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New SSH laboratories in Sylvius Building 22 December 2022
On the second floor of the Sylvius Laboratory, new labs are being built for researchers of the Faculties of Social and Behavioural Sciences and Humani...
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Secondary school students grapple with Dutch texts: ‘I liked the feminist part best’ 22 December 2022
University lecturer Olga van Marion invited pupils from Ashram College in Alphen aan den Rijn to take part in a series of Dutch workshops organised at...
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Call for Papers: Summer school 'Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries' 21 December 2022
On 26-28 June, 2023, Leiden University’s Institute for History will host a summer school on Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-1...
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed? 20 December 2022
The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary natur...
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LCCP working seminar spring 2023 20 December 2022
The seminar is dedicated to the work-in-progress of Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy staff and doctoral students. It also welcomes guest speak...
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New project on musical robots for people with dementia 19 December 2022
Under the umbrella of a recently NWO grant focused on using AI to increase quality of life for people with dementia, Rebecca Schaefer’s Music, Brain, ...
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Update development of the new joint Platform for Arts Research in Collaboration (PARC) 19 December 2022
In 2021, the KABK, KC and ACPA established a joint research platform, called the Platform for Arts Research in Collaboration (PARC). How did PARC move...
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Back to Present- by Thalia Hoffman 19 December 2022
In Back to Present ACPA alumna Thalia Hoffman discusses the themes, filming structure, and editing process of the short film A Day Becomes (2018) on V...
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Individual project- Exile: an Interview 19 December 2022
Exile: an Interview- 29 December 2022 & 2 February 2023 at Beit Ha'gefen Gallery, Haifa.
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More than just blue domes and camels: new Louvre film on Uzbek artefacts 19 December 2022
Terracotta pottery, precious ikat fabrics and the bazaars where these goods are sold: all these can be seen in a new Louvre film premiering on Friday ...
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Misleading bar and pie charts: How graphs can lead you astray 19 December 2022
Cutting off the y-axis, using 3D effects and only showing part of the available data: these are all tactics to mislead people with graphs. But they do...
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about' 19 December 2022
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she en...
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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories 19 December 2022
Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the Unive...
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Slavery excuses: 'Cabinet created its own problem by rushing in' 15 December 2022
The excuses for the slavery past? It would have been better if the cabinet had taken some more time on that, thinks university lecturer and Atlantic s...
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New step in development of Humanities Campus: Urban development plan available for viewing 14 December 2022
Leiden University has designed a new Urban Development Plan for the Humanities Campus. This plan incorporates participation from the immediate environ...