3,488 search results for “alumni in the spotlight” in the Public website
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Maternal mortality and morbidity in the Netherlands and their association with obstetric interventions
PhD defence
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Child Interethnic Prejudice in the Netherlands: Social Learning from Parents and Picture Books
PhD defence
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News in a Glasshouse: Media, Publics, and Senses of Belonging in the Dutch Caribbean
PhD defence
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CANCELLED: Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies. Private Memories from the Congo Free State and German East Africa (1884-1914)
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar
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Report Launch: 'A Comparative Study of Non-State Violent Drone Use in the Middle East'
Lecture
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Resurrecting the ‘Spiritual Daughters’: The Case of the Houtappel Chapel in the Jesuit Church of Antwerp
Lecture, Online Museum Talks
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Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies: Private Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884–1914) (LUCIR book launch)
Lecture
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interactions: epidemiology and consequences for detection and prevention in the lake region of Tanzania
PhD defence
- New motherhood as Horror in the TV series 'Birthcare Center' (Sanhujoriwon, 2020) and the film 'Push! Push!' (Sanbuin’kwa, 1997)
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Every European citizen trilingual?
Leiden University linguist Lisa Cheng speaks two Chinese languages, as well as English and Dutch. She is a strong supporter of the European Commission's wish that every European citizen learns to speak several languages. ‘Speaking three languages is not that difficult.’
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Special anniversary celebration for Leiden University: 440 years
The celebration of Leiden's Dies Natalis on Monday 9 February in the Pieterskerk was extra special this year and was attended by many prominent guests. This was the kick-off of the special 88th Lustrum (five-year) celebrations in 2015.
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What makes us ill?
Genes predict whether you have a propensity for an illness but environmental factors often have the last word: nutrition, air pollution, lifestyle, stress. The exposome as both culprit and chance. Large-scale research is being carried out into this at Leiden. Thomas Hankemeier, Professor of Analytical…
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No legal career but a food truck on Bonaire instead
If you study law, you won’t necessarily end up striding round a law firm in tailor-made suits. Alumnus Harrie Schoffelen certainly hasn’t: he made the conscious decision to follow another path in life. Together with his fiancée he runs a successful food truck on the tropical island of Bonaire. ‘Return…
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First LUCAS Public Prize goes to Hugo Koning
Hugo Koning, an expert in Greek mythology, has won the Lucas Public Prize because he has brought his research to the attention of the general public in so many different ways. This is the first Public Prize awarded by the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS). Hugo says with a smile:…
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Hall of Fame 2016
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed member of an academic society or have taken on a position in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include…
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Positive feedback will give the mentoring project a follow-up
Helping first-year students at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs find their way in a rapidly changing university world because of Covid-19. That was the goal of the mentor project that has been running since this academic year. At the end of January, the first phase ends and in February new…
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Leiden Law Cast: reverend Ruben Van Zwieten
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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“Solidarity Beyond Ocean”: Japanese Dockworkers and the Politics of Scale in the Bandung Moment
Lecture
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After Securitisation: Militarisation of Governance of Migration in the EU and Implications for the EU’s identity
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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After Securitisation: Militarisation of Governance of Migration in the EU and Implications for the EU’s identity
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Cum laude for political science PhD Tim Mickler
On 22 February 2017 political scientist Tim Mickler (Leiden University) defended his dissertation on the structure, composition, and working of parliamentary committees. He was awarded the exceptional predicate 'cum laude'.
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Arabic and its Alternatives: Religious Minorities and their Languages in the Emerging Nation States of the Middle East (1920-1950)
Lecture, Book launch
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Peoples’ culinary practices prior to the advent of European invasions in the Greater Caribbean
PhD defence
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cell-derived cardiomyocytes to understand genetic variant pathogenicity in the ion channelopathy LQT2
PhD defence
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Self-regulation: A Longitudinal Study Involving Mothers and Fathers in the Netherlands and China
PhD defence
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Peoples’ culinary practices prior to the advent of European invasions in the Greater Caribbean
PhD defence
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Oil, Labour and Revolution in Iran: A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1973-1983
PhD defence
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The Palestinian Music-Making Experience in the West Bank 1920s to 1959: Nationalism, Colonialism, and Identity
PhD defence
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In the grey zone of the Sonority Hierarchy: A typology of syllabic consonants and their non-consonantal properties
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Northward Bound: Slave Refugees and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Northern US and Canada, 1775-1861
PhD defence
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understanding of the presence, fate and ecological effects of microplastics in the freshwater environment
PhD defence
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Indigenous Institution for Sustainable Community-Based Development in the Sunda Region of West Java, Indonesia
PhD defence
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Another Brick in the Wall: The role of the actinobacterial cell wall in antibiotic resistance, phylogeny and development
PhD defence
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The Travel of Ideas in the Age of Steam and Print: The Ottoman Caliphate versus Wahhabism and Mahdism
PhD defence
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Careers: Johan Maurits, Rijckloff Volckertsz. van Goens and Career-Making in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Empire
PhD defence
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Radicalisation: The Use of the Internet by Islamic State Terrorists in the US (2012-2018)
PhD defence
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Ada Lovelace Distinguished Lecture Series
Lecture
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Killing cancer cells with metals and light
Lecture
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Joint Session ACPA-PhD Candidates - Interdisciplinarity
Arts and culture, Collegium
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Van de Waal Lecture 2022: Futurism and Europe: The aesthetics of a new world
Alumni event, Lecture
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CML 40 years - Symposium “Sustainability in a post-fact society, ruled by populists”
Conference, Symposium
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Dies Natalis
Alumni event, University ceremony
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Experience Evening Liberal Arts & Sciences: Global Challenges (Leiden University College The Hague)
Study information, Experience Evening
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Expanded Object - sound installation
Exhibition
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Open Q&A with the European Parliament President Roberta Metsola
Lecture
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On Campus Master's Experience: Faculty Medicine / LUMC
Study information
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Open source virtual assistants by Monica Lam
Lecture, Ada Lovelace Lecture
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CERTAINTY: Media Technology exhibition
Exhibition
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Brazil: the role of ideology, political-economic power and civil society in the construction of large hydropower dams
PhD defence
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justice: The South African constitutional court and the right to education in the language of one's choice
Lecture, Language Policy and Practices Series