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LLX round table on the European Court of Justice’s Uber judgment
Conference
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Replacing Curacao’s ‘mild slavery’ thesis: From critique to new findings
Conference, Workshop
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Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Henrietta Moore: What is prosperity for Africa?
Lecture
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NCOH Science Café
Conference
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LCN2 Seminar: Epidemic Spread on Networks
Lecture
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Opening academic year 2021-2022
Lecture
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Anti-Carbamylated protein antibodies in Rheumatoid Arthritis
PhD Defence
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Global Challenges Lecture: Viruses Without Borders
Lecture
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Leiden Networks Day
Conference
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Chemical Biology Lecture
Lecture
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Symposium on 'Constitutional children’s rights and the role of courts as a tool for domestication of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Conference
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Lunch Research Seminar: Earning Our Place, More or Less: Responsibility's Flexible Relationship to Desert
Lecture
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Leiden workshop in Political Science: Iran and Saudi Arabia’s faith-based role conflict in the Middle East
Lecture
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Museum Talk with Gary Schwartz: Rembrandt’s Orient: West Meets East in Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century
Lecture
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The Waste of Society as Seen through Women’s Eyes: Waste, Gender, and National Belonging in Japan
PhD Defence
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Impact of COVID-19: Digital food collectives in Rotterdam
PhD candidate Vincent Walstra reflects on alternative social interactions and mutual aid in the city of Rotterdam during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebration
Myths abound about the Pilgrims, the group of religious refugees from England who set sail for America in 1620. Did they really live in peace with the indigenous peoples of America? In an international conference, historians from Leiden will seek to draw attention to the more negative effects of the…
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Militarisation of Governance of Migration in the EU and Implications for the EU’s identity
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel
Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the rights of women and children in Africa and elsewhere. She will be awarded the honorary doctorate on the Dies Natalis, the University’s foundation day, on 8…
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Kazakhstan’s section of the Great Silk Road in light of new archaeological discoveries
Lecture
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Diplomacy: Explaining Varying Strategies of China, India, and Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Diplomacy
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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How do national courts engage with the Convention on the Rights of the Child?
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) by the UN General Assembly. How do countries implement this treaty and how does it relate to their own national legal system? PhD defence on 3 December 2019.
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Stephanie Rap and Yannick van den Brink presented at the EU Forum on the Rights of the Child in Brussels
Stephanie Rap and Yannick van den Brink, both assistant professor at the Department of Child Law, presented their research at the 11th EU Forum on the rights of the child: Children deprived of their liberty and alternatives to detention, which took place in Brussels from 6 to 8 November 2017.
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The operation of the European Arrest Warrant in the Shadow of Europe’s Rule of Law Crisis
Conference
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Constructing the Sublime: The Discourse on Architecture and Louis XIV's Sublimity in Seventeenth-Century Paris
PhD Defence
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Stepping in another's shoes: The role of primary-school students' perspective-taking abilities during cooperative learning
PhD Defence
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Words and Laments: A Narratological Analysis of Esmāʻil Fasih’s War Novel, The Winter of 1983 (Zemestān-e 62)
PhD Defence
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Keeping Corruption at Bay: A Study of the VOC's Administrative Encounters in Seventeenth-Century Mughal Bengal
PhD Defence
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Conditional Freedom: Free Soil and Fugitive Slaves from the US South to Mexico's Northeast, 1803-1861
PhD Defence
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Technical Reason, and Living Beings:The Role of Analogy in Representing Kant’s Concept of Naturzweck
PhD Defence
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China’s industrial carbon emissions: Historical drivers at the regional and sectoral levels and projections in light of policy
PhD Defence
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Children’s Rights in International Commercial Surrogacy: Exploring the Challenges from a Child Rights, Public International Law Perspective
PhD Defence
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early nineteenth century: a practical introduction to Gilbert Austin's Chironomia (1806)
Lecture
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and the Network Structure of Economic Expertise in Germany and the U.S. During the Great Recession
Lecture
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Alumnus Robert Ietswaart: ‘Machine learning is revolutionising drug discovery’
Robert Ietswaart does research into gene regulation at the famous Harvard Medical School in Boston. He developed an algorithm to better predict whether a candidate medicine is going to produce side effects. He studied mathematics and physics in Leiden, and gained his PhD in computational biology in…
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Spinoza prize for 'migraine professor' Michel Ferrari
Neurologist Professor Michel Ferrari has been awarded the Spinoza prize. 'In biomedical research you can only make breakthroughs at the borders between sciences,' according to Spinoza, doctor and scientist. 'This prize is proof that co-operation works.' Together with clinical and fundamental researchers…
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Thousands of images of frozen bacteria
How do bacteria sense and adapt to their environment? Ariane Briegel, Professor of Ultrastructural Biology, is intrigued by this question. Using new techniques, she produces three-dimensional images of bacteria that provide us with new clues about their sensory system.
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The placebo effect: first world congress in Leiden
Medicines can work even if they have no active ingredient. The first international scientific conference on placebos will take place in Leiden from 2 to 4 April. Placebo researcher Andrea Evers, who is also chairing the conference, answers some pressing questions.
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How EL CID week can go ahead after all
When the government introduced its corona measures, the future of EL CID suddenly looked uncertain. But this annual introduction week will start on 5 August after all. How did the EL CID board pull this off? A glimpse behind the scenes through the eyes of chair Mirte Haanappel.
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A philosophical mythbuster
Cognitive neuroscience gives us a glimpse into our brain activity; it allows us to learn more about ourselves. Or do brain scans actually not say very much about who we are? Philosopher Annemarie van Stee examines four myths about neuroscience and self-understanding.
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When will there be a coronavirus vaccine?
The genetic code of the new coronavirus has been found: it is closely related to the SARS virus from 2003. Professor of Molecular Virology, Eric Snijder, has been researching coronaviruses for years. We asked him a few questions about the outbreak. ‘It’s still unclear whether this new virus is more…
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MOOCs more than online education
Leiden University now offers almost 20 Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). The enthusiasm displayed by participants makes it rewarding to develop and teach such courses, say MOOC lecturers Marlies Reinders and Edwin Bakker. But that is not all, ‘You bring together a global community.’
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Artificial intelligence to extend, not replace human capabilities
Computers are increasingly able to accomplish tasks that are difficult for human experts, such as diagnosing diseases or detecting credit card fraud. While the earliest examples of computational thinking can be traced back to the 13th century, according to Holger Hoos, Leiden Professor of Machine Learning,…
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Race against time: Helping the Netherlands secure almost 20 million Pfizer vaccines
The whole world is waiting anxiously for sufficient supplies of coronavirus vaccines. As Launch Navigator at Pfizer, alumnus Dennis de Mik must help ensure that the Netherlands receives 19.8 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. How is he going about this and how has his Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences…
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Nine Leiden projects awarded first NWO Science Diplomacy Fund
The projects of nine researchers at Leiden University have received funding through the new NWO Science Diplomacy Fund. The Fund is for scientific activities that will improve relations between the Netherlands and other countries.
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COVID Radar is a good predictor of increasing infections
The COVID Radar app is citizen science at its best. More than 200,000 users in the Netherlands are answering questions about their health and behaviour to help predict the development of the pandemic. Niels Chavannes, Professor of General Practice at Leiden University Medical Center, explains how the…
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Indonesia and Leiden University have a shared history – and a shared future
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will head a delegation that is visiting Indonesia at the end of June. The visit is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ‘Leiden’ institute KITLV-Jakarta. What does this institute do and why is Indonesia important to the University?
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Psychologist Bart Verkuil strikes a blow against burnout
Burnout is on the increase. It is caused by group pressure, being ‘on’ all the time and asking too much of ourselves. Clinical psychologist Bart Verkuil advises lowering our expectations.
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Rising infections: how is the University responding?
The infection rate is rising again in the Netherlands, which means it may also be rising among Leiden University’s students and staff. How is the University responding? And what dilemmas is it facing? We spoke to our Rector Magnificus, Chief Security Officer and two other administrators.