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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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‘I can do more with questions than exclamation marks'
The life and career of art historian and Leiden alumna Gerdien Verschoor (1963) followed quite a remarkable path before she was appointed director of Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre in 2019. A woman with a deep awareness of historical places, she sees it as more of a series of coincidences, but the…
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Faculty of Archaeology launches dinosaur-focused research
Many an archaeologist, at some point in their career, is asked what type of dinosaur they discovered. Instead of once again patiently explaining that we do not do dinosaurs, the Faculty Board has now decided to listen to society’s call. ‘It is clear that the general public feels that dinosaurs are relevant…
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Twinkle, twinkle, giant star
Up above the world so high a giant star twinkles. Could an 83-year-old astronomer unravel the mystery of this megastar? ‘At times I thought: that’s it! I give up! It’s beyond me.’
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Campus The Hague: more ‘Hague’ in its DNA
Campus The Hague has forged its own identity: alongside interdisciplinarity, interaction with the city is its defining feature. ‘The campus is now a young adult. It is well beyond puberty,’ says campus chair Erwin Muller. An ambitious new strategy reveals this.
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Professor Jos Schaeken: 'I had no idea where Leiden was, but I did know I wanted to study there.'
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their families to go to university. In this third instalment we talk to Jos Schaeken (1962) dean of the Honours Academy and Professor of Slavic and Baltic languages and Cultural History: 'I had to…
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Faces of Leiden University College The Hague
Twenty-two year old student of Leiden University College The Hague, Sara Kemppainen on her role as European Union Delegate at the G(irls)20 Summit, founder of WIL, UWC Alumni, Summit Coordinator and Bachelor student committed to bringing human welfare to the center of tech policy.
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Plato's Myths: Tools for Thinking Conference
Conference
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Van Marum Colloquium: Death and life of homogeneous carbonyl reduction catalysts: navigating condition space towards superior catalytic performance
Lecture
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LCCP Working Seminar: Elements of ecotechnical existence in Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics (1935)
Lecture
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CANCELLED - Museum Talk: Negotiating museums and their digital interfaces
Lecture
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LIC Lecture: Biological applications of anion-selective transmembrane carriers
Lecture
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Actio! Actio! Actio! European Acting Techniques in Historical Perspective
Arts and culture, Symposium
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How to improve interdisciplinary cooperation within Leiden University?
Conference
- Putting the open engagement of societal actors into practice
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Lancering The Hague Global Futures Hub
Conference
- LIAS China Seminar
- Integration of 2D Materials for Application in Electronics
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Roundtable 'The Dynamics of Contemporary Coercive Statecraft'
Debate
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Online tools
This section provides an overview of online tools for the study of the medieval Low Countries. The websites linked down below are often times both available in Dutch and English.
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Opening academic year
University ceremony
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
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We are Science Week
Festival
- Media Technology exhibition PATTERN in V2_ gallery space
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We are Science Week
Festival
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2019 Hall of fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2019 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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In Memoriam: Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck (May 20, 1947 – October 31, 2020)
An age-old expression in Classical Chinese is yǔ zhòng bù tóng 與眾不同, meaning ‘out of the ordinary.’ It could have been the motto of Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck, who taught that language for decades at Leiden University. What was different about him? He was extraordinarily gifted, helpful, and above all…
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In Memoriam: Stefan Landsberger (1955-2024)
My colleagues and I have been devastated to learn that our good colleague and friend Stefan Landsberger (born 1955) passed away unexpectedly, on 26 September 2024. Stefan had been a fixture of China Studies in the Netherlands, where he had been Associate Professor of contemporary Chinese History and…
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LCCP Seminar "The phenomenology of perception. Before and after Merleau-Ponty’"
Conference
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By the rivers of Babylon: New perspectives on Second Temple Judaism from Cuneiform texts
“BABYLON” investigates the extent of the similarities between Babylonian and post-exilic forms of cultic and social organization and explores the question how Babylonian models could have influenced the restoration effort in Jerusalem.
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Inclusivity with Law: What does it mean to look at diversity and inclusion from a legal perspective?
Conference, D&I Symposium
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SAILS event: Showcasing AI Research @ Humanities
Conference, Mini symposium
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
- Nine public graduation presentations
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Multidisciplinary dialogues on the human past of the Urubamba/Ucayali basin: towards a new synthesis
Conference
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Formation of Islam: Topics
The FOI project has a number of topics it aims to investigate. These are: State, Economy, Culture and Papyri. You will find links to bibliographies on this page.
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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Middle East Culture Market 2023
Arts and culture, LUCIS Middle East Culture Market