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New in Leiden: Computer science and economics
In a survey held last year by the publication Elsevier, Leiden's Computer Science programme was voted by students as the best university programme of its kind in the Netherlands. And the Rotterdam Economics programme was voted the best in its field. Leiden University now offers a combined study based…
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Yusen Yu wins MEM Graduate Student Prize
Yusen Yu wins the prestigious Graduate Student Prize of the Middle East Medievalists (MEM) with his article
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Never too young to learn: Leiden University in the 3 October parade
For the first time ever, a float from Leiden University is taking part in the Grand Parade during the Relief of Leiden or Leidens Ontzet. October 3 is one big party in Leiden, and the University is joining in big style to celebrate its 444th anniversary.
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The Use of Machine Learning in Public Organizations - an Interview with PhD Student Friso Selten
Friso Selten recently started a PhD position that is part of the SAILS program. This PhD project is a collaboration between FGGA, LIACS, and eLaw, and is supervised by Bram Klievink (FGGA), Joost Broekens (LIACS), and Francien Deschene (eLaw). In the project Friso will investigate the influence of artificial…
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How to set ambitious goals for sustainable agriculture
Food production in the Netherlands is an economic success but has led to many environmental issues, including nitrogen pollution. Recently, the policy to allow economic growth while reducing nitrogen losses was disapproved by the highest court in the Netherlands, casting the country into a nitrogen…
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‘Woolly’ King's Speech reflects broad coalition
The 2018 King's Speech was a string of statements containing little or no substance. It was obvious that, in an attempt to keep all the coalition parties happy, the speech covered more issues than in 2017. This is confirmed by an analysis of the speech carried out by public administration experts Gerard…
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Can you predict a migraine attack?
A chair tipping over serves as a metaphor for a migraine attack in Thijs Perenboom’s PhD research at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). He wants to unravel whether and how we can predict migraine attacks. He will defend his thesis on Tuesday 21 June.
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A bequest to the university: a gift for the future
Have you considered including the Leiden University Fund in your will?
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Wearing clogs may have caused foot problems
Research by bioarchaeologists from Leiden and Canada has shown that 19th-century Dutch farmers regularly had bone defects. These may have been caused by wearing clogs. Publication in the International Journal of Paleopathology.
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'Fieldwork in the Chinese tobacco industry more likely to turn you into a drinker than a chain smoker'
This remarkable statement appears in Yi-Wen Cheng’s dissertation on state monopoly and forms of competition in the Chinese tobacco industry. Cheng presents her conclusions and looks back on her fieldwork. ‘I had to accept a lot of drinks in order to establish a network of contacts.’
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Free course on AI and Ethics: ‘Every citizen should know more about this’
The free AI and Ethics course (in Dutch) is available online to anyone who wants to find out more about the ethical implications of artificial intelligence. One of the eight experts featured in the course is Professor Reijer Passchier. ‘Artificial Intelligence is spreading so fast and has such an impact…
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Arabic papyri shed new light on origins of Islam
Research on papyri has provided new insights into the history of the origins of Islam. Petra Sijpesteijns’s book,'Shaping a Muslim State', is based on these ancient Arabic letters and documents. Her new research on a Viennese collection of untranslated papyri is expected to produce more discoveries.
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The Hague set to become 'knowledge city that knows no borders'
‘The Hague is rapidly developing to become a knowledge city and Leiden University is making an important contribution to this development.' These were the words with which alderman Joris Wijsmuller opened The Hague Day of Architecture on Saturday 20 May 2017. Wijnhaven was the focal point of the day…
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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories
Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the University and our researchers are working on solutions. The nitrogen crisis, problems with young people’s services and an increasingly urgent climate crisis:…
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Adult language acquisition and syntactic change
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Rembrandt made a mess of his legal and financial life
‘Rembrandt was a stubborn, socially inept shopaholic.’ In his lifetime the Dutch master became embroiled in over 20 legal disputes. Emeritus Professor of Private Law Bob Wessels has written a book about Rembrandt’s legal and financial dealings.
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Migration research at Leiden University and GMD
Conference
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Discourse sensitivity in argument realization
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Word order, information structure and agreement in Teke (Bantu B70)
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Dutch primary compounding: Towards a new inventory
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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What are questions? An English-centered, pragmatics & prosody-based perspective
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Pronoun interpretation and processing in Dutch and German
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Syntax-Information-Structure Interaction: Data and analysis
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The internal and external syntax of genoeg ('enough')
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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First International ELS Conference
On 1 and 2 September, colleagues of Leiden Law School participated in the very first International ELS Conference, organised by the ELS Academy in Amsterdam.
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Towards a Unified Theory for Noun Class Agreement in Grassfields Bantu
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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‘New’ dialect grammar across borders: Brabantish hyperdialectisms at the interface of sociolinguistic enregisterment and focus marking
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The impact of the French wh-in-situ option in the acquisition of L2 English questions: An analysis of transfer
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Dissecting habituality: The Croatian know and its kin
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The morphosyntax of wh-paradigms and wh-copying
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Constructing the Siona nominal from the bottom up: a Minimalist perspective
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Left node not raising: Word part ellipsis revisited
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The Three Phases of Early Missing Subjects: Evidence from Creole Language Acquisition
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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‘My mother’, ‘Your father’: Suppletive kinship terms in African languages
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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PhD Candidate in 'EU Counter-terrorism, the United Nations and Local Peacekeeping' (1.0 FTE)
Governance and Global Affairs, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, War, Peace and Justice
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PhD Candidate: Strategic Violence by Non-State Actors (1,0 FTE)
Governance and Global Affairs, Institute of Security and Global Affairs
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The internal structure of sentential negation: A view from suppletion
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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The functional load shift from case to adposition: the role of L2-difficulty
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Modeling progress: event types, causal models, and the imperfective paradox
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Wh-island effects are similar in English and Spanish
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Common ground management and its morphosyntactic reflexes in Martinican Creole wh-questions
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Collegecolumn: Waarom onze samenwerking met Indonesië zo belangrijk is
Samen met een groep enthousiaste wetenschappers bezocht ik deze maand verschillende universiteiten en andere kennisinstellingen tijdens een kennismissie in Indonesië.
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‘I chose Political Science with journalism in mind’
Alumnus Stan van Haasteren went to Northern Ireland in 1995 as a freelance journalist with a guitar strapped to his back and recently wrote a book about his experiences in Belfast. ‘The big difference with then is that today there is no more violence. But it's still a divided city.’
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Why do vulnerable groups miss out on benefits? Research nominated for thesis prize
Why do vulnerable groups fail to make use of benefits that they are entitled to? This is what Max ten Velde researched in his Master’s in Management of the Public Sector thesis, which has been nominated for the Netherlands Court of Audit’s thesis prize.
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How the Battle of Heiligerlee became a legend
The Battle of Heiligerlee, on 23 May 450 years ago, is famous as an epic battle in Dutch history. But was it really so momentous? Professor of Early Modern History Judith Pollmann unravels the myths about ‘Heiligerlee’ and the Eighty Years' War.
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‘A handful of companies can't be allowed to dominate the market’
European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, gave a warning in the Europa Lecture on 14 June about large companies that abuse their power. 'An honest society begins with honest markets.'
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Leiden Classic: 4 Questions on the origins of the university and the Dies Natalis
Every year around 8 February, Leiden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands, is celebrating its birthday. Why does the King still receive a telegram on the day of the Dies Natalis? 4 questions on the origins of Leiden University and its traditions for celebrating its foundation day.
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The urban mine is full of resources, but a circular economy is still too ambitious
Reuse everything and stop producing waste. By 2050, the Netherlands should have a circular economy. However, the new Integral Circular Economy Report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) shows that there is still a long way to go. For the report, the Institute of Environmental Sciences…
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King and Queen consult China experts in Leiden
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima attended a meeting at Leiden University on 1 October to prepare for their state visit to China. China experts informed them about such topics as the image that Chinese people have of the Netherlands.