1,611 search results for “foreign affairs” in the Public website
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Eventful opening of academic year: minister in the church, protest on the square
Not one but two openings: the minister who defended her plans and many who emphasised the importance of standing together with the arts and social sciences: the opening of academic year 2019-2020 in Leiden was not without event.
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‘It affects me most when children are involved’
It doesn’t take long before Tim van Lit has told us what interests him: problems that shake the nation. This 28-year-old Criminology alumnus heads a team of 25 at Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. Location: Schiphol Airport.
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Two Leiden alumni make partner at Grant Thornton – at the same time
On 1 July 2021, Leiden Law alumni Linda van de Reep and Géraldine Grünberg-Otto were both named partners at auditing and consultancy firm Grant Thornton. ‘We’re connected through our background in Leiden, and we’re proud of that.’
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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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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this second instalment: historian and university lecturer Nadia Bouras (1981). ‘Although I only found out later that was my mother’s dream, it was as though I…
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Rembrandt made a mess of his legal and financial life
‘Rembrandt was a stubborn, socially inept shopaholic.’ In his lifetime the Dutch master became embroiled in over 20 legal disputes. Emeritus Professor of Private Law Bob Wessels has written a book about Rembrandt’s legal and financial dealings.
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Leiden Law Cast: The prison population NL vs. BE with Miranda Boone
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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Writing the History of the International LGBT Rights Movement
Lecture, Leiden Queer History Network
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CPP Colloquium with Douglas MacLean "Climate Change Ethics: Complicity and Accountability"
Lecture
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Why Do Government Aid Agencies Die? A "Court Politics" Approach
Lecture
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The Role of Risk and Losses in Political Decision Making
Lecture
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Leiden University Alumni in Brussels Event
Alumni event
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The Yangtze and the Rhine: A historical conference
Conference
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Criminalising Curiosity? Counter-terrorism on Campus and Beyond
Lecture
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Mavlyuda Yusupova will be Central Asia Visiting Professor in November 2018
Two Lectures
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Winter Sumi-e (Japanese Ink Brush Painting) | English spoken
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- Regional Approach to Financial Statecraft: Japan and India in the Face of Rising China
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[CANCELLED] Protests, Neoliberalism, and Authoritarianism: Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Morocco
Debate, LUCIS Discussion Panel
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The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood Within the Geopolitics of the Middle East
LUCIS Lecture
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Online Open Day for Professionals
Study information
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Protecting the Peace Process in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland
Lecture
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Memory and Protest Cultures in Postcolonial and Post-Socialist Contexts
Conference
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China and Iran's Political and Cultural Relations
Conference
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Fieldwork NL conference 2022
Conference
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
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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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Ageing Abroad: The Ethics of “Granny Export”
Lecture
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The Impediments to Uncovering the Human Rights Dimension of Sino-African Relations
Lecture
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Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
Lecture
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ICCT Live Briefing - Gender and Violent Extremism today
Lecture
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Bold strategy or irrational exuberance - Can China’s fiscal foundations support the Belt and Road Initiative?
Lecture, Seminar
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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…
- Column by the Diversity Officer
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Globalising Sociolinguistics (GloSoc2) “Communicating in the city”, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Conference
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Workshop: Words in Action? Exploring Local Perceptions of Persuasion and Propaganda as Verbal Performances in Africa
Lecture, Workshop
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Reflections on the Second Decade of Economic and Monetary Union
Debate
- 61st LEIDEN-LONDON meeting 2022
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2022 Conference on International Cyber Security: Navigating Narratives in Cyberspace
Conference
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LUC The Hague - Me, Asian?!: Art and Asian Identity + Closing & Evaluation
Lecture, Me, Asian?!
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Curious and Scientific Things – Seeing and Knowing in Early Modern East Asia (1700-1900)
Conference, Workshop
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Josephus Scaliger: famous scholar and grouch
Josephus Justus Scaliger was one of the most famous scholars of his time and yet today his name is likely to be met with blank looks. His correspondence shows that this Leiden professor was also irritable to say the least. Kasper van Ommen will defend his PhD thesis on Scaliger’s legacy on 2 July. Find…
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Staying positive and connected: Work hubs and the alternative coffee date
'Getting used to things, doesn't necessarily mean it's getting easier. That's why we're incredibly impressed by what everyone has accomplished.' How do our institutes stay connected and motivated? Lenneke Alink (Pedagogical Sciences) and Ed Noijons (CWTS) share how pub quizzes and who's who games, new…
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Pieter's Corner: Open Science
On 20 September 2019, the opening drinks for the Open Science Community Leiden will be held at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Open science is the approach to science aimed at making scientific research accessible, reproducible, and freely available to people within and outside the academic…
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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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‘We couldn't really celebrate our vaccine being approved, but we were over the moon’
On 11 March, pharmaceutical company Janssen received approval to launch its corona vaccine on the European market. This made Janssen the fourth company to be given the green light by the European Medicines Agency. As Lead of the Janssen Campus in the Netherlands, Biology alumnus Bart van Zijll Langhout…
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An interview with NATO on gender and counter-terrorism
An interview with Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges David van Weel, and NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Clare Hutchinson
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U.N. World Water Day: Key Challenges and Opportunities to Sustainable Water Management
Conference, Symposium of the Water and Society Lab: U.N. World Water Day
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Conference on Multilingualism 2019
Conference
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GP in Spain in times of corona
What’s the situation like in Spain in these times of corona? Dr Jan Otto Landman (Medicine, Leiden, 1979) has a GP practice in Torremolinos and Fuengirola, Southern Spain, and since 16 March he has been writing blogs about corona on the Facebook page of his practice. He has covered issues such as the…
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Campus The Hague 'Meet the Employer'
Course