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CPP Colloquium: Exploring Rape as a Crime against the Erotic
Lecture
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The Mexican Drug Violence: Hybrid Warfare, Predatory Capitalism and the Logic of Cruelty
PhD Defence
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Documentary screening on a mining conflict in KwaZulu-Natal: This land
Arts and Culture, Film screening
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Recasting Gendered Paradigms: An Indonesian Cleric and Muslim Women in the Malay World
Lecture
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The Limits of Power: Trade Union Pluralism and Politics in Burkina Faso
Lecture
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“Snakebite - from science to society”
Conference
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Landscape, Land-Change and Well-Being in Small Island Contexts: Case Studies from St. Kitts and the Kalinago Territory, Dominica
PhD Defence
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Ethnicity and racism in present-day Latin America. Cases from Bolivia, Chile and Mexico
Lecture, Colloquium Contemporary History of Latin America
- Diplomacy and Global Affairs Research Seminar Series
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Afrikaanse auteurs over vrouwenbesnijdenis: een literaire blik op een complex en evoluerend debat
Lecture
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The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia
Lecture, Book launch and discussion
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ASCL Seminar: Religious engineering - a practice approach to (religious) projects of social transformation
Lecture
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Entrepreneurs by the grace of God: Rethinking policies to promote entrepreneurship among the poor
Lecture
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Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating of Palaeolithic cave sites and their environmental context in the western Mediterranean
PhD Defence
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Book launch: 'White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt, 1926-1974: In a Class of Their Own'
Lecture
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars 2017-2018
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Transnational Figurations of Displacement (TRAFIG)
Conference, Workshop
- Conference: Lessons from Afghanistan
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NISIS Autumn School 2018: Travelling Muslims
Conference
- Volume 9 (2014)
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Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis seeks to explore the transnational and cultural dimensions of intra-Eurasian encounters through Dutch sources.
- Volume 3 (2008)
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Turning over a new leaf: Manuscript innovation in the twelfth-century renaissance
How did the medieval manuscript develop as a physical object during the Twelfth Century Renaissance and what do these changes tell us about the intellectual culture of the period?
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Guest Researchers
We welcome a new round of advanced researchers (post-MA) to apply to the institute's guest researchers positions.
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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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Hall of Fame 2016
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 member of an academic society or have taken on a position in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include…
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Deep sea research with microphone
‘Even at the deepest point in the ocean you can still hear the noise from boats,' says biologist Hans Slabbekoorn. ‘And that's while sound is the most important means of communication for underwater life.' What is the effect of all that underwater noise on fish and other animals? Slabbekoorn is on board…
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Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers
From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant from the NWO. A grant of up to 250,000 euros will give them the opportunity to further elaborate their own ideas over…
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Nature conservation initiatives – who foots the bill?
In January 2020, Marja Spierenburg joined the FSW as the new Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihoods. Let’s get to know her. ‘All my research is basically about nature conservation. I look at areas like national parks, but also at measures aimed at increasing the sustainability of…
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this first…
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
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Urban Slavery in the Age of Abolition, ca. 1770-1930
Conference, Workshop
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Approaches to Ritual and Power in Central Asian History
Lecture
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International PhD Seminar on Slavery, Servitude & Extreme Dependency
Conference, Seminar
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The interpretation of syntactic focus variation
Lecture
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Colloquium: Minorities and The Criminal Justice System
Debate
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Security Governance ‘of the People, by the People, for the People’ Auxiliary Forces in Civil War
Lecture
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Diversity & Empires: Governance of racial and religious plurality overseas (16th-20th centuries)
Conference
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H2020 - Influencing H2020 and the next framework programme
Course
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Is it Possible to Build World Order Without American Hegemony?
Lecture
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Turkic Identities in Pre-modern Central Asia
Lecture
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Online launch of the “Leiden Overview on SOGIESC in International Law”
Conference
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Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
Lecture
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Roundtable on human trafficking in the digital era: The ongoing tragedy of trade in refugees from Eritrea
Conference
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Customizing the Sharia: Matrilineal Muslims of the Indian Ocean Littoral
Conference
- Counterterrorism in a global perspective
- Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS) year 2018 - 2019
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ASCL Seminar: Roadblock Politics - Predation and Resistance in Central Africa
Lecture
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Monthly meeting series LUCAS Modern & Contemporary cluster: Memory Culture in Contemporary Iran
Debate