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Business Rescue discussed at 2015 ELI Annual Conference
It was for the second time that the theme Business Rescue was discussed at the Annual Conference of the European Law Institute (ELI). It was for the second time that the theme Business Rescue was discussed at the Annual Conference of the ELI. In September 2014 as one of the reportes I presented a progress…
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Paul Abels Discusses his book 'Spionkoppen' in De Mare
Paul Abels' book 'Spionkoppen' (Spy heads) was recently published; He wrote the book together with students Marijn Adams and David Mendelsohn. In his book, Abels describes the AIVD (Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service), where he himself worked for several decades, based on his superiors.
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On the Aesthetic Regime of Kurdish Cinema: The Making of Kurdishness
PhD defence
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Shared decision-making about treatments for early breast cancer: preferences of older patients and clinicians
PhD defence
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Predators make it harder for herbivores to adapt to global warming
Lecture, This Week's Discoveries
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Landscape: Contemporary Photography, Collective Visual Memory and the Making of Place in the Netherlands.
PhD defence
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Roots, Routes, Routers: Communications and Media of Contemporary Social Movements
Lecture, CADS Digital Diverse Worlds Seminar
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Towards a Post-Ottoman Dialogue: Origins and Solutions for Violent Extremism in the Middle East, Balkans, and Northern Africa
Lecture
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Between crisis and reform: What next for EU migration policy?
Lecture, Seminar
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Unravelling prehistoric fire use: ‘Variation in fire conditions equals variation in human behaviour’
Building a fire involves many variables, such as size, choice of fuel, temperature, and burn time, that affect the way the generated heat can be used, and therefore the potential function of a fire. A group of Leiden archaeologists are, together with a team of international colleagues, investigating…
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Two courses on Central Asia in 2017-2018 at Leiden University
Two courses on Central Asia will be offered within the Leiden Central Asia Initiative, funded by the research profile area Asian Modernities and Traditions. 'History of Central Asia & Afghanistan' will be open to BA students of Middle Eastern Studies and 'Material Culture, Memory and Commemoration along…
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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LAMS Lecture by Peter van Nuffelen, What difference did Christianity make?
Lecture
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop
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Replication Makes Authenticity: A Curious Paradox about the Buddhist Art in China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Secretary-General ESM Kalin Anev Janse – Bridging Decision-Making: A New Direction for Europe?
Lecture
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Sovereignty in the Hills: The Naga Nation and Indian State-Making, 1944-1960
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Van Marum Colloquium: Making Kinetics at Surfaces a More Exact Science
Lecture
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“And What Tombs!”: Making Rain with Relics in the Early Islamic Near East
Lecture, FLARe lecture series
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Women, Life and Freedom: Making sense of the protests in Iran
Debate
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FGGA Research Seminar: The Politics of Rule-Making in the United States
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Online Museum Talk: The Making of the Exhibition 'In the Light of Cuyp: Aelbert Cuyp & Gainsborough - Constable - Turner'
Lecture, Online Museum Talks
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Intercultural Philosophy Lecture with Rupert Gethin "Distinguishing dharmas and making maps: on the Abhidharma lists of dharmas"
Lecture
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Migration and changing ideals of citizenship in 17th-century Germany
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Welfare States and the Origins of Immigration Policies in Europe
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Illegality and Immobility in the 19th-century Americas
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Control and Technology in Border Areas: Discretion and Decision-making in the Information Age
PhD defence
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CPP Colloquium with Andrei Poama, Making Offenders Vote: Democratic Expressivism and Coerced Criminal Voting
Lecture
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Spotlight on integrity
‘Leiden University's code of conduct on Integrity is comprehensive and complete,' says Zeger van der Wal, Professor by Special Appointment in Public Administration at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. He is the holder of the Dales chair, funded by the CAOP. Van der Wal's specialist field…
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‘Heart rate and skin conductance predict romantic attraction’
Synchronised heart rates and skin conductance tell us that people are attracted to each other. This explains why we feel a romantic ‘click’ with some people and not with others. This is the result of research by psychologist Eliska Prochazkova from the Leiden Institute for Brain and Recognition, which…
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New research indicates Hunter-Gatherer impact on prehistoric European landscapes
The starting point of human-induced landscape changes has been under permanent debate. It is widely accepted that the emergence of agriculture strongly increased human impact on their environments. However, foragers can and do actively transform land cover and ecosystems. Ethnographic observations,…
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These are the five Leiden highlights of ICT.OPEN
The ICT.OPEN conference had no less than five Leiden highlights. PhD candidate Anna Louise Latour won the pitch prize of 500 euros and PhD candidate Can Wang won the second prize in the Commit2Data poster competition. In addition, Professor Holger Hoos gave the keynote lecture on the first day and Suzan…
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The making of a slave: ‘Modern’ slavery, drugs trafficking, and the cultural politics of victimhood in postcolonial Britain
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Online Museum Talk: The Making of "Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution" at the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Lecture, Online Museum Talks
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Double LIMS Seminar on EU "Migration Crisis": the case of the Hungarian-Serb and the Greek-Turkish border
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Nitrogen report: Nitrogen expert Jan Willem Erisman identifies pluses and minuses
On 5 October, mediator Johan Remkes presented his report on the nitrogen crisis and what he thinks is the best way forward. Leiden University professor and nitrogen expert Jan Willem Erisman responds to Remkes’s recommendations. ‘It’s a step in the right direction.’
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‘Podcast gives its listeners a sense of identity and belonging’
In the Netherlands, when we talk about the United Nations, the conversation is almost always about the member states from the northern hemisphere. But the most interesting players come from the ‘Global South’, Professor Alanna O'Malley and her team argue in a podcast.
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Jazz Burlesque Advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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The golden braid of AI and (company) law: JURIX 2018
Between 12 to 14 December 2018, the University of Groningen hosted JURIX 2018 – The 31st International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems. A number of us at the Company Law department (Iris Wuisman, Thy Pham, Morshed Mannan and Sjoerd Yntema) attended the conference to learn about…
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Field school Oss
Home sweet home, by Arjan Louwen
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Towards evidence-based migration policymaking?
From March 2023, political scientist Katharina Natter (Leiden University) will lead part of an ambitious project called PACES, funded by Horizon Europe and coordinated by Simona Vezzoli (ISS). PACES is an innovative, inter-disciplinary and multi-level research project that offers a groundbreaking approach…
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How Charles Darwin can help us understand terrorism
In the past decades terrorists have regularly surprised us with unexpected and spectacular attacks, such as the one on the World Trade Centre in New York. How can intelligence services stay one step ahead of them? Consult Charles Darwin and Steven Spielberg is the advice of terrorism expert Yannick…
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Call for papers: New law, new villages: Changing rural Indonesia
The 2014 Village Law will likely cause a considerable change in the character of village governance and leadership in the coming years.
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Conference 'Leadership in Progress: Science Meets Practice' – A Recap
On October 15, 2020, international academics, practitioners, and students gathered online at the conference 'Leadership in Progress: Science Meets Practice' organized by the Leiden Leadership Centre. Together with renowned speakers from academia, politics and the civil service a multidisciplinary exchange…
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A circular economy is about much more than just recycling
It’s Circular Economy Week, from 1 to 6 February. But what is it that makes an economy circular? And just how circular is our university? René Kleijn, lecturer on the honours class Circular Economy: from challenge to opportunity, explains.
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Rethinking community in upland, ‘indigenous’ South Asia
Erik de Maaker wrote a monograph on how Garo, an indigenous community of the extended eastern Himalayas, experience and negotiate such disparities. The book shows how relatedness is reinterpreted as religious practices change, and communally held land ends up being privately controlled. Erik de Maaker…
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Materials from the past contain lessons for today
Studying ancient materials and the way they were made can give us groundbreaking insights into the past. Not only that, the interplay between people and materials is highly relevant for society today, says Ann Brysbaert, Professor of Ancient Technologies, Crafts and Materials, at the Faculty of Archaeology.…