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Professor Mila Versteeg distinguished fellow at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law 23 January 2023Professor Versteeg is currently Professor of Law at Virginia School of Law in the United States, where she has been working since 2011 as Miller Cente...
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Dutch cabinet not adopting Boot Committee's main recommendation on ZZP plans 23 January 2023According to Gerrard Boot, Professor of Labour Law, the recommendations of the Committee he chaired on model agreements (Boot Committee) are only part...
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war 23 January 2023According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take Russia’s words and m...
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Falling bombs and looting soldiers: how to protect Ukraine’s cultural heritage? 23 January 2023The war in Ukraine is leading not only to human suffering. Ukraine's cultural heritage is also experiencing the consequences of the war: museums are b...
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Jan Willem Erisman appointed chair of Scientific Climate Council 20 January 2023The Council of Ministers has appointed Jan Willem Erisman, Professor of Environment and Sustainability at Leiden University, as chair of the new Scien...
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‘Fanatical collectors often have a sense of lack or loss’ 20 January 2023Leiden Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, Pieter ter Keurs, conducts research into the provenance of museum collections. This is important...
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Winner Africa Thesis Award 2022: Robert Okello 20 January 2023The winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2022 is Robert Okello for his thesis on rural women’s legal empowerment through digital technology in Northern U...
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What is there to do at Leiden University in 2023? Six events to look forward to 20 January 2023From sponsored runs to festivals and from open days to concerts: Leiden University hosts all manner of events every year. To make sure these events ge...
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Lucien van Beek receives LUF grant: 'It is a great feeling to be able to work out my ideas' 20 January 2023University lecturer Lucien van Beek has been awarded a LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant. He will use the sum of 75,000 euros to research the thinking o...
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Leiden astronomers launch biggest space-ice database ever: ‘A kind of phone book, but for ice’ 19 January 2023It is the largest database for space ice yet: The Leiden Ice Database for Astrochemistry: LIDA. Created by astrophysicists at the Leiden Observatory, ...
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Medical Delta professor: ‘You can talk about collaboration until the cows come home but at some point, you actually have to start doing it’ 19 January 2023Patients and healthcare providers use Remote Patient Management platforms to exchange information with each other. New methods like this are desperate...
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Valerie Frissen on NPO Radio 1 about Microsoft's new VALL-E software 19 January 2023Microsoft’s new software VALL-E only has to hear a voice for three seconds to be able to imitate it almost perfectly. You can choose which emotion the...
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OPZIJ-editor-in-chief Marleen Hogendoorn: ‘I was already a budding feminist at the age of eleven' 19 January 2023Marleen Hogendoorn (36) studied Dutch Language and Culture at Leiden University and is now editor-in-chief of the feminist monthly OPZIJ. How does she...
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Strikes the result of high inflation 18 January 2023Employees are laying down their work in various sectors, such as regional public transportation and Dutch postal service PostNL. Inflation appears to ...
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Publication - inaugural lecture by ACPA alumnus Falk Hübner 18 January 2023At the start of the new year, Falk Hübner's (DocARTES/ ACPA alumnus and now professor/lector of Artistic Connective Practices at Fontys Fine and Perfo...