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European City of Science 2022
For the duration of 2022, Leiden is the European City of Science. That means a year in which Leiden will be the European knowledge platform, with a 365-day program full of science, art and culture. Of course, the faculty of humanities will also be a part of this year.
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Hall of Fame 2022
In 2022, many of our staff and students won fantastic prizes and were awarded important research grants.
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Advancing the European Multilingual Experience
The project Advancing The European Multilingual Experience (AThEME) studied multilingualism in Europe by incorporating and combining linguistic, cognitive and sociological perspectives.
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Research
The Faculties of Leiden University have developed several themes for research cooperation between Leiden University and its Indonesian partners.
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About the programme
During the two-year Colonial and Global History programme you will learn from inspired academics and learn how to conduct quality research.
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LUCIP Workshop "Multiple Perspectives on Anger”
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CPP Colloquium "Academic Activism and the Climate Crisis"
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CPP Symposium: Academic Activism and the Climate Crisis
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EL CID: enthusiastic start for first-years and mentors!
EL CID has started! This is the week when new students have the chance to get to know the city and student life. Some of the mentors and first-years introduce themselves.
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LUCIP Forum: A Comparative Study of Zhuangzi, Fang Yizhi, and Heidegger’s Views of Life and Death
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LCCP Research Seminar: After the Universal - On the Language of Co-Existence
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LCCP Research Seminar "Geoconstitutionalism: Authoritative Lawmaking in the Anthropocene"
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“The Origins and Legacies of Moral and Political Thought in China: A Book Discussion with Tao Jiang.”
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Special Session of the Nietzsche Research Seminar with Ekaterina Poljakova
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CPP/NWO Who Owes What Colloquium: 'An African perspective of Intergenerational Justice'
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LUCIP Lecture, On Badness: Cruelty and Madness
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LCCP Working Seminar with Johan de Jong
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CPP Annual Lecture "Personal sovereignty, institutional norms, and social critique"
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CPP Colloquium with Jelena Belic CANCELLED
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CPP Colloquium "Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty”
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CPP Colloquium 'The Moral Luck in Making No Difference'
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CPP Colloquium 'Varieties of competition (and why they matter)'
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LTF Lecture with Michael Kremer
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CPP Colloquium On the Radical Republican Critique of Capitalism
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CPP Colloquium 'Design for Democracy: Deliberation and Experimentation'
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- Past events 2023 - 2024
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Introducing Sophia Hendrikx
Sophia Hendrikx started her PhD project at LUCAS in March 2015...
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Call for Papers - The Role and Position of Sounds and Sounding Arts in Public Urban Environments
Call for Papers for the Conference to be held on November 29th and 30th at Leiden University and coordinated by Prof. dr. M.A. (Marcel) Cobussen, involving Keynote speakers Salomé Voegelin, Gascia Ouzounian, Holger Schulze, and Jean-Paul Thibaud.
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29 & 30 November: Conference - The Role and Position of Sounds and Sounding Art in Public Urban Environments
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) is hosting an international conference on November 29 and 30 at Gravensteen on the role and position of sounds and sounding arts in public urban environments. This unique conference aims to increase the attention to the role of the sound, sound design,…
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The wide spectrum of research at Leiden
To give a better idea of the research at Leiden University, a new website has been launched that lists the University’s institutes together with the disciplines that they cover. But the institutes also work together intensively.
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Indigenous population of Taiwan donates books to university
A cultural delegation from Taiwan has presented 175 books and journals to Leiden University. The gift is meant as thanks for all the research carried out by the university on the subject of the indigenous peoples of Formosa, as Taiwan was called in the past.
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Renewed LLP has started: 'Reflection is the beginning of progress'
'Working on your leadership starts tonight,' says lecturer Sandra Groeneveld at the introductory meeting of the Leiden Leadership Programme. The programme has been renewed this year, and students are ready to dive into it: 'I hope to get to know myself.'
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Woman, man or somewhere in between? You decide (and not just your body)
A female body equals a woman. Nonsense, says Professor by Special Appointment to the Socrates Chair Annemie Halsema. She argues that our sense of identity and social environment also determine our identity. ‘We should stop assigning people’s sex at birth.’
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‘Private member's bill on Ending Life with Dignity too defective'
The D66 proposed bill on Ending Life with Dignity is inadequately substantiated and contains contradictions. This is the view expressed by Professor of Political Philosophy Paul Nieuwenburg in his inaugural lecture on 17 March.
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Lessons for better education
If you could design your own education, how would you do it? That is what the students of the Bachelor Honours Class 'Rebuilding Education' asked themselves. The students were divided into five groups in which they designed workshops to improve education. They presented their workshops in December in…
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Introducing: Paul van Trigt
Since 1 February 2016, Paul van Trigt is postdoctoral researcher in the project Rethinking Disability: the Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Global Perspective at the Institute for History.
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Jihadist networks quick to evolve
The group structure of Jihadist networks changes rapidly, which makes it difficult to monitor them. This is the finding of research by criminologist Jasper de Bie. PhD defence 14 April.
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CML Rev on Tour in Paris
On 11 October 2019, the 5th CML Rev. on Tour conference took place in Paris, at the beautiful Salle des Conseils in Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University.
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OSCL-fsw opening drinks
Have you always wondered what it means to practice open science? Are you curious to know how you can apply open research practices in your own research? Or would you like to share your open science experiences with others?
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Open Day: 'What's the right degree programme for me?'
Leiden's city centre, bathed in autumn sunshine and teeming with visitors. On 14 October, several thousands of students and their parents came to visit the University's Open Day. We spoke to a number of students at the information fair in the Pieterskerk; each of them had their own questions, doubts…
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Felix Ameka: ‘Multilingualism is the answer to many problems’
A new challenge for Felix Ameka. The senior lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics has been appointed professor by special appointment of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World. ‘I am looking forward to promoting ethnolinguistic diversity and vitality.’
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Why both fascists and liberals idolise Nietzsche
The doctrine of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is complex, contradictory and open to a range of different interpretations. As a result, his legacy has been adopted by both violent fascists and liberal pluralists. However, as James Pearson shows, the true Nietzsche lies somewhere in between these…
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EU in transition: fasten your seatbelts!
The European Union increasingly needs to respond to unforeseen events and developments. This is putting it to the test. What are the effects? Professor of Foundations and Practice of the European Union Luuk van Middelaar addressed this in his inaugural lecture on 23 September.
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Understanding yourself: worth making time for
Every year the international leadership course of the Leiden Honours Academy, the International Leiden Leadership Programme (ILLP), attracts master’s students from all over the world. In June, this year’s 25 students will get their certificates, but that is not the most important part, according to…
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Announcement of Scaliger Institute Research Fellowship Winners
With support of several publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Scaliger Institute welcome around 15 to 20 Fellows and guests per year to consult and research materials from our Special Collections. The Scaliger Institute received applications this year from domestic…
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CPP Annual Lecture with Joseph Heath, The challenge of policing minorities in a liberal state
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CPP Colloquium with Suzanne Bloks
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LCCP Research Seminar: Thinking the in-between. World and alienness in Waldenfels and Merleau-Ponty
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CPP Annual Lecture 'Refugees and the Politics of Inhumanitarianism'
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LCCP Lecture "Deleuze and Guattari, Ecological Thinkers?"
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