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How to address sensitive subjects in class? 17 May 2024
The war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza or the global rise of the far-right: topics that stir up emotions but are also regularly disc...
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AI Policy Leaders Award for Gianclaudio Malgieri 16 May 2024
Gianclaudio Malgieri, Associate Professor of Law at eLaw, will receive the "AI Policy Leaders Academia Award" from CAIDP Europe (Center for AI and Dig...
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Why the world is quantum 16 May 2024
During the Bachelor Honours Class ‘The world is quantum’, students from various disciplines learned about the rules of nature on the smallest scale: q...
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Vanessa Mak and Herman Paul new KNAW members 16 May 2024
The KNAW has appointed 17 new members, including Leiden University's Vanessa Mak, Professor of Private Law, and Herman Paul, Professor of History. The...
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Dr. Naomi Truan delivers lunchtime talk at Austria Centre Leiden 15 May 2024
Dr. Naomi Truan, Assistant Professor of German Sociolinguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics delivered a lunchtime talk sponsored b...
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Esther Captain, Gert Oostindie and Valika Smeulders win Die Haghe Prize 2024 14 May 2024
Researchers Esther Captain, Gert Oostindie and Valika Smeulders have won the Die Haghe Prize 2024. They were awarded the prize for their book The colo...
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Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation' 14 May 2024
Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university ...
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How do you evaluate quality of teaching? 14 May 2024
What do we really know about educational quality and its measurement? This was the subject of the first Higher Education Knowledge Café.
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Verena Meyer at the Sanubari Nuris Bali International Webinar 13 May 2024
On Saturday, May 4, Dr. Verena Meyer delivered opening remarks at the International Webinar 'Santri, Literacy, and Indonesia', organized by the Bali S...
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Shadowing a municipality manager for a week: 'I saw him mostly putting out a lot of fires' 08 May 2024
After a week of shadowing for her master's degree Management of the Public Sector, it has become very clear to student Loes what a manager's day looks...
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Leiden archaeologists held an open day in Oss to celebrate 50 years of collaboration 08 May 2024
On May 4, 2024, from 10.00 to 16.00 hours, a festive day took place in Oss, celebrating the fact that staff and students of the Leiden Faculty of Arch...
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Leiden University team European runner-up in Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court competition 07 May 2024
The Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court competition was held in Vienna between 8 and 12 April 2024. This event was organised by the European Centre for...
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World Teachers Festival: a celebration of globally-minded educators 07 May 2024
On 21 March 2024, the ‘learners’ at Wolfert Bilingual in Rotterdam were not teenagers, but some 180 teachers and teacher educators from around the Net...
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Leadership symposium: you can learn something from everyone 06 May 2024
'You don't have to kick the door open', Judi Mesman tells participants of the Leadership for a better tomorrow symposium. During this inspiring aftern...
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Professor Pieter ter Keurs: 'People collect to function' 02 May 2024
Professor Pieter ter Keurs has spent his entire career studying collecting. Now, he is retiring. ‘I hope the focus on collections will carry on.’