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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’
Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, one of the four museums of the University of Oxford.
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A multi-disciplinary conversation about urban transformation in Turin The case of Mirafiori Sud
This blogpost reports on one of these conversations, which Alessandro Pisano, political science student at the University of Turin, and I had with regards to the transforming neighbourhood of Mirafiori Sud.
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'I get to continue my academic career': archaeologist who fled Damascus for Leiden
Ghazwan Yaghi was a leading archaeologist and researcher in Damascus but had to flee in 2014 because of the war. An NWO 'Refugees in Science' grant has enabled him to pick up where he left off in his academic career. 'I've found myself again in this project.'
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GI grants awarded to Mariana Francozo, Sabine Luning and Wayne Modest
Global Interactions is pleased to announce that we have awarded a GI Advanced Seminar grant to Dr. Mariana Francozo (Archaeology) for 'Historia Naturalis Brasiliae' and a Breed Grant for 'Global Earth Matters' to Dr. Sabine Luning (CA-DS) and Dr. Wayne Modest (RCMC)
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A small ode to 412 dead
In 2011 Leiden University came into possession of the skeletons from a graveyard in Middenbeemster. But what could be done with all these bones and skulls? Well, the answer is: more than you might think. Since the excavation, it has been raining interesting scientific discoveries at the Faculty of Archaeology.…
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Garenmarket: woven into the fabric of Leiden
From cloth to serge and from ‘frame lands’ to a wool factory. Archaeologist and historian Roos van Oosten was pleasantly surprised by what she found out about Garenmarkt in Leiden. The historical research on the site of the new car park, which opens to the public on 19 February, has added a new chapter…
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Lending an Ear to Students’ Life in the Pandemic
At the end of a difficult year, students of ACPA’s Music Minor have put together “sonic postcards” to capture their experience of life under Covid restrictions. The result is a powerful, intimate statement about our pandemic fears and hopes.
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Special anniversary celebration for Leiden University: 440 years
The celebration of Leiden's Dies Natalis on Monday 9 February in the Pieterskerk was extra special this year and was attended by many prominent guests. This was the kick-off of the special 88th Lustrum (five-year) celebrations in 2015.
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this second instalment: historian and university lecturer Nadia Bouras (1981). ‘Although I only found out later that was my mother’s dream, it was as though I…
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They want to be in Leiden's council
Many students and members of staff at Leiden University are politically active. In the run up to the local elections on 21 March candidates in The Hague and Leiden explain why you should vote for them, and what they want to do if they are elected. In this article, the Leiden candidates.
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The ancient Egyptians were just like us
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a study by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands concludes. If you wanted to prove that you had good taste in ancient Egypt then…
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Ten Leiden students awarded VSB scholarship to study abroad
Ten students at Leiden University were awarded a scholarship by the VSB Foundation, during a festive event in the Hortus Botanicus on 8 June. This scholarship will allow them to take a master's, or a second master's, or carry out a research project abroad. Who are they and what will they be doing?
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CPP Colloquium with Douglas MacLean "Climate Change Ethics: Complicity and Accountability"
Lecture
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LUCIR Lecture: Strategic Autonomy or Strategic Cacophony? The Evolution and State of European Defence
Lecture
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CPP Colloquium with Barbara Arneil; Domestic Colonies in Europe
Lecture
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Why Do Government Aid Agencies Die? A "Court Politics" Approach
Lecture
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Sustainability transitions: navigating through industry collaborations
Lecture
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LUCIP Lecture Series with Godfrey Igwebuike Onah
Lecture
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Van Leeuwenhoek Lecture on BioScience: DNA Sequencing Technology
Lecture
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11th annual Bronisław Geremek lecture: The Borders of the West
Lecture
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The Yangtze and the Rhine: A historical conference
Conference
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From “The Sea Bastards” to “Solidarity Beyond Ocean”: Japanese Dockworkers and the Politics of Scale in the Bandung Moment
Lecture
- The Imam of the Christians: Round-table on newly published book by Prof. Philip Wood
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Mapping the Transmission of Knowledge in Tenth-Century Baghdad: an Investigation of the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim
Lecture, LUCIS
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The Role and Relevance of the The Hague International Space Resources Governance Working Group
Conference
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laboured landscapes
Conference
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Re-Presented Pasts: Uses and Re-Uses of the Past in Pre-Modern Islam
Conference, LUCIS Research Programme | Re-Presented Pasts
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Intercultural Philosophy as Philosophy: Some Remarks on Leiden Philosophy’s Mission
Lecture
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CPP Colloquim with Manon Westphal "For a Realist Turn in Agonistic Democracy"
Lecture
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Conference Mediated Cicero
Conference
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This Week’s Discoveries | 17 December 2019
Lecture
- The global cosmopolis. Past, present and future of the city of Alexandria
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CPP Colloquium with Arash Abizadeh: “The Democratic Legitimacy of Border Coercion”
Lecture
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http://www.uva.nl/profiel/h/i/h.j.hiddinga/h.j.hiddinga.html
Lecture
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The Problem of Costly Concessions in Peace Negotiations
Lecture
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LUCIP FORUM
Lecture
- Public lecture "Conserving Art and Nature: how to deal with change" in Naturalis
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How can we study Islam in post-WWII Central Asia?
Masterclass
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Symposium Transformations of the Audible
Arts and culture
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Book Workshop, Egbert Bos: Understanding Medieval Latin with the Help of Middle Dutch
Debate
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ASCL Seminar: Roadblock Politics - Predation and Resistance in Central Africa
Lecture
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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Strategic Autonomy or Strategic Cacophony? The Evolution and State of European Defence
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
- Volume 13 (2018)
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Presentations and Lectures
Members of our research team give different types of presentations and lectures.
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CPP Colloquium with Annabelle Lever: "Democracy Without Liberalism?"
Lecture
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Moral leadership and courage from different perspectives
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
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The cost of leadership and moral courage
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
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The repair of moral injury
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
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Data Science and Leiden Law School
Lecture, Seminar