449 search results for “north america” in the Student website
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Minister Ollongren impresses with personal speech: 'Our strongest weapons are people'
After 2.5 years as defence minister, it is time for Kajsa Ollongen to hand over the baton. In front of a packed audience, she gave her farewell speech at Leiden University in The Hague on Tuesday, which included personal lessons and memories, from sleeping on the ground with the prime minister to the…
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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch
Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center for International Relations (LUCIR) has conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique. Her resulting book, Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil…
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Offshore windfarms and fishes - APELAFICO NWO-NWA public closing event
Lecture and excursion
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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
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Smoke on the Water: Ocean Incineration as a Struggle for Environmental Justice
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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ASCL Seminar: Animals in Africa - Human-animal relationships through the lenses of decoloniality and ubuntu
Lecture
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Bibliometric Data Sources and Indicators 2024
Research
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Workshop 'Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges'
Workshop
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Lecture on the book The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy
Lecture
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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Debate
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Notes on the contemporary Art Novel
Lecture, Seminar
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Opening Exhibition Presenting with the City at Archaeology
Arts and culture
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
- Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
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Book presentation ‘Building the League of Nations and the International Labour Organisation’
Book presentation
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Asia Research cluster workshop: collaborative research and stakeholder interaction
Course, Workshop
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Exhibition Presenting with the City at Humanities
Exhibition
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To Counter or Not Counter Violent Extremism? That’s the Question
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Leaving Science: A Large-Scale, Cohort-Based, Longitudinal Approach, 2000-2022
Seminar
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To Register or Not to Register? Legal Identity and Birth Registration of Migrant Children in Morocco
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Should rivers and seas have rights?
Lecture, Public Ethics Talks
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Dies Natalis all about innovating and connecting
‘We could share our knowledge more with others and apply it more widely,’ said Annetje Ottow, President of the Executive Board, while presenting the new Strategic Plan on the University’s 447th Dies Natalis. The new Strategic Plan therefore focuses on innovating and connecting, among disciplines and…
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this second instalment: historian and university lecturer Nadia Bouras (1981). ‘Although I only found out later that was my mother’s dream, it was as though I…
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Diversity symposium 2021: small steps can increase inclusion
‘Culture change takes time,’ said Vice-Rector Hester Bijl at the closing panel of the University’s Diversity Symposium on 26 January. She talked about the road to a diverse and inclusive university. The symposium provided plenty of concrete examples of small steps that can already be taken.
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence
In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate. Archaeology research in Leiden into burial mounds in the Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas of the Netherlands yielded this spectacular conclusion.…
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How the Fossil Fuel Industry (ab)uses the Legal System: The Urgent Call for Binding Regulations to Protect People and Climate
Debate, Roundtable discussion
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Visiting the EU institutions in Brussels
Career and apply for jobs
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Roundtable: 2024 Elections Pakistan, Indonesia and India
Roundtable | SSEALS
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Protecting the Peace Process in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland
Lecture
- Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Healing the People: Popularizing and Printing Medicine in Edo Japan
Conference
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AI for Bad: Superpowers, Cydiplo and the Myth of Global Regulation
Lecture
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Book presentation: The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex
Lecture
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Caribbean Literature - A Reading List
Caribbean literature holds a unique position in the world. Literature produced in the Caribbean region is extremely diverse, not only because of the wide variety of languages spoken, but also due to distinct colonial legacies that exist in the archipelago. Despite cultural specificities, the region…
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On this public day on psychedelics, researchers transcend the media hype
Never before has so much research been carried out on the therapeutic effect of psychedelic drugs. Researchers at the LIBC Public Day are happy about the effect the drugs can have on depression, anxiety and PTSS, but at the same time they have some doubts. ‘The hype is bound to crash before long.’
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On not seeing like a state: How archaeology can inform critiques of the inevitability of hierarchy, dispossession, and disconnection of the human
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Diversity & Inclusion Career Session
Course
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Closing the Gap 2022 | Responsibility in Cyberspace: Narratives and Practice
Conference
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Working in the Netherlands for non-EU
Career and apply for jobs
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School