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Blog Post | Towards an AI-based Counter-Disinformation Framework
In this blog post, Linda Slapakova discusses the various roles that AI plays in counter-disinformation efforts, the prevailing shortfalls of AI-based counter-disinformation tools and the technical, governance and regulatory barriers to their uptake, and how these could be addressed to foster the uptake…
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‘We will offer a warm welcome to our students, both in person and online’
The University buildings are partially reopening to students. And first-years will be able to discover real-life Leiden or The Hague during the introduction weeks this summer. Vice-Rector Hester Bijl describes what will be possible once more at the ‘one-and-a-half-metre university’. ‘We want to provide…
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Tyron Offerman: ‘One straight line from when I was 5 to now’
Tyron Offerman wants to get the most out of life. This 28-year-old computer scientist and business economics graduate has an impressive three jobs: IT strategy consultant, and lecturer and PhD candidate at Leiden University. All his own choice. ‘I do a lot of sports. I have to to be able to keep all…
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Why we need to co-create knowledge for sustainability – and why this is easier said than done
Recent debates on energy transitions and poverty illustrate the social ecological complexities of sustainability problems. These cannot be tackled by single academic disciplines – nor by academics alone. In this blog, Marja Spierenburg reflects on the need for, and challenges of ‘transdisciplinarity…
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Only in America: chemist becomes America correspondent
Chemistry, which is what Hans Klis studied in Leiden, is not what one might expect of a general journalist. ‘I’m a late bloomer,’ he says, despite having spent four years as America correspondent and written a book on notorious school shootings by the tender age of 34.
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‘The connection with society is always closer than you think’
On the Things That Talk platform, students publish stories about objects from museums from the many collections of the university library and the city. An interview with Fresco Sam-Sin, its creator. Sam-Sin: ‘Things That Talk is a way to talk to each other about the structure of our education and about…
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Pieter's Corner: Climate change
Climate change is a hot topic and constantly in the news. Thousands of Dutch high school students protested at the Malieveld in The Hague. News website Nu.nl has barred climate change deniers from their comments section to prevent ‘fake news’. How does climate change impact the research community, and…
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Professor Willem Otterspeer on his retirement: ‘My career is like the Danube.’
University historian Willem Otterspeer is about to retire, and he will give his farewell lecture on 4 November. Although... it is really a farewell? He still plans to write another five books, using oceans of archive material. 'An archive should be like the surf breaking on the seashore: wonderful…
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Leiden victims of WWII given a face
Every year on 26 November Leiden University commemorates the protest speech given by Professor Cleveringa against the Nazis. At least 663 students, staff and alumni of the University lost their lives during the Second World War, yet little was known about these victims. PhD candidate Adriënne Baars…
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COI Conference 2023: Call for Abstracts
The 2023 Conference: Institutions for Conflict Resolution (COI) aims to identify just institutional approaches that seek (real) conflict prevention and conflict resolution in the legal context. It will be held in Utrecht on 28 and 29 September 2023. We welcome abstracts from all researchers around the…
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Blog Post | Do diplomatic gifts matter?
In this blog, Jorg Kustermans asks the question whether diplomatic gifts matter - a subject covered in the latest HJD Forum on gift giving in diplomacy.
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New Scientist Scientific Talent 2015: Interview with Marieke Liem
The magazine New Scientist selected 25 nominees from candidates proposed by all Dutch and Belgian universities for the New Scientist Science talent 2015 election. One of these nominees is dr. Marieke Liem, who works at the Centre for Terrorism & Counterterrorism.
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Pieter's Corner: Out-of-home placement
...What does seem clear, though, is that there is a great deal of room for improvement in the process of out-of-home placement. The FSW's social and behavioural scientists give their views.
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Leiden scholars on the ‘bar-room brawl’ between Trump and Biden
Few have dared declare a winner of the debate between American president Donald Trump and his Democrat challenger Joe Biden. It was more about who was least worst. What do psychologist Willem van der Does, historian Andrew Gawthorpe and policy science scholar Brandon Zicha make of the debate?
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Female sexuality in times of social media
Milou Deelen (24) rapidly rose to prominence as the Dutch advocate of frank talk about women’s sexuality. It has cost her dear, but she has received so much assent, praise and support that she won’t be giving up anytime soon. In the Annie Romein Verschoor Lecture on 5 March, Leiden University’s celebration…
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Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
Lecture
- OSCoffee: a hands-on introduction to preregistration
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Getting to the core of crimmigration
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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This Week’s Discoveries | 23 January 2018
Lecture
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A Transmission and Its Transformation: The Liqujing Shibahui Mantuluo in Daigoji
PhD defence
- Postponed: Online book launch 'Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy'
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Nationalism and International Order
Conference
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The interpretation of syntactic focus variation
Lecture
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CPP Colloquium with Yolande Jansen: “‘Decolonising philosophy’ and the postcolonial and decolonial humanities”
Lecture
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Sound, Technology and Listening - Artistic Research at the Institute of Sonology
Arts and culture, Online event
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Special Event on the global arms trade: Film Screening of 'Shadow World' and Q&A with Andrew Feinstein
Film screening
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Workshop Phi and Agree
Lecture
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Ozan Candogan
Lecture
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Multilingual The Hague
Lecture
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Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration
Lecture
- Dutch for Civic Integration level 4
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Climate justice through the courts: Will courts prevent (and redress) human rights harm from climate change?
Lecture
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The reflections of memory
PhD defence
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The Xinhua News Agency and Chinese Foreign Policy in the Cold War
Lecture, on Microsoft Teams
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Double Lecture: Eugenie Brinkema (MIT) and Julius Greve (University of Oldenburg) “Decomposition and Deformation: Literature, Film, Philosophy”
Lecture
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Criptic Identities. Historicizing the identity formation of persons with disabilities across the globe
Conference, Workshop
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Stories of the Supernatural: Encounters with the Other Side in Literary and Everyday Narratives (7th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity)
Lecture, Symposium
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Lecture by Andrea Roventini (in Utrecht)
Lecture
- Dutch for Civic Integration level 6
- Dutch for Civic Integration level 5
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Online Minor Market 2022
Study information
- Public graduation presentation, Lal Avgen
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Career College: To PhD or not to PhD?
Career and apply for jobs
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Interrogating Speculative Futures: A workshop on the politics of imagining a future with(out) chronic illness
Course, Online Workshop
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CPP Lecture New Foundations in Hobbes's Leviathan
Lecture
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Political Violence and Process of Reconciliation in Morocco: the Power of Testimony and the Limits of Postcolonial Theory
Course, LUCIS Short Stay Visiting Scholar Masterclass
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Stephen Ellis Annual Research Lecture: Nanjala Nyabola: African Feminism as Method
Lecture
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Transnational Curation Politics: Contemporary Muslim Fashions
Lecture, LUCIS Short-Stay Visiting Scholar Lecture
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LTP Lecture with Kit Fine 'The Logic and Metaphysics of Gender'
Lecture
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The Island of the Divine Crocodile – Recent Research on Textual and Other Archaeological Remains from Soknopaiou Nesos
Conference