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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'31 January 2023Applications are now open for the Summer School ‘The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance’ (12 - 23 June 2023) for Master-level an...
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?Reportage 20 December 2022The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary natur...
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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories19 December 2022Life 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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Psychology Connected on why we fight, and how to find peace again06 December 2022After discussing the climate, our psychologists once again broach a big topic: war and peace. Or, perhaps: cooperation and conflict. For no matter how...
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Documentaries, zines and a video installation: multimedia projects by students Visual Ethnography28 November 2022From documentaries, zines and exhibitions to a video installation. Students of the Visual Ethnography master's programme pulled out all the stops to f...
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Leiden Healthy Society Center: making Leiden the healthiest city in the Netherlands10 November 2022How can the people of Leiden age as well as possible? And what is needed to reduce health disparities? That is the mission of Leiden Healthy Society C...
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Essi Pekonen and Ingmar Jansen win Political Science bachelor’s thesis prizes for 202208 November 2022October and November not only bring a number of proud Political Science graduates, it is also the season to determine who wrote the best bachelor’s th...
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Ramsey Albers wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 202217 October 2022Each year, supervisors within the Institute of Political Science are asked to nominate exceptional theses for the annual Thesis Prize. This resulted i...
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Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2022: the nominees04 October 2022Tradition has it that at the end of each academic year, the best master’s thesis in Political Science is awarded a prize. For 2021-2022, the jury is c...
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Bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2022: the nominees29 September 2022The thesis is the Grand Finale for our bachelor students. On their way to the finish, they have gathered considerable knowledge and insights, and acqu...
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Five new Teaching Fellows appointed29 September 2022Max van Lent, Aris Politopoulos, Emily Strange, Claire Vergerio and Astrid Van Weyenberg have joined the Leiden University Teachers’ Academy. Lecturer...
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Thirza is the new student member of the IB: 'I want to hear the opinions of less outspoken students'21 September 2022Since 1 September, fourth-year student Thirza van 't Rood has been the new student member of the Institute Board at Cultural Anthropology. Her first t...
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Ratna Saptari retires: anthropologist dedicated herself with heart and soul to Indonesian workers' and human rights16 September 2022Ratna Saptari is since 2007 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. She has always been involved with...
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Kids become real scientists with Lil'Scientist25 July 2022Children are perfect scientists: they are bursting with curiosity, they want to know how the world works and they go exploring every day. Yet many chi...
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Boardgames and graphic animations: creative ways to present academic information05 July 2022“Your roommate tests positive for COVID but you don’t have any symptoms and haven’t been in close proximity with them, do you still go out with friend...