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Eight researchers to travel abroad on Rubicon grant
Eight young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will allow them to conduct research at a top institute or university abroad.
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Law graduate Jiska Ogier speaks from experience: ‘The Netherlands should be much more accessible for people with disabilities’
Jiska Ogier studied notarial law, which wasn’t always easy because she went to lectures in a wheelchair. As a student she pushed to make society accessible. And with her law degree and lived experience she has now made this her work. ‘You can achieve a lot with creative solutions.’
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On the road to adulthood
On Tuesday 26th September Jessica Hill will defend her thesis ‘On the road to adulthood. Delinquency and desistance in Dutch emerging adults’. The defence will begin at 13.45 hrs, in the Academy Building of Leiden University, Rapenburg 73. The supervisor is Professor Arjan Blokland.
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Inspiring and scientifically proven health advice at 'Healthy University' days
Leiden University is the first Dutch university to join the Healthy Universities international network. Lifestyle workshops, rewards for good behaviour and the latest interventions encourage students and staff to live more healthily. The experiences gained through this network will be used in scientific…
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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‘In Asia you are first and foremost Chinese or Indian’
‘There is often a strong emphasis on the differences with Asia when actually there are so many similarities on all sorts of levels. Parents in Asia deliberate just as much about which school they should send their child to,’ says Frank Pieke, Professor of Modern China Studies. The opening conference…
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Atse Fokkens: ‘I really enjoy the vibe of education’
Career preparation, whether or not present in the curriculum, is becoming increasingly prominent in many educational institutes. Atse Fokkens (39) notices this in his work as a career adviser and internship coordinator. He welcomes the fact that more attention is being paid to preparing students for…
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Book about 200 years of medicine in Leiden
The book ‘Geleerde Zorgen: twee eeuwen academische geneeskunde in Leiden’ (‘Learned Care: two centuries of academic medicine in Leiden’) was presented on 16 December to Annetje Ottow (President of the Executive Board of Leiden University) and Pancras Hogendoorn, Dean and member of the Executive Board…
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Q&A on Gender in UN Peacekeeping missions with Leila Zerrougui
Leila Zerrougui (born in Algeria 1956) is a legal expert on human rights, justice, and rule of law. She is the current Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). Before she was Special Representative…
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Ruben Provencio Kuijk thrives in international settings
'An international environment is my natural habitat. I really thrive when I am in a setting where I am around people of all kinds of countries and cultures.'
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One last time 'AskBetty': 'The best part was being able to teach people something'
Betty de Jonge is a household name in our faculty. As the person behind AskBetty, she knew how to answer every question about Office. Starting this month, she has officially retired.
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Skin researcher calls for multidisciplinary collaboration: ‘I want to pool expertise’
In dermatology, there should be a high level of multidisciplinary collaboration among institutes and specialists, Professor of Translational Dermatology, Robert Rissmann, will say in his inaugural lecture on 8 July. He is building an infrastructure that will put pre-clinical and clinical skin research…
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First patient in the Netherlands successfully treated with stem cell gene therapy
Researchers from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have successfully used stem cell gene therapy to treat a baby with the severe congenital immune disorder SCID. An important milestone: it is the first time stem cell gene therapy of Dutch origin has been administered to a patient, and also…
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TED Talks for a better world
At the conference of the Honours College Science & Society, students present TED Talks on a social issue of their interest. ‘It brings together everything they have learned in the past two and a half years.’
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Exchanges on the Middle East: Heritage for Citizenship in Times of Conflict
Student Workshop
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Presentations and Lectures
Members of our research team give different types of presentations and lectures.
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Conflict Management in the Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 1200-1600: Actors, Institutions and Practices of Dispute Settlement
Conference
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Political Science Lunch Research Seminar: Political Parties or Party Systems? Assessing the ‘Myth’ of Institutionalisation and Democracy
Lecture
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The state as a policy problem: Egyptians in Amsterdam
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Inclusivity Pathway Training: putting inclusion into practice
Conference, Work conference
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Legal English: Practicing & Drafting Contracts
Course
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The (un)willingness to reward cooperation and punish non-cooperation
PhD Defence
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Perspectives on European Foreign Policy in the context of current EU-Russia Relations
Conference, Workshop
- Legal English for Bachelor students
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Leadership and inclusiveness in public organizations
PhD Defence
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Collecting the 19th Century: museological and archaeological perspectives from Europe and Latin America
International Symposium
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars 2017-2018
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Autocratic immigration policymaking
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Transnational Figurations of Displacement (TRAFIG)
Conference, Workshop
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Tracking migrations and migration effects in archaeology: New insights from isotope bioarchaeology
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Inclusive Electoral Institutions and Political Efficacy of Ethnic Voters in Diverse Democracies
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
- 2nd edition: European Strategic Dialogue
- Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS) year 2017 - 2018
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Inverting Change in History
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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SURF EdTech Zone Market: Meet Startups from EdTech Validation Programme
Presentations & Marketplace
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National parliaments and the scrutiny of European integration. Fixed routines vs. emergency politics?
Lecture
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
- Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Regeneration Day - sharing knowledge about regenerative medicine
Conference
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Solidarity under strain: An update on a legal, criminological and economic analysis of welfare states and free movement in the EU
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Economic Ideas and the Network Structure of Economic Expertise in Germany and the U.S. During the Great Recession
Lecture
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Internationalism, Protectionism, Xenophobia: The Second International’s Migration Debate (1889–1914)
Lecture, Book talk | LIMS seminar
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Networking Through Kafala: Understanding transnational networks in the governance of health care migration to the Gulf
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Quranic Women's Schools in China’s Little Mecca
Lecture
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Double session: ‘From Saigon to Marseille and Beyond: Franco-Indochinese ‘Repatriation’ after 1955’ and ‘Brexit and the colonial determinants
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
- Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Temporary Employment and First-Generation Migrants in the Netherlands
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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The Grid: Making A Universal Migration Regime
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)