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Youthful DNA in old age
The DNA of young people is regulated to express the right genes at the right time. With the passing of years, the regulation of the DNA gradually gets disrupted, which is an important cause of ageing. A study of over 3,000 people shows that this is not true for everyone: there are people whose DNA appears…
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Does this study programme suit me? First study programmes start with matching modules
From the Open Days and Student for a Day events to the option of following Online Experience modules: the university tries to prepare prospective students for their new study programme as well as possible. In this context, the bachelor’s programmes Dutch Language and Culture and English Language and…
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Victor Gijsbers wins the 2017 Faculty Education Award
Philosophy lecturer Victor Gijsbers has been awarded the 2017 Faculty Education Award. The Faculty Education Award is given each year to the Faculty’s most inspiring lecturer. After attending one of Gijsbers’s lectures, the jury said it was impressed by his energy and dry humour.
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Two-pronged attack on infectious diseases
A combination of two potential drugs gives hope of a 'super blockage' of an over-active immune system, Leiden researchers report in Nature. The breakthrough came from the crystallisation of a membrane protein.
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Hossam Ahmed: ‘Listen to your students’
Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) this year. Lecturer Hossam Ahmed is one of them. What does he think makes for good education?
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Frank Chouraqui wins Faculty Teaching Prize
Frank Chouraqui, University Lecturer of Philosophy, received the Faculty Teaching Prize during the Opening of the Faculty Year in the City Auditorium. ‘He knows how to make the boring interesting and fun.’
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‘Even Ancient and Medieval ideas can help the Modern World’
Ahab Bdaiwi, University Lecturer of Islamic history, religion and philosophy, was received the first Faculty Impact Award. His interest lies in ‘everything that has to do with antiquity’, especially the religious and philosophical ideas that arose at that time. ‘They can move people. And many of those…
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Art student Clara Lezla wins logo design competition: 444 years of Leiden University
Leiden University celebrates its 444th anniversary in 2019, and a special age requires a special logo. The logo for the celebration was designed by Clara Lezla, a student at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague.
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Alumnus Sam van Raalte: From psychology to podcast
Alumnus Sam van Raalte followed his passion into freelance journalism.
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International Law and Indigenous Rights in Australia
Lecture
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Herðubreið - Mountainous Geo-Power and Deep Time
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
- Join our class as a Student-for-a-Day
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A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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LUCDH Winter Workshop & Teach the Teachers Workshop in Digital Skills (closed)
Course, Digital Skills Workshop
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Rüya Koçer
Lecture
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A ‘pygmy‘ language - myth or reality?
Lecture, Language & the Human Past Lecture Series
- Public lecture "From Collective Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence and Back Again"
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Student for a day International Relations (MA)
Study information
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Public lecture "Do Smart Devices Make Us Less Smart?"
Lecture
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Book Launch 'Freedom on the Offensive'
Lecture, Book Launch
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Affective Fish
Lecture, also on line with Zoom
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Sune Lehmann
Lecture
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Meddling for profit: Japan’s peace-building role in Myanmar
Lecture, Research seminar
- International seminar: “Indonesian Heritage and Library Collections”
- Join our class as a Student-for-a-Day
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Publications
Recent publications
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‘In the end, rector is just Latin for organiser’
On the day of the Dies Natalis, Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker starts his second term of office. How does he look back on the first four years, and what are his plans? These are the questions asked of him by Mayor Lenferink, student of public administation Mikal Tseggai, Professor Eveline Crone and…
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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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Older publications
Overview of the publications of the department of Environmental Biology (1972-2015)
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: What Use are Networks Anyway?
Lecture
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Roundtable: 2024 Elections Pakistan, Indonesia and India
Roundtable | SSEALS
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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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“The Origins and Legacies of Moral and Political Thought in China: A Book Discussion with Tao Jiang.”
Conference
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Explore the Digital Lab with LUCDH: Open Lab and Demos
Lecture
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EuroScience Open Forum Leiden
Conference, ESOF Conference
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CPP/NWO Who Owes What Colloquium: 'An African perspective of Intergenerational Justice'
Lecture
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Tom Heyman
Lecture
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LED3 Lecture: Chemical Probes for imaging and analysis of hydrolase function in Cancer, Infectious Diseases and the microbiome
Lecture
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Panel discussion: Silencing Palestine
Panelbijeenkomst
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Workshop: Caste and Diplomacy
Conference
- Leiden Elective Academic Periodical - Special Issue #3 - Information Session
- SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
- Summer School: Historical Performance Studies
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'ALICE': Understanding SLURM: Simplifying High-Performance Computing
Workshop
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Hidden patterns in space: What geography can tell us about language evolution.
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
- Summer School: Historical Performance Studies (5 ECTS)
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Leiden Alumni in Brussels Event
Alumni event
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Birds of God - The journey of the birds of paradise
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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How Johan Huizinga sent the Nazis packing
In 1933, Leiden held a large international student conference. It was supposed to be a celebration of unity that would bring together the French, British and Germans. But when the Nazis showed their true colours, Rector Magnificus decided to intervene...
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The recent IPCC report: some reactions from our Liveable planet community
The publication of the recent IPCC report on climate change has not gone unnoticed, to put it mildly, certainly not within the Liveable Planet community.