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- Volume 6 (2011)
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Seminars
LCN2 organizes seminars on the last Friday of each month.
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Silent Disco
Festival, Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019
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From lively group app to online game night: the mentor project
The goal of the new mentor project is to help first-year students at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs find their way in a university environment that has changed dramatically due to Covid-19. The project has been running since the beginning of this academic year. Two student mentors and…
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Interview with Professor Ken Meier: 'Protests, a representative government and the role of leadership'
Professor Ken Meier is one of the most prominent researchers of the world in the field of Public Administration. Meier holds appointments as a professor of Public Administration at Cardiff School of Business (Wales), a professor of bureaucracy and democracy at Leiden University (The Netherlands), research…
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AI in port and maritime research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam
From a ship that has been designed to tell you what maintenance it needs and when, to an intelligent journey planner for global goods transport. The three universities in Zuid-Holland are abuzz with AI research in the field of ports and maritime. Three researchers explain. Part two in a series of five…
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Positive feedback will give the mentoring project a follow-up
Helping first-year students at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs find their way in a rapidly changing university world because of Covid-19. That was the goal of the mentor project that has been running since this academic year. At the end of January, the first phase ends and in February new…
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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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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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Demographic Transformation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Lecture
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Escape from Rome: The Death of an Empire and the Birth of the Modern West
Lecture
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South China
Lecture
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Border Consolidation in Liaoning: From Chen Yun to Xi Jinping
Lecture
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Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State
Lecture
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Bitter truths: Common-pool resources, industrialisation, and the global history of Central Asian wormwood
Lecture
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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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Global Modernism in the Middle East and North Africa: Afterlives and Aftermaths
Faculty Roundtable | MENA Cultures & Global Aesthetics
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This Week's Discoveries | 10 December 2019
Lecture
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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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Quartermasters of Capital
Lecture, Gravensteen Lecture
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Cyber Operations and International Law
Lecture
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Free-riding on scrappage subsidies
Lecture
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Special Event on the global arms trade: Film Screening of 'Shadow World' and Q&A with Andrew Feinstein
Film screening
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Guest Researchers
We welcome a new round of advanced researchers (post-MA) to apply to the institute's guest researchers positions.
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Cleveringa Professor Roméo Dallaire on Rwanda and PTSD
Cleveringa Professor Roméo Dallaire led the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in 1994, but was unable to prevent a genocide from unfolding before his very eyes. Eight hundred thousand people lost their lives. In his Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November, this retired Lieutenant-General from Canada speaks…
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Hall of Fame 2016
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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3 October University: big science for small people
‘I already gave a talk about planets when I was five.’ With the theme of the 3 October celebrations being ‘Jong geleerd is oud gedaan’ (meaning something like, ‘You’re never too young to learn’), this year’s 3 October University was especially for children. Many parents came with their offspring to…
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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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Leiden scholars on the ‘bar-room brawl’ between Trump and Biden
Few have dared declare a winner of the debate between American president Donald Trump and his Democrat challenger Joe Biden. It was more about who was least worst. What do psychologist Willem van der Does, historian Andrew Gawthorpe and policy science scholar Brandon Zicha make of the debate?
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Growing super legs for the Tour de France with the aid of Leiden data science
Only the fittest cyclists stand a chance of taking yellow in the brutal Tour de France. Team Jumbo-Visma is working with data scientists from Leiden. They have analysed the stages and performance of Jumbo-Visma’s riders in previous Grand Tours. And they are researching how to determine the fitness level…
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This Week’s Discoveries | 29 May 2018
Lecture
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CPP Colloquium with Frank Chouraqui: The paradox of power
Lecture
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This Week's Discoveries | 28 February 2017
Lecture
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Movie screening: The Imitation Game
Lecture
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Launch James Webb telescope - lectures by Ewine van Dishoeck and Bernhard Brandl
Lecture
- Volume 13 (2018)
- Column by the Diversity Officer
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Presentations and Lectures
Members of our research team give different types of presentations and lectures.
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Science and education policy
YAL raises its voice on policy matters.
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Alumni Event Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs Opening Wijnhaven
Alumni Event
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Earthly and Heavenly: Love, Loyalty, and Music in Persian Mystic Poetry
Conference
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The paradox of the Arbëresh future construction and the history of Albanian dialects
Lecture
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Visual Ethnography MSc student film screenings
Festival
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“Italy Today” — Urgent Matters for Discussion: Economic Growth, Populism and Migrations
Lecture
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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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Hester Bijl on racism, inclusion and diversity at Leiden University
We talked to Hester Bijl about the worldwide protests sparked off by the death of George Floyd. A demonstration against racism will also be held in Leiden on 14 June. How does she, as Vice-Rector responsible for diversity and inclusion, view this issue? What steps is the University taking? And how can…
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2018
Festival
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FGGA Symposium on Open and Online Learning
Conference
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Workshop Teleology and History
Lecture