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Susanna Lindberg: ‘I want to protect our plurality and openness’ 26 March 2024
Professor Susanna Lindberg has been appointed Scientific Director of the Institute for Philosophy with effect from 1 February. In her new role, she ai...
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Wouter Kalf and Niels van Doesum win a Seed Grant 19 March 2024
To support interdisciplinary research on today's world-scale changes and governing challenges, the GTGC programme awards a number of seed grants to sc...
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Politics, Opera & Philosophy 11 January 2024
Opera, more so perhaps than most other forms of art, is deeply intertwined with philosophy and politics. For some composers this was explicitly so. Th...
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LCCP Research Seminar Program Spring 2024 06 December 2023
The seminar is dedicated to the research and work in progress of Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy staff and doctoral students. It also welcome...
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Trying to fight global warming with philosophy 16 November 2023
In her inaugural lecture Susanna Lindberg will ask how philosophy should respond to global warming. She does not simply aim to apply existing philosop...
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Caspar Jacobs, Marta Bielinska Winners of Du Châtelet Prize 2023 08 November 2023
The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is awarded annually for previously unpublished work in philosophy of physics by a graduate student or j...
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Five tips for Museum Night Leiden 30 May 2023
Saturday 3 June will see the 15th edition of Museum Night Leiden. Students and researchers from Leiden University are once again on the programme this...
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Botany: a love you can’t force 22 May 2023
Botanical philosopher Norbert Peeters talks about how people treat plants in general and weeds in particular.
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Man, woman and more: 'Why does my passport have to say I'm a woman?' 17 May 2023
Protests against textbooks on trans persons in America and against a reading hour by drag queens in Rotterdam: it has been raining protests recently a...
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Radio show opens vote for national flower of the Netherlands 08 May 2023
The Netherlands doesn’t have a national flower. The Vroege Vogels radio show wants to change this and is holding a vote. Experts from Leiden Universit...
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund 28 February 2023
More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other proj...
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Bruno Verbeek: 'If your teaching is going well, you have to innovate' 06 February 2023
Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Qualification in Education (SKO) this year. University lecturer Bruno Verbeek is one of them. What does...
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Getting your master's thesis published in a prestigious journal: alumni Matthieu did that 27 January 2023
After completing one bachelor’s and two master’s programmes at Leiden University, alumnus in Philosophical Perspectives on Politics and the Economy Ma...
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Woman, man or somewhere in between? You decide (and not just your body) 05 December 2022
A female body equals a woman. Nonsense, says Professor by Special Appointment to the Socrates Chair Annemie Halsema. She argues that our sense of iden...
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3 October University: ‘Artificial intelligence is like young people and sex’ 04 October 2022
‘Everyone’s talking about it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, but the reality is disappointing,’ says biochemist Gerard van Westen in his 3...