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Traces of 3 October: 450 years of the Relief of Leiden
This year Leiden will be celebrating the 450th Relief of Leiden. Leiden master’s students are researching this history as part of the ‘Traces of 3 October’ project.
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’
GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in social communications isn’t new, says Associate Professor Marika Keblusek. She has been awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Competition (Large)…
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'Empathy is one of the most important things I 've learned at LUC'
Hande Taner (on the left), graduated from Leiden University College (Liberal Arts and Sciences, World Politics) now pursuing a Master’s in European Affairs at SciencesPo Paris and London School of Economics. On Monday 22 October 2018 at the OSCE/ODIHR conference on combatting discrimination, she…
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ESOF2022 Online mini-symposium: The effect of the online world on adolescents
How do digital technologies affect adolescent mental health and resilience? How do we foster a secure online environment? How should we deal with increasing rates of online crimes among adolescents? During the mini-symposium ‘The effect of the online world on adolescents’, presented by the interdisciplinary…
- Teacher of the Year 2017 throws students in at the deep end with supervision
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Researchers and members of the public bring a sustainable world a little closer
Researchers, civil servants and local residents met on 27 September to talk about partnering for sustainability. What were the results? In a green ‘city oasis’ in the centre of The Hague they spoke about the energy transition, bottom-up initiatives and citizen science.
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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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Relational Multilateralism: the Play of International United Front in China’s Global Grand Strategy
Lecture
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“Was the Habsburg Empire an Empire?”
Lecture, Fourth Annual Leiden Austrian Studies Lecture
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The Most Popular Buddhist Illustrated Book of circa 1450
Lecture, China Seminar
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Greening Casablanca: Speculative Fictions and Contested Planning Responses to the Climate Crisis
Lecture, Research Seminar
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The Politics of Education in Contemporary Vietnam
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Lecture by Michael Mazarr on 'Deterring China: Challenges and Opportunities'
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African percussion (djembé)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-history
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- Book Launch Leiden University Centre for Islamic Thought and History
- The internet of 100 years ago
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History Research Master Symposium
Conference
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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LTA lunch lecture - Gamification in Higher-Ed: Promises, Practices, and Pitfalls
Lecture
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“De” outside the cleft: An evidential operator in the C domain
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Literature as Commons: Re-reading Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Racial Capitalism, Sexuality and Labour: Experience of Young Northeast Women in the Spa Industry in Hyderabad, India
Lecture
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
- I wouldn't start from here making the case for Outcome Trajectory Evaluation
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ASCL Seminar: Subaltern Metropolitan Adventure and Colonial Mediation in Nigeria
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Proud to be First!
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LAMS Lecture Perennialist Traditionalism and Modern Philosophy
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Book Launch | Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
Book Launch
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POSTPONED - Roundtable - Russia’s War on Ukraine: Perspectives from and Impacts on Non-European Actors
Debate
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Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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LUCAS PhD Alumni Network Event 2022
Alumni event, Job market Preparation for PhD's
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Publish or Perish: Religious Zaydi publishers in Yemen during the 1990s
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
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Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
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Demons, Monks, and Merchants: Fate and Individual Agency in Ming Vernacular Short Stories (huaben)
Lecture, China Seminar
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Rethinking Economic Security and Resilience in Asia: Lessons from Australia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Wessel Kraaij recognized as Distinguished Member of the ACM for outstanding contributions to computing
On November 8, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Wessel Kraaij as one of the 2017 Distinguished Members. ACM Distinguished Members have made a significant contribution to the field of computing, computer science or information technology. This year, worldwide 43 scientists received…
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Nadine Akkerman is the winner of the LUCAS Audience Award 2021
The LUCAS Audience Award 2021 has been awarded to Nadine Akkerman. This is a prize for researchers who appeal to an audience wider than the academic community. The prize consists of 1000 euros, a trophy and eternal fame.
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A special part-time job: Susanne is vice president of the Youth Parliament for Water
Student of International Studies Susanne Reitsma has a remarkable passion: water. In April 2015, she was elected vice president of the World Youth Parliament for Water, in which capacity she works for worldwide access to clean drinking water and sanitation. What does Suzanne find so special about water?…
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Teacher of the year 2019 Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd is always ready to answer questions
Last January, the education assessors of the different study associations chose Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) as teacher of the year. Her passion for teaching extends beyond her classes, according to the students who nominated her: ‘ She is always ready…
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Antibiotics of the future: looking for a new way to kill bacteria
Current antibiotics only address very few target proteins in bacteria to kill them. Researchers know that there are more possible target proteins to tackle the bacteria. The question is: which ones. Thanks to the NWO Vidi Grant, Assistant Professor Molecular Physiology Stephan Hacker and his team can…
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Project TARGET: Fatal firearm violence down by 50% since the ‘90s of the previous century
Project TARGET is a research project aimed at the relation between the illegal arms trade and firearm violence. In a study conducted in seven countries, the researchers took a look at the differences and similarities. Katharina Krüsselmann and Marieke Liem took a closer look at the situation in the…
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Discoverer of the Year Irene Battisti wants to see the invisible
Irene Battisti is the discoverer of the year 2019. The physicist won the C.J. Kok Public Award for her research into microscopy and superconductors.
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And the winner is… Results of the annual physics image competition
Salt crystals, a nano-sized golf stick and molten glass. The LION Image Award competition of 2023 yielded a lot of beautiful images once again. But in the end, only one can be the winner.
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Joris Larik in Dutch Newspapers on the Future of the United Nations
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations (UN). The world looked a lot different then than it does now. It is therefore important that the UN moves with the times. Together with experts from the Stimson Center, Joris Larik , Assistant Professor at Leiden University…
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Archaeozoological Lab reorganised and renewed: 'We can now study most of the fauna in Europe'
The Laboratory for Archaeozoological Studies underwent a big reorganization and received a great donation from the Institute of Biology this summer. Laura Llorente Rodriguez explains the impact of this donation and reorganisation in this interview.
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Part 2 of the study on the participation of children in youth care is published
Dr. Stephanie Rap, Denise Verkroost, LL.M. and prof. Mariëlle Bruning conducted a research on the participation of children in youth care in the Netherlands. In 2016 the first part, a legal desk-research on the possibilities for children to participate in youth care procedures and decision-making in…
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Posthumous doctorate Thijmen Nuninga: 'Right, duty, remedy or The promise of the rule'
On Thursday 22 September 2022, the posthumous PhD ceremony will be held of Thijmen Nuninga who passed away February this year. His doctoral thesis had already been approved at that time.