4539 search results for “politics” in the Public website
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Symposium The Interdisciplinary Study of Societal Challenges
Conference
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The Indian Temple -- Production, Place and Patronage
Lecture
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You are what you eat
Conference, Student Conference
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Brazil in Peacekeeping Operations
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Student for a Day Public Administration: International and European Governance (IE&G)
Study Information
- LUC The Hague - Psychiatry and the Balkans in the Popular Imagination: A Reconsideration
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ASCL Seminar Series: 'Fear of the trader at Whitehall': UAC-Government relations in British West Africa, 1929-1941
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What's in a Name? Sub-elites of Western Han Chang'an
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The Cities Seminar 'Revolutionary Enactment'
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PhDebates session: On (Pre/Post)-Colonialism in Archaeology
Debate
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Dr. Sarah Giest on Big Data for Local Policymaking: Fad or Fast Track?
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CPP Colloquium with Sander Werkhoven: A Procedural Approach to the Value of Capabilities
Debate
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CANCELLED | Book Launch: Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
Festival, Book Launch
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Walking on Thin Ice: The Biography of Nadi, and the Tension between Buddhism and the State in Early Tang
Lecture, on Microsoft Teams
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Safeguarding the Euro as a Currency Beyond the State
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Eurasian extinction: miscegenation and the question of the native in Macau literature
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Thirteenth Conference School of Abbasid Studies
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- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars 2019-2020
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The Temple of Solomon in Augmented Reality
Lecture
- What's New?! Fall 2020 Lecture Series
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The Responsibility to Protect @15: Progress and Challenges
Seminar
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Bringing the Past to Life: Epic Narration in Central Asia
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“Homosexual practices that even cows disapprove of”? How (not) to respond to anti-LGBT crackdowns
Conference, Research Seminar
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East Mediterranean Natural Gas and Israel’s Regional Integration
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! series
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Tej Thapa, Senior Researcher at Human Rights Watch
Lecture, International Relations Seminar Series
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Cities of Refuge: Slave Flight and Illegal Freedom in the American Urban South, 1800-1860
PhD Defence
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The Agents of the Hidden Imam and the Genesis of Twelver Shi’ism
Lecture, LUCIS What's New series
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The EMU at twenty
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Constructing monuments and perceiving monumentality
Workshop SETinSTONE I
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Trump and the Iran Deal
Panel discussion
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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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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebration
Myths abound about the Pilgrims, the group of religious refugees from England who set sail for America in 1620. Did they really live in peace with the indigenous peoples of America? In an international conference, historians from Leiden will seek to draw attention to the more negative effects of the…
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CFP MA Masterclass Feminist Theory with Lynne Huffer
CFP: Two-day PhD/ Research MA masterclass Feminist Theory with and around the work of Prof. dr. Lynne Huffer organised by the OZSW in cooperation with NOG
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Hunting for women in Leiden’s history
They existed and were important, but for too long they have remained invisible in historiography: women. Ariadne Schmidt, the Magdalena Moons endowed professor, researches the history of urban culture in Leiden. Women take pride of place in her research. Inaugural lecture on 28 February.
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Legal community determined to get rid of religious accommodation
There is a crisis in the law concerning the accommodation of religious practice. The legal profession is demanding that the law be changed because it does not want religious institutions to have the 'right to discriminate'. The profession holds that evolving societal sexual norms can render lawful religious…
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Here’s to the next 443 years as a bastion of freedom
‘Praesidium Libertatis is a daily responsibility.’ These were the words of Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker on 8 February during the 443rd Dies Natalis of Leiden University. The University needs to pay continuous attention to open debate if it wants to remain a bastion of freedom.
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Call for papers: Arabic and its Alternatives
Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging nation states of the Middle East (1920–1950)
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‘People can be expelled to countries that they don't come from'
The 'language analysis interview' on the basis of which the Immigration and Naturalisation Department attempts to determine where an asylum-seeker without any documents comes from, does not meet the criteria of reliability and validity. Joachim Detailleur, student of Arabic, substantiates this statement…
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‘Terrorism is theatre and we are the audience’
After every attack, terrorism researchers are often asked the same question: who did it? Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn, a researcher at Leiden University, doesn’t always have a ready-made answer.
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‘It will be much easier without the British’
The year 2020 should finally be Brexit year. The United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union on 31 January, at midnight Dutch time. Legal scholar Joris Larik from Leiden University College The Hague explains why he is not advocating remain.
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Celebrating its 1000th Graduate: Leiden University College The Hague
Leiden University College The Hague celebrates a milestone by seeing its 1000th graduate receive their diploma.
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Leiden expands collaboration with Mexico
A delegation from Leiden University is currently visiting Mexico to initiate collaboration with universities and science funding bodies in the country and to extend and expand existing partnerships. Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker is confident enough already to call it a success.
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Teachers and lecturers broaden their perspective of Islam
Islam can be a difficult or sensitive subject to discuss with pupils, regardless whether they are Muslim. Fourteen secondary-school teachers and university lecturers went on a fact-finding trip to Morocco accompanied by experts from NIMAR (the Netherlands Institute in Morocco). What did they learn from…
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A flash interview with a foreign alumna: Selina about hagelslag and what inspires her at working for a large firm
German alumna Selina Holstein tells us all about the Dutch broodjes & hagelslag, the team diversity and variety in work while working for a large firm and the importance of the Noordwijkse beach.
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How a Dutchman contributed to the rapid development of Singapore
In 1960, Albert Winsemius started to help the city state of Singapore achieve its rapid rise out of economic misery. He helped the Singaporean government understand how the Netherlands had managed to rebuild so quickly after the Second World War, with the help of the American Marshall Plan. PhD defence…
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Trade union grant for psychology research into the effect of a basic income
Psychologists Fenna Poletiek and Erik de Kwaadsteniet have received a grant from the FNV trade union to research people’s attitude to work if they receive a basic income. How do they plan to find answers?
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Interview: Physicist Wim van Saarloos takes office as KNAW President
On May 28th, Leiden physicist Wim van Saarloos takes office as President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has been vice-president since 2016. ‘The base of our universities is eroding.’
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Women in International Security Netherlands
Women In International Security (WIIS) is a global organisation dedicated to advancing the leadership and professional development of women in the field of international peace and security. As part of her research on women, peace and security, Dr. Vanessa Newby at the Institute for Security and Global…
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Blog Post | Diplomacy’s Response to the Coronavirus (Part II)
The previous blog post in this series discussed the role of international diplomacy during the coronavirus crisis. This post focuses on diplomacy and its challenges in post-corona times. Specifically, the blog post argues that diplomats will face a range of challenges following the Covid-19 pandemic…
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Blog Post | How Sahel Rebel Groups use Online Diplomacy
Authors: Michèle Bos and Jan Melissen