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- Leiden University Nationalism Network
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CPP Colloquium with Arash Abizadeh: “The Democratic Legitimacy of Border Coercion”
Lecture
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Workshop: What does it mean to be a politician?
Conference, Workshop
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Leiden University Alumni in Brussels Event
Alumni Event
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LGBTIQ+ Employee Resource Groups: Benefits, Challenges and Opportunities
Debate, Symposium
- Lecture series Society of Friends of the Kern Institute (VVIK)
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Presentations and Lectures
Members of our research team give different types of presentations and lectures.
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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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Seminar: Academic Activism
Lecture
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Visions of Empire in Dutch History - from the early modern period to the 21st century
Conference
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Curious and Scientific Things – Seeing and Knowing in Early Modern East Asia (1700-1900)
Conference, Workshop
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Forum Antiquum: Carole Newlands
Lecture
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Constructing Heritage in Early Soviet Central Asia
Lecture
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Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture: Spirituality, Culture & Political Power in Early Independent West Africa
Lecture
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On not seeing like a state: How archaeology can inform critiques of the inevitability of hierarchy, dispossession, and disconnection of the human
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
- Media Technology exhibition HYBRID in V2_ gallery space
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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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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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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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‘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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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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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2020 Online
Arts and Culture, Middle Eastern Culture Market
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Ethical decision making and moral dilemmas
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
- Volume 16 (2021)
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Conference on Multilingualism 2019
Conference
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CPP Colloquium: Uncertainty and Technocracy in Economics and Rawls
Lecture
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CPP Colloquium with Tim Meijers 'Creating Children in an Unjust World'
Lecture
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Exchanges on the Middle East: Heritage for Citizenship in Times of Conflict
Student Workshop
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Sarajevo Spring School
Conference, Spring School
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability: The MENA Region in the Modern Period Cairo
Conference, Cleveringa conference
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CPP Colloquium with John Horton: Associative Political Obligations and Global Redistribution
Lecture
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Twilight of the Persianate: The Vernacularization of Central Asia (18th - early 20th Centuries)
Lecture
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Online Museum Talk: Kress Talks: Evaluating the Sources / A Woman’s Place is in the Garden
Lecture, Online Museum Talks
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Unwanted Histories: The legacies of contested monuments and objects: new homes, new interpretations, new meanings
Conference
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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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Elves, Spirits, and Aliens: Superhuman Entities in New Religions
Conference
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Women in the Gulf: Economic Empowerment and Beyond
Debate
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Feelings Matter: Emotions in Medieval Arabic
Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture (2018)
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Supporting Heritage Language Education through Translanguaging
Lecture, Lunch Seminar and Research Discussion
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Marginalized Groups in Brazil
Lecture, Workshop
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Ada Lovelace Distinguished Lecture Series
Lecture
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What Cards and Coins Reveal: Divinatory Techniques in the Netherlands
Conference
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Electronic Monitoring, Privatization of Criminal Justice Administration, and the Law of Unanticipated Consequences
Lecture
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Exchanges on the Middle East: Heritage for Citizenship in Times of Conflict
Public Lecture and Debate
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Book launch: The Politics of Borders/Practising EU Policy/American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers
Debate
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Philosopher of law Ali Kösedag: Hague heart, Leiden mind
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this fourth instalment: alumnus and philosopher of law Ali Kösedag (1992): ‘Philosophising about equality before the law in the Netherlands at an early-morning…