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The Impact of Trump’s victory for Latin America: Apocalypse Now?
Lecture
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The Trump Presidency: A Global Assessment
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Religious engineering - a practice approach to (religious) projects of social transformation
Lecture
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The case for moral perception
Lecture
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The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar
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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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CPP Colloquium with Bas van der Vossen: As Good As “Enough and As Good”
Conference
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Research & Funding Opportunities
AMT’s mission includes encouraging innovative high-quality research in Leiden on Asia. On this page you will find an overview of AMT related research projects, grant possibilities, publications and vacancies.
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Splitting and clustering grammatical information
This project focuses on a striking parallelism between two macro-groups of languages: southern Italian dialects and the so-called split-ergative languages, like Basque, Georgian, Dyirbal, Hindi/Urdu.
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Project Office IRP
Programme management of research programme “Strengthening knowledge of and dialogue with the Islamic/Arab world”
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Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis seeks to explore the transnational and cultural dimensions of intra-Eurasian encounters through Dutch sources.
- Volume 5 (2010)
- Volume 6 (2011)
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Engaging Europe in the Arab World: European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970)
From the mid-19th century until the 1970’s, the Middle East witnessed the presence of various European missionaries who played a fundamental role in the birth and the development of humanitarianism. Since these Christian missionaries were well integrated in the local Middle Eastern societies via their…
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Two psychologists on a date with the Rector
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 edition…
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Pieter's Corner: Can diversity be engineered?
In discussions about today’s society and multiculturalism the word is constantly bandied back and forth: diversity. At Leiden University we aspire to ‘diversity and inclusiveness’, and claim that our diversity policies put these core values into practice. We have a Diversity and Inclusiveness Working…
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International Labour Organization: tumult on the global labour market
Since 1919 the International Labour Organization (ILO) has been promoting the rights of workers worldwide. On 7 February, Leiden University hosted the symposium celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the foundation of the ILO. Leiden emeritus professor of International Labour Law Paul van der Heijden…
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Nature conservation initiatives – who foots the bill?
In January 2020, Marja Spierenburg joined the FSW as the new Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihoods. Let’s get to know her. ‘All my research is basically about nature conservation. I look at areas like national parks, but also at measures aimed at increasing the sustainability of…
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The Hague: working towards a healthier city
The disparities in terms of health and wellbeing in The Hague are considerable. A team headed by Jet Bussemaker, professor in the field of policy and society, wants to change that. The 'fences' in the healthcare system have to be got rid of. In particular the Laakkwartier and Moerwijs, two poorer areas…
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Plastic surgeon Diederik Hofstede: ‘I like small scale'
After studying medicine in Leiden, Diederik Hofstede specialised in plastic surgery. 'I was attracted by its creativity and I enjoy working with my hands.' Cosmetic surgery is just 5% of the work.'
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A Roman camp or not? How our archaeologists found the answer
Archaeologists from Leiden University find what is clearly an earth wall and ditch structure in the woods near Ermelo. They suspect it may be the remains of a Roman military camp, but as yet have no conclusive evidence. Will they be able to solve the puzzle?
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Call for Papers Interdisciplinary Conference 'EU Criminal Justice Policy and Practice - Reflections and Prospects'
This interdisciplinary conference, to be held on 26-27 June 2017, will bring together lawyers interested in EU law and criminal law, criminologists, political scientists, and philosophers to jointly reflect on the development of the EU's criminal policy.
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Eurasian empires: report on the final conference
The final conference of the Eurasian Empires programme took place from 15 to 17 June 2016 in Leiden. The conference concluded a five-year research programme in which nine researchers worked on their own specific projects within the programme’s Eurasian scope, transcending borders by bringing together…
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Storie del Possibile: Grassroots and Local Initiatives in Italy and Europe
The conference Storie del possibile took place in the Ex- lavanderia of Santa Maria della Pietà in the neighbourhood Monte Mario in Rome, on April 21-22 2018. Maria Vasile, PhD candidate of the "Food Citizens?" project, attended the conference and shares her experiences.
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A multi-disciplinary conversation about urban transformation in Turin The case of Mirafiori Sud
This blogpost reports on one of these conversations, which Alessandro Pisano, political science student at the University of Turin, and I had with regards to the transforming neighbourhood of Mirafiori Sud. Why did we both focus on this peripheral area? How did we approach the study of its transformation?…
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A long-term perspective on human niche construction and alteration of ecosystems
Dr. Katharine MacDonald (Faculty of Archaeology) sketches the background to a recent paper in Science Advances, co-authored by her and other members of the Liveable Planet team.
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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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Lecture by Andrea Roventini (in Utrecht)
Lecture
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Chemical Biology Lecture: Carbohydrate-binding Proteins as Targets for Anti-Infectives and Diagnostics
Lecture
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Interrogating Speculative Futures: A workshop on the politics of imagining a future with(out) chronic illness
Course, Online Workshop
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Political Science Lunch Research Seminar: Judicial Strategies in Consociations
Lecture
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The impact of trauma
PhD Defence
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After Securitisation: Militarisation of Governance of Migration in the EU and Implications for the EU’s identity
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Blockchain as a Disruptive Technology: A Research Agenda for IR.
Lecture
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laboured landscapes
Conference
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Tradition and Transition - Political practice and the benefits of continuity in the Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850
Conference, Workshop
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Muslims, Race and Surveillance State
Lecture, LUCIS Lecture | Islam in North Africa
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[CANCELLED] Protests, Neoliberalism, and Authoritarianism: Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Morocco
Debate, LUCIS Discussion Panel
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Online Summer Programme: Preventing, Detecting and Responding to Violent Extremism
Course, Summer Programme
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Artificial Intelligence and International Conflict in Cyberspace
Conference
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After Securitisation: Militarisation of Governance of Migration in the EU and Implications for the EU’s identity
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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This Week's Discoveries | 3 March 2020
Lecture
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Research-based education
Didactics
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Rage Against the Regime
Debate, LUCIS Panel Discussion | Islam in North Africa
- Volume 13 (2018)
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Lunch Time Seminars
In this section you can find information about and recordings of past SAILS Lunch Time Seminars.
- Volume 16 (2021)
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Asia Beyond Boundaries: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Primary Sources from the Premodern World
Conference
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AI & Data Science @ Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Lecture, Webinar
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The repair of moral injury
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series