3,699 search results for “politics” in the Public website
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FC Winter School student Ginevra Montefusco produces a web doc on Bari’s fish market
Mingo, a 91-year-old fish lover from Bari, takes us with him into the physical, symbolic and cultural space of the market.
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Cairo Institute Director: ‘I’m keeping the ship afloat’
In March 2020, the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo suddenly had to repatriate 57 students to the Netherlands and Flanders. Director and Arabic specialist Rudolf de Jong decided to stay in Egypt. ‘A lot of the work carries on.’
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‘It affects me most when children are involved’
It doesn’t take long before Tim van Lit has told us what interests him: problems that shake the nation. This 28-year-old Criminology alumnus heads a team of 25 at Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. Location: Schiphol Airport.
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Successful second annual conference of the Leiden Center for East African Law at the EAC headquarters in Arusha
On the 5th of May 2016, the second annual conference of the Leiden Center for East African Law (LEAC) took place at the East African Community headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. The Conference was organized on the occasion of Europe Day with the generous support of the EAC, the EU delegation to EAC and…
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Special anniversary celebration for Leiden University: 440 years
The celebration of Leiden's Dies Natalis on Monday 9 February in the Pieterskerk was extra special this year and was attended by many prominent guests. This was the kick-off of the special 88th Lustrum (five-year) celebrations in 2015.
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CEO Andrew de la Haije: ‘Optimally serving our clients is more important than growth or profit’
Andrew de la Haije is Director of the Dutch branch of Xebia Consultancy Services, an internationally operating consultancy agency that coaches companies through digital transformation. He followed the executive master’s programme in Cyber Security and graduated with distinction.
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Ingrid Tieken spellbound by languages of The Hague
Linguist Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade retired in July, but is pressing on regardless with her languages in The Hague project. An online tour of her Hague Proverbs launched recently and Tieken also has academic publications in the pipeline.
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EL CID in a time of corona: ‘This is great fun – we don’t know what it was like before anyway’
The EL CID introduction period is mostly online this year. But all first-years get to come to Leiden for a day for a taste of studying and student life. We came to have a look on Wednesday 12 August.
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GP in Spain in times of corona
What’s the situation like in Spain in these times of corona? Dr Jan Otto Landman (Medicine, Leiden, 1979) has a GP practice in Torremolinos and Fuengirola, Southern Spain, and since 16 March he has been writing blogs about corona on the Facebook page of his practice. He has covered issues such as the…
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Conceptual Metaphors and Etymology: the case of Homeric Greek κερτομέω ‘to mock’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
- How can Feminist Foreign Policy contribute to National Security in an Age of Domestic Terror Threats?
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LUCIP FORUM
Lecture
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The Independence of National Regulatory Agencies
Lecture
- The Anthropology of the Anthropocene | Masterclass
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Leiden University Alumni in Brussels Event
Alumni event
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LCCP Working Seminar with Susanna Lindberg: "From Technological Humanity to Bio-Technical Existence"
Lecture
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Signs of life – Life, Living and Death in Modern and Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Conference
- Event | The Hague Space Diplomacy Symposium
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Andrei Poama
Lecture
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International Law and Indigenous Rights in Australia
Lecture
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On-Campus Master's Experience Day
Study information
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Reaching the unreachable: access to legal aid for marginalised people
Lecture
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BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).
Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.
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D&I Symposium 2023
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Impact of COVID-19: Digital food collectives in Rotterdam
PhD candidate Vincent Walstra reflects on alternative social interactions and mutual aid in the city of Rotterdam during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives
In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia
The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visit by a delegation from Leiden University to Indonesia at the end of June highlighted the benefits of cooperation.
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Researchers from Leiden visit Indonesia on knowledge mission
A delegation from Leiden University recently embarked on a knowledge mission to various NGOs, universities and government organisations in Indonesia. New partnerships were formed and important knowledge exchanged, and researchers from Leiden gave guest lectures.
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Campus The Hague: more ‘Hague’ in its DNA
Campus The Hague has forged its own identity: alongside interdisciplinarity, interaction with the city is its defining feature. ‘The campus is now a young adult. It is well beyond puberty,’ says campus chair Erwin Muller. An ambitious new strategy reveals this.
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A hornets’ nest: Leiden University during the Second World War
‘That hornets’ nest in Leiden must be destroyed,’ said Dutch National Socialist Party member Robert van Genechten in November 1942. He was referring to Leiden University. Why this hatred? Emeritus Professor of University History Willem Otterspeer has written a book about Leiden University during the…
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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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Career College: Working at an NGO
Career and apply for jobs
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Access to justice & labour rights: innovative paths for conflict resolution
Lecture
- Conference on Human Rights and Climate Change
- Obtaining justice and reparations for genocide survivors - What mobilisation and what role for the European Union and the international community
- Masterclass: Wondering about 'Reform' in Medieval Sources (4th-11th Centuries) - 1/3 ECTS
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LUCIP Forum: A Comparative Study of Zhuangzi, Fang Yizhi, and Heidegger’s Views of Life and Death
Lecture
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Online tools
This section provides an overview of online tools for the study of the medieval Low Countries. The websites linked down below are often times both available in Dutch and English.
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Poster sessions
Speech Prosody 2024 includes several poster sessions, the description of which you can find below.
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Opening academic year
University ceremony
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LCCP Seminar "The phenomenology of perception. Before and after Merleau-Ponty’"
Conference
- Six public graduation presentations
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Opening Academic Year
Academic ceremony
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Inclusivity with Law: What does it mean to look at diversity and inclusion from a legal perspective?
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Dies Natalis 2023
University ceremony
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Multidisciplinary dialogues on the human past of the Urubamba/Ucayali basin: towards a new synthesis
Conference
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Formation of Islam: Topics
The FOI project has a number of topics it aims to investigate. These are: State, Economy, Culture and Papyri. You will find links to bibliographies on this page.
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Mini-Symposium: The societal relevance of improvisation in music and dance followed by a panel discussion on artistic doctorates in the performing
PhD defence, Symposium
- Program 2024