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Understanding syncope in the framework of transient loss of consciousness
PhD defence
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Dynamics of the opioid crisis in the Netherlands
PhD defence
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Four pressured months trying to solve society’s woes
In the National Think Tank, 20 young academics spend four months mulling over a solution to a societal problem. Two Leiden alumni tell us more.
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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Pluriform prosody in the voice, face, and hands
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Alumnus (90) donates historic house to Leiden University
Alumnus Ruurt Hazewinkel (90) has presented Leiden University with a special gift: a historic house on Leiden’s Rapenburg canal. He handed over the key to Rector Carel Stolker on Monday 25 January.
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Alumnus Anne Speckens opened a mindfulness centre in Nijmegen
Professor of Psychiatry Anne Speckens studied medicine in Leiden and did her psychiatry training there too. She opened the Radboudumc Center for Mindfulness in Nijmegen. What does she do there and how does she look back on her time as a student?
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Voice of the ocean
There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in the world’s most prestigious sailing competition: the Ocean Race.
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Midterm elections: surprising results, or not so much?
In the midterm elections in the United States on 6 November, the Democrats won the majority in the House of Representatives, thus regaining control of the House over the Republicans. But the Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate. Three of our researchers, experts on US politics, share their…
- Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
- Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
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Diversity & Inclusion Career Session
Course
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Anoma van der Veere did Japanese Studies at Leiden University
Alumnus Anoma van der Veere did Japanese studies and talks in this interview about his studies in Leiden and his work as a researcher at the Leiden Asia Centre and as Japanese correspondent in Tokyo.
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Concubines vs. Khatuns: Sexual Slavery and Marriage Policy in the Turco-Mongol Middle East
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- International conference: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators and the Practice of Compiling
- Seminar 4: The Formation of Discourse Communities in the Early Middle Ages
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Interaction in language, language in interaction - Some exercises in the philosophy of linguistics
Lecture, Interactionality seminars
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Workers of Istanbul Unite! A Socialist Workers' Organization in the Late Ottoman Capital, 1909-1922
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Colloquium: Plasma Chemistry to aid the Energy and Materials Transition in the Process Industry
Lecture
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From research project to market leader in cycling tours for elderly
‘In Hong Kong, the elderly found our popular nature routes boring, so they now cycle our action-packed routes through New York.’ What once started as an assignment for the Master Programme Media Technology, has grown into the international market leader in the field of virtual reality exercises for…
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Digging Deep in the Galilee: 10 Years of Excavations on a Hill with a View
Lecture
- Regional Approach to Financial Statecraft: Japan and India in the Face of Rising China
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ELS lab meeting – Letter experiments to measure compliance in the financial sector by Sarwesh Iswardat
Lecture
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Patterns of language contact in the Tarim Basin in Northwest China
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
- GTGC lunch seminar: Nina Hall on Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era
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FRESH lecture: Applications of "dual" Metallaphotoredox Catalysis in the Synthesis of Quaternary Carbons
Lecture
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LLRC conference: Critical, ethical, and practical use of AI in the language classroom: opportunities and risks
Conference
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Alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra: a speaker with a background in neuroscience
Her plan was to obtain a PhD, but, during her master’s, alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra discovered that her true interest lay in applying neuroscience in everyday life.
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SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop
Lecture
- Research skeletons in the closet? Dig them out and improve science
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OSCoffee: Doing Open Science in the Humanities: From Public Discourse to Qualitative Data
Lecture
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Alumni in Indonesia: ‘My experience in Leiden inspired me to try to change the situation here’
Alumni and researchers met at two well-attended alumni dinners in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. The alumni reminisced about their time in Leiden and got to see their lecturers once again.
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Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade coordinators of national centre for science communication
Minister Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science) has appointed Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade as coordinators of a new national centre for science communication. The centre will foster a dialogue between researches and society and will gather and share expertise to make science communication more…
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War, peace and commerce in the ancient Tarim Basin: investigating language contact between Khotanese and Tocharian
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Pronunciation variation in the Buckeye corpus: modelling the impact of age and gender
Lecture, Sociolinguistics Series
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How teaching inclusively changes the perspective and dynamics in the classroom
Lecture
- OSCoffee: Doing Open Science in the Humanities: From Public Discourse to Qualitative Data
- GTGC lunch seminar: Elina Zorina on Distinctiveness in the Parliamentary Arena
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Rob Tijdeman appointed Knight
On August 29th Rob Tijdeman held his valedictory lecture in a full house Academy Building as a professor in Number Theory, entitled 'My life as a mathematician'. After his lecture he was appointed, in name of the Queen, Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion by the maior of Leiderdorp.
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Risk factors and long-term consequences for venous thrombosis in the elderly
PhD defence
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The T cell-myeloid axis in the success and failure of cancer immunotherapy
PhD defence
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Evaluating abdominal aortic aneurysm and carotid artery surgery in the Netherlands
PhD defence
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Identification and characterization of novel factors in the DNA damage response
PhD defence
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Bridging the gap, Pelvic floor physical therapy in the treatment of chronic anal fissure
PhD defence
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Let’s tango! professionals lived experience in the transformation of mental health services
PhD defence
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Multimodal Data and Machine Learning in the Study of Psychiatric Disorders
PhD defence
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Blood flow dynamics in the total cavopulmonary connection long-term after Fontan completion
PhD defence
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SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop
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Ethical dilemmas & decision-making in the healthcare for transgender minors
PhD defence
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Triage of stroke patients in the chain of acute stroke care
PhD defence