372 search results for “black henk” in the Staff website
-
Dozens of massive stars launched from young star cluster R136
Astronomers have used data from the European Gaia Space Telescope to discover 55 high-speed stars launched from the young star cluster R136 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. This increases tenfold the number of known “runaway stars” in this region. The team of astronomers,…
-
Opening Gorlaeus Building celebrated grandly
Confetti, stilt walkers and the new Einstein Fountain. On Monday, 2 September, the Gorlaeus Building of the Faculty of Science was festively opened. Together with Constantijn van Oranje, our students cut the ribbon. Dean Jasper Knoester: ‘The building is ready, now it is up to our students and researchers…
-
DUSANE 2024
Symposium
-
Untold Stories: representation, heritage and museums
Conference, D&I Symposium
-
Meet your Graduate School – Start of your PhD
Study information, Graduate School
-
Meet your Graduate School – Start of your PhD
Study information, Graduate School
-
Centering the Marginalized: Migration, Marginal Areas, Commodities
Lecture, Seminar
-
Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms - April 2024
Lecture
-
The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange (Hague TIX) 2024
Conference
-
Experimental Ethnographies
Lecture
-
Sumi-e (Japanese Ink Brush Painting)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
-
L.A.S. Terra Gala for staff and students: Enchanted Forest
Festival
- Faculty Roundtable: Societies, Emotions, and Receptions in (Modern) Literatures
-
Green Friday in de Hortus
Green Friday
-
CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
-
Leiden Law Cast: The prison population NL vs. BE with Miranda Boone
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
-
Report: what does our urban mine have to offer?
On 21 January, the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) has released two reports on circular economy and urban mining in the Netherlands. In them, together with Statistics Netherlands, they take stock of part of the Dutch ‘urban mine’: how much raw material can we reuse from the electricity grid,…
-
On the road with museum lover Jelte Liemburg
Alumnus Jelte Liemburg, aged 29, aims to visit every single one of the 500 museums in the Netherlands that take part in the national museum pass scheme.
-
Recap of the 2021 Anthrooplogy PhD Conference
After a long period of isolation under pandemic, the PhD candidates of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology seized the opportunity to organize an in-person, on-site event: the CADS PhD Conference for 2021. With the theme "Young Scholars at the Intersection of Uncertainty,…
-
Cleveringa professor Gert Oostindie: ‘We stood up for our own freedom but ignored that of others’
Now that war is once again raging in Europe, the question of when you need to stand up against injustice has become more relevant than ever. In his Cleveringa lecture on 24 November historian Gert Oostindie will discuss why colonial domination was not regarded as an issue in Leiden for a long time.
-
Leiden professor petitions UN to release Guantanamo prisoner
Palestinian national Abu Zubaydah was captured by the CIA in March 2002 and has remained in detention ever since, without any form of trial. Leiden professor Helen Duffy is doing all she can to secure his release or a fair trial. Her hopes now lie on international pressure and the UN Working Group on…
-
While doing research on victimhood, Criminology student Sara suffered a serious injury and became a victim herself
In the middle of doing research for her master’s thesis, Sara Kalf (24) was hit by a car and got seriously injured. After a long period of rehabilitation and hard work, this week she can finally add her signature to the wall of the Academy Building’s ‘Sweat Room’.
-
Three students nominated for an ECHO Award: ‘I want to make the world a better place’
A more inclusive and diverse society is what Talisha Schilder, Hawra Nissi and Chiraz Hassoumi spend many hours a week working towards. Their hard work led them to being nominated for the ECHO Award.
-
How can we banish racism from education?
A safe haven for students, more bicultural staff and more powers for diversity officers. In a national expert meeting at Campus The Hague, administrators, diversity officers, students and staff discussed urgently needed measures.
-
In memoriam Jan Zaanen 1957-2024: The universe in a speck of rusting copper
This Thursday, January 18th 2024, our esteemed colleague Jan Zaanen passed away. Jan was one of our star scientists, larger than life, with an unabashed, boisterous drive for the best of physics at the Institute Lorentz, at the Leiden Institute of Physics and in the full international scientific community.…
-
Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress
Permission was recently given for all members of the examining committee and co-supervisors at PhD ceremonies to wear academic dress, even if they’re not full professors. How historic is this change?
-
‘A country’s immigration narrative really influences the people arriving there’
Immigration and naturalisation policies are an important theme in the upcoming Dutch elections. The Netherlands should be mindful of its immigration narrative, says PhD candidate Hannah Bliersbach, as this greatly influences the relationship between ‘new’ citizens and their new home country.
-
From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
-
We are Science Week
Festival
-
Humanities and International Relations Graduate
Conference
-
Dark Matters
PhD defence
-
Meddling for profit: Japan’s peace-building role in Myanmar
Lecture, Research seminar
-
CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
-
Tiny Gardens Everywhere
Lecture, Leiden University Environmental Humanities Series
- Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
-
Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
-
Masterclass: The Lores of Flatbush: Dutch Storytelling in Colonial North America
Lecture, Histories Connected: Masterclass
-
Special Guest Lecture ‘Knickerbocker Renaissance: Dutch Schools and Slavery in the Early United States’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Special Guest Lecture
-
CCLS Seminar
Conference, seminar
-
Graphic techniques: the linoleum cut
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
-
What is BDS? The case for academic boycott
Debate
-
Rice Eaters in the Land of Cheese
PhD defence
-
Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms - January 2024
Lecture
-
Globalizing the Northern Muslim World: the Mongol Exchange and the Horde
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
-
Prosecutorial Discretion in International Criminal Justice
PhD defence
-
From Slavery to Freedom
Conference, Webinar
-
The Ten Kings of Earth Prisons: Theatricality of Death in Late Imperial China
Lecture, China Seminar
-
The Making of a Standard Mountain: A Road-Construction Campaign of 1934 and the Formation of Mount Huang’s Modern Image
Lecture
-
Anthropology at Sea: Displacement as Ethnographic Praxis
Lecture
-
Immersion without Mimesis: Song-Dynasty Cybernetics, the Game of Go, and Autopoeisis in Premodern Chinese Literature
Lecture, China Seminar