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Revolutionary Parents: Intimate Cultural Memories of the Arab Left
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Campus The Hague: more ‘Hague’ in its DNA
Campus The Hague has forged its own identity: alongside interdisciplinarity, interaction with the city is its defining feature. ‘The campus is now a young adult. It is well beyond puberty,’ says campus chair Erwin Muller. An ambitious new strategy reveals this.
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442nd Dies Natalis focuses on Asia
On the 442nd anniversary of the foundation of Leiden University, and at the start of the Leiden Asia Year, lawyer Jan Michiel Otto, an expert in the field of law in developing countries, delivered the first Dies lecture. He compared demagogues in Asia who call upon Muslims to turn against their governments…
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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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Here is how students help the municipality of Leiden to build sustainably
The municipality of Leiden aims for circular construction, but how do you reconcile that with the growing demand for housing? For the Kennisatelier Duurzaamheid, master's students from Industrial Ecology are investigating whether the municipality can build enough houses up to 2030 and still use half…
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Torino: From food to demands
“Neighborhood solidarity cannot compensate the absence of the State: a response from the local administration is needed”
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‘The sound of the city became the score for a musical instrument’
Do the sounds that surround you as you cycle through the city sometimes annoy you? Don’t worry, because we can actively change the situation, says sound expert Edwin van der Heide. Students in his Honours Class are actively shaping the sound of the city.
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'The right to vote' and Catalan independence
Politicians in Barcelona are preparing for a new political battle. Nationalists fighting for Catalan independence have announced that they will organize a referendum this autumn, just as they did in 2014. Other parties claim that it will lead to new court cases because the referendum is unconstituti…
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Making policy with big data
Governments have increasing amounts of data at their disposal. How can big data be used in policymaking? And are governments ready to deal with all this data? That is what Sarah Giest, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration, is interested in.
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The added value of Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities: interview with Dean Wim van den Doel
Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities will celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2022. In recent years, the alliance has expanded to include centres and new programmes as well as a curriculum of its own. What do the next ten years have in store?
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'Climate issues and sustainability should be part of every study programme'
Having lectures on sustainability when you're a first-year student of Law, or a course on climate change when you're studying Public Administration may sound odd, but that is just what Associate Professor in Environmental Sciences Thijs Bosker wants to see happening. Together with his colleague Paul…
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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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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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Assessor talk: Ebrar Kaya succeeds Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens as assessor
Participating in discussions as a student, at an administrative level? Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens has done so for the past two years as assessor of the Faculty of Humanities. Ebrar Kaya will take over the position of assessor starting this September. In this interview we look back and ahead at the asse…
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50 years of the Academic Language Centre: plus ça change?
That's just learning parrot-fashion. This was the argument with which the proposal to establish a language lab at Leiden University was rejected in 1962. But six years later, the language lab was launched. And now the Academic Language Lab is celebrating its 50-year anniversary.
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14 Veni grants awarded to Leiden researchers
Fourteen promising researchers from Leiden University have been given the opportunity to realise their research plans for the coming years thanks to a Veni grant from the NWO. This year, these subsidies have been granted to studies of the influence of noise on the great tit, the conditions necessary…
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Globalising Sociolinguistics (GloSoc2) “Communicating in the city”, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Conference
- Van Leeuwenhoek Lectures on BioScience
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Amulets and Talismans in the Muslim World
Conference
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Ada Lovelace Day
Lecture
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Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty
Lecture, Book presentation
- Diplomacy and Global Affairs Research Seminar Series
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Variation and change in Abui: The impact of Alor Malay on an indigenous language of Indonesia
PhD Defence
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The Revitalization of Mapuzungun, a South American language of Chile and Argentina
Lecture
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Theatre Performance: Meet the Millennials
Arts and Culture, Theatre Performance
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A Free Non-White Elite in Paramaribo AND Indian Ocean Slavery (two lectures)
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Book Launch "Legal Documents as Sources for the History of Muslim Societies"
Lecture, Book Launch
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Unwanted Histories: The legacies of contested monuments and objects: new homes, new interpretations, new meanings
Conference
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Janice McNab- Slits and a Skull
Exhibition
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Gender, Religion and Kickboxing: The empowerment-paradigm in sport participation
Lecture
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Special event with Charles Foster: Beasts in African Studies? Radical reflections on research methodologies
Debate
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New Perspectives on Past Vitamin D Deficiency
Lecture
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India, land of the future
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Gastro-Politics & Gastro-Ethics of Diversity: Negotiating Islam in an Entangled World - POSTPONED
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Documentary screening on a mining conflict in KwaZulu-Natal: This land
Arts and Culture, Film screening
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Linguistic Variation in South America
Lecture
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Interview Hassnae Bouazza door Nadia Bouras
Festival, Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019
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The making of an inclusive Leiden University. Do's and Don'ts
Conference
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Contested Heritage
Conference
- Circuits of Production, Crisis and Revolt: The Environment and Capital in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
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City Responsibility: Municipal Institutions as the First Frontier of Conflict Prevention and Peace building
Lecture
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Workshop Post-Economic Crisis Migration and the European ‘Periphery’
Conference
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A sense of society
PhD Defence
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Research Seminars Series FGGA: Big Data Analytics for mitigating carbon emissions in smart cities: Opportunities and challenges
Lecture
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How do we walk in crowds? A brief journey from crowd physics to smart environments
Lecture
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The innovation mindset- Webinar
Alumni Event
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I Wish, I Wish, a Western Mosque: Colonial Continuities in Dutch Perspectives on Islamic Architecture
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Autocratic immigration policymaking
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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StepTalk On the Move: African Migrants
Debate, StepTalk
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U.N. World Water Day: Key Challenges and Opportunities to Sustainable Water Management
Conference, Symposium of the Water and Society Lab: U.N. World Water Day