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Reproductive and sexual health care in oncology
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Inherited retinal degenerations: clinical characterization on the road to therapy
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Chemical Tools to Illuminate N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine Biosynthesis
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Optimizing clinical management of T1 colorectal cancer
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Consumed by a forbidden emotion
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Defaming the Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Historical and Conceptual Analysis of the United Nations
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Intelligent Workflows for Automated Analysis of Mass Spectrometry- based Proteomics Data
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The input pathways to the circadian clock: from nocturnality to diurnality
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Health problems and risks encountered among healthy and vulnerable Dutch travelers
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