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Starquakes and Exoplanets in our Milky Way
Lecture, Oort lecture 2019
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This Week’s Discoveries | 22 January 2019
Lecture
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Mavlyuda Yusupova will be Central Asia Visiting Professor in November 2018
Two Lectures
- Autumn Event 2022: Photography Exhibition and Rotterzwam talk
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Supermassive Black Holes and Where to Find Them
Lecture, Oort lecture
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This Week’s Discoveries | 29 January 2019
Lecture
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Book Launch Media / Art / Politics
Lecture
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Simon Kirby about his work in academia and in art
Lecture
- Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS) year 2019-2020
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ARC session- SEI & DUE Dance and Music Performance by Giuliano Bracci and Suzan Tunca.
Arts and culture, Performance
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Persian Diasporic Poetry
LUCIS | Literature Series
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SCL Lecture: “Reparations independent from the criminal justice system”
Lecture, Supranational Criminal Law Lecture Series
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CANCELLED SAILS Symposium
Conference
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LCCP Working Seminar: Elements of ecotechnical existence in Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics (1935)
Lecture
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Modalities of Displacement in South Asia
Conference
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Presentations and Lectures
Members of our research team give different types of presentations and lectures.
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Asia Beyond Boundaries: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Primary Sources from the Premodern World
Conference
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Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture: Spirituality, Culture & Political Power in Early Independent West Africa
Lecture
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Constructing Heritage in Early Soviet Central Asia
Lecture
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Curious and Scientific Things – Seeing and Knowing in Early Modern East Asia (1700-1900)
Conference, Workshop
- Media Technology exhibition HYBRID in V2_ gallery space
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LUC The Hague - Me, Asian?!
Lecture
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The Future of faith and responsible technology & AI
Lecture
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Female Researchers in the Spotlight for Physics & Astronomy Ladies' Day
On Thursday November 15th, Leiden University organizes its Physics & Astronomy Ladies' Day for female high school students. To mark this festive day, we put the spotlight on five female researchers, who talk about their experiences working in science.
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Russia correspondent Eva Hartog: ‘Return to the Netherlands? No way!’
Russia correspondent Eva Hartog took a Master’s in Political Philosophy in Leiden in 2011. This former editor-in-chief of The Moscow Times sees this short period as a new chapter in her life. And she is once again contemplating her future now she can no longer ask the big questions in Russia.
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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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Jan Hendrik Oort: world-famous yet unassuming astronomer
He discovered how to determine the rotation and centre of our Milky Way, predicted where comets come from and laid the groundwork for radio astronomy: Leiden Professor of Astronomy Jan Hendrik Oort (1900 – 1992). Piet van der Kruit, whose PhD supervisor was Oort himself, has written a biography about…
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A hornets’ nest: Leiden University during the Second World War
‘That hornets’ nest in Leiden must be destroyed,’ said Dutch National Socialist Party member Robert van Genechten in November 1942. He was referring to Leiden University. Why this hatred? Emeritus Professor of University History Willem Otterspeer has written a book about Leiden University during the…
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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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‘In the end, rector is just Latin for organiser’
On the day of the Dies Natalis, Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker starts his second term of office. How does he look back on the first four years, and what are his plans? These are the questions asked of him by Mayor Lenferink, student of public administation Mikal Tseggai, Professor Eveline Crone and…
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia
The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visit by a delegation from Leiden University to Indonesia at the end of June highlighted the benefits of cooperation.
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2021: This was the year of our faculty
2021 was an eventful year once again for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). Hybrid, working from home, online education, on-campus education, face masks, self-tests, keeping distance, quarantine and the coronavirus. Words that have now become a standard part of our vocabulary when…
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Conference on Multilingualism 2019
Conference
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Going Romance
Conference
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Well-being Week
Festival
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The pathway forward
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
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Well-Being Days FGGA: Feeling good on the outside
Well-being
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Workshop: Where are the Women after Resolution 1325?
Conference
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Workshop Teleology and History
Lecture
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2018
Festival
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Chair of UN Studies in Peace and Justice
From 1 August 2018, Alanna O'Malley was appointed as Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice, focusing on the ‘lesser-known actors’ of the UN: women, the youth, the agents of informal diplomatic networks within the UN and actors from the Global South. This Special Chair has been created…
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Joan van der Waals colloquium
The Joan Van der Waals colloquium is an ongoing bi-weekly lecture series.
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Paul Christiaan Flu: a Surinamese professor in a time of war
Paul Christiaan Flu, originally from Surinam, was a brilliant tropical doctor, who in 1938 rose to the position of Rector Magnificus of Leiden University. The war years brought his lightning career to an abrupt end: his son was murdered and he himself was imprisoned in a concentration camp. A sad family…
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Rage Against the Regime
Debate, LUCIS Panel Discussion | Islam in North Africa
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Collaborative Filmmaking Approaches in Archaeology, Heritage, and Development
Conference
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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Hall of Fame 2015
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed member of an academic society or have taken on a position in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include…
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Well-Being Days FGGA: Feeling good on the inside
Well-being
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Small Grants Past Research Projects
The LUCDH foster the development of new digital research by awarding a number of Small Grants each year. These are our past awardees.