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Searching for the wanted and unwanted effects of innovation
How does ICT affect society? Mirjam van Reisen, professor Computing for Society at the Leiden Centre of Data Science, is intrigued by this question. We speak with her about innovation, changes in health care, and mobile human trafficking. ‘Innovation has many benefits, but it can also be very disrup…
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Senior Teaching Qualification for first ten lecturers
The Senior Teaching Qualification is for experienced lecturers who have done more than lecturing alone. Ten quotes from the first ten lecturers to receive the STQ award.
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Blog Post | The Diplomatic Elite, the People at Home and Democratic Renewal
‘Foreign policy’ may seem to the general public to be merely an official response to problems entering the nation from across the border. Yet the political reach of diplomacy has extended, and diplomats will have to find ways to engage more with home citizens, including those who feel sidelined and…
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Leiden University celebrates 444th birthday with residents of Leiden and The Hague
Leiden University celebrated its 444th anniversary with a historical procession on 8 February. It celebrated this year’s Dies Natalis in time-honoured fashion with a ceremony in the Pieterskerk, but broke with tradition by sending professors out to primary schools.
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Here’s to the next 443 years as a bastion of freedom
‘Praesidium Libertatis is a daily responsibility.’ These were the words of Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker on 8 February during the 443rd Dies Natalis of Leiden University. The University needs to pay continuous attention to open debate if it wants to remain a bastion of freedom.
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Interview: Physicist Wim van Saarloos takes office as KNAW President
On May 28th, Leiden physicist Wim van Saarloos takes office as President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has been vice-president since 2016. ‘The base of our universities is eroding.’
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CPP Colloquium with Peter Niesen: Which ‘all subjected’-principle for animals?
Lecture
- Persian 1+2 Intensive
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Book Launch: (A New) Translation of the Nahj al-Balagha
Lecture
- African Studies Centre Leiden 75th Anniversary Celebration
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Webinar "THE ATTENTION SWITCH"
Alumni event
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3rd History and Philosophy of Physics in the Netherlands Workshop
Conference
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Research & Funding Opportunities
AMT’s mission includes encouraging innovative high-quality research in Leiden on Asia. On this page you will find an overview of AMT related research projects, grant possibilities, publications and vacancies.
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ARC session - Sonification of Environments: Contemporary Film Sound Research
Arts and culture
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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New(er) Histories of the United Nations
Lecture, INVISIHIST Keynote Roundtable
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Modeling progress: event types, causal models, and the imperfective paradox
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Reedijk Symposium 2023
Conference
- Korean 1+2 Intensive Summer Course
- Special Lecture: Making Sense of the Universe
- Leiden University's Academic Challenge
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Prospects for law reform and democracy under Indonesia’s new president
VVI Research Meeting 2023-2024
- Former guest researchers
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Humans of Humanities
In the Humans of Humanities series, we will do a portrait of one of our researchers, staff members or students, every other week.
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Van Bergen Prize winner Archery Attack has growth potential
Dutch and international students brandishing bows and arrows fire at each other on the fields of the University Sports Centre on 11 May. This is the aim – not the shooting each other, but the act of getting together.
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Women on the agenda in Leiden
Women are are on the agenda again at Leiden University. That was clear on 8 March in the Academy Building. First there was an informal get-together with women professors and talented researchers, followed by the 27th Annie Romein-Verschoor lecture, on happy and angry women.
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Lucia Langerak: ‘I'm not one to sit on the sidelines’
Lucia Langerak was awarded a Master’s degree in Egyptology with cum laude honours in 2018. Her bachelor’s degree was also with cum laude honours. ‘I’m an exceptional Egyptologist, if only because I’ve never been to Egypt.’ She is now the coordinator of the Access & Support Platform at the University…
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Spinoza prize for Jan Zaanen
Jan Zaanen, Professor in Theoretical Physics of condensed material, has been awarded a Spinoza prize. His pioneering ideas about the collective behaviour of quantum particles and high temperature superconductivity have often given him the reputation of being something of a rebel.
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Professor Willem Otterspeer on his retirement: ‘My career is like the Danube.’
University historian Willem Otterspeer is about to retire, and he will give his farewell lecture on 4 November. Although... it is really a farewell? He still plans to write another five books, using oceans of archive material. 'An archive should be like the surf breaking on the seashore: wonderful…
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3 October University - WetenschapsWarenMarkt
Festival
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Bas Hofstra
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Solvent-solute relation in the double layer theory: from diluted solutions to solvent-in-salt systems to ionic liquids
Lecture
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LUGO Sustainability Day
Conference, Symposium
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Leiden University's Academic Challenge: deadline for presentations
Conference
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YAL members
Read all about YAL membership and the members of the Young Academy Leiden.
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
- Volume 16 (2021)
- Volume 13 (2018)
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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‘A doctor! You?’ Three women on their PhD and career
Rietje Knaap’s (83) PhD was a real feat of endurance, but she persisted. ‘You’re married so you don’t need a pension, do you?’ What are the experiences of Knaap and women who followed in her footsteps? In the run-up to International Women’s Day on 8 March, three generations of female doctors look back…
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‘I can do more with questions than exclamation marks'
The life and career of art historian and Leiden alumna Gerdien Verschoor (1963) followed quite a remarkable path before she was appointed director of Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre in 2019. A woman with a deep awareness of historical places, she sees it as more of a series of coincidences, but the…
- Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
- 61st LEIDEN-LONDON meeting 2022
- Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
- LUGO Sustainability Day: 9 May 2023
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Online Dispute Resolution through the Lens of Access to Justice
Lecture
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Excavating the Past – Challenges and Opportunities in Uncovering Hidden Institutional Histories
Masterclass
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Opening of the academic year
University ceremony
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Publications
This is a list of scientific publications by students and staff of the Media Technology MSc programme.
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Paul Christiaan Flu: a Surinamese professor in a time of war
Paul Christiaan Flu, originally from Surinam, was a brilliant tropical doctor, who in 1938 rose to the position of Rector Magnificus of Leiden University. The war years brought his lightning career to an abrupt end: his son was murdered and he himself was imprisoned in a concentration camp. A sad family…