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Partnering Heritage with Latin America: Heritage Futures in the Age of Polycrises26 March 2025Crises today are multiple, ranging from geopolitical conflicts, accelerating climate change, growing inequality, technological disruptions, democratic...
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Farewell Niels Blokker: ‘Though the law faculty is changing, much remains the same.’13 March 2025One of our most engaged and expert scholars is bidding farewell. After forty years at Leiden Law School, first as a student and later as a professor, ...
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Jildau Bouwman new professor by special appointmentAppointment 11 March 2025Jildau Bouwman has been named as professor by special appointment of the chair ‘Remote Health Monitoring’ at Leiden University. The systems biologist ...
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In Memoriam Arne van der Gen06 March 2025On January 11, 2025, our esteemed colleague and emeritus professor Arne van der Gen passed away. Arne was a professor of Organic Chemistry from 1980 u...
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Rafal Matuszewski elected to the Young Academy of Europe03 March 2025Rafał Matuszewski has been elected Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) in recognition of his academic leadership and outstanding scientific ac...
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‘I feel everyone’s love and passion for the Hortus’13 February 2025As the father of a family with four children, he already visited the Hortus regularly. Now Tom Schreuder also comes there for his work. Every day he t...
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Pitching Heritage13 February 2025Do you want your research to fit the rubric of heritage? Is heritage a relevant concept here? These were some of the questions that came up in the liv...
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Thesis on homeless people's gendered experiences wins FSW Thesis Prize 202407 February 2025With her thesis 'Gendered Experiences and Homelessness Trajectories: An Anthropological Fieldwork Study in The Hague, the Netherlands', Elleke Schreur...
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Word from the LUCSoR Chair: February 202505 February 2025By the time you read this message, it will already be February. But since this is our first newsletter of the year, I still feel compelled to wish all...
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Prof. Eva Pfanzelter joins Leiden as the Visiting Professor in Central European Studies at Leiden27 January 2025For the spring semester 2025, the Austria Centre Leiden and the Institute History are excited to welcome Prof. Eva Pfanzelter to Leiden for her term a...
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New album by Gabriel Paiuk27 January 2025ACPA alumnus Gabriel Paiuk is releasing a new album, titled Degrees of Transparency, on the Unsounds label.
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Join the organisation of the Just Peace Festival 2025!A yearly event dedicated to reflect about peace and justice 27 January 2025We are excited to announce the Just Peace Festival 2025, a vibrant platform for dialogue, collaboration, and action on the pressing global challenges ...
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Uta Wehn new professor by special appointment for Citizen Science and SustainabilityAppointment 09 January 2025As of 1 December 2024, Uta Wehn is professor by special appointment of the chair 'Citizen Science and Sustainability' within the Focal Area Engagement...
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IPBES: Positive outcomes for people and nature are feasible, but we must act now20 December 2024Changes to halt further biodiversity loss are more urgent than ever and feasible, says IPBES, the United Nations biodiversity panel. In two reports re...
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Serious gaming helps students and locals in the Hague to discover hidden injustices in the energy transition19 December 2024On the 6th of December, Buurtlab 070 and the Leiden University Green Office (LUGO) hosted an event at the Spinozahof in the Stationsbuurt, bringing st...