1,108 search results for “independent moment and decolonization” in the Staff website
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Workshop: Managing Difficult Moments
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Workshop: Managing Difficult Moments
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Klaas van Walraven
Afrika-Studiecentrum
- Topical Issues in Museums
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Fransiskus Widiyarso
Faculty of Humanities
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Workshop: Managing Difficult Moments
This academic year, workshops will be organised for teachers per institute on how to deal with difficult situations in the classroom.
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Students Sander, Linde and Melle create an online exhibition for the University Library
With a recently published major research project and an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, the struggle for independence in Indonesia has been thrusted back into the spotlight. Leiden University is devoting attention to this topic as well. History students Sander van der Horst and Melle van Maanen joined…
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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Alanna O'Malley
Faculty of Humanities
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Lock your screen
Locking your screen before leaving your desk: it’s so easy to do but we often forget. This quick action protects both you and the university. Do you always lock your screen when you leave to get a coffee, walk to the printer or chat with a colleague in the corridor?
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Lecturer and students taking action: 'Anton de Kom deserves a statue in The Hague’
Why doesn't the Surinamese resistance hero and independence fighter Anton de Kom have a memorial site in his former hometown, The Hague, while there are streets named after colonial leaders? The students of university lecturer Anne Marieke Van der Wal-Rémy are committed to the erection of a statue.
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Decolonizing Area Studies. An Open Conversation
Roundtable conversation
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Open Doors Day: a moment to meet each other
During the Week Against Loneliness, we ask staff to (symbolically) open their doors, especially those such as lecturers and student advisers who work with students.
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Anne-Isabelle Richard
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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Newly appointed Art History professor, Minna Valjakka: 'Art teaches us more than you may think'
On 1 January Minna Valjakka was appointed Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory from a Global Perspective. Valjakka sees her appointment as 'extremely topical' because of the discussions about the decolonisation of the arts: 'Art teaches us not just about art, but also about contemporary…
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reveals what you're really saying: 'Interesting if it's language-independent'
In a conversation, you provide all sorts of information to the listener. For example, you can indicate that you're certain about something, or that you heard it through someone else. Associate Professor Jenneke van der Wal has been awarded a Vici grant to investigate whether the way people do this is…
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From Disappearance to the End Game: Reflecting on the Politics of Decolonization in Hong Kong
Lecture, China Seminar
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Re-occurring moments to reflect on our values: ‘It’s about commitment to culture change'
How do we navigate the continuously developing landscape in research integrity, ethics, and open science? Anna van 't Veer and Eiko Fried discuss the underlying principles and values of science with all psychology units in their Responsible Scholarship workshop.
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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Decolonizing and Deconstructing National Historical Frameworks: From the Comparative to the transnational turn in History
Lecture, Brown-bag Seminar
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HC Law students receive certificate at awards ceremony
After three years of hard work, the students of the Honours College Law received their certificates on 22 November at an awards ceremony held at Scheltema.
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Introducing: Sander van der Horst
Sander van der Horst recently joined the Institute for History and the Royal Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV-KNAW). He is a PhD candidate in Cultural Histories & Decolonization in Southeast Asia. Below, he introduces himself.
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Introducing: Joshua Mentanko
Since 1 September 2022, Josh Mentanko is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for History. Below he introduces himself.
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Intervision
Teachers can participate in an intervision group that gives them the tools to navigate didactic challenges that are informed by questions of diversity and inclusion.
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Introducing: Lydia Walker
Lydia Walker recently joined the Institute for History as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Below she introduces herself!
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Archaeologist Martin Berger explores Latin American collections with an ERC grant
All over Europe you will find ethnographic museums with large collections of indigenous objects from Latin America. These collections shaped the image of native populations in the European mind. An ERC Starting Grant allows Dr Martin Berger to look at the bigger picture, contextualizing individual collections…
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Cleveringa Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history
It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural lecture on 24 November. ‘As a university community, we must dare to hold up a mirror to ourselves and, where possible and necessary, also take concrete…
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ASCL Seminar: Africa's Second Struggle for Freedom: What's decolonisation got to do with it?
Lecture
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The International Civil Service: Redefining Its Independence
PhD defence
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PhD Trajectory
Most employed and contract PhD candidates at the Faculty of Humanities follow a 4-year PhD trajectory.
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Tests and theses
See your Faculty’s tab for more information on what we expect of you as a lecturer, before, during and after tests and examinations, and when supervising students in writing their thesis.
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Forging Global Citizens: Part 1
The Aernout van Lynden Global Citizenship Award award is a recognition given by the LUC community. Each year a student who has demonstrated the qualities of active engagement, responsive and responsible participation in civic and/or community building, within and/or beyond LUC is presented with the…
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Speckmann Awards 2023 for Queer Joy in Motion report and Imogen Cooney
The Fieldwork NL report prize goes to the “Queer Joy in Motion” report, by bachelor students Dorota Olsavska, Marthe Baalbergen, Rielly Puchalski, and Rosa Graffé. Master student Imogen Cooney receives the Speckmann Award for her thesis ‘Decolonizing Faculty’.
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Postdoctoral research and fellowships
It is essential for researchers to be able to obtain independent research funding in order to advance in their career.
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Site visits and accreditation
Institutions of higher education must be accredited to ensure they provide a high standard of education. Students, employers and other members of society can thus be assured of the quality of this education. All degree programmes at Leiden University are accredited, and one aspect of this is the site…
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Op de juiste plaats en op het juiste moment
Inaugural lecture
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Online courses Life hacks
Career development, Personal development, Working effectively
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Mapping Slavery Leiden tour
FULLY BOOKED | Guided tour in Dutch
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Mapping Slavery Leiden tour
FULLY BOOKED | Guided tour in English
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Teaching academic integrity
Within all bachelor’s and master’s programmes, depending on the type of programme, attention is paid to ensuring that academic research is carried out scrupulously. For each programme, this is done in a way that is appropriate for the discipline in question.
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'The bachelor Public Administration made it easier for me to understand complicated topics'
Nienke Weijermars studied Public Administration at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. While doing her bachelor’s, she enrolled in the minor in Journalism and New Media, followed by an internship at Dutch local newspaper Leidsch Dagblad: 'At Leidsch Dagblad, they really had time to teach me…
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Well-being moment for staff: Spring lunch walk
Lunch walk
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Well-Being Moment: Workshop – Meditation for beginners
Workshop
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Well-being moment for staff: Summer lunch walk
Walk
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Academic integrity
The integrity and reliability of academic research are of fundamental importance to the University. All parties, both within and outside the University, must be able to have confidence that our research is conducted in a scrupulous, fair, verifiable, impartial and independent manner.
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Quality of education
The quality of our programmes is monitored continuously. The assessments are conducted both by external experts and by our institutions and programmes. We use these evaluations of education to further improve our programmes.
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An introduction to Performance art (live art)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Come by for a new profile picture on Monday 30 September
Organisation