500 search results for “esther guest” in the Student website
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Leiden Classics: The paradox of student association Minerva
Minerva, which calls itself the oldest student association of the Netherlands, has the reputation of being an impenetrable bastion. A lustrum exhibition shows the turbulent history and points to a diversity of contacts: from close bonds with Leiden ‘coffee ladies’ to the visit of Sir Winston Churchi…
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Roel Kwast: Leiden Law School’s new student assessor
The student assessor: the one student member of the Faculty Board who attends all important meetings and project discussions. The assessor represents students – one of the key target groups – in the faculty’s administrative decisions. The current assessor, Hannah Saberi, will pass over the reins to…
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‘Ties with Leiden University important for prospective prime minister Dick Schoof’
Dick Schoof kan ook wel de buurman van de Haagse faculteit worden genoemd. Vooral vanuit zijn rol bij de NCTV werkte hij veel samen met de Universiteit Leiden en hielp hij onderwijs en onderzoek vooruit, vertelt hoogleraar Terrorisme en Contraterrorisme Edwin Bakker. ‘Voor een kritische vriend was altijd…
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Academic freedom report
What does academic freedom mean? And how do we give shape to it in Leiden? The Academic Freedom Core Team considered these questions and presented its final report on 17 June.
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Graduation MIRD Class of 2024: 'The world is better off with students like this'
Graduation MIRD Class of 2024: 'The world is better off with students like this'
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Jewish families in late antiquity parables
Lecture, Public Lecture
- Diplomacy and Global Affairs Research Seminar Series
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Exhibition BrAInpower at Museum Boerhaave
Exhibition
- Scholarly Event: Conference and Event Management Software lunch talk
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Inaugural Lecture by Federica Mogherini: Europe Hub Launch Event
Lecture
- Opening faculty year 2022-2023 with talkshow Leiden Law Op1 LIVE STREAM
- Culture and Politics Event Series
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NIT Day in Leiden
Conference
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FestiWell en EUniWell
Festival, FestiWell | Event vanuit EUniWell
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CWTS Scientometrics Summer School (CS3)
Research
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"From Epistemicide to ‘Epistemic Disobedience'" by Anne-Maria Makhulu
Lecture
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Hip Hop Diplomacy as Subversive Complicity
Guest Lecture
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Qahramon Yakubov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in April 2023
Lecture
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Alumna Natacha Harlequin: ‘When it really matters, I’m a lion’
She stands out for the moderate tone she takes in discussions on Dutch talk shows. Without judgement you can have an open conversation, criminal lawyer Natacha Harlequin learned in her student days in Leiden. ‘What I personally think of the alleged act doesn’t matter so much.’
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2021: This was the year of our faculty
2021 was an eventful year once again for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). Hybrid, working from home, online education, on-campus education, face masks, self-tests, keeping distance, quarantine and the coronavirus. Words that have now become a standard part of our vocabulary when…
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Scales of Luminosity
Lecture, Walks and Talks
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Indigenous Peoples and Regional Human Rights Systems
Conference
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Eileen Moyer
Lecture, Research Seminar
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#HumanRightsWeek: The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe – Experiences of a Former Ambassador
Lecture
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Indigenous Peoples and Trials before International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
Conference
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Environmental Humanities LU: Declutter, disconnect, dismantle! Reflections on degrowth and cultural politics
Lecture
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The Israel-Hamas War in Islamist Discourses
Discussion
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Academy Tour with Rutger Bregman
Debate
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Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations
Conference
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Evidence Gathering Strategies in the Investigation of Crimes against Indigenous Peoples
Conference
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Celebration of the Georgian Language Day
Conference
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Medieval Mediterranean Study Group Introduction Symposium
Conference
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#HumanRightsWeek: Mr. Michael O'Flaherty - What future for human rights?
Lecture
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Museum Talk: Art amid the Ruins
Lecture
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Farewell symposium Prof. dr. Joke Bouwstra
Valedictory lecture
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Experimental Archaeology Days
Festival
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Fact-Finding Missions and Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Conference
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You should eat herring on the coast and not in Maastricht
For thirty years, the Dutch Newspaper AD conducted an annual search for the best herring. This came to an end when economist Ben Vollaard, based on a statistical analysis, claimed it was rigged. But that claim doesn't smell right, says Leiden statistician Richard Gill. ‘The way you code and process…
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‘When I leave the lecture and students are still discussing, I know I did a good job’
‘It was the biggest bunch of flowers I’d ever seen,’ says Emily Strange about the moment she won the Leiden Teaching Prize 2022. The judge praised the conservation biologist for her passion, engaging personality, and the way she motivates her students. On the Dutch Day of the Teacher, we get to know…
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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme
Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the programme. How was it and what do they expect from this programme?
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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Race against time: Helping the Netherlands secure almost 20 million Pfizer vaccines
The whole world is waiting anxiously for sufficient supplies of coronavirus vaccines. As Launch Navigator at Pfizer, alumnus Dennis de Mik must help ensure that the Netherlands receives 19.8 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. How is he going about this and how has his Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences…
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Four questions about the new track in Crisis and Security Management
Intelligence and National Security is the new specialisation in MSc Crisis and Security Management (CSM). It will start next September 2021. Do you want to know more about this track?
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This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news
Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.
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Interdisciplinary minor ’Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’
The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits from this approach? Students and lecturers evaluate: ‘This minor’s a goldmine’.
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Dismantling National Colonialism: the role of Chilean political indigenous movements
Guest Lecture
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Ada Lovelace Day
Lecture
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European Strategic Autonomy and a Rising China
An informal exchange
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Protecting Cyberspace in the Indo-Pacific through European and Japanese Cyber Diplomatic Initiatives
Lecture
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Environmental Humanities LU: Species literacy and the cultural portrayal of animal biodiversity
Lecture