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- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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Interview with Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi about his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot'
In the interview by Manu Sinjan, published in Eos Memo, Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi addresses questions about the changing role of music in society through history, which is also the topic of his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot'.
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia
The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visit by a delegation from Leiden University to Indonesia at the end of June highlighted the benefits of cooperation.
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Impact of COVID-19: Digital food collectives in Rotterdam
PhD candidate Vincent Walstra reflects on alternative social interactions and mutual aid in the city of Rotterdam during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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‘Let’s try not to lose sight of each other’ – Interview with Annetje Ottow
The conflict between Israel and Hamas has had a clear impact on Leiden University. Students and staff are angry or scared, feel unsafe and are experiencing group pressure.
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Workshop defense Marta Morgado
Lecture
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YAL AI Winter Festival
Festival
- Meeting on Ukraine for students
- Media Technology MSc information event
- Media Technology MSc information event in downtown Leiden
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The ‘evolution’ of the Innateness Hypothesis for language
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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LTP Lecture “Practical Assurance”
Lecture
- Join our talkshow and Q&A during the Online Master's Week
- Huizinga Lecture
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Dependency resolution beyond morphosyntax: psycholinguistic and computational insights on verbal control in Spanish (and Galician)
Lecture, LACG Meetings
- Media Technology MSc information event
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Institute for Philosophy Common Book Launch
Conference
- GTGC lunch seminar: Eve Darian-Smith and Phil McCarty on Global Studies Methods
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Film Screening: Crip Camp
Arts and culture, Conference | D&I Symposium
- Media Technology MSc information event
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Van Marum Colloquium - Catalyzing Green Hydrogen: Tracking Iridium Oxide & Platinum Behavior During Catalysis
Lecture
- Media Technology MSc information event
- BA Fall Middle East Studies Programme
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LUCIP Workshop "Multiple Perspectives on Anger”
Conference
- SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Machine learning for spatio-temporal datasets + SAILS data observatory
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Deep Learning For Automated Analysis Of Cardiac Imaging: Applications In Cine And 4D Flow MRI
PhD defence
- GTGC lunch seminar: Santino Regilme on Global Drug Wars
- Media Technology MSc information event
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Introduction to Dialectometry
Lecture, Leiden Dialectology Workshop series 2022
- Meet Media Technology online
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Pluriform prosody in the voice, face, and hands
Lecture, LACG Meetings
- Join our talkshow and Q&A during the Online Master's Open Days
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Be a Student for a day at the MA International Relations
Study information
- LCCP work in progress and research seminar 2022 - 2023
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By the rivers of Babylon: New perspectives on Second Temple Judaism from Cuneiform texts
“BABYLON” investigates the extent of the similarities between Babylonian and post-exilic forms of cultic and social organization and explores the question how Babylonian models could have influenced the restoration effort in Jerusalem.
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Blog Post | Feminist Foreign Policy: A new and necessary approach to foreign policy and diplomacy
When former Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström announced in 2014 that Sweden would become the first state to implement a feminist approach to its foreign policy, her idea was met with giggles. [1] But the concept quickly spread around the world. In May 2022, the Netherlands became the 10th state…
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Fighting cancer with light (and a drug that self-assembles into nanoparticles)
Chemotherapy that does not harm the body, but effectively fights cancer cells: that is the goal of chemist Sylvestre Bonnet and his team. During his PhD research, chemist Xuequan Zhou brought that goal a little closer. He developed molecules that, upon injection in the bloodstream, self-assemble into…
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They want a seat in The Hague City Council
Many students, staff and alumni of Leiden University are politically active. In the run-up to the local elections on 21 March, candidates in The Hague and Leiden explain why you should vote for them, and what they want to do if they are elected. In this article, it is the turn of the candidates in The…
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Leiden University for a liveable planet
Scientists from all different disciplines at Leiden University work on sustainability challenges. Together we strive for a liveable planet by connecting these scientists. Are you a researcher and do you want to contribute to tackling sustainability issues? Join our program and work together on solutions…
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Top international students receive LExS scholarship
International students who have been awarded a LExS scholarship from Leiden University were welcomed in the Academy Building on 5 September. The 50 students were presented with a certificate symbolising their scholarship.
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Blog Post | Bridging the Gap: Time for an EU-NATO Strategic Dialogue on Defense Tech
To stay secure, the transatlantic community must take on emerging and disruptive technologies together.
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‘As a postdoc, you have to be creative and alert’
Elisabeth Heijmans originally comes from French-speaking Belgium – ‘close and far at the same time’. She came to Leiden University for her Ph.D. in 2013, and consequently managed to get a postdoc position. In this role, she is part of a team of Ph.D. students, postdocs and supervisors, looking at historical…
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Colonial without realising it
The nineteenth-century writer Nicolaas Beets and his son Dirk were thoroughly colonial, Nicholas without ever having been to the Dutch Indies, or any other colony for that matter. But they didn’t realise it. The new Scaliger Professor, Rick Honings, shows that writers’ archives are a treasure trove…
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“This China alumni network is a way to give something back to Leiden”
If you would want to set up an alumni network after you graduated in Leiden and returned to your home country, how would you go about it? Seven Leiden alumni in China did not hesitate and decided to just do it! Last year they launched the Leiden Alumni Chapter in China, an initiative which was met with…
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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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Leiden University more sustainable by the day
10 October is the Day of Sustainability. What is the current status of sustainability at Leiden University? Things are moving ahead. Professor of Environmental Biology and Dean of the Faculty of Science, Geert de Snoo, outlines a new prospect: biodiversity.
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Eiko Fried in APS on Open Science
Although open science reforms have contributed to a more rigorous and robust psychological science, there is still much to improve. In Association for Psychological Science (APS), Eiko Fried points out two norms that open science reforms may have overlooked so far: communalism and universalism. 'Incorporating…
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From refugees to expats: Dr Dennis helps them all
Patients who can’t afford medicine. Refugees who need help. Expats who are ill. All alongside research into obesity. Having trained as a doctor, Dennis Mook-Kanamori chose the hard reality of life as a GP together with a job as a researcher at the LUMC.
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Open science means better science
Leiden University has an active open science community. Open science means transparency in all phases of research by precisely documenting every step of the way and making this publicly available. ‘It’s time to be open,’ say psychologists Anna van ’t Veer and Zsuzsika Sjoerds. There is increasing awareness…
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Library staff aim to maintain services and collections
The people behind the Leiden University Libraries aim to maintain the level of their services to clients as much as possible. They are making thankful use of internet, but not everything can be put online.