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Crime and Crime Control: Structures, Developments and Actors
A review of Elke Devroe's participation in the European Society of Criminology of 2016 : The first conference of the European Society of Criminology was held in 2000 in Lausanne. Now, 16 years later and lots of new ESC-members later, the 16th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology…
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‘Governments must provide fundamental rights to certain animals’
Legal proceedings conducted on behalf of apes and animals who are starved for the purpose of an ecological project. What position do animals actually have in the rule of law? And what changes need to be made? PhD candidate Janneke Vink defends her dissertation on 10 October.
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Sada Mire’s Leiden Experience: "the Johnny Cash of Archaeology"
Pioneering in the archaeology of Somaliland, hosting international TV and radio shows, and producing a very successful MOOC: Dr Sada Mire already has a formidable track record.
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Rector Stolker: ‘Give chance a chance’
What does Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker think about subjects such as student stress, ‘clean’ transcripts and the onward march of the English language? Law students fired their questions at Stolker during the Leiden version of College Tour on 27 January.
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Spotlight on integrity
‘Leiden University's code of conduct on Integrity is comprehensive and complete,' says Zeger van der Wal, Professor by Special Appointment in Public Administration at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. He is the holder of the Dales chair, funded by the CAOP. Van der Wal's specialist field…
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LUC Alumna makes it to Trouw Sustainable 100
The Sustainable 100 is an initiative by Dutch newspaper Trouw, consisting of a list of the top 100 sustainable civil initiatives. In October of 2020, the Jonge Klimaatbeweging (Youth Climate Movement NL) became the first youth organization to win first prize. An interview with LUC Alumna and Board Member…
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Four perspectives on smoking and the tobacco lobby
Doctors are entering the fray, court cases are being filed and smokers are becoming more of a pariah. From lobby expert to medical biologist: four Leiden researchers give their perspective on smoking, the tobacco industry and smoking policy
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Food citizens? Advisory Board Meeting in Gdańsk
In late May 2019, the Food citizens? team traveled to Poland for a project meeting and team outing. This was made possible by the European Research Council’s support and facilitated networks and knowledge-generation.
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Blog Post | Actions and Lofty Promises of Science Diplomacy
Scholars from the field of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy have often questioned whether there was substantive difference between international STI policy and science diplomacy. This is hard to answer, but at least we can observe that science diplomacy has had great appeal over the last…
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Blog Post | Incorporating gender considerations into international cybersecurity policy and practice
Gendered dynamics and assumptions are prevalent throughout the field of cybersecurity.
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‘Behaviour comes to us in big data’
Jurist Gineke Wiggers wants to predict the expected impact of legal articles. Carel Stolker, Rector of the University and, like Wiggers, a legal specialist, is enthusiastic about the research. ‘A big data project like this will help us establish the effect of our work on society.’
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Pieter's Corner: The (non)sense of conspiracy theories
Climate change is made up, the secret services murdered Pim Fortuyn and JFK, and the moon landing was a fake show. Conspiracy theories are of all times, providing sensation and entertainment, but also unrest and fear. The corona pandemic is new fuel for conspiracy theorists who set fire to 5G masts,…
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Workshop Teleology and History
Lecture
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Workshop: Where are the Women after Resolution 1325?
Conference
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The Role of Law in Development: steady beacon or mere sham?
Farewell Symposium Jan Michiel Otto
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Third Aviation International Law Conference, Rome
Conference
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Global Ethics: A Utilitarian Approach
Debate, StepTalks
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Mapping and theorizing migration governance and diplomacy: Insights from the South-to-West Asian Migration Corridor
Conference, Workshop
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International Trade and Foreign Aid in a World that is Increasingly Inward Looking
Lecture
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Music Production in the 14th/15th Century Jalayirid and Timurid Courts: The Life and Legacy of Abd al-Qadir Maraghi
Lecture
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Leiden Alumni China Event in Shanghai
Alumni Event
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EU Foreign Policy in Practice: Russia and Other Eastern Neighbours of the EU
Lecture
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Tamasha: local music entertainment in Central Asia in the 19th-20th century
Masterclass
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Leadership in Agile Organisations
Course, Workshop
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Promoting Good Governance Across Borders: The Case of the European Union
Debate, StepTalks
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Crime, punishment and harm: Asylum seeker narratives of the immigration and criminal justice system
Lecture
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Lecture Professor Wolfgang Ernst: The Slave Killed Twice - a Legal Riddle and its European History
Lecture
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Panel “Tunisia is the way”
Debate
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What can the lens of socio-legal studies add to the understanding of the everyday encounters with the administrative justice system?
Lecture
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Collective Stewardship for Sustainability Transformations
Lecture
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Explaining the Origins of the Kashmir Insurgency: Political Mobilization and Institutional Decay
Lecture, Modern South Asia Seminars
- Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics
- Disinformation as Cybersecurity Threat: Value Considerations and Ethical Issues
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Symposium: Lobbying for better or for worse?
Conference
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Inspirationlab: Teaching Peace & Justice
Debate
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Here and Now: What Is Impacting Global Peace? Conflict, COVID-19 and Climate
Debate
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Peculiarities in Persianate Painting
LUCIS What's New Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Religious engineering - a practice approach to (religious) projects of social transformation
Lecture
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Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran
Lecture, Book presentation
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Dutch Symposium of the Near East
Conference
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Education for Life in Africa
Conference
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Grotius Dialogue: Radical Dissents in International Criminal Law
Debate
- The Gender Agenda in International Justice: A Conversation with Gender Focal Points
- FGGA Research Seminars
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CPP Colloquium with Faik Kurtulmus, Istanbul: The Epistemic Basic Structure
Lecture
- Workshop: Words and Violence: Global History of the 1968 Protests in Japan and its Contemporary Meaning
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Muslim World as Geopolitics, Race, and Anti-Colonial Internationalism
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Food stories and the microbiome
Workshop
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GRULAC Conference
Conference
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‘I miss the smell of old paper in the vault’
Curators devote a lot of attention to their collections. How is Martijn Storms, curator of maps and atlases at Leiden University Libraries, managing to do this now he is working from home? And how is Silvia Vermetten digitising Eastern manuscripts from home?