Four female computer scientists share a common goal: to showcase the significant contributions of women in computer science and inspire their students. Together, they are organising this year’s Alice & Eve event, a one-day symposium dedicated to celebrating women in computer science. The event, scheduled…

The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he combines his love for the University and poetry with autobiographical reflections. ‘With my magnifying glass I discovered yet more new details in the pr…

The left is gaining more and more ground on the political map of Latin America, with the elections in Colombia as the most recent example. But what’s behind this pull to the left? Professor of Modern Latin American History Patricio Silva talks about the current political situation in the region.

Supermassive Black Holes and Where to Find Them Supermassive black holes - or SMBHs in short - are objects as massive as a million to a billion suns. Much of what we know about these Brobdingnagian beasts comes from tracking for example stars, masers and ionized gas clouds that swirl around them…

Two-mode networks are usually analyzed in one of two ways. With the “direct” approach using methods tailored for bipartite graphs, or with the “conversion” approach, which includes all methods that project the two-mode network onto each mode separately. In this talk, I focus on one-mode projections…

Lecture, RIAS-Sciences Po Seminar Series on Modern North American History

Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn LLM., Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the University of Leiden, completed his habilitation in July 2020 at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin and acquired the Venia for Constitutional Law, International Law and International Criminal Law. The…

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Four master's students from Leiden University participated in this year’s edition of the International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court, hosted by Antwerp University. Following the verbal rounds held between 21 and 22 March, the team went through to the finals, achieving second place overall.

Tickets: buy a ticket (€4) to attend the lecture at the Old Observatory Live stream: find the link for the live stream (free) at the Kaiser Spring Lectures webpage

Debate, Fireside Peace Chats

Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights

Lecture, Seminar

Lecture

Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights

Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights

They dreamed of Brussels, worked hard and finally succeeded: working for Europe. The list of Leiden University alumni in Brussels is long. A few days before the European elections, Julia Gencheva and Vincent Miča talk about how they ended up in Brussels and what their jobs entail.

Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights

The upcoming twenty-fifth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) is an important milestone to reflect on the progress towards peace in Northern Ireland and the ongoing challenges, including the lingering dispute between the United Kingdom and the European Union over post-Brexit border arrangements.…

Lecture

Organised by the Culture and Politics Specialisation for the MA IR programme Hip hop and the U.S. government are unlikely partners. And yet, since 2001, the State Department has been sending U.S. hip hop artists abroad to perform and teach as cultural ambassadors. Some criticize these artists as sellouts…

“Praesidium Libertatis” is widely understood to mean the freedom of scholars from censorship on research, teaching, and free speech. But what if our conceptual vocabulary, questions, and methodologies are themselves products of a history of settler colonialism and imperial domination? Would “Praesidium…

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