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Leiden Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium with Joke Spruyt, 'What if...? Thirteenth-century conceptions of (logical) necessity'
Lecture
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Creativity for beginners
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Ballet immersion: Toward core integration and elasticity in the moving body
Arts and leisure
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Platform for Artistic Research: ARC on Social Engagement
Debate, Artistic Research forum
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Finessage for ‘Touching: An Exhibition of Material Research Samples and Recipes’
Arts and culture
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Museum Talks 2019: Seminar: The Reopened AfricaMuseum Tervuren
Lecture, Seminar
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Leiden Translation Talks goes Zoom! Online talk by Alexandra Assis Rosa on Audiovisual Translation and Research
Lecture
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48 Hour Project
Arts and culture
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Reconsidering Katsushika Ōi
Lecture
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ARC session- Musicians Playing With Computers | Musicians Interacting With The World
Arts and culture, ARC session
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Book launch: Afrikaanse letterkunde. Tradities, genres, auteurs en ontwikkelingen
Arts and culture
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Theatre Performance: Meet the Millennials
Arts and culture, Theatre Performance
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The Otherwise Atlantic, or: Thinking African Diaspora Theories as Universals
Arts and culture, Roundtable
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RENPET round table: Europe's turning point
Debate
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26 Research and Education Grants in 2020 for the Institute of Security and Global Affairs
Whilst 2020 has been an unusual and taxing year for colleagues at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), the Institute nevertheless can look back on an impressive range of successful grant applications during the previous year. This impressive result was achieved on top of excellent results…
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Van Leeuwenhoek Lecture on BioScience: DNA Sequencing Technology
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2018 Hall of Fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2018 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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The Importance of International Women’s Day: ‘Gender equality worldwide is nowhere to be found’
On 8 March, International Women’s Day, equal opportunities for women worldwide, empowerment, and gender equality take centre stage. This day has been celebrated in the Netherlands since 1912, usually centring around a specific theme. This year’s theme: solidarity, the power for change.
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Hetty Cohen-Koster was present at Cleveringa’s speech
'I belong here.' This is what the young Jewish law student Hetty Koster felt when she attended the memorable protest speech given by Professor Cleveringa on 26 November 1940. She managed to survive the war by going into hiding. She married Dolf Cohen, later Rector Magnificus of Leiden University, and…
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‘I became a stronger believer in the power of Europe’
She knew that a degree in Public Administration would be a stepping-stone to a career in politics. And that is exactly what Leiden alumna Samira Rafaela (30) wanted. Thanks to preferential votes, this member of the D66 party is the first Dutch MEP from an Afro-Caribbean background.
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Call for Papers - Monarchy in turmoil: princes, courts, and politics in revolution and restoration 1780-1830
For every period, it is a challenge to unearth the details of political trafficking; yet the effort needs to include all relevant persons, groups, and institutions – not only those wielding formal responsibilities. We hope to reinvigorate this effort by inviting specialists to present their research…
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Pieter's Corner: Wokisme
Minister of Justice Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius recently warned against
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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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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No moderation in tone at Trump's inauguration
The brand-new American President Donald Trump delivered his inaugural speech on 20 January. There was little sign of conciliation and he was liberal with the truth, in the opinion of a number of Leiden academics. One professor is more positive: 'He wants to take on radical Islam.'
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Leiden Law Cast: Victimisation of sexually transgressive behaviour with Maarten Kunst
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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FGGA in 2022: This was the year for our Faculty
We started this year as we ended it in 2021: in a lockdown. But the world continues to open up. We are occasionally allowed to go into the office and students are able to return to Campus. Continue reading to find out what the rest of the year has been like.
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‘International isolation is not an option’
Security in the broadest sense of the word was the key focus in the Interfaculty Conference on 4 April in Leiden. With almost 200 attendees and such well-known speakers as Dick Schoof, Pieter van Vollenhoven and Ad Verbrugge, the first conference was a success.
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Facts about water: local knowledge, scientific models and societal conflict regarding dams and fracking
Lecture, First Water Talk of the Water and Society Lab
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CPP Colloquium with Douglas MacLean "Climate Change Ethics: Complicity and Accountability"
Lecture
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Tracing the Invisible History of the Global South and the United Nations: The Prohibitive Politics of Decolonization
Lecture
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Kamran Matin: Lineages of the Islamic State: An international historical sociology of State (de‐)formation in Iraq
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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11th annual Bronisław Geremek lecture: The Borders of the West
Lecture
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Online Kress Talks with Cynthia Kok and Margaret Mansfield
Lecture
- Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Pleidooi voor een lekenrenaissance
PhD defence
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CPP Colloquium, Academic Freedom: How to Conceptualize and Justify it?
Lecture
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Virtuous Suffering: new perspectives on the ethics of suffering for critical global health and justice
Lecture, Workshop
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Book presentation: The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex
Lecture
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Middle Eastern Civil Wars and the Early End of the Cold War Order
LUCIS What's New Lecture
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LUCIP FORUM
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Ageing Abroad: The Ethics of “Granny Export”
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This Week’s Discoveries | 28 January 2020
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This Week's Discoveries | 26 November 2019
Lecture
- Dies Natalis 2023
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Dies Natalis 2023
University ceremony
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Institutions for Conflict Resolution
Institutions for Conflict Resolution in Leiden focuses on how the judiciary is able to prevent and solve problems.
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Public Administration
You are about to start your Master's programme in MSc. Public Administration at Leiden University in The Hague, The Netherlands. Make sure you are well prepared and get your studies off to a good start.
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Hall of Fame 2017
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed members of academic societies or have taken up positions in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include them…
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Leiden Law Cast #2: The role of the criminal defence lawyer with Dr M. Lochs
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.