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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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Habsburg family pulled strings to bring raiders of English North Cape expedition to justiceRichard Chancellor, the English Willem Barentsz, discovered the North Cape during the first English expedition to attempt to find a northeast passage....
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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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Roundtable on Horizontal Direct Effect, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights/General Principles of EU Law and the Effect of DirectivesFollowing the Mangold and Kücükdeveci case law of the CJEU, the horizontal direct effect of EU general principles and of provisions of the Charter of ...
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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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Panji – Diponegoro – La Galigo Exhibition UNESCO Memory of the WorldThe Panji manuscripts, Prince Diponegoro’s autobiography, and the La Galigo epic poems are some of the most remarkable literary works from Southeast A...
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchersFrom artificial intelligence to letters from the Dutch East Indies and from breast-cancer gene BRCA-1 to the collaboration between government and oppo...
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All the Einsteins: pop-up exhibition at Rijksmuseum BoerhaaveA pop-up exhibition ‘All the Einsteins’ will open at Rijsmuseum Boerhaave on 29 May 2019. This is the first time that the museum will present its enti...
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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...