1,654 search results for “literary celebrity” in the Public website
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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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Ingrid Tieken spellbound by languages of The Hague
Linguist Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade retired in July, but is pressing on regardless with her languages in The Hague project. An online tour of her Hague Proverbs launched recently and Tieken also has academic publications in the pipeline.
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Leonard Blussé receives prestigious Fukuoka Prize in Japan
Leonard Blussé, Professor Emeritus of History of European-Asian Relations, was awarded the 13th Fukuoka Prize in Japan on 10 September.
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They want to be in Leiden's council
Many students and members of staff at Leiden University are politically active. In the run up to the local elections on 21 March candidates in The Hague and Leiden explain why you should vote for them, and what they want to do if they are elected. In this article, the Leiden candidates.
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Augustinians reveal recipe for close friendships
It is a holy grail among behavioural scientists: can you predict how close a group will become? An international research team from Leiden, Oxford and Helsinki has investigated the development of friendships within the Leiden student association Augustinus and obtained some remarkable results.
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Writing the History of the International LGBT Rights Movement
Lecture, Leiden Queer History Network
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French-German relations and the European Union
Lecture
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Roméo Dallaire on How a better world is possible 9 april
Lecture
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The Role and Relevance of the The Hague International Space Resources Governance Working Group
Conference
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Fabulous Creatures and Auspicious Symbols: A Farewell Symposium in Honour of Ellen Raven
Conference
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Dissident Women's Voices against Oppression
Lecture
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Opening Academic Year 2020-2021 Institute of Philosophy
Lecture
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The Future of Freedom of Religion
Lecture
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"Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing Social Orders”
Lecture, Seminar
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Simon Kirby about his work in academia and in art
Lecture
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Opening Practicum Artium online exhibition
Exhibition, Opening
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Remote Sensing in Ecology workshop
Conference, Workshop
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Africa, 60 years of independence
Conference
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Intercultural Philosophy as Philosophy: Some Remarks on Leiden Philosophy’s Mission
Lecture
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Friends and family day at the Faculty of Humanities
Festival
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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Dialogic Network Presents: Two Lectures
Lecture
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Symposium on Ukraine in images, words and sounds
Conference
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Language of Religion: What does it inform the field of Linguistics?
Lecture
- Faculty opening of the academic year 2020-2021 Humanities
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Familiarizing the Colony: Distance and Proximity in Dutch and German Colonial Photography and Visual Culture
Lecture
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Gulf Migration: Governing Gulf Labour in a Global Labour Market
Roundtable
- Column by the Diversity Officer
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10th LUCIS Annual Conference | Matters of Taste and Style: Muslim Food, Fashion, and Music in Practice
Conference, LUCIS 10th annual conference
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Palestine: Strategic Challenges of the Future and the Role of Europe
Lecture, 40th Anniversary Lecture by the Lutfia Rabbani Foundation
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Global (Economic) Power in Flux? End of Western Dominance?
Lecture, L-PEG PhD Network Workshop
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Workshop Existential Ethics
Debate
- Launch LGBT+ Network Leiden University
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Faculty symposium Humanities: The Myth of High and Low Culture
Festival
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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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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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Discovering the physics of banks, the economy and financial crisis
Physicist Diego Garlaschelli co-authored an extensive review in the journal Nature Reviews Physics. Surprisingly, the subject wasn't physics at all, but the networks of banks and other financial institutions, and the way their structure relates to financial crises.
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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Mormonism 201 Years On: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 201 years after Joseph Smith’s first revelation (9th Leiden Symposium
Conference
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Opening academic year 2021–2022
Academic ceremony
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OverActing | Theatre Festival Leiden
Festival
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Cancelled: International Women’s Day 2020: Film Screening & Discussion with Oxfam Novib
Lecture
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Modalities of Displacement in South Asia
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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Interview with Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn
Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn LLM., Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the University of Leiden, completed his habilitation in July 2020 at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin and acquired the Venia for Constitutional Law, International Law and International Criminal Law. The…
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International Leiden Mayflower 400 Conference GOES ONLINE
Conference
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Interpreting Rituals: Historiographical Perspectives and Pluralistic Contexts
Conference
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D&I Symposium 2023
Conference, D&I Symposium