450 news items found
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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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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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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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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 ...
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Executive Board column: Let’s be alert to unacceptable behaviour 21 October 2022This is a difficult time. Above all, for all those directly involved in this horrible case – unacceptable behaviour by a professor and his removal fro...
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Cleveringa professor Gert Oostindie: ‘We stood up for our own freedom but ignored that of others’ 19 October 2022Now that war is once again raging in Europe, the question of when you need to stand up against injustice has become more relevant than ever. In his Cl...
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Introducing the new assessor: 'I immediately knew: this is what I want' 18 October 2022With the new academic year, the Honours Academy welcomes a new assessor: Maarten Kolpa. What does an assessor do? And what can he do for honours stude...
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Leiden University professor removed for extremely unacceptable behaviour 18 October 2022A professor from Leiden University has subjected various colleagues to intimidating and unacceptable behaviour for a longer period. These are the find...