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Leiden as a Meeting Place for Social Rights Research15 September 2025On 4 and 5 September, Leiden Law School hosted a special conference that brought together around sixty participants from the Netherlands and abroad to...
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Student exhibition: unearthing the story of the VOC ship Amsterdam15 September 2025A new student-curated exhibition in the F1-corridor of the Van Steenis building brings history to life through remarkable finds from the Amsterdam, a ...
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Podcast: Self-Love Beyond the Social Media Hype15 September 2025Bubble baths and face masks: that’s what we often see on social media when discussing self-love. However, is this a true reflection of what self-love ...
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Toddlers, apes and Japanese people helped reveal how we expressEmotions 14 September 2025An orangutan will rarely burst out in laughter when watching a video of another orangutan doing the same. A toddler will do so more than an adult, whi...
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Understanding far-right communities on alternative platforms: Jonathan Collins on his PhD researchPhD dissertation 12 September 2025On Tuesday 30 September 2025, PhD candidate Jonathan Collins will defend his dissertation A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the ...
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Sovereign debt as strategy: Kathleen Brown on the politics behind the numbersPhD dissertation 11 September 2025On Tuesday 30 September 2025, PhD candidate Kathleen Brown will defend her dissertation 'Deception, Risk, and Evasion: The Politics of Sovereign Debt ...
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How do we experience music? Vocational students to explore this at a festival11 September 2025Many of us love music, but we don’t understand why exactly that is – or how our individual experiences of music can differ. Rebecca Schaefer will rese...
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‘Never stop trying’: Barz sees his polymers enter clinical trialsDrug discovery 11 September 2025A new class of polymers has been used in patients for the first time. The compound is the first new drug solubilising agent in decades. Introduced in...
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Gripped by ancient hands: Cora Leder awarded prestigious NWO Humanities PhD Grant11 September 2025How did early humans use their hands, and what can that tell us about our shared past? Cora Leder, newly awarded recipient of the NWO PhD in the Human...
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Plastics are causing stress to crops (and biodegradable alternatives do too)PHD 11 September 2025Micro- and nanoplastics cause stress to crops such as lettuce and carrots, PhD candidate Laura Julia Zantis found. This can lead to reduced growth and...
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Oldest parts of Leiden University Archives digitised11 September 2025Recently, the oldest parts of the Leiden University Archives have been preserved and digitised thanks to a grant from Metamorfoze. This makes an impor...
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Funding for Law Sector Plan now structural11 September 2025Now the Dutch national Law Sector Plan has been positively evaluated, the temporary funding provided to Leiden Law School for the research projects ‘I...
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A future with tailored therapy for patients with atherosclerosisGrant awarded 11 September 2025Personalised treatment for patients with atherosclerosis. That is what the researchers of the AtheroNeth consortium are working towards. The Dutch Hea...
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Why the law has not eliminated race discriminationLaw 11 September 2025Despite being prohibited by law since 1971, race discrimination continues to exist in the Netherlands, making it harder for some people to find a job ...
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Uzbek mathematician refines world-famous theory: ‘So many things are connected’PhD 10 September 2025Predicting the collective behaviour of systems, like a large group of people electing one of the parties, is no easy task. But there’s a theory that s...