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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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WAFL talk: In Defense of State Secrecy
Debate
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Gravensteen Lecture | Violence, Militarism and the Law: A Brief History of Dispossession
Lecture
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CA-OS Research Seminar | The discourse of displacement in Amsterdam New West. Toward an ethnography of populism
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Exploring the economic life of law with sociological imagination, visual methods and experimental attitude
Lecture
- Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Displacement and Bodily Politics: Experience of Rural ‘Homeless’ in Peri-Urban Calcutta
Lecture, L-PEG Lunch Research Seminar
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The moral life of street-level bureaucrats
Debate, StepTalks
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Film, video and Instagram: students create an online film programme
Film and Photographic Studies master’s students Vanessa and Deirdre created a film programme about the Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon for the Jewish Cultural Quarter. Due to the pandemic, they could no longer hold a physical screening and they decided to move their project online.
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Freedom Lecture: Fighting the Death Penalty and Reviewing Life Imprisonment
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Maria Ulfah and Her Vision of a Humanistic Postcolonial Asia
In 1933, Maria Ulfah Santoso was the first Indonesian women to earn a law degree. During her studies in Leiden University she became involved with Indonesia;s nationalist movement. She went on to be Indonesia's Social Minister, as the first female cabinet member. In this article, historian Wildan Sena…
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Sara Brandellero: 'the news coming from Brazil is chilling'
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro called the COVID-19 disease “a minor illness”. With more than 200.000 confirmed corona cases today (May 18) however, Brazil is quickly becoming one of the world’s emerging coronavirus hot spots. How long can Bolsonaro continue to downplay the corona crisis? We asked…
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Herenboeren Rotterdam: Farming for the Future
Consumers are encouraged to think of food production and consumption as amoral activities – Michiel Korthals in his book Goed Eten: Filosofie van voeding en landbouw (2019, 353)
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Equality as a driver for diversity: ‘Seek out contradiction and the unknown’
The freedom to be who you are – woman, man, homosexual, heterosexual, transgender, religious, atheist, and so on – is perhaps the Netherlands’ greatest attribute. The principle of equality and the right not to be discriminated against are in the very first article of our constitution. Yet there is a…
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Race against time: Helping the Netherlands secure almost 20 million Pfizer vaccines
The whole world is waiting anxiously for sufficient supplies of coronavirus vaccines. As Launch Navigator at Pfizer, alumnus Dennis de Mik must help ensure that the Netherlands receives 19.8 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. How is he going about this and how has his Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences…
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COVID Radar is a good predictor of increasing infections
The COVID Radar app is citizen science at its best. More than 200,000 users in the Netherlands are answering questions about their health and behaviour to help predict the development of the pandemic. Niels Chavannes, Professor of General Practice at Leiden University Medical Center, explains how the…
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Why the western world was too late to respond to Covid
Almost all the western countries were too late responding to the outbreak of Covid. Why was that? Three governance experts, including Leiden professor Arjen Boin, have written a book about the response to the pandemic. ‘Our current system isn’t geared towards identifying and managing a long-term crisis,’…
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Anoma van der Veere: ‘In Japan, the awkward little masks symbolise the government’s failure’
Leiden Asia Centre researcher Anoma van der Veere argues that the Japanese government has failed to respond properly to Covid-19. There were difficulties with implementing government measures aimed at limiting the spread of the virus – in some cases those measures were not even taken seriously. How…
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Imprint of Action
Lecture
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Incomes at the bottom and the top.
Lecture
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The (un)willingness to reward cooperation and punish non-cooperation
PhD Defence
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Halal Market: the Invention of a Tradition
LUCIS Annual Lecture
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SBB guest lecture Bosung Kim
Lecture
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Austerity and Anti-Austerity: the political economy of refusal in ‘low resistance’ models of capitalism
Lecture
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Crime, punishment and harm: Asylum seeker narratives of the immigration and criminal justice system
Lecture
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What makes authorities legitimate in the eyes of citizens? An investigation of perceived legitimacy in different political regimes
PhD Defence
- FGGA Research Seminars
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Master Student for a Day Public Administration
Study Information
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Rethinking Crime and Punishment
Van Vollenhoven Lecture 2019
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Leiden Deaf Studies Lecture Series
Lecture
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Variability in State Policy towards ‘People Abroad’: An analysis of India’s approach to emigrants in the 21st century
Lecture, Seminar
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Political Science Lunch Research Seminar: Governance Beyond the Weberian State
Lecture
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FGGA Research Seminar: Organizing Leviathan: Politicians, Bureaucrats and the Making of Good Government
Lecture
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Essays on wealth, health, and data collection
PhD Defence
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LeidenASA seminar: African Muslim Migrants in Secular Europe in the Age of Islamism: Negotiating Belief and Ethnoreligiosity in European Cities
Lecture
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Liveable planet lunch meeting
Lecture
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CPP Annual Lecture with Joseph Heath, The challenge of policing minorities in a liberal state
Lecture
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars 2017-2018
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YAL members
Read all about YAL membership and the members of the Young Academy Leiden.
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Internationalism, Protectionism, Xenophobia: The Second International’s Migration Debate (1889–1914)
Lecture, Book talk | LIMS seminar
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Towards a political ontology of violence: reality, image and perception
Conference
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Pieter's Corner: Confidence in the future?
After a long period of formation, the Rutte III cabinet presented itself on 26 October 2017. The coalition agreement on which ministers will build is called ‘Vertrouwen in de toekomst’ ('Confidence in the future'). But what impact will this new cabinet have on our future? We asked our researchers in…
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Peter Paul van Benthem and the Covid whirlwind
Peter Paul van Benthem is not only head of the ENT department at the LUMC but also chair of the Federation of Medical Specialists. ‘The value is in the mix.’
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Consortia awarded grant for research into pressing issues
Various consortia in which Leiden University is represented are beginning interdisciplinary research, which will bring scientific and societal breakthroughs within reach. Knowledge institutions, government and private parties are working closely together on the projects.
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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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Beyond plastic: why humanities scholars study waste
In a new series of articles, we explore how the humanities study topics related to sustainability. First up: waste. How and why study waste as a humanities scholar? We asked Elena Burgos Martinez, University Lecturer South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan…
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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FGGA Research Seminar: Out of Line: The Political and Distributive Salience of Queues, Lines, and Ordered Waiting
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Try-out Class: Master Public Administration
Study Information, Master Try-Out Class