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Jet Bussemaker: ‘Emotions always run high in discussions on female emancipation'
At the Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture on 8 March, former Minister of Education Jet Bussemaker expressed her surprise at the commotion again raised by the theme of the economic independence of women, within and outside politics.
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Forensic speech recognition: emerging scientific field in Leiden
On 4 June 2018, students of the Forensic Speech Science master’s course visited the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) in The Hague. They were presented with practical examples, such as speech research with voice recordings of suspects. Forensic phonetics is a young, rapidly developing discipline…
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Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Poland for a book they co-edited. How has this affected them? ‘This is an attempt to wear us down.’
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Conference Hazelhoff Centre: Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law, the conference ‘Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets’ was held on the 11th of May 2017 at law firm Stibbe in Amsterdam. The conference attracted an international audience originating from more than five different…
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Long-awaited review reveals journey of water from interstellar clouds to habitable worlds
Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, together with an international team of colleagues, has written an overview of everything we know about water in interstellar clouds thanks to the Herschel space observatory. The article, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, summarizes existing knowledge and…
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Success for Leiden with Vidi subsidies
NWO has awarded a Vidi subsidy to a total of 89 young and innovative researchers. Leiden researchers have won twelve of these subsidies and three subsidies have gone to the LUMC. Each researcher will receive up to 800,000 euro to develop a particular research theme or to set up a research group.
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‘Sickness and health have become a continuum’
Professor of Health Psychology Andrea Evers is one of the coordinators of the national Health and Wellbeing programme and of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) programme that goes by the same name. The aim is to use technology to promote our health. LDE has already been working on this topic for some ti…
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A podium for science
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. This edition…
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American presidents and their special relationship with Leiden
President John Quincy Adams studied in Leiden. His father, John, who was also president, also stayed here and received a lot of support from professor and publisher Johan Luzac. And how are presidents Bush and Obama linked to Leiden?
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Student entrepreneurs give HUBspot a lively opening
Confetti cannons announced the opening of HUBspot, the new venue for innovation and entrepreneurship at the Langegracht in Leiden, on 31 October. But all attention was on the young student entrepreneurs who presented their businesses.
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Low-key opening of the academic year symbolises new beginning
The 2020-2021 academic year has begun. The new academic year may have been opened in a pared-down ceremony, but a ceremony it was nonetheless, with around 150 guests in the familiar setting of Pieterskerk and around 1,000 people watching the livestream. ‘Universities will always exist, however rapidly…
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How two metal detectorists discovered a complete Roman treasure
In 2017, in an ordinary field, two brothers from Brabant discovered more than 100 ancient coins. The Leiden historian who examined the coins concluded that they constituted a genuine Roman treasure. Here follows a reconstruction in three acts.
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Trade union grant for psychology research into the effect of a basic income
Psychologists Fenna Poletiek and Erik de Kwaadsteniet have received a grant from the FNV trade union to research people’s attitude to work if they receive a basic income. How do they plan to find answers?
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Voice of the ocean
There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in the world’s most prestigious sailing competition: the Ocean Race.
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Media Technology exhibition LIVING
Our annual "Science to Experience" exhibition of student works is hosted by the V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media. This year's theme is "LIVING".
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Leiden AI Week
Leidse AI-Week
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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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Museumnacht Leiden 2022
Festival
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EUniWell Open Lecture Series: The role of science communication in the medical field
Lecture, Part of Open Lecture Series
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Predrinks Oort lecture
Alumni event
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Van Marum Colloquium - Development of materials for hydrogen production via ethanol reform
Lecture
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Syncing up for a good conversation: Cognitive mechanisms of conversational alignment
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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LAMS Lecture Perennialist Traditionalism and Modern Philosophy
Lecture
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Why do multilingual children mix their languages?
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium 2023-2024
- Co-participation X Sustainability Conference
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Having your cake and eating it: on partial speech acts in US political discourse
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Martin Berger
Lecture
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Master's Open Day incl. Minor Market - Science Campus
Study information
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Official opening of Leiden European City of Science 2022
Festival
- OSCoffee: Trust vs. accountability - from red tape to red flag
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The neurocognitive correlates of pausing in L2 speaking and writing
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Lunch Series '23/'24
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Monthly Reads | Project 0100
Each month we will be spotlighting material we have been reading, or that have been recommended to us that relate to AI and a particular theme.
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Actio! Actio! Actio! European Acting Techniques in Historical Perspective
Arts and culture, Symposium
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With kind regards: October 2022
Lecture
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How do we walk in crowds? A brief journey from crowd physics to smart environments
Lecture
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New(er) Histories of the United Nations
Lecture, INVISIHIST Keynote Roundtable
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Digging Deep in the Galilee: 10 Years of Excavations on a Hill with a View
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: CO2 Electrolysis Systems for Chemical and Food Production
Lecture
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Data governance: from open governmental data, to data commons
VVI Research Meeting 2023-2024
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Book Workshop Morality and Socially Constructed Norms
Debate
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Career Prep
Career and apply for jobs
- Museum Talks at the Leiden Department of Art History
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Discovering and Uncovering the Crimmigration Control Apparatus from Within
Lecture
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Language choice as a (historical-)sociolinguistic phenomenon: the case of Dutch and French
Lecture, Sociolinguistics series
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Dies Natalis for alumni 2022
Alumni event
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Sustainability Challenge Symposium
Debate, Student Course Presentations
- Rightless Resistance: Palm Oil and the Struggle for Land and Citizenship in Indonesia
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