450 news items found
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Iranian regime faces dilemma: ‘You can’t just block social media’ 21 November 2022Protests have been raging in Iran for two months since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. The role of social media in the protests against the Iran...
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Renewed LLP has started: 'Reflection is the beginning of progress' 18 November 2022'Working on your leadership starts tonight,' says lecturer Sandra Groeneveld at the introductory meeting of the Leiden Leadership Programme. The progr...
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Art project has students and lecturers reflecting on pressure to succeed 17 November 2022What does it mean to be the ‘perfect student’? This is the focus of the Perspectify exhibition, which was opened on 16 November by President of the Ex...
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Tackle debt with healthcare funds: researchers on a healthier society for all 16 November 2022Technology, medical knowledge, social measures and the design of the living environment: all these needed to achieve a healthier society. In a series ...
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Painting removed from wall in spontaneous action: ‘We are going to discuss this and reach a decision’ 15 November 2022During a meeting at the University on 10 November, staff spontaneously removed a painting by artist Rein Dool from the wall in one of the meeting room...
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Exhibition marks 100 years of Indonesian Student Association in the Netherlands 14 November 2022The Indonesian Student Association in the Netherlands, ‘Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia Belanda’, has teamed up with the Indonesian embassy in The Hague...
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More attention needs to be paid to prevention in the fight against cancer 10 November 2022On 11 November Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Monique van Leerdam will deliver her inaugural lecture entitled, ‘Aiming for Prevention’....
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Leiden Healthy Society Center: making Leiden the healthiest city in the Netherlands 10 November 2022How can the people of Leiden age as well as possible? And what is needed to reduce health disparities? That is the mission of Leiden Healthy Society C...
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New hub for entrepreneurial students from Campus The Hague 10 November 2022This Thursday saw the launch of PLNT The Hague, an entrepreneurial hub where Campus The Hague students can learn all about entrepreneurship. They will...
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New ‘university centre’ to be created in former Hudson’s Bay building in downtown The Hague 07 November 2022Leiden University, together with the Open University and Universities of the Netherlands, will take up residence in the Spui building at Grote Marktst...
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National platform launched for academics facing abuse 07 November 2022Academics regularly face threats, intimidation and abuse. The Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the Royal Ne...
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Master Class | Factory Girls, Sex Workers, and Minorities: Writing the Marginalized in History 03 November 2022
Hanan Hammad and Eftychia Mylona give a master class focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges in writing histories of marginalized social ...
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Peak movement in afternoon and evening linked to lower risk of diabetes 02 November 2022People who move most in the afternoon and evening are less insulin resistant than people who move mainly in the morning or spread throughout the day. ...
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Lecture by Al-Babtain Visiting Fellow Salwa El-Awa 01 November 2022Dr. Salwa El-Awa delivers a talk on Wednesday, November 2nd, on "Ambiguity in the Qur'an".
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High school students at the Open Day: 'I want to do my own thing' 24 October 2022Last Saturday, the Turfmarkt in The Hague, where during the week thousands of commuters make their way to the many ministries in the city centre, was ...