News
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Await AND anticipate. How the municipality of Amsterdam manages developments in the digital public domain. 08 May 2023
The issue of how to deal with a development such as digitalisation in the public domain raises difficult questions for the municipality: who is respon...
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry 04 May 2023
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem l...
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference 25 April 2023
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will ...
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New publication with editions of papyri and ostraca in the Leiden Papyrological Institute 18 April 2023
This volume contains the first edition of 66 papyri and ostraca in the collection of the Leiden Papyrological Institute.
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The future belongs to the youth, but perhaps not in Netherlands 13 April 2023
Three professors voice their concerns about a vulnerable group in our society: children who come into contact with youth care.
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‘Comprehensive handbook victims’ – Interview with Janne van Doorn 11 April 2023
What do scholars, the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service, the police, the National Rapporteur Human Trafficking, Victim Support Netherlands, and t...
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How migration policy in autocracies and democracies differs from what we expect 11 April 2023
What is the effect of a certain regime on a country’s migration policy? Political scientist Katharina Natter compared the migration policy of autocrat...
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Archaeologist Maikel Kuijpers signs international book contract with Penguin Press 06 April 2023
Back in 2020, Dr Maikel Kuijpers started to write for The Correspondent. His articles offered readers a unique long-term insight into the materials th...
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Literary Leiden 03 April 2023
Quietly read a book in our new reading nook, listen to interesting and bizarre stories set in early twentieth-century Leiden, walk past literary locat...
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Vasiliki Kosta moderates a book launch at the University of Oxford 30 March 2023
Vasiliki Kosta moderated the launch of the book ‘Judicial authority in EU Internal Market Law: Implications for the balance of competences and powers’...
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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list 23 March 2023
While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian s...
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Publication by Helen Duffy on Global trends in Counter-terrorism and the Implications for Human Rights in Africa 13 March 2023
On 8 March 2023 Helen Duffy, Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Leiden, published a monograph on Global Trends in Counter...
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Wim Voermans launches new book 'Onze constitutie' 06 March 2023
The Netherlands has one of the oldest constitutions in the world and a stable system of government lasting more than two centuries. The system’s ‘grou...
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Collection of anatomical drawings available in Europeana 16 February 2023
Almost 4400 anatomical drawings from the collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) are now available through Europeana. The collection shows me...
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CML talents receive Stans Award 07 February 2023
Each year, CML gives out three Stans Awards. The Institute's staff could nominate students and colleagues for the prices of best student thesis, best ...