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The week of….Ayo Adedokun
Education, Organisation
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You should eat herring on the coast and not in Maastricht
For thirty years, the Dutch Newspaper AD conducted an annual search for the best herring. This came to an end when economist Ben Vollaard, based on a statistical analysis, claimed it was rigged. But that claim doesn't smell right, says Leiden statistician Richard Gill. ‘The way you code and process…
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Surprising results of research on counterterrorism: 'Assumptions surrounding Trump may be wrong’
It poured down when Alexander Gallo received his diploma from West Point Military Academy. A bad sign, people said back then. It was June 2001, three months before 9/11. The now 46-year-old American fought in Iraq, did research in Afghanistan and stands in Leiden today, defending his dissertation on…
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Annie Ernaux - a reading list
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (1940). In an explanation, the Swedish Academy praises Ernaux 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory'.
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Academic freedom, protests and a safe campus: where are we and how are we going to move forward?
Leiden University has had a turbulent week. There have been protests inside and outside our buildings that have evoked reactions, and students and staff have felt unsafe. We want with this message to look back at the past week and look forward to the future. What happened and how do we now want to move…
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Taarique teaches career planning but doesn’t want students to plan their future too strictly: ‘Keep on experimenting’
In the ‘Educatips’ column, psychology lecturers share their most important insights on teaching. This month: Taarique Debidin thinks making contact with one another is more important than cramming knowledge. ‘I’d get no energy at all from being a formal lecturer.’
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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.
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Deans celebrate ten years Honours Academy: ‘We are educating people who can make a difference’
The Honours Academy celebrates its tenth anniversary. How did the institute develop over time, and what are aspirations for the future? We speak with the current Dean and a predecessor who was there at the Academy's founding. A conversation about identity, inspiration, and impact ensues. ‘It is about…
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Archaeology brings 3D scanning into the classroom
In the course 'From Ceramics to Plastics: The Mediterranean in 12 objects' students were taught to work with 3D scanning technologies. One of the underlying reasons to introduce students to this technology was to teach them to reproduce objects. ‘More and more archaeological information is stored in…
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Interview with alumna Jolien Schukking: Working as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights
Alumna Jolien Schukking has been working as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg since 2017. In this special role, she provides legal protection at an international level in major cases and concerning various topics. What is her job like and what motivates her?
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The new normal - Teaching and learning after Covid-19
Conference, Education Festival 2022
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Dies Natalis
University ceremony
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Smoke on the Water: Ocean Incineration as a Struggle for Environmental Justice
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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IBL Spotlights - Development & Disease
Lecture
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Reach an international audience with your scientific news - The Conversation
Online training
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Research Day of the National Research School for Literary Studies (OSL)
Conference
- Webinar | City Diplomacy: Framework or Patchwork?
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CANCELLED: Disease and Violence in Shift from Omurano to Urarina on the Urituyacu River in Peru
Lecture, Language & the Human Past Lecture Series
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Computerized Adaptive Testing in Dutch Mental Health Care
PhD defence
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Talking Palestine: The Politics of Narrating the Conflict
Lecture
- COGLOSS seminars 2022-2023
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LCN2 seminar November 2023
Lecture
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Dark Matters
PhD defence
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The Gaia telescope: mapping 1 billion stars with 1 billion pixels
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Call 6th meeting reading group "The Role of Experience"
Course
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Kick-off Conference Horizon Europe research project TransEuroWorkS: Transforming European Work and Social Protection
Conference
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FAO at the crossroads: democratic reformism or "market authoritarianism"? The case of the Instituto de Capacitación e Investigación en Reforma
Lecture
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Lecture by Michael Mazarr on 'Deterring China: Challenges and Opportunities'
Lecture
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Anna Corwin - Embracing Age
Lecture, Online webinar
- Science and 'inequality': insights from Africa and environmental fields
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Online Coach Café for young alumni
Alumni event
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Meddling for profit: Japan’s peace-building role in Myanmar
Lecture, Research seminar
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Connect & Reuse: practical use cases from public health
Netwerkbijeenkomst
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Politics of Attention for the Environment: Small Steps and Big Leaps.
Lecture
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings
Lecture
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How to Study a Polymath
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Managing group work
Didactics
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Tiny Gardens Everywhere
Lecture, Leiden University Environmental Humanities Series
- Leiden Research Support Network Onboarding event
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Eliciting preferences for EU-level social protection in the context of global challenges
Seminar
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LIBC Colloquium
Lecture
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Leiden, location TBD (if online, link sent to registered participants)
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Workshop: Gaping Holes: Towards multi-species histories and ethnographies of mining in southern Africa
Lecture
- I wouldn't start from here making the case for Outcome Trajectory Evaluation
- Deep Learning for Beginners Workshop Series 2024
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Taiwanese Literature in Dutch: the Voice of the Translators
Lecture
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Carte Blanche Interdisciplinariteit
Conference, Carte Blanche