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Admission requirements
To be eligible for MSc Crisis and Security Management at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for MSc Crisis and Security Management at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for MSc Crisis and Security Management at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
- Histories Connected
- Leiden City World Walks
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'Born Free - Mandela's Generation of Hope' by Ilvy Njiokiktjien
Exhibition
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Class Battles from Indian Circus: Tales of Labour
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Ethnonyms as windows into the past: untangling past and present contacts in Ngamiland, Botswana
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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The use of language analyses in Dutch citizenship procedures from a legal and ethical perspective
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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The ongoing standardization of Sidaama, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia: challenges and perspectives
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Jan Hendrik Oort: world-famous yet unassuming astronomer
He discovered how to determine the rotation and centre of our Milky Way, predicted where comets come from and laid the groundwork for radio astronomy: Leiden Professor of Astronomy Jan Hendrik Oort (1900 – 1992). Piet van der Kruit, whose PhD supervisor was Oort himself, has written a biography about…
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GI grants awarded to Mariana Francozo, Sabine Luning and Wayne Modest
Global Interactions is pleased to announce that we have awarded a GI Advanced Seminar grant to Dr. Mariana Francozo (Archaeology) for 'Historia Naturalis Brasiliae' and a Breed Grant for 'Global Earth Matters' to Dr. Sabine Luning (CA-DS) and Dr. Wayne Modest (RCMC)
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Blog Post | Science diplomacy from the Global South: New insights, venues for investigation, and lessons learned
Science diplomacy, broadly defined as all activities at the intersection of science and foreign policy, has become a buzzword during the past ten years.
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Leonard Blussé receives prestigious Fukuoka Prize in Japan
Leonard Blussé, Professor Emeritus of History of European-Asian Relations, was awarded the 13th Fukuoka Prize in Japan on 10 September.
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Black hole one year later: proof of a persistent shadow
The brightness peak of the ring around M87's supermassive black hole has shifted 30 degrees counterclockwise in a year. This is shown by new images released by the Event Horizon Telescope consortium.
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Interdisciplinary aspirations and disciplinary archives: Losing and finding John M. Weatherby’s Soo language data
Lecture, This Time for Africa! Series
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ASCL Seminar: Subaltern Metropolitan Adventure and Colonial Mediation in Nigeria
Lecture
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African percussion (djembé)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- African Studies Centre Leiden 75th Anniversary Celebration
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ASCL Seminar: Seeing Development Approaches and Narratives from the African Periphery, 1979-2023
Lecture
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Student for a day African Studies
Study information
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Workshop: Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights
Conference, Workshop
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Slavery in the Indian Ocean World and the Work of Forgetting: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Speech Surrogacy on the African Talking Drums: exploring the Yoruba Drum Language
Lecture, This Time for Africa! Series
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Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Dissertations
Overview of all dissertations published by PhD candidates from CML.
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Conference programme AHBx
Aquí pueden encontrar el programa del congreso.
- Blog Posts Archive
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The Hague International Space Resources Governance Working Group
The development of space resource activities is happening now. In the absence of a clear framework to govern these activities, there is a need to examine the concepts that are being discussed in order to ensure that they meet existing treaty obligations regarding on-orbit operations and space resource…
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ICM 2018 project results
Within the ICM 2018 project, Leiden University cooperated with 25 partner universities from 14 countries. In total, 97 mobilities were granted to this project - 65 mobilities were realised (some mobilities had to be ended prematurely due to covid-19, others were finished online).
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MS@Work study
Predictors of work functioning in persons with multiple sclerosis
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Tunen syntax within a structural typology of Aux-O-V word orders
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Global Challenges: The Regime of Lukashenka
Lecture
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Dr Graça Machel to visit Leiden Law School
Conference
- Medieval Middle East Meeting (1ECTS)
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Boa (Leboale dialect) vowel harmony
Lecture, This Time for Africa! Series
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Anthropology at Sea: Displacement as Ethnographic Praxis
Lecture
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CRG Seminar: The regime of hopes and broken promises of a large-scale land deal in Senegal: “The company promised an elephant but finally gave
Lecture
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Border tax on CO2 offers huge opportunity to fight climate change
A tax on CO2 emissions from products entering the EU offers unprecedented opportunities in the fight against global warming. That is the conclusion of research on which Leiden environmental scientist Hauke Ward collaborated. ‘A new world is opening up,’ Ward says. ‘But success hinges on how we involve…
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The internet has many bosses. It’s chaotic but it works
Governance of the internet is chaotic, says Professor Jan Aart Scholte. Can we learn from this relatively new form of governance?
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Blog Post | Northern Cyprus and the Limitations of Science Diplomacy
Authors: Pierre-Bruno Ruffini and Olga Krasnyak
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Mathematics across borders: Peter Stevenhagen in Pakistan
Peter Stevenhagen delivered daily lectures at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering in Lahore, in collaboration with ICTP, a well-known UNESCO institute in Trieste. The aim is to enhance it he knowledge of students from low- and middle-income countries. ‘By teaching here, I can truly…
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Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (D//F) for John Boy
With a grant from the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund D//F, John Boy and members of the d12n research cluster will explore new ways critical technologists try to align their work with digital technology with the political goal of defending the public interest.
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Cleveringa conference
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability: The MENA Region in the Modern Period Cairo 25-26 November 2018
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Seeing the Romans - and ourselves - in a different light
Globalisation means becoming globalised, a process in which material culture plays a crucial role. This is what Miguel John Versluys, the new Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology, teaches. He bases his teaching on research into the origin and growth of the Roman Empire from the 3rd…
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Super-fast evolution
Certain cichlid fish in Lake Victoria seem to have adapted super-fast to changing circumstances. Dr Frans Witte from the Integrative Zoology section has been awarded an NWO subsidy (approx. € 240,000) to carry out PhD research into the rapid changes apparent in this fish species.
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'Rome after Rome': a unique student-scholar exploration of early medieval Rome
Debates about the ‘end’ of the Roman era, how, when, and even if it ended, are still very much alive and raging. However, what happened after the (long) late antique period is a lesser-known and lesser-studied subject. The post-Roman past needs, however, as much energetic investigation and discussion.…
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How do national courts engage with the Convention on the Rights of the Child?
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) by the UN General Assembly. How do countries implement this treaty and how does it relate to their own national legal system? PhD defence on 3 December 2019.
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‘Working together on the basis of mutual respect is enriching and satisfying’
Since 2017 guest researcher Gerrit de Wit has been working together with Congolese linguists and the Boa community to develop the oral Boa language into a written one. He tells us about 2 unique projects, which are steadily unearthing and describing the structure of a new language.
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International Leiden Law alumni started socially responsible startup
Global notebook (GN) is an educational and socially responsible startup, created by two LU alumni. They built an exciting program, combining Brussels and The Hague, in the form of a week long international student conference - global notebook conference (GNC). Young curious minds from all over the world…