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- Volume 3 (2008)
- Volume 10 (2015)
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Alumni
Since 2009, at ACPA, 79 candidates received their PhD in Creative and Performing Arts. On this page you will find an overview of ACPA's alumni.
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No legal career but a food truck on Bonaire instead
If you study law, you won’t necessarily end up striding round a law firm in tailor-made suits. Alumnus Harrie Schoffelen certainly hasn’t: he made the conscious decision to follow another path in life. Together with his fiancée he runs a successful food truck on the tropical island of Bonaire. ‘Return…
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Pieter's Corner: How useful is deprivation of liberty?
A new bill is currently under debate in the Netherlands, advocating raising the prison sentence for manslaughter from 15 to 25 years. ‘This very serious crime (...) evokes feelings of disgust and insecurity in society’, Dutch Minister for Justice and Security Grapperhaus comments on the sentence that…
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence
In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate. Archaeology research in Leiden into burial mounds in the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas of the Netherlands yielded this spectacular conclusion.…
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John Mydosh and the mystery of the Hidden Order
A 35-year-old uranium crystal will not disclose its secret: what causes a dramatic phase transition at 17.5 Kelvin? Thanks to a new artificial intelligence approach, half of the possible explanations are excluded, but the definitive answer remains to be found. 'It is very frustrating', says physicist…
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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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Pieter's Corner: Wokisme
Minister of Justice Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius recently warned against
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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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Thriller writer Jeroen Windmeijer: books have their own truth
With cultural anthropology alumnus Jeroen Windmeijer, Leiden has added another writer to the fold. Following the success of his religious-historical thrillers, he has been able to call himself a full-time writer since 1 January 2019. ‘Not a true story but still true.’
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First LUCAS Public Prize goes to Hugo Koning
Hugo Koning, an expert in Greek mythology, has won the Lucas Public Prize because he has brought his research to the attention of the general public in so many different ways. This is the first Public Prize awarded by the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS). Hugo says with a smile:…
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Other Stories (1610-1795)
Lecture
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LUCIR Lecture: Strategic Autonomy or Strategic Cacophony? The Evolution and State of European Defence
Lecture
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Empire and the Politics of Self-Determination: The International Roots of the Nation-State Order
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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9th LUCIS Annual Conference | Approaching Shiʿi Islam in the Academy
Conference
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11th annual Bronisław Geremek lecture: The Borders of the West
Lecture
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Chemical Biology Lecture: Functional supramolecular systems and materials
Lecture
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FGGA Research Seminar: Out of Line: The Political and Distributive Salience of Queues, Lines, and Ordered Waiting
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Modern Transimperial Histories: Forms, Questions, Prospects
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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Movie screening: The Imitation Game
Lecture
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Enregistering Lisa: names as a sociolinguistic resource
Lecture, Sociolinguistics Series
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[CANCELLED] Protests, Neoliberalism, and Authoritarianism: Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Morocco
Debate, LUCIS Discussion Panel
- Counterterrorism in a global perspective
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The Political Ecology of Crisis and Revolt: Rural Development, Agrarian Change and the Environment in Egypt
Debate, LUCIS Panel Discussion
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Hip Hop Diplomacy as Subversive Complicity
Guest Lecture
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The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood Within the Geopolitics of the Middle East
LUCIS Lecture
- LUCIP Forum, Debates on Death and Immortality in Classical Chinese Cosmology
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Henriëtte van Lynden lezing: A Decade after the Spring - The Arab World at Crossroads.
Lecture, Henriette van Lynden lezing
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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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The Logistics of Perception: Cinema, US Intelligence, and the Second World War
Lecture
- Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS) year 2019-2020
- ICAS 11: 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars
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The Transatlantic Era 1989-2020: A Textbook Project
Seminar
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Academic Symposium on 'The Inherently Political Nature of Subsidiarity': Dr Dominic Burbidge (Oxford)
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)
- Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace: Novel Horizons
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In Memoriam: Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck (May 20, 1947 – October 31, 2020)
An age-old expression in Classical Chinese is yǔ zhòng bù tóng 與眾不同, meaning ‘out of the ordinary.’ It could have been the motto of Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck, who taught that language for decades at Leiden University. What was different about him? He was extraordinarily gifted, helpful, and above all…
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Interview with Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn
Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn LLM., Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the University of Leiden, completed his habilitation in July 2020 at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin and acquired the Venia for Constitutional Law, International Law and International Criminal Law. The…
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
- Volume 15 (2020)
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Diversity, equity and inclusion in the sciences and beyond
Symposium
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Perspectives on Recent Developments in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Debate, LUCIS Panel Discussion | Islam in Central Asia
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By the rivers of Babylon: New perspectives on Second Temple Judaism from Cuneiform texts
“BABYLON” investigates the extent of the similarities between Babylonian and post-exilic forms of cultic and social organization and explores the question how Babylonian models could have influenced the restoration effort in Jerusalem.
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Historicizing Security. Enemies of the State, 1813 until present
The research project ‘The History of National Security, 1945-present', is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Campus The Hague/Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH). The project will run until the summer of 2013, when we hope…
- Volume 13 (2018)
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Dissertations
Overview of all dissertations published by PhD candidates from CML.
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VVAK Lustrum Symposium: Collecting Asian Art in the Western World – Past, Present and Future
Conference
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Righting the Balance: Defence Perspectives of International Criminal Justice
Supranational Criminal Law Lecture Series