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Summer School Shanghai: a month immersed in the Chinese legal systemExchange 16 September 2026Students Livia Draaisma and Max Raben set off this summer for a month in China to attend the Shanghai Summer School on Chinese Political and Legal Cul...
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A new perspective on cancer: the power of the immune systemInaugural lecture 16 September 2026In his inaugural lecture on 11 September, Noel de Miranda, Professor of Translational Oncology, spoke about the curiosity that has driven him from a y...
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From bystander to upstander: the role of men in street harassment15 September 2026Since July 2024, sexual harassment in public spaces has been a criminal offence in the Netherlands. While street harassment was long approached primar...
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Anthropologist Tanja Ahlin on The Conversation on "digital addiction"The Conversation 15 September 2026There is little doubt that social media can be addictive. Just last month, Meta settled a case alleging that it had deliberately made its platforms ad...
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Godfrey Odongo Appointed Honorary Chair for Children’s Rights 2026/2715 September 2026Leiden University is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Godfrey Odongo as the Rotating Honorary Chair in Enforcement of Children’s Rights fo...
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More speed, more power… less energy? This is how researchers are reducing the energy consumption of computersSustainability 15 September 2026Can computers use less energy without compromising performance? That's what computer scientists Ben van Werkhoven and Rob van Nieuwpoort from the Leid...
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‘Young Academy Leiden is an incredibly diverse group, and that’s what makes it strong’15 September 2026It’s September, which means that Young Academy Leiden (YAL) will once again change its board and welcome new members. Outgoing chair Ahmed Mahfouz and...
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Not all roads lead to Rome, researchers conclude in NaturePublication in Nature 15 September 2026Although Rome was the political centre of the Roman Empire, geographically it lay closer to the edge of the road network than to its centre. That is t...
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Ancient trees reveal how the climate and landscape changedInaugural lecture 15 September 2026Remains of trees that grew thousands of years ago can tell us how the climate and the landscape changed in the distant past. In his inaugural lecture,...
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Arianna Canzi: ‘The Dutch openness and directness really appealed to me’Alumni 15 September 2026Ten years ago, Arianna Canzi came to The Hague to study International Studies. She now works at a think tank in Brussels. ‘The Hague was an ideal base.’
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Joost Backer: ‘The International Studies programme was full of lovely people to get to know’Alumni 15 September 2026An exchange programme in Istanbul gave Joost Backer the push he needed to study International Studies. He now works as a policy adviser in Brussels. ‘...
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From Ukraine to Afghanistan: What NATO can learn from warnings15 September 2026Crises are often portrayed as unexpected events, yet research by Nikki Ikani shows that warnings are frequently available in advance. Her work demonst...
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What if you only see part of a network? And how do you spot meaningful connections?PHYSICS 14 September 2026From friendship networks and the internet to connections in the brain and trade relationships between countries: networks are everywhere. Physicists a...
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We should evaluate medical interventions based on their real health benefitsInaugural lecture 14 September 2026More treatment is not always better. Professor Gerrit-Jan Liefers (surgery) explores how we can make healthcare more effective by critically examining...
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New genetic toolkit opens the door to undiscovered antibioticsantibiotics 14 September 2026Two-thirds of clinically used antibiotics come from bacteria called Streptomyces. Leiden University researcher Chaoxian Bai has developed new tools to...