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Signs of life – Life, Living and Death in Modern and Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Conference
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52nd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
- Decolonising Knowledge PhD Workshop
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LGBTIQ+ Workplace Inclusion Symposium
Debate, Symposium
- Italian 1+2 Intensive Summer Course
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Leiden/Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax (LeiBieCos)
Conference
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Publications
Electronic versions of our publications can be obtained by sending an e-mail to Esther van den Bos: bosejvanden@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
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Overview of publications
The BLRN members have published extensively in recent years. In addition to the BLRN book series, dissertations of BLRN members published in the E.M. Meijers Institute Series, you will find below a selection of our publications. For a more complete overview of publications of each BLRN member, please…
- Program 2024
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Presentations and Lectures
Members of our research team give different types of presentations and lectures.
- Volume 7 (2012)
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Lunch Time Seminars
The biweekly Lunch Time Seminar is an online only event, but it is not publicly accessible in real-time. If you would like to attend one of the upcoming sessions, please send an email to sails@liacs.leidenuniv.nl.
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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Josephus Scaliger: famous scholar and grouch
Josephus Justus Scaliger was one of the most famous scholars of his time and yet today his name is likely to be met with blank looks. His correspondence shows that this Leiden professor was also irritable to say the least. Kasper van Ommen will defend his PhD thesis on Scaliger’s legacy on 2 July. Find…
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Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives
In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…
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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…
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An interview with NATO on gender and counter-terrorism
An interview with Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges David van Weel, and NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Clare Hutchinson
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Jasper Knoester's 2023 New Year's Speech
During the New Year's reception on 10 January 2023, Dean Jasper Knoester adressed the faculty in his New Year's speech. He looked back on the past year, but also looked forward at the developments within the faculty.
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A hornets’ nest: Leiden University during the Second World War
‘That hornets’ nest in Leiden must be destroyed,’ said Dutch National Socialist Party member Robert van Genechten in November 1942. He was referring to Leiden University. Why this hatred? Emeritus Professor of University History Willem Otterspeer has written a book about Leiden University during the…
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Campus The Hague: more ‘Hague’ in its DNA
Campus The Hague has forged its own identity: alongside interdisciplinarity, interaction with the city is its defining feature. ‘The campus is now a young adult. It is well beyond puberty,’ says campus chair Erwin Muller. An ambitious new strategy reveals this.
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Alumna Natacha Harlequin: ‘When it really matters, I’m a lion’
She stands out for the moderate tone she takes in discussions on Dutch talk shows. Without judgement you can have an open conversation, criminal lawyer Natacha Harlequin learned in her student days in Leiden. ‘What I personally think of the alleged act doesn’t matter so much.’
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Female Researchers in the Spotlight for Physics & Astronomy Ladies' Day
On Thursday November 15th, Leiden University organizes its Physics & Astronomy Ladies' Day for female high school students. To mark this festive day, we put the spotlight on five female researchers, who talk about their experiences working in science.
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Panel discussion Bias in AI, algorithms, and the tech sector - Young Alumni Network
Alumni event
- Spring School Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Landscape History and Ecology
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Workshop- Figuring Things Out Together
Arts and culture, Workshop
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LCCP Working Seminar: Elements of ecotechnical existence in Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics (1935)
Lecture
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LUCIP Forum: A Comparative Study of Zhuangzi, Fang Yizhi, and Heidegger’s Views of Life and Death
Lecture
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LGBTIQ+ Workplace Inclusion Symposium
Debate, Symposium
- Masterclass: Wondering about 'Reform' in Medieval Sources (4th-11th Centuries) - 1/3 ECTS
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Policy Academy Programme
Research
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Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2023
Conference
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How to improve interdisciplinary cooperation within Leiden University?
Conference
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LIC Lecture + drinks
Lecture
- Conference on Human Rights and Climate Change
- Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture
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Lancering The Hague Global Futures Hub
Conference
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Untold Stories: representation, heritage and museums
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Mini-Symposium: The societal relevance of improvisation in music and dance followed by a panel discussion on artistic doctorates in the performing
PhD defence, Symposium
- Volume 15 (2020)
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Joan van der Waals colloquium
The Joan van der Waals colloquium is an ongoing bi-weekly lecture series.
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Second 'Retired and Kicking' symposium
Lecture, Retired and Kicking
- Conference: Lessons from Afghanistan
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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…
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LCCP Seminar "The phenomenology of perception. Before and after Merleau-Ponty’"
Conference
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Dies natalis 2021
University ceremony
- Public graduation presentations
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Dies Natalis
University ceremony
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Multidisciplinary dialogues on the human past of the Urubamba/Ucayali basin: towards a new synthesis
Conference
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
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Older publications
Overview of the publications of the department of Environmental Biology (1972-2015)