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'Migration and integration policies for the future only work with knowledge from the past.'06 July 2020An inclusive society in which everyone has equal access to health and wealth is the focus of the new Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre on the Governance of ...
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Maurits Berger: ‘Every researcher should do a social project’03 July 2020Maurits Berger worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam and as a journalist and researcher in Egypt and Syria. Since 2008, he has been a Professor of Islam in ...
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Looking for a job with impact – Check the webinar!29 June 2020Marliese Vollebregt (BA International Studies, MA International Relations) works at JINC, a Dutch NGO focusing on equal opportunities for children. Af...
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Black lives matter: ‘Racism takes different forms but it’s a world issue’05 June 2020It all started with demonstrations protesting about the death of George Floyd from police brutality in Minneapolis, but the Black Lives Matter protest...
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Black lives matter: ‘Why the American protests have resonated in the Netherlands’04 June 2020The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police may have sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and here in the Netherlands...
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FactRank: new tool brings automatic fact-checking a step closer28 May 2020FactRank is a new online tool that automatically detects ‘checkable’ claims made by politicians in parliamentary debates or tweets, and therefore enab...
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Sara Polak warns about social media: ‘What do you do with those tweets by Trump?’25 May 2020Sara Polak, American Studies expert and University Lecturer investigates how American presidents deal with the media and how new, social media influen...
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Open Call How do you experience a quieter city?18 May 2020How do you experience a quieter city? Or a silenced city? Our cities are normally filled with noise. The corona crisis has changed that. Few or no peo...
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Understanding (the value of) machine translation14 May 2020Leiden University Lecturer Lettie Dorst wins a prestigious Comenius Senior Fellow grant for a project about machine translation and its use in higher ...
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‘Once you really learn to listen, a whole new world opens up’08 May 2020Marcel Cobussen, professor of Auditory Culture and Music Philosophy, has made listening his speciality. From the sounds of a microwave to chirruping b...
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Citizenship, Migration & Global Transformation: an interdisciplinary research project28 April 2020A research team of fifteen people – representing domains such as political economy, international relations, law, history and public administration - ...
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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their stories23 April 2020Remembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history...
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Share your RECORDINGS with the Journal of Sonic Studies16 April 2020......documentation of the sonic impacts of COVID-19. Many of you have heard the sounds of Wuhan residents chanting “Keep it up, Wuhan!” or Italians s...
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The corona crisis through the eyes of social scientists14 April 2020The corona crisis relates to not only the medical field but also the field of the social sciences and humanities. SSH Beraad, a consultation body that...
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‘Even Ancient and Medieval ideas can help the Modern World’14 April 2020Ahab Bdaiwi, University Lecturer of Islamic history, religion and philosophy, was received the first Faculty Impact Award. His interest lies in ‘every...