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Letters of Johan de Witt give a glimpse behind the scenes at the Disaster Year 1672
The government, the people and the country were in desperate straits. This about sums up the state of affairs in the Disaster Year of 1672. It was 350 years ago, and to mark the occasion PhD candidate Roosje Peeters collaborated on a series of letters to and from a key political figure Johan de Witt,…
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New Year’s reception 2021: a memorable online event
The Faculty’s traditional New Year’s reception, like everything else these days, was transformed into an online event this year. Dean Paul Wouters as the host led us through the programme filled with the Casimir Teaching Award, the Pieter de la Court Medals, the Master’s Thesis Prizes, and a short lecture…
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John Mydosh and the mystery of the Hidden Order
A 35-year-old uranium crystal will not disclose its secret: what causes a dramatic phase transition at 17.5 Kelvin? Thanks to a new artificial intelligence approach, half of the possible explanations are excluded, but the definitive answer remains to be found. 'It is very frustrating', says physicist…
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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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Eventful opening of academic year: minister in the church, protest on the square
Not one but two openings: the minister who defended her plans and many who emphasised the importance of standing together with the arts and social sciences: the opening of academic year 2019-2020 in Leiden was not without event.
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Pieter's Corner: Wokisme
Minister of Justice Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius recently warned against
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Making everything we know computer-readable
Data and information should be stored in a way that computers can understand, says Barend Mons, professor of Biosemantics at the Leiden University Medical Center and Chair of the High Level Expert Group for the European Open Science Cloud. We speak with him about FAIR data, knowlets and nanopublicat…
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LUC Well Being Week: A Panel Discussion on Racism in Times of Corona
In light of the changes made to face to face teaching by Leiden University, LUC student association Fortuna rose to the challenge by coining a virtual Well-Being week and facilitating it online.
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The ancient Egyptians were just like us
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a study by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands concludes. If you wanted to prove that you had good taste in ancient Egypt then…
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Central Crisis Team: ‘It sometimes comes down to the last second’
It’s the middle of the academic year, but most of the University buildings are closed – something that hasn’t happened since the Second World War. Fortunately, after a week of intensive preparations, the teaching has moved online. How is the Central Crisis Team steering the University through the corona…
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FGGA in 2022: This was the year for our Faculty
We started this year as we ended it in 2021: in a lockdown. But the world continues to open up. We are occasionally allowed to go into the office and students are able to return to Campus. Continue reading to find out what the rest of the year has been like.
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Tracing the Invisible History of the Global South and the United Nations: The Prohibitive Politics of Decolonization
Lecture
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AUTO: Media Technology MSc exhibition
Exhibition
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CPP Colloquium with Suzanne Bloks
Lecture
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Sharia Embedded: the Bureaucratization of Islam in Brunei and Singapore
Lecture
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Mapping the Transmission of Knowledge in Tenth-Century Baghdad: an Investigation of the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim
Lecture, LUCIS
- How can Feminist Foreign Policy contribute to National Security in an Age of Domestic Terror Threats?
- Somali Day. Culture and politics through the lens of Somali literature and orature
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How can Feminist Foreign Policy contribute to National Security in an Age of Domestic Terror Threats?
Debate
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Workshop on data processing with ELAN and Flex
Course
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Signs of life – Life, Living and Death in Modern and Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Conference
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This Week’s Discoveries | 13 February 2018
Lecture
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Alumni meet students in Psychology Methodology & Statistics
Alumni event
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LUCIP Lecture Series with Antoine Panaïoti
Lecture
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Opening Academic Year 2020-2021 Institute of Philosophy
Lecture
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Colonial and Global History Seminar
Lecture, COGLOSS
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http://www.uva.nl/profiel/h/i/h.j.hiddinga/h.j.hiddinga.html
Lecture
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This Week's Discoveries | 8 October 2019
Lecture
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Expanded Object - sound installation
Exhibition
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Worlds to Discover: Ajami Manuscripts of West Africa
Lecture, Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Molluscs in the Levantine Upper Palaeolithic: implications for modern human diets and subsistence behaviour
PhD defence
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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The Presidential elections in Brazil and Mexico 2018: What have we learned
Lecture
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Africa, 60 years of independence
Conference
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‘My students don't stop at a six!'
During the opening of the academic year, true to tradition the LUC Teaching Prize will be awarded to the University's best lecturer. Get to know the nominees. This week: Florian Schneider.
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LCCP Symposium Memory for the Future: Thinking with Bernard Stiegler
Conference, Symposium
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Disciplining Gender and (Homo)sexuality in Hungary
Lecture, Leiden Queer History Network
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Disciplining Gender and (Homo)sexuality in Hungary
Lecture, Leiden Queer History Network
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Film Screening: ''Monument of Pride''
Film Screening | Leiden Queer History Network
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Publications
Electronic versions of our publications can be obtained by sending an e-mail to Esther van den Bos: bosejvanden@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
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L.A.S. Terra symposium: Repatriation
Conference
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Corruption and the current Political Turmoil in Latin America: Is there a Way out?
Lecture
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Security and conflict resolution in northern Nigeria
Lecture, Studium Generale
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How did disability become a global concern?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Sacred Economies Symposium
Lecture, Network Event
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Iran: Beyond the Headlines
LUCIS Discussion Panel
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Governor-general Konstantin von Kaufmann
Masterclass
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Dhimma and the Conditions of Christians and Jews in Muslim Granada (13th-15th centuries)
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Berlusconi and Italian Populism
Lecture, Master class