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Third annual conference of the Law and Development Research Network 19-21 SeptemberCurrently, the Third annual conference of the Law and Development Research Network is taking place at the National Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenk...
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The effects of anthropogenic noiseHans Slabbekoorn, researcher at the Institute of Biology Leiden, is one of the editors of the latest volume of the Springer Handbook of Auditory Resea...
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Introducing: the students of Cosmopolis AdvancedLast July saw the start of the new master programme Cosmopolis Advanced, an initiative of the Institute for History at Leiden University in partnershi...
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Sponsor your favourite team and help refugee students'Refugees often have to run for their lives. In Leiden, we run to raise money to support them and to contribute to their education.' With these words ...
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Saving the environment by banning plastic bags?What is the influence of the 2016 ban on free plastic bags on the environment? Industrial ecologist Stefano Cucurachi received a LUF grant of €75.000 ...
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Maartje van der Woude Visiting Scholar at UC BerkeleyProfessor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude (Van Vollenhoven Institute) will be visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society a...
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‘Woolly’ King's Speech reflects broad coalitionThe 2018 King's Speech was a string of statements containing little or no substance. It was obvious that, in an attempt to keep all the coalition part...
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Throne Speech trending topic at WijnhavenThis year the Throne Speech, read out loud by King Willem-Alexander, was analyzed live again at Leiden University. Scientists, students, and even a ha...
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The first edition of the ILS Lunch Seminars 2018-2019 in retrospectOn Thursday 13 September 2018, the first ILS Lunch Seminar of this academic year took place. Geerten Waling and Michael Klos kicked off the ILS Lunch ...
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Start of a unique alliance between ‘Window to Russia’ and Russian & Eurasian StudiesOn 14 September the second ‘Labour Day’ (Dag van de Arbeid) event took place: the career afternoon of the BA in Russian Studies and MA in Russian and ...
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A rock star in a Petri dishFeaturing the world’s first neural synthesizer, artist Guy Ben-Ary and his collaborators will perform at the TodaysArt Festival in The Hague on 21 Sep...
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In Memoriam Prof. Dr. J.F. Borghouts
Prof. Dr. Joris F. Borghouts (1939-2018) was Full Professor of Egyptology at Leiden University and a specialist in ancient Egyptian grammar and magic.
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Psychologists test societal acceptance of underground storage of CO2How can we reduce CO2 emissions from industry? Leiden psychologists Emma Mors and Christine Boomsma examined the public perception and acceptance arou...
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Boys with autism respond more angrily to bullyingBoys who are bullied develop more fear and shame; boys who bully develop more anger and less guilt, which makes it easier to justify more bullying. Bo...
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First images of mist dispersing around young galaxyGalaxies in the early universe are shrouded in a kind of mist: a cloud of hydrogen. With galaxies in the later universe this mist has disappeared. Ast...