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Exploring the Faculty’s depots: ‘What's an Indian type of cooking pot doing in Jerusalem?’In the depots of the Faculty of Archaeology, many artifacts, accumulated after decades of fieldwork across the world, are stored. A new project, the L...
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Paul HoudijkSince 2014 church organ player Paul Houdijk has been working on his PhD project on the musical and aesthetic developments of the Dutch 19th-century ch...
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Alessandra Silvestri wins Vidi for understanding the universeAlessandra Silvestri, a cosmologist at the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION), has been awarded an NWO Vidi grant for understanding the expanding univ...
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Successful LLX on the operation of the European Arrest Warrant in the Shadow of Europe’s Rule of Law CrisisThe current rule of law debate in the EU occupies not only the mind of European policy and lawmakers, but also of legal practitioners on the ground. T...
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Searching for quasicrystals near KamchatkaQuasicrystals are crystals with ‘impossible’ five-fold symmetries, which nevertheless were synthesized in the lab in 1982. Paul J. Steinhardt helped f...
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Call for Papers: Relocating Governance in Asia: state and society in South- and Southeast Asia, c. 1800-2000Call for Papers for the conference Relocating Governance in Asia: state and society in South- and Southeast Asia, c. 1800-2000, Leiden University, 22-...
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Using computer simulations to discover where Neanderthals livedArchaeologist Fulco Sherjon has used computer simulations to identify where and how Neanderthals lived in West Europe. What stood out was that they pr...
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New collaboration aims to predict cancer survivalPredicting cancer survival with machine learning, that is the aim of a new collaboration between the Mathematical Institute, the European Organisation...
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Caribbean Ties international exhibition opens at MuseonThe international travelling exhibition Caribbean Ties will open at Museon in The Hague on Saturday 25 May. It tells the untold story of the indigenou...
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Conference and Summer School Europeanisation of administrative law in the Member StatesIn what ways and to which extent are the systems of national administrative law becoming Europeanised? What role do EU legal principles play in this p...
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Photo reportage on Leiden lion research in national newspaperPhotographer Taco van der Eb accompanied Kenyan and Leiden researchers and students on a trip to Lake Nakuru National Park to record their conservatio...
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Timeline Humanities: 444 years back in timeWhat better place to look back at 444 years of Leiden University than at the faculty where we actually study our history? To celebrate this special ye...
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Andy Sorensen's Scientific Reports article in top 100 most readThe research article ‘Neanderthal fire-making technology inferred from microwear analysis’ received 7,053 article views in 2018, placing it as one of ...
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CfP: Going Romance 2019
The Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL) will organise Going Romance 2019 on November 28-29, 2019.
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ECSL Summer Course on Space Law and Policy 2019One of ECSL’s most successful activities is the ECSL Summer Course on Space Law and Policy, which is open to students of all levels of study, as well ...