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Science & Cinema: Leiden researchers at the Leiden International Film Festival29 October 2019A film and quiz at the Old Observatory, a film whose ending you decide or a political satire in The Hague. These are some of the options at Science & ...
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First Uni for City theme afternoon: ‘Art in the community brings people together’21 October 2019How important is art in the community? And which role can the University play in this? At the first open brainstorming session of Uni for City, artist...
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Rethinking Disability Webcomics in the Fȇte de La Science at Sorbonne University18 October 2019The ERC-funded project Rethinking Disability was featured in the Fȇte de La Science which was held on 11 October 2019 at Sorbonne University in Paris.
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Jos Gommans guest curator exhibition 'India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt'18 October 2019Jos Gommans is guest curator of the exhibition "India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt", from October 17th to December 16th 2019 in the Chh...
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What politicians can learn from Cicero and Dionysius17 October 2019'How do you write a slogan to win an election?' Steven Ooms answers this question in his PhD research into ideas about good prose in the time of Caesa...
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Historian Katja Happe new Cleveringa Professor01 October 2019German historian Katja Happe is the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. She will give the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November 2019. She condu...
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‘Too many or too few memories can be problematic’26 September 2019The Public Day of the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition (LIBC) has grown in recent years into one of the most popular popular-science events in ...
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‘An inclusive university begins with which books you choose’24 September 2019Sociologist Aya Ezawa is the new Diversity Officer at Leiden University. What is the University doing well and what could it do better? ‘It’s taken mu...
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Fact-checking from the local council to the European Parliament24 September 2019‘Timmermans says more Polish workers are staying in Poland, but there aren’t any figures to back this up,’ was the headline of NU.nl news website duri...
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Scholar at Risk Lety Elvir Lazo: ‘My university intimidated me too’23 September 2019The proceeds of the Leiden University Science Run on 28 September will go to Scholars at Risk, a section of the UAF that assists refugee scholars. One...
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Exhibition puts ‘forgotten’ part of the Silk Road in the spotlight04 September 2019The story of the iconic Silk Road is often told from the Chinese perspective. An exhibition at Oude UB focuses on the inhabitants and monuments of his...
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Fierce protests against Education Minister's redistribution plans02 September 2019Over a thousand researchers and students protested in Leiden on 2 September against the plans to transfer money to science and technology at the expen...
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A Persian love story and the creation of a rock classic23 August 2019What is the name of the medieval Persian poet Nezami (✞ ca. 1209) doing on the cover of an Eric Clapton rock album? Asghar Seyed Gohrab, associate pro...
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Students from all corners of the world21 August 2019Callum is from Ireland, Sharitah is from The Hague and Kirsten is from Manilla. The new students taking part in the HOP week from 19 to 23 August come...
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Playing Cluedo with speech sounds15 August 2019Using speech analysis to resolve crimes. That's what Meike de Boer (26) is aiming to do with her PhD research. 'By analysing how a person pronounces "...