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ERC Starting Grants for seven Leiden researchers
Seven researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. This will enable them to start their own project, build their research team and put their best ideas into action.
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Vidi grant for Angus Mol: ‘Historical games are like time machines’
How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.
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Leiden Classics: Einstein & Friends
Museum Boerhaave commemorated the hundredth anniversary of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity with the exhibition ‘Einstein & Friends’. The exhibition shined light on the famous physicist’s Dutch friends and his love for Leiden. A review featuring seven images can be found below.
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ESOF ‘Art Exploring Science’ session will connect art and science
How can we view societal challenges from a different perspective? At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF), Robert Zwijnenberg, Emeritus Professor of Art and Science Interactions, will call for more collaboration between artists and scientists.
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The Multilingual Holy Land
Conference, Public event
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Religiosity and Knowledge in Muslim Context in West Africa: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Boko and Adini
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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In the Making #1: Rabih Mroué, Sand in the Eyes
Lecture, Conversation
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In cap and gown on the A12, titles on X? Academics in the public debate
Dialogue session
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Conference Mediated Cicero
Conference
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Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan
Lecture
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Keynote Speech: "Citizen Diplomacy, New Diplomatic History, and Questions of Historical Agency"
Lecture, 7th ENIUGH congress
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Leiden2022 Life Sciences and Health Week
Conference
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How We Know Nothing about a Photograph
Lecture
- Responsible Extended Reality (XR) Workshop
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Connecting to the network of Digital Cultural Heritage (Linked Open Data)
Lunchbyte
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Birds of God - The journey of the birds of paradise
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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ACPA appoints new academic director
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) recently appointed a new academic director. Erik Viskil is taking over from Henk Borgdorff, who held the post for the past four years. What has been achieved in those years? And what does ACPA’s future look like? In this double interview we discuss…
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Co-creation with researchers in Indonesia: ‘We welcome misunderstandings’
How do you co-create with researchers in other parts of the world? LDE wants to gather and share knowledge on the grand challenges and to do so across national borders. A delegation of 27 researchers will therefore travel to Indonesia at the end of October to take part in the LDE-BRIN Academy.
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion, with specific emphasis on creating an inclusive learning environment.
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Symposium report: get out of your silo and become a better scientist
How do you set up a successful collaboration between science and practice? That was the main theme of the final meeting of a triptych of symposia on how Leiden University can improve inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration.
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with issues from the past. Not to be rooted in the past because some developments from history are things you definitely don’t want to repeat.’
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
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‘We have to stay alert and keep on feeling the past’
Space for open dialogue on historical slavery was created at the Keti Koti Table at Museum De Lakenhal, organised by Leiden University and the Municipality of Leiden. There, just metres away from 17th-century paintings, Leideners shared a ritual meal and spoke about the effects of slavery and our colonial…
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‘We moeten diversiteit minder vieren, het moet vanzelfsprekend zijn’
Op welke manieren kan inclusieve communicatie ervoor zorgen dat mensen zich welkom voelen? Hierover ging het D&I-symposium van Universiteit Leiden.
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Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos are the winners of the fourth LUCAS Public Prize 2022!
On Tuesday 12 April Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos have been awarded the fourth LUCAS Publieksprijs.
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Introducing: Catherine Wood and Martijn van Ette
Catherine Wood and Martijn van Ette recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the NWO Vidi-funded project "American foreign policy and liberalism", led by Andrew Gawthorpe. Below they introduce themselves.
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Introducing: Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou
Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate and postdoc in the framework of the 'Anchoring Innovation' program. Below, they introduce themselves!
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OSCoffee: Introducing the Leiden Academia in Motion programme
Lecture
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Eliciting preferences for EU-level social protection in the context of global challenges
Seminar
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LTA lunchlezing Tsolin Nalbantian
Lecture
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Does the welfare entitlement of immigrants change the admission preferences of natives?
Lecture
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The Comenius Education Scholarship. What is it and how do I get one?
Lecture, Training afternoon
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The making of a lost generation: child labor among Syrian refugees in Turkey
Lecture
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Ethnicity and endogeneity in the welfare state
Seminar
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Is ‘Great Ming’ a Dynasty?
Lecture
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Leiden AI Week
Leidse AI-Week
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Perceptual drawing: draw your favorite object
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Concert and book launch "The Oud: An Illustrated History"
Arts and culture
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Well-being moment for staff: Summer lunch walk
Walk
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Policy Academy Programme
Research
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Manuscript and Early Book Destruction
Conference
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LUCIS Summer School 2022 | Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World
Course, LUCIS Summer School
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Engaging Humanities - Exploring Impact
Conference
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School integration of refugee children: evidence from the largest refugee group in any country
Lecture
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Violence and the State: Perspectives from Ancient India
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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To Register or Not to Register? Legal Identity and Birth Registration of Migrant Children in Morocco
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Food stories and the microbiome
Workshop
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Augmented Realities: Japanese Literati Painting, Circa 1700–1800
Lecture
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Word as Image: Waka Inscription on the Folding Screen at the Turn of the 17th Century in Japan
Lecture